Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (eps 1-3) | The Gundam Retrospective

Perhaps one of the most well known Gundam properties, Unicorn explores a time in the Universal Century of uncertain peace in the wake of Char's rebellion. Released starting in 2011 over the course of 3 years, Unicorn is a series that some love and some hate, so let's see why.
-- THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR GUNDAM UNICORN --
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[@JackIsMe1993]

Purely from a naming convention I'm glad I watched most of the franchise dubbed "FULL FRONTAL!!!" "QUATTRO VAGEEN!!!" "PLE TWELVE!!!"

[@MaxinRudy]

Seabook still is the peak naming to me

[@JackIsMe1993]

@@MaxinRudy OO was peak for me with the Innovades Bring Stabity was a fantastic name and stuff like Revive Revival, Beside Pain, Devine Nova, and my favourite Brad.....he's canon.

[@primusvsunicron1]

Frontal and Quattro remind me of Char

[@Reragi]

​@@primusvsunicron1Especially Quattro, but theyre different people after all

[@supsup335]

KA-MI-LE🤣

[@broodo1]

1. Rhidde's 2nd mobile suit isn't the rebuilt Hyakku Shiki. It's the Delta Plus. It's an amalgamation of the Hyakku Shiki & Zeta Gundam. The Delta Plus has the Zeta's waverider mode w/ most of the Hyakku Shiki's general mobile suit appearance 2. Marida Cruz, is in my top 3, of most well written Gundam characters. She's been through so much (backstory) & still has more character development (in series). 3. I made it to the end of your video!🎉

[@andrzejwysocki609]

really cool design but its MG model has super weak ankles and falls over Q_Q

[@NebbyGotOutTheBag]

in a way the delta plus is pretty much them going back to the orignal delta gundam plan and finishing it since it was actually feasible to do now

[@convictedsauces6875]

It's not actually a combination of the suits as it is a mass produced Delta Gundam due to them having the budget and time to fix the transformation issues that prevented the Hyaku Shiki from just being the Delta gundam

[@Jociaoftrades]

@@convictedsauces6875 this.

[@jonathana607]

what are the other 2 within your top 3 character list?

[@drvinylscratch1936]

Unicorn is the problematic well animated and insanely good ost anime. Unicorn was first written well after Hathaway's flash and CCA. And it introduced absurd mobile suits that are just hidden by the gov and NONE of the data gained goes anhwhere. Gundam already had ms design and story line for the inbetween of CCA and hathaway and that 10 years. Then unicorn is shoved into that time with so many changes and insane newtype shit that is all gone by Hathaway's flash because sweep under the rug which is just a shitty cop out. All of the grunt suits except rezel were pre existing in cca and Hathaway's. ReZel is then an uograde to rgz which makes sense until you see it is completely missing from existsnce a few years later, same for Jesta. Jesta at least has a side grade in the Gustav Karl but ReZel is fucking gone from existence. And despite the Jesta beinf an upgrade to the Jegan IT IS NO WHERE after unicorn and the feddie main stay by uc 130s is still the fucking Jegan. If the newtypes didnt go so far in power, and the 3 unicorn units it almost would fit till you see rezel and jesta missing and just have to go "guess it is too expensive". But yea unicorn is beautiful to watch and listen too but it suffers from being shoved into a place where it did not fit. At least TB accepted the alt uc tag and fits into origin timeline, while unicorn is in clothing too small for it. Although TB recently cucked Kamille and made it so he didnt design the zeta TT Also delta plus is ehat an upgraded delta shouldve been. And delta is what shiki was supposed to be but anahiem couldnt transform it so they made it the shiki.

[@Duo_20]

32:20 They just HATE UC... newtypes or not they hate it....

[@SturdivantRacing126]

Wait...why is the Delta Plus being confused for the Hyaku Shiki That is DEFINITELY the Delta Plus. It used the combat data from the Hyaku Shiki, but it is definitely not that.

[@vzda123]

Only UC series i watched before unicorn was the first Gundam series, zeta and chars counter attack. I was pretty much fine, except I didn’t really understand how significant maridas background was at the time.

