This past weekend The Witch From Mercury brought a surprisingly rapid-fire end to the latest Gundam show—and in one of its most satisfying moves, finally delivered on the sapphic love story it set up from the get-go. But in truly making queer love the heart of its endgame, the series also pushed a closer examination of one of the franchise’s most enduring ideas.
Gundam is a franchise about giant robots to many, but one of its oldest non-mecha hallmarks had its queer subtexts made text in Witch From Mercury's finale.