Eh, not really, the last gundam series that came out was iron blooded orphans and that had a much better perception than witch from mercury, the only thing different about witch from mercury compared to the rest of the gundam franchise is that rather than tackling the topic of a war between differing governments, its now about a war between corporations, also technically Suletta isn't the first gundam protagonist but she is the first gundam protagonist to get her own show, its a unique gundam series but its definitely nothing too new, it still has the same gundam drama and politics albeit its now in a corporate scale, the only thing fresh with gundam witch from mercury however is the fact that they hired 4 different prominent mecha designers for each corporation which is unheard of because usually each gundam series there's like one mecha designer for the whole show but they aren't pulling any stops on this one and actually hired 4 of them, also according to sunrise this show was made to cater to teens thus the school setting and it really puts off a lot of veteran gundam fans albeit it does reel in a new younger audience, either way its a good show definitely not revolutionary for gundam, I still think the originals, chars counterattack, thunderbolt, and unicorn all of the classics and UC timeline series were the peak of gundam something that can't be easily replicated in todays time even if they shift to a newer audience however I am betting on the live action adaptation of gundam currently in production by legendary pictures to bring gundam to the entire world, that is when the real peak of gundam finally reaches to newer heights
I'm a very veteran Gundam fan and I absolutely love this series whereas orphans which was never really one of my favorites (and frankly was way too depressing). I'm quite old school with 0083 and 08th MS Team being my favorites. I like the feeling of this series, especially how the tone changes as it progresses. I hope that, in the end, the main protagonists ultimate fates are as good as those from 0083 and 08th MS Team.
Trash, is more like it. The best show was zeta simply because it connected 3 shows and an ova together. Plus old school universal century is always gonna be superior simply with its hand drawn animation backing it up with creative gusto unlike this CGI laden, body pillow of a weeaboo fest.