[@Master_Pogi]

Is Gundam the Origin on the pipeline? I’d like to know your take on that series.

[@DeliciousManX]

I'll answer your question: I never watched a UC gundam series before. I just decided to pick one and watch it on a whim, and unicorn has great animation and looked pretty cool. I was blown away. I fell in love with it immediately. I loved it so much that I overcame my fear of watching the original '78 anime because i wanted to know everyone's back story. Unicorn absolutely stands on its own. And it's so fascinating it will make you want to watch all of the UC.

[@-rayzer--wolf-6474]

same first UC i saw was Unicorn followed by Narrative and Hathaway and i didnt feel lost even though i knew there was stuff i was missing Unicorn 100% stands on its own just watched the Origin and thats gonna get me to watch the rest by itself

[@jagerzaku9160]

Same, I watched thunderbolt then episode one of unicorn. It was so good that I went back and watched 0079, Zeta, ZZ AND CCA just so I could fully enjoy Unicorn. It was worth it.

[@Falzyker]

The single best sound ever made for Gundam is the sound of the Beam Magnum. Also I think Unicorn wasn't to attract new people to Gundam, Unicorn was a love letter for old fans, Unicorn was "Hey thanks guys, here's to 30yrs of Gundam, lets do 30 more years".

[@andrzejwysocki609]

i really hope the new uc stuff just pretends V gundam never happened too

[@sparten17708]

Ideally it was to book end the universal century era that we know and open up the world of future UC to be animated

[@BatemanGosling]

@@andrzejwysocki609 This is why Crossbone Gundam needs TV anime adaption

[@Alex-2-5-1]

@@andrzejwysocki609yeah but it’ll be great ful if they did a f91 full season

[@broodo1]

@@andrzejwysocki609 me looking at Sunrise Bandai hoping they give me the following before I die: Finish the Thunderbolt trilogy Finish the Hathaway trilogy Animate Crossbone Gundam

[@ratchet2505]

Unicorn was my entry into UC timeline, then went back to watch all the original stuff before then watched it again and it hit me like a truck. My favourite Gundam series.

[@DeliciousManX]

Me too! That's exactly what I did! I love Gundam so much

[@maramba32]

honestly watching the og gundam all the way to unicorn/narrative/hathaway is such a great journey and i love it.

[@JackDManheim]

Assault on Torrington is one of the coolest things ever.

[@MrJulio632]

30:16 the reason he does this is so he can hit the head so the Unicorn can strike down the Sinanju easily, but the Sinanju has a second eye sensor (reveling that it actually a Gundam type)

[@chuckhaynes9166]

Yay! I love Daguza. The staff literally thought: "Lets make a menacing, capable special forces soldier with the most 'im a villain!' Anime character design points possible. Then make him the most understanding, open minded and compassionate...in a realistic way...person possible." Knowing a few elite soldiers and marines myself...it was a nice thing to see. Daguza is real...not a contradiction.

[@brambl3014]

He's a hero

[@broodo1]

If you're old enough to of had a WW2 vet Grandpa. Guarantee you Daguza reminds you of them

[@Astronopolis]

Daguza is like the ideal male archetype, if you subscribe to the idea that all men have a monster in them, and the measure of a man being how strong their monster is and how in control of it they are. He knows when to be gentle and when to fight.

[@KeonVioletWilkins]

Fun fact: There is I believe a kit text for the Jegan that implies the Jegan that did the best against the Kshatrya was involved in the Axis Shock incident 3 years prior and was probably one of the people involved in pushing the colony.

[@Retcon404]

Oh thats actually a cool little detail.

[@DigitalFulcrum]

Yeah the fans loved seeing a "no name badass" fight so well that the pilot posthumously got that bit of lore.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Easily my favourite Gundam series, largely due to the pacing. Zeta Gundam and ZZ have so many episodes with generic fights, random dialogue and 2 minutes of actual narrative. Operation Maelstrom should have been highly detailed and several episodes long. If Zeta and ZZ had a dozen hour long episodes instead of 40+ 20 minute episodes, the shows would have been way better.

