Chatty AF 179: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Part 1 Retrospective

Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast

Vrai calls in Gundam experts Maddie and Megan to discuss the too-dense-to-for-a-round-up-episode first cour of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury! 0:00:00 Intros 0:01:35 Background 0:04:19 The Gundam franchise and Universal Century 0:10:15 Gundam: The Origin 0:10:58 Suletta as Gundam’s first female pilot protagonist 0:13:37 The novelty of a two cour anime 0:15:19 Wow cool robot 0:18:22 Military appropriation of medical tech and portrayal of disability 0:23:41 It’s gay too 0:27:11 Reading Suletta as autistic 0:35:24 Guel 0:38:59 These KIDS (GUND-ARM Inc) 0:41:21 Miorine 0:42:51 Prospera 0:47:25 Aerial’s short story 0:48:20 The Manchurian Candidate 0:52:13 Part 2 theories 0:55:41 Gundam recs for G Witch fans 0:58:39 Outro Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Maddie: twitter.com/hyakushiki0087 Megan: twitter.com/brainchild129 AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist Recorded Wednesday 1st February 2023 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/