Audience reviews
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k-0da
The hopes for this show were low but the results were still disappointing; the most five out of ten gundam of all time.
Visually speaking, this show is very good looking. The OVA budget gives it a clear advantage over 25 or 50 episode shows, so now the character animation is very smooth and the mecha fights have a lot of oomph. The most interesting shots are present in said fights and only the fights, which is kind of a letdown since gundam can have a lot of good visuals in regards to newtype powers or just characters being sad in the desert. Fight choreo was great. Seeing the mechs move themselves was awesome; in all of the gundam show’s ive watched, I’ve never loved every mech on scene like I have in unicorn. The music is decent; nothing particularly stands out, much like the rest of t…
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It's peak, and introduced me to Gundam.
I stumbled upon this on Netflix a few years back, and I chose to give it a try over Iron-Blooded Orphans, an alternate universe gundam series on Netflix. I didn't know what I was getting into, and it's a well-known thing that Unicorn is one of the more difficult Gundam series due to it's plethora of references and callbacks. I still believe wholeheartedly that this is a fantastic series that is both a love-letter to the UC fans who've seen every series in the timeline, and a intro point for new fans that showcases just how good the series is. While a lot of those references and callbacks won't make sense to a first-time watcher, the intrigue it builds helped me get into the Gundam Universe.
11/10 in my books, and certainly my favourite Gundam seri…
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Gundam Unicorn is peak Military focused Gundam. The story has the least dumb moments and shitty romance and if you know gundam you know that gundam is full of shitty romance.
The guy who came up with the english names for the people in this show should be given a raise. I have never laughed as much as i have at the name Full Frontal. It is the greatest name in all of Gundam.
There are more Mobile suits in this show than there are types of ships in the Navy. Holy shit its gonna cost me so much money to buy all the Unicorn Gunpla. Ple Twelve is the best female gundam character in the series by far as most of them have just been foil to the more interesting male characters. I am not ashamed to say that if Ple Twelve was real i would simp for her harder than a twitch mod.
The OST in this s…
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Having marathoned several Gundam shows, starting with the Gundam 0079 movie trilogy and making my way to Wing, as well as having watched 08th MS Team, other Gundam nerd friends of mine convinced me to watch Unicorn. Going into it, I had an understanding that it was a highly regarded entry in the series, that was well animated and tied deeply into the narratives of the UC shows. You can see from many of the other reviews here that a perfect 10 is a quite common rating.
For myself, though, Unicorn turned out to be an exercise in disappointment and exasperation.
Step one, we'll get the extraneous elements out of the way. Unicorn is indeed well animated, in fact that's the primary redeeming factor of the OVA for me, between the MS fights, loving character animation, colorful palettes, and s…
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There are two different ways for someone to enjoy Unicorn. The first is to expect to watch mecha porn; meaning to see some amazing production values regarding giant robots. And indeed, this anime has the best overall artwork and animation in any other Gundam to date. It just looks plain awesome. The second way is through nostalgia, as we are taken back to the first and best of all timelines, that of the Universal Century. We get to see lots of familiar characters and cameos of areas and older models, so unlike most side stories you are truly made to believe this is a sequel.
Sadly this is as far as the good reasons go, since most of everything else is either a rehash of earlier Gundam shows, or it is a bad addition altogether. I mean I liked how all of a sudden the world federation is pro…
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Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is by far one of the best sequels that anime could ask for. It takes everything that made the original Gundam trilogy so great and turns it up to eleven. It is fueled by the will to fight for what is right in the world rather than siding with one particular faction over the other. It is about the internal conflict of the main character rather than the overcoming the villain's forces to ultimately obtain peace. It is the same Gundam that you know and love, but it seems to have grown up remarkably well into a fully shaped adult.
Banagher Links is a kid who is nothing more than your ordinary student attending boring classes. He's quiet and reserved, but he deeply cares for his friends. One day, he feels something pulling him to save a girl floating outside of his s…
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[3rd Edit] Here is an unpopular opinion (partially). I had high hopes for Unicorn, but... They were only partially satiated. As the most expensive Gundam series of them all, you expect some things to be held as the primary objective, but Unicorn only gives you half of that and is mostly the character`s fault. You can still enjoy the good parts, and some things are really good if you take the UC story as a whole. It is a nice show, with amazing mechas and an overall enjoyable story, but I`ll explain what you might not like.