[@OnDavidsBrain]

Not gonna lie, Unicorn was what convinced me to finally give Gundam a fair shake and was the first series I stuck with till the end when it was still on Netflix. Until I saw 00, Unicorn was my #1 Gundam series. Though what probably did help was watching Des Shinta's Super Robot Wars V reviews that helped to fill in a fair chunk of the backstory of the Universal Century that lead into Unicorn. And yeah seeing Unicorn before 0079 really changed how the One Year War came across knowing that the Earth Federation are the actual fascist villains of the Universal Century and that was before they created the Titans and the event they engineered to create them in the first place. Now I never read the original Unicorn novels so knowing that Banagher was originally a Cyber Newtype does kind explain the flashbacks, though speaking of the novel and anime differences we'll get to two major changes next time, both of which were caused by the interference of Yoshiyuki Tomino. One is annoying, the other is just reinforcing his misogyny. Speaking of said change, we'll get into Riddhe and what a raving nut job he is.

[@henryfleischer404]

Pretty much summed up why I didn't like Unicorn- I don't like the idea that the Earth Federation was fascist before 0079, and I think it makes the original series much less interesting and appealing.

[@NebLleb]

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn was, hands down, the franchise's tough act to follow. The OVA that took all the best parts of the UC shows before them, amplified them, added in some new dynamics, and resulted in one of the best pieces of anime I've ever seen. These first three episodes did a perfect job of setting up the plot, characters, and stakes, ending by beginning Banagher's character growth of trying to reach out and not kill. It's genuinely good stuff, and the series only gets better from here, particularly in episode 5.

[@drvinylscratch1936]

Nah 00 was the tough act to follow that unicorn did well. That said 00 cleared the lowest bar by hiking Everest

[@novacounciloutsdrs4770]

​@@drvinylscratch193600 is absolutely nothing compared to Iron Blooded Orphans. Mizuki dies and has a son.

[@twelfthknight]

The part of Unicorn I liked the most was its clarifying and recontextualizing the Universal Century into a more comprehensive and heavily political overarching narrative. It takes a very different dynamic from other Gundam, in Unicorn Banagher is a sort of scale on which the opposing sides weigh themselves upon and confess their sins to. From Banagher's perspective we see the shape of the era and gain more insight into why it became the way it did. Which had certainly been touched upon in other Gundam series and novels, but never quite crystalized into a narrative like this. When I first watched Unicorn I was going through University and really getting into history and political theories for the first time, it was something of a treat to have that feet under me going into it as the story went places. I really should read the light novels, some of the differences between the text and the anime seem pretty fascinating.

[@supsup335]

I also love the fact that the ntd was originally built as the newtype detect system, and then repurosed when the federation joind into the uc project and repurposed the entire tbing to hunt down newtypes, adding the destroy system onto the detector.

[@MrAlexje27]

This was my first gundam series I ever watched in my first year of university. I dropped it and came back to it a few months later after a co-worker nudged me to try it again. Sure enough even tho it was my first gundam series I fell in love with Gundam and it made me wanna know all the lore and stuff they mentioned in the background and 4 years later I've seen all of gundam and built 4 gunpla. This for me is peak gundam

[@Bndbha]

This is exactly how I fell in love with Gundam. The art, the characters, the story, it all just pushed me to want to learn more about this world.

[@DavidMendoza-wx8zd]

Ironically, Unicorn is the first Gundam series I watched about a year ago, and it’s still one of my favorites to this day! I had no idea wtf was happening half the time, but it was still a great intro to the franchise and the expansive lore to the UC. Been a fan ever since.

[@ohnosmoarlulcatz]

The Unicorn is still one of my favorite mobile suits. I literally have 3 different versions of the PG (Final Battle, Phenex, Perfectibility) overlooking my desk at all times.

[@mrnolife8336]

As a ZZ fan who´s first gundam series was unicorn, i can say it deffinetly say it´s a cool experience to watch it completely blind, but it´s nicer to know everything beforehand.

