Crunchyroll Has Quietly LaunchedGundam: The Witch From Mercury‘s English Dub

Mobile Suit Gundam : The Witch From Mercury ’s first season was one of io9’sfavorites last year , but if you were waiting for the serial publication to get dub into English before you hopped on thehigh - fivin ’ hype train , then adept newsworthiness : it count like your meter is right now .

With little in the way of flash ( with not even an announcement of the dub ’s cast , which is certainly something given Crunchyroll’sless - than - ideal relationshipwith dub voice histrion ) Crunchyroll has debuted the first installment of the raw series — its “ Episode 0 , ” titledWitch From Mercury Prologue — dubbed in English . Rolled out ina separate tabon the serial ’ main page on the streamer , it ’s likewise strange if this is the harbinger of a weekly loss covering the 12 episodes of season one , or , if like the Prologue itself , this is a sampler for an eventual dub to come .

Set in a newfangled timeline inGundam ’s myriad continuity , Witch From Mercury Prologue is set a few decades before the upshot of the primary series . In a world where humankind ’s ascending into the sensation is dominate bythe capitalist mightof a military industrial building complex promise the Benerit Group , Prologue covers the development of Gundam - eccentric mecha , a controversial physical body of Mobile Suit that utilizes a potentially - grievous airplane pilot / suit port to amp up its power . Also , there’schildren doing war law-breaking !

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The first time of year of Mobile Suit Gundam : The Witch From Mercury is streaming in Japanese on Crunchyroll now , ahead of its second time of year debut this April .

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