A new spin-off manga for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, Seishun Frontier (Adolescent Frontier), will appear in Comic Newtype from Spring 2025. This is an AU of the show in which Suletta and Miorine are high school girls in a near-future Japan.
In the key visual, we can see Suletta and Miorine in their high school uniforms, sitting on a ledge while eating lunch. They’re both eating onigiri, and Suletta’s side of the ledge is a mess while Miorine’s is more organized. It looks like Miorine is pointing out that there are rice grains around Suletta’s mouth, while Suletta’s embarrassed.
As for the plot of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Adolescent Frontier, it focuses on Suletta and Miorine’s first meeting in this parallel world. Hisadake of Morion Airline, who also worked on the show, is the writer. Meanwhile, Hata Hiro (illustrator and mangaka of series like Dogs and the Brave Are Not Showy) is the artist.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury aired from 2022 to 2023. It takes place in the Ad Stella timeline, focusing on a conflict between Spacians (inhabitants of space colonies) and Earthians (people born on Earth). The story follows Suletta, a transfer student to Asticassia School of Technology from Mercury, who pilots a Gundam using forbidden technology. In her first duel, she wins the hand of Miorine Rembran, daughter of the president of the megacorporation that also runs the school.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury is available on Crunchyroll, and the Adolescent Frontier manga will start serialization in Comic Newtype from Spring 2025.
Published: Dec 30, 2024 03:30 pm