[@Reaperwing47]

The series that got me into UC. I had only seen Wing, 00 and IBO before this one and wasn't aware of the UC timeline. After seeing this one, it inspire me to check the rest of UC and man, what an incredible experience it was

[@andrzejwysocki609]

from what ive heard a lot of uc fans dislike it, at least the part when they go back to space, i dunno why, pacifist bananners? the unicorn going full space magic? the laplace box legit doing nothing for newtype rights after they find it, ok that part is pretty realistic.

[@Reragi]

​@@andrzejwysocki609I'm a UC fan, watched all of it first before the AUs. Unicorn is easily S-tier, but yeah the violent amount of newtype space magic is dislikable for some

[@andrzejwysocki609]

@@Reragi it got even worse in gundam NT, legit just became a super robot movie, i was mad lol

[@Reragi]

@@andrzejwysocki609 I REALLY disliked the fights in NT, NONE of them are memorable for me in good ways The Phenex being possessed was cool and all, something similar to the EXAM system, but the way the entire explanation was handled in the flashbacks left a REALLY bad taste which kind of makes it boring to watch Also I hate the disrespect to the Neo Zeong they did in the colony fight. Or the fact theres a second one.

[@andrzejwysocki609]

@@Reragi i only liked the fight in the intro with the special forces jegans fighting the dijehs, everything else was meh

[@deadronin47]

The music from unicorn is amazing The frontal assault that plays when msn-06s sinanju attack the ship Just get the heart going

[@xnflg3074]

I see those gunpla boxes... one of us, one of us... lol. So, I have some issues with the whole underlying idea of Laplace's Box and I do think Unicorn is up its own butt quite a bit. Maybe I'm just an extreme cynic but the idea of a "concept" changing interplanetary politics that much on its own seems so groanworthy considering how vulnerable to propaganda the human race generally is. Like, I can't even imagine or suspend my disbelief that anything could come out in the actual, real world that would make everyone go "oh, wow, so that's the actual truth huh? wow we were wrong. how could we be so stupid." Someone in power would have already thought to spin it and/or people would just ignore it. I do get that it's kind of an interesting idea and that people have fought and died for ideals before but ideals and philosophies can just be invented whole-cloth and don't even have to have any bearing on anything as long as someone with power or influence can make people passionate for their cause. Also I don't really love Newtype stuff. It's fine but the Unicorn as a mech and its time travel shenanigans are very overrated imo. But then again, I tend to unconsciously dislike popular stuff, which I think is kinda just being a knee-jerk hipster, but at least I'm aware of it. *goes back to building old model kits of suits no one cared about*

[@vali6717]

Congratulations on voicing two of my own major hangups on Unicorn. I do not know about you but I found many of the new suits to feel overdesigned like the Rozen Zulu or titular suit family but that may be holly my individual opinion. Newtype powers seem to have an level acceptable by each individual so having a problem is perfectly reasonable. The Unicorn's feats are out of place and skip over from what has been shown into the realms of essentially magic so they feel out of place in the franchise.

[@Jonnyg325]

Seconded on the "Laplace's Box feeling useless" front. In UC 0050, when Zeon Daikun was preaching and legitimately trying to change the world, this could have made a difference. After 15 years of extremely brutal war in some of the most disturbing war crimes imaginable by both sides, it's useless. And as we see in Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, 10 years down the timeline, nothing has changed, with the Mafty uprising being more effective than the damn box. It makes more sense when you read the original novel and realize that it's supposed to be the anti article 7 of the 1947 Japanese Constitution, but even then, it still feels pretty hokey.

[@xnflg3074]

@@vali6717 The Rozen Zulu is basically a kitschy rose themed redesign/rework of the Hamma Hamma from ZZ, kinda like how the Silver Bullet/SB Suppressor is a reference to the Döven Wolf. I actually like how Unicorn repurposes some older Zeon suits and gives them a little more of a modern feel. But yeah some of them are not very interesting. The ReZel and entire Delta line are not really for me, and I honestly find the Sinanju too gaudy.