Story: It is a nice addition to the series and to the UC, since it fills many gaps, and provides some extra layers of political intrigue and conclusions to the UC. My problems with the story are more focused on how the characters react to the events and how the main eve…
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Possible spoilers.
A lot of space opera war dramas start like this: "We don't remember exactly why war broke out, or where diplomacy failed, but we're at war with this other power..." (It's enough of a thing that The World God Only Knows poked fun at it). For Universal Century (UC) Gundam, we have some sort of a timeline of the events leading up to the 0079 conflict, but it was always some sort of backstory or a website feature. For quite some time, new UC shows would get placed farther and farther into the future, so we would have "Newtypes" but little connection to their origins in the first Gundam. Other UC Gundams showed us that while Zeon was ruthless and well deserving of their fearsome reputation, the Federation was at least as bad, using their power and ubiquity to force everyone…
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So this is the third Gundam that I have personally watched (to be honest I think I'm becoming addicted now haha) anyway like always I'll go through the essentials of what I am rating the show on.
The story takes place in the Universal Century of the original Mobile Suit Gundam timeline in the year UC: 96. Tensions are still relatively high between The Federation and what is now the Neo-Zeon as both sides are searching for the Laplaces Box which is said to change the very foundation of the world as they know it. I'm going to be honest the story itself is outstanding once again achieving what makes Gundam so great, which is addressing moral ideals both social and political. Gundam Unicorn might well have the most complex but, intriguing story I have watched in a Gundam show. It really does…
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I just had to write a review since I saw so many people praising this series.
Honestly it had so much potential, Unicorn has some of the coolest Mobile Suit designs in the Gundam franchise, the art was amazing and there were many (cool looking) characters introduced.
But I really can not relate to the characters since their actions dont make much sense to me. Same with the story, why is everybody so hyped about the box? Even when you find out whats inside (the only thing I was hoping for, to give this story a clever twist or something) is completely underwhelming.
To me the script felt extremely forced and there was little to no character development that could make any character likeable. Also the emotional scenes felt repetitive and ... why are so many characters related to each other?…
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The story is carried almost entirely by everybody scrambling to find A Thing. This Thing is defined only by it's supposed ability to be very powerful/effective, but not HOW it is. After the fourth episode I'd completely lost interest in what any of the characters wanted and considered just looking up the ending and not finishing it.
Maybe I'm not enough of a Gundam fan to appreciate excessive whining and ineffective protagonists. I watched this to hopefully feel a desire to get more into the Gundam universe and watch some of the longer series, and this failed to ignite any interest for me.
The character and mecha designs did not disappoint, and I was pleasantly surprised that each episode was so well-animated, but these were the only positive qualities I found in the series. The show is…
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So for me this was really hard to watch as I am a HUGE Gundam fan, most specifically of the UC timeline, which for some reason this takes place in. Why was it hard to watch? Well It completely mutilates the message of UC as a whole and tries to make Zeon, the bad guys since the first series who have done some REALLY bad stuff, seem like good guys and that every atrocity they committed was justified and okay. Aside from UC this just in general sends really mixed signals in terms of motivations and what is even happening. I'll include a spoiler section at the end after my overall to go more in depth to what I meant at some points as it's hard to describe why I disliked this some things without spoilers. If something I say seems vague it's probably because I'm trying to refrain from spoilers,…
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Gundam Unicorn is one of the more recent additions to have been made in the Gundam franchise, this being the first installment taking place in the Universal Century timeline since Victory Gundam's airing over 20 years ago. Taking place years after the events of Char's Counterattack, Unicorn features several factions in conflict with one another to gain possession of a mysterious item called Laplace's Box that is said to hold enough power as such that it can shake up the power structure between Federation and Neo Zeon forces. This conflict has our teenage leads, Banagher Links and Audrey Burne, caught up in the mess as Banagher becomes the unwilling pilot of a new powerful Gundam unit called the RX-0 Unicorn that is a key element of obtaining Laplace's Box and Audrey's ties to influential l…
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STORY: Weight of 33% at 4.0/5
The story of Gundam Unicorn takes place in the same timeline as most of the first Gundam shows, including the first gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Gundam ZZ, Gundam 0080, and Victory Gundam. In fact, Unicorn takes place 3 years after what unfolded in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack but 27 years before Mobile Suit Gundam F91.
