USEFUL ANIME REVIEW

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PREMISE

In the far future, military conglomerates jockey for control over the solar system. Threatened by the Vanadis Institute's breakthrough "GUND Format" brain-computer interface, rival conglomerates outlaw the technology and raid the facility, leaving only two survivors: a scientist mother and her baby. Years after the "Vanadis Incident", a young girl with a suspiciously GUNDam-like mobile suit transfers into the mech cadet school attended by all military conglomerates' heirs...

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CLOSING REMARKS

It has high production value and good Gundam action, but Gundam Mercury suffers grossly from lack of focus. It’s not a competent moe/yuri/slice-of-life, not a good military/school/coming-of-age story, and not an interesting mech/sci-fi/space opera. Pass.