It’s been quite a while since I watched a Gundam TV series in real time. Somehow, I have lost track of the series, and I only watch the long-ago series when I feel like it.
For me, Gundam started with Zeta Gundam and ended with Zeta Gundam, so when I watch other Gundam works, I can’t help comparing them with Zeta.
Anyway, I started watching “The Witch of Mercury” in real time, and from the very first episode, it was a school story, which I am not good at. I thought “Wow, this is serious” only at the beginning. Toward the end of the first season, the story suddenly took a serious turn. The method reminded me of Zeta Zeta Gundam of long time ago.
After all, Gundam has to be serious. I can’t help but think that Gundam has to be serious.
For me, Gundam is about showing the limits and despair of mankind and the possibility of overcoming them, while changing hands and changing products. Whether it is the reality of enhanced humans or the ideal of the Newtype that has appeared in the Gundam series so far, it is just one touchstone to explore the possibilities.
From the very beginning of the first Gundam, the story begins with the deep despair that as long as human beings cling to the earth, they will have no choice but to kill each other, devastate the earth, and eventually be exterminated. This is the beginning of the deep despair of the human race.
To go out into space is to fight the dilemma of having to abandon humanity in order to surpass it.
This time, “Witches of Mercury” also begins with humanity’s adaptation to space by adopting a technology called gandformat, which is very taxing on the human body.
However, although this technology is good, its weakness is that it places a considerable burden on the human body. How do we overcome this?
As in past series, in the end, it can only be proven through human experimentation through war.
Is it really permissible from a humanitarian standpoint? This is reminiscent of Narrative, a spin-off of Unicorn Dam (a girl who is thought to be a Newtype is sacrificed to human experimentation).
The main theme of the film is consciousness that transcends the framework of the body. Can it be used to control a weapon called a Gundam? In the first place, can consciousness be transferred to something like electronic data?
Of course, if it were a conscious body, there would be no burden on the body due to the Gund format. If so, whose consciousness will the Witch of Mercury borrow?
I am sure that the second season will be a deeper story about such “consciousness,” including the relationship between mothers and daughters (sorry if I am wrong).
The limits of humanity are, after all, only the limits of what humanity can think. If we want to see beyond the limits of human thinking, we need to go beyond existing reason and logic.
Is the main character, the girl, really a priestess to bring new human consciousness into this world, or is she just an empty catalyst?
When humanity can no longer wait for the awakening of the new type, and when we hear the poems of our demise, how cruelly can we treat the lives of others in the name of human sacrifice? I think that is the underlying theme.
It is not just a story from the Gundam world. In reality, it has happened in the past and is still happening today.
In the final episode of the first season, the main character, in order to protect his loved ones, kills an enemy soldier with his Gundam, without hesitation, swatting him down like a fly.
This may be the very karma of the human race from the past.
At such a time, the first Gundam’s
I am reminded of the line from First Gundam, “People cannot be so conveniently convenient.
And, if I may add, “without sacrificing someone else.
I can’t wait for the second season.
See you soon.
