Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Prologue will have its U.S. debut at San Diego International Comic-Con later this July.
As detailed on the official Comic Con International website, the screening will take place on the first official day of the convention, which is July 21, at 12:30 PDT. The four-day convention will be held on July 21-24 this year, with a special preview night taking place on July 20.
The upcoming prequel series to Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury will be a separate anime series with its own story. According to Bandai Namco, the prequel series will also feature its own mobile suits. Although not many story details about The Witch From Mercury Prologue have been revealed yet, Bandai Namco did release the names of two of the new suits, which are Gundam Lfrith and Gundam Beguir-Beu.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The WItch From Mercury and The Witch From Mercury Prologue will be the first new Gundam television series in seven years, the last one being Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015). They will also be the first mainline Gundam series to feature a female protagonist. Suletta Mercury, a girl described as having "a scarlet light burning in her pure heart" on the series' website, inhabits an era where corporations have taken their business ventures into space and established a huge economic system as a result. Suletta travels from her home planet Mercury to attend the Asticassia School of Technology. This school happens to be run by the Beneritt Group, which dominates the entire mobile suit industry.
The Witch From Mercury, which is slated to debut this October, will be produced at Bandai Namco Filmworks/Sunrise. The anime will be directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi, who also sat in the director's seat for the science-fiction thriller Spriggan, which premiered on Netflix in June. Ryo Ando (Food Wars!: Shokugeki No Soma) will serve alongside Kobayashi as co-director. Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass, Sk8 The Infinity) is in charge of series composition and scriptwriting for the series. The artist Mogumo is credited for the series' original character designs while Takashi Ohmama (Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight AXIS) will be composing the series' music.
The Witch From Mercury Prologue is scheduled to debut in Japan on July 14 at the Gundam Factory Yokohama, the site of the life-size moving Gundam Statue. Although it is not yet clear when or where the anime will be available to stream, Gundam fans can watch several other entries in the series, including Iron-Blooded Orphans, on Netflix.
Source: Comic Con International: San Diego's Official Website