AniWorthMobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096
Introduction
By the year 0096 of the Universal Century, a fragile peace emerges from the ashes of conflict. Sixteen-year-old student Banagher Links visits the Industrial 7 space colony on a school field trip, but because of a broken shuttle, he is left completely stranded.
To Banagher, who has always lived a normal life, war had always been a distant, almost mythical part of history; but within minutes, fantasy becomes reality when he rescues a girl named Audrey Burne, who urgently needs to meet with the leader of the nearby Vist Foundation, Cardeas Vist. She hopes to persuade him to withhold the "Laplace's Box," an object that holds the potential to destroy the world. History is set in motion as galactic forces converge on Industrial 7, each vying for possession of the Laplace's Box. As Neo Zeon remnants clash with Earth Federation Forces around the colony, Cardeas, in his final moments, gives Banagher the key to the Box, a mobile suit dubbed "The Unicorn Gundam."
Packed with explosive action and rising tension, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 follows Banagher as his conviction is tested and the destiny that has laid dormant for more than a century is finally realized.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 7.69/10 · 18482
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Audience reviews
5 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
jesicanti
So... this is the anime version of the Unicorn OVAs, with the original footage cut up and spliced together with a small bit of new footage. There's no reason to watch this over the actual OVAs unless you, like me, could not find the OVAs to watch in your country. Unicorn itself, as a story, is an 8/10 series; the show version suffers from trying to make 45-to-60-minute OVAs into 22 episodes, each roughly 19 minutes long. There are awkward cuts, weird ending points to episodes, action scenes that last more than 20 minutes are split up into different episodes, and so on. More than once I had to pause the show to remind myself who was fighting who and why.
But all of those are pretty minor complaints. The show is still worth a watch: the animation is gorgeous, with each character design stan…
Read at the sourceRauLeCreuset
I just finished Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn it had twenty two episodes, I only remember watching this when it had six episodes, and as a Gundam fan, I just want to say, it was absolutely excellent in portraying what the universal century timeline was all about as well as explaining the theory of newtypes. I really enjoyed it. Both characters both trying their hardest to race against time to gain the power of what could be the ultimate power to change the fate of Neo Zeon and be the Triumph card against that of the federation. The original series each episode was fifty something minutes long, these are broken down into twenty two minute episodes each.
Read at the sourceMrLegitimacy
Gundam Unicorn was still in progress when I first began to delve into the franchise. I told myself that I would watch the whole series when it was complete, yet here I was 3 years out from its finale without having seen it. Seeking out and purchasing the entire OVA series was a rather unappealing option, and as a franchise I care about I try my best not to pirate Gundam anime. Lo and behold, I discovered that the entirety of the TV version was available (Officially!) for free on Youtube. RE: 0096 is a marketing masterpiece chock full of stunning visuals and Gundam fan fulfillment, but with a story that left me somewhat underwhelmed and which may be inaccessible for newcomers to the franchise.
Having been cut from a series of OVA movies, RE: 0096 has stellar animation for a TV anime. There…
Read at the sourceS_Yellow
WATCH IT, IT’S AWESOME! Do you really need to read reviews to determine whether or not you're going to watch this?! While there’ve been many incarnations of Gundam since Char's Counterattack none of them take place in the universal century. UNICORN is the universal century in HD! This kids is return of your parents Gundam. This is why Gundam is approaching 40 years of airings. All the things we love about Gundam are here. Also, despite it being the sixth (don’t fact check me that’s off the top of my head) entry in the universal century You don’t need to watch all of that first. All the important characters are explained here. It seems unapproachable given the history, large cast and terminology but once you get into it none of that will matter; you’ll go with the flow. I don’t know what or…
Read at the sourceMiguel_Aiman
Gundam Unicorn started out with a lot of promise and potential. The animation and characters were both excellent when I initially started this series. But over the course of the show, there's a lack of character development over time makes for a slightly weak ending. I don't care for the episode format of Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 the pacing get's broken up and loses the flow and grandeur of the OVAs. The OVAs felt more cinematic, and now they just seem to be edited down to 22 minute episodes which feels awkward.
If only the character development was held as well as the animation, this could have been an outstanding series.
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