Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Season 2

機動戦士ガンダム水星の魔女 (Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo Season 2)

10.0(1)

OtakuDen

7.9(63,281)

MAL Score

Ranked #976

Popularity #2257

Sci-Fi
Mecha
School
Space

Episodes: 12
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Apr 9, 2023 to Jul 2, 2023
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

In the aftermath of the terrorist assault on Plant Quetta, Suletta Mercury makes her way back to the duels at Asticassia School of Technology. Meanwhile, Miorine Rembran remains at her father’s bedside as she waits for signs of recovery. With Earth House caught up in their own mounting concerns, danger quietly follows Suletta back to campus when two members of Dawn of Fold slip into the school, threatening those around her.

Elsewhere, Prospera—Suletta’s mother—reaches out to Miorine with an offer to push forward “Quiet Zero,” the ambitious initiative once led by Miorine’s father and said to hold the power to end war. As alliances shift and motives stay obscured, Prospera’s true intentions—and how much she’s willing to risk for Suletta—become increasingly uncertain.

Otaku Consensus

Season 2 earns its reputation as the sharper, heavier half of The Witch from Mercury, with Sunrise’s mecha staging, forceful sound design, and Ichirou Ookouchi’s political escalation giving the school-and-corporate framework real bite. The consensus weakness is compression: the 12-episode run moves so quickly through subplots, motivations, and endgame consequences that even viewers who admire the spectacle often call the finale rushed rather than fully cathartic.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Season 2 if you want Gundam’s corporate politics, class conflict, and battlefield ethics without needing decades of Universal Century homework. It scratches some of the same itch as Code Geass in its high-pressure maneuvering and character-driven power plays, while keeping the mobile suit combat closer to Gundam’s real-robot machinery than pure superheroics. The appeal is in the collision of tones: a boarding-school cast, female-led drama, LGBTQ+ subtext, AI anxiety, and large-scale militarized capitalism all competing for space inside a compact 12-episode sprint. Viewers who prefer clean, leisurely character arcs may feel the compression, but anyone who wants a dense modern Gundam with strong designs, hard turns, and unusually visible family trauma will find a lot to study.

Key Characters

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Suletta Mercury(VA: Kana Ichinose)
Suletta remains compelling because fans read her not only as a Gundam pilot, but as a socially anxious lead whose obedience, affection, and autonomy become the emotional battlefield of the season.
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Miorine Rembran(VA: Lynn)
Miorine stands out as a rare Gundam heroine whose power is exercised through negotiation, corporate legitimacy, and impossible personal compromises rather than piloting skill.
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Prospera(VA: Mamiko Noto)
Prospera is discussed as one of the series’ defining figures because her calm, maternal presentation turns family love, revenge, and political engineering into the same unnerving language.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Sunrise frames the second season as a darker and more combat-heavy escalation, and critics specifically singled out the animation, mecha designs, and sound design as major strengths even when criticizing the pacing.
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The season is structurally aggressive: it resolves its central political, familial, and technological conflicts in only 12 episodes, which creates momentum but also fuels the most common complaint that motivations and consequences needed more room.
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Ichirou Ookouchi handles series composition, and his presence is felt in the emphasis on political bargains, sudden reversals, and personal relationships being treated as instruments of power.
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The production pairs Mogumo’s original character design foundation with animation character designs by Hirotoshi Takaya and Juri Toida, giving the cast a softer, fashion-conscious look than many militarized Gundam entries.
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Kanetake Ebikawa’s mechanical design work supports the show’s hybrid identity: AniList tags it highly for both Real Robot and Super Robot elements, reflecting mobile suits that feel industrial while still allowing heightened, symbolic spectacle.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The series retains the franchise’s classic creator credits for Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino, while being produced as a modern Sunrise entry rather than a direct Universal Century continuation.
Fun fact 2: On AniList, its strongest audience tags are Space at 93% and Politics at 92%, with Female Protagonist close behind at 89%, which captures why this entry is often discussed as both accessible Gundam and a deliberate franchise refresh.
Fun fact 3: The season’s reception is notably split by platform metrics: it holds a 7.88 MAL score from 62,612 votes, a 78/100 AniList score, and a 7.4 IMDb rating for the broader TV listing.
Fun fact 4: MAL ranks it at #962 with a popularity placement of #2257, indicating a well-liked but not universally mainstream second cour compared with the biggest seasonal hits.
Fun fact 5: The 2022–2023 television listing is cataloged with a 25-episode guide, reflecting the full Witch from Mercury run across its initial cour, second season, and prologue-era presentation rather than Season 2 alone.