Unicorn tells the story of a young boy named Banagher who meets a mysterious girl named Audrey. Although he leads a somewhat normal and average life, Banagher gets pulled into the pursuit of the greatest key to changing the world known as Laplace's Box. Because of this unknown factor's importance, many factions are also searching to become the first to find out where and what exactly this Laplace's Box is.
Now, Gundam…
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My view on this series basically boils down to this: many rehashed elements, not much substance. If you want to watch this just for the mecha aspect, it's pretty enjoyable due to the very high production values. If you're looking for a good story and solid characters to go along with that action, well, you might be disappointed. Unicorn builds upon previous Gundam series set in the Universal Century (UC) Timeline, so you shouldn't watch this until you've watched the UC Timeline's core content (0079, Zeta, CCA). And because Unicorn came out after those other Gundam series, I'll use some comparisons to highlight the places I feel Unicorn went wrong. There shouldn't be any spoilers for any series in the main review, just comments on the general direction of things. However, there is a spoiler…
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Hey, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is finally a complete package and it's great, but who wants to read gushing? Not me, and I baselessly suspect I'm not the only one who combs through reviews for the most critical ones instead of the most adoring ones. With that said, this review will explore what makes Unicorn either worth mounting or nay, so saddle up!
Let's start with disclaimers: watching previous entries in the Gundam Universal Century is optional, but it is a highly advisable option if you want to get the most out of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. You will be able to follow the story, but scenes will definitely be lost on you. Also, for newcomers, the ending will make your brain leak out of your britches, so prepare a fresh set.
With that out of the way, the story begins like most mecha…
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There aren't a whole lot of proper reviews for Gundam UC on MAL, which is sort of upsetting. I'm not one to write incredibly detailed reviews because for that, just watch the damned thing. For me, this review, or rather a reflection would serve as a tool to cure my anime hangover that Gundam UC left me with. This is also for those who need proper intuition with this epic metaseries. *Spoiler Free, duh*
The issue with Gundam Unicorn is that it sort of sits at a paradox. As a standalone, it's a hell of an anime; but your experience greatly depends on whether you have the knowledge of the Universal Century (you know, Mobile Suit Gundam) to fully grasp the scope of the anime. Unicorn serves as the penultimate conclusion to the Universal Century story that started back in 1979 in the timeless…
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Now that Gundam Unicorn is over I can finally give a proper review on it.
This show does not have character development,but has a good plot to make it an above average anime.
Banager,the main is like Kira from gundam seed,always wanting to stop fighting and crying even when the situation does not call for it.A chosen one from the onset,he at least does have a useful role as a protector and does not have as much of the gary stu complex as much as Kria.
Ther animation is awesome.the mecha fights are cool and well choreographed,and unlike anime like Madoka aren't pointless trippy rides that add nothing to the story.
The show is about finding the laplace box,a treasure that could change humanity and the unicorn gundam is the key to unlocking it.It could end the war between newtypes and the…
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“To my only desire, the beast of possibility, the symbol of hope…” – Banagher Links, Gundam Unicorn episode 1
Since the advent of the original Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, the Gundam franchise certainly has grown to become one of the most iconic shows in anime and has undoubtedly revolutionized the mecha genre itself. Now we take a look at the long-awaited, most recent addition to the Universal Century, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.
For those who know the Gundam UC timeline it is obvious, however for the newcomers, it should be known that Gundam Unicorn, despite its name, is not to be taken lightly. For the uninformed about Gundam history, it would be preferable, though not necessary, to watch other Gundam series in the UC timeline taking place before the date Universal Century 0096 and/or at…
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Maybe it's because I watched Wing first. AND I have an issue against "whiners."
I thought Victory Gundam was THE PINNACLE of anything Gundam, Turn-A and Double Zeta were pretty good, and Mitsuo Fukuda and his wife needed to be kicked out into the streets... for even thinking that they actually reach Yoshiyuki Tomino status with Seed & Destiny.
Fukuda's works had nearly killed Gundam for me. 00 tried it's best but fell on it's face. No. If anyone wanted anything Gundam done right, you go back to the old professionals.
And what they came up with is a Unicorn.
Bancolding$ (Bandai Namco Holdings Sunrise) basically took Double Zeta's "good parts" (the Puru clone and her MS), gave it Single Zeta's "cruel reality" and "whining-yet-useful protagonist," and used the animation from Char's Counte…
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