{"id":49573,"date":"2022-11-08T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=49573"},"modified":"2022-11-13T07:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:55:21","slug":"yoasobi-releases-english-version-of-gundam-the-witch-from-mercury-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/11\/08\/yoasobi-releases-english-version-of-gundam-the-witch-from-mercury-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"YOASOBI Releases English Version of Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Ayase\/ YOASOBI YouTube channel has uploaded an English version of the music video for <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?s=Mobile+Suit+Gundam%3A+The+Witch+from+Mercury\"><em>Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s opening song, titled &#8220;The Blessing.&#8221; The video&#8217;s release date was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YOASOBI_staff\/status\/1588018457358237696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously announced<\/a> on November 3.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The English video&#8217;s launch date coincides with the release of the <strong>YOASOBI<\/strong> song&#8217;s CD. In addition to the Japanese version of the song, titled &#8220;Shukufuku,&#8221; it includes the English version, anime edit version, and instrumental version. Billboard Japan&#8217;s Hot Animation Chart has &#8220;Shukufuku,&#8221; which was written by <strong>Ayase<\/strong> and performed by <strong>Ikura<\/strong>, in third place as of November 2. The song also placed third on Oricon&#8217;s weekly digital singles chart for the October 31 to November 6 period.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">An English version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.gundam.info\/about-gundam\/series-pages\/witch\/music\/novel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cradle Planet<\/em> short story<\/a>, which details protagonist Suletta Mercury&#8217;s younger days from the perspective of her Gundam Aerial, was released as well. The show&#8217;s series composer and scriptwriter <strong>Ichiro Okouchi<\/strong> penned the story while<strong> Eriko Sugita<\/strong> handled the English translation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YOASOBI \/ The Blessing (\u300c\u795d\u798f\u300dEnglish Ver.)  -\u300eMobile Suit Gundam THE WITCH FROM MERCURY\u300fOpening Theme\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C7p1RIksKp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/10\/02\/yoasobis-gundam-the-witch-from-mercury-opening-song-gets-music-video\/\">original music video<\/a> was uploaded on October 2 and has over 11 million views so far. 10GAUGE\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Nobutaka Yoda<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Bubble<\/em> opening animation director) directed and storyboarded the video with <strong>Yutaro Kubota<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>The Girl from the Other Side<\/em> co-director et al.) as animation director and one of the photography staff (among other roles). <strong>Koshian<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Harune Satou<\/strong> (\u201cTomoshibi Serenade\u201d animator) served as background artists while 10GAUGE\u2019s <strong>Matsuki Daisuke<\/strong>&nbsp;(\u201cMakafushigi\u201d music video photography director) and 10GAUGE\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Atsushi Kobayashi<\/strong> (\u201cMakafushigi\u201d music video) were the photography staff. <strong>Sunrise<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>CALF <\/strong>are listed as the animation production companies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury&nbsp;<\/em>premiered on October 2 and is streaming on the Gundaminfo YouTube channel, Crunchyroll, Bilibili, and the Ani-One Asia YouTube channel. The new alternate universe Gundam show will have split cours, with the second cour beginning in April 2023. The premise is described as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>A.S. (Ad Stella) 122\u2015<\/em><\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system.<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>A lone girl from the remote planet Mercury transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology,<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry.<\/em><\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Her name is Suletta Mercury.<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>With a scarlet light burning in her pure heart,<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>this girl walks step by step through a new world.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Hiroshi Kobayashi<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Dragon Pilot: Hisone\u00a0and\u00a0Masotan, Kiznaiver<\/em>) is directing the anime with<strong>\u00a0Ryou Andou<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Interviews with Monster Girls\u00a0<\/em>director) assisting and\u00a0<strong>Ichirou\u00a0Ohkouchi<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Code Geass<\/em>) as series composer. Illustrator\u00a0<strong>Mogumo<\/strong>\u00a0is the original character designer, while\u00a0<strong>Marie Tagashira<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway\u2019s Flash<\/em>\u00a0character animation director),\u00a0<strong>Juri Toida<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Gundam Build Divers Battlogue<\/em>), and\u00a0<strong>Hirotoshi Takaya<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt<\/em>\u00a0animation character designer) are the character designers.<strong>\u00a0Bandai Namco Filmworks<\/strong>\u00a0is the animation production company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Meanwhile, the cast includes <strong>Kana Ichinose<\/strong>\u00a0as Suletta,\u00a0<strong>Lynn\u00a0<\/strong>as Miorine Rembran,\u00a0<strong>Youhei Azakami<\/strong>\u00a0as Gel Jeturk,\u00a0<strong>Natsuki Hanae<\/strong>\u00a0as Elan Ceres,\u00a0<strong>Makoto Furukawa<\/strong>\u00a0as Shaddiq Zenelli,\u00a0<strong>Yume Miyamoto\u00a0<\/strong>as Nika Nanaura, and\u00a0<strong>Miyu Tomita\u00a0<\/strong>as Chuatury Panlunch.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Update:<\/strong> Added that an English translation of the <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cradle Planet<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">short story was also released.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;Ayase\/YOASOBI YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ayase\/ YOASOBI YouTube channel has uploaded an English version of the music video for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury&#8217;s opening song, titled &#8220;The Blessing.&#8221; The video&#8217;s release date was previously announced on November 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,137,10],"tags":[14,4458,1066,3433,2941],"class_list":["post-49573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-music-video","tag-mobile-suit-gundam","tag-mobile-suit-gundam-the-witch-from-mercury","tag-music-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/theblessing_musicvideoenglishscreenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-cTz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49873,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49573\/revisions\/49873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}