[@handbanana3763]

Thank you finally someone who gets it. To compound on the box you have Full Frontal's "plan". It's so dumb. You can't force the Federation to do anything when there's no way in heck you can enforce your demands. The sleeves organization was fought to a standstill with just the Nahel Argama. The colonies absolutely still have a token Fed force on them.

[@vali6717]

@@xnflg3074 The Rozen Zulu was merely one of the major examples I have issue with, in other words I agree on the Sinanju being gaudy. I find the Sinanju slightly less so but the one shade of red with the additions made to it that seperate it make me retroactively appriciate the Sinanjy Stien far more even though Narrative was a true waste of time, but my thoughts there are best spared. The Rozen fails where the Silver Bullet succeeds for me as the SB still maintains the style of lines from the Dovin Wolf. The RZ'S rose shaped pods feel out of place. The in show colors do not help either, aesthetically it looks better with the higher contrast of the HG but that is 100% personal. The ReZel line was something I did not bother mentioning because I think they are... fine. The chunky Gustav Karl design however is personally the least endearing Federation suits because I prefer the origional, far sleeker design.

[@RelativelyBest]

Gundam Unicorn was, I think, the first Gundam show I actually watched, rather than just generally knowing about. I basically had no idea what the hell anyone was talking about. Still, I can put up with a lot of confusion if there's sweet giant robot space battles.

[@robertfaulkkner5508]

I remember I mentioned what a strong ending Unicorn has in the 08th MS Team video. That was 10 months ago. What a wonderful wait this was.

[@lumpenada977]

I started the first Mobile Suit Gundam around the time Unicorn was new. I had this crazy feeling that I somehow needed to watch all of the preceding entries before going there. Also the original Unicorn Theme was one of the first pieces of orchestral music I ever transcribed.

[@vhsmemories504]

I'm just saying you should totally do a review of Big-O. Really cool noir style mecha anime

[@papabatsy]

Watched Gundam Unicorn twice prior to watching other series. It took a lot of research to gather context. Watching after experiencing the rest of the UC is definitely rewarding.

[@SuperThunderbrain]

As someone whose first ever piece of Gundam media was Unicorn, it was super enjoyable even without any knowledge of prior events in the UC.

[@marvelboi3416]

Hey Retcon_404 that's why in 2016 a television rebroadcast as Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096. This version break down these hour long episodes into 22 and had new reanimated scenes.

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

I just watched episodes 1-3 earlier, and I really agree with the part that Unicorn is too dense with the amount of new things it introduced and and old things that it referenced it's almost overwhelming. But for someone who's consumed a ton of Gundam media since the second half of last year, this OVA felt like eating a very delicious cake. I love it for what it is, and kinda dislike for what it is, but I still love it. A guilty pleasure indeed.

[@Corruption922]

I will say that, as someone who watched Unicorn without watching any of the previous UC shows besides 8th MS Team and War in the Pocket, I didn't really find it terribly difficult to follow. While I certainly missed some context for some of the characters, ultimately I didn't and still don't think it's a very complex show. It's just preachy to an annoyingly naïve extent, and Banagher is more of a plot device than a character.

[@daytimelantern6570]

did you get a haircut man or did you just have it under the hat? Nice video man! i myself am not the biggest unicorn fan but its been awile so a rewacth is in order

[@tornadoe505]

Unicorn, one of my least favorites, but with some great MS. i may be in the minority.

[@sergjim2377]

Me who likes double zeta..... I guess I'm number 8?

[@Heroduothecomedian]

Im begining to think you mispronounce names just to tease the hard core fans lol

[@FOXZILLA5734]

I have an interesting history with unicorn, I watched this and found out that it was from the original UC timeline which led me to research it and found out that Gundam spanded from 1979 and shocked me the franchise was that old and them some time latter an official anime channel on KZbin(i cant remember the name) had the original series on there and decided to watch it and absolutely loved it and made me a fall for the franchise so i thank unicorn for introducing me to UC which led to the events that made me an official gundam fan.

[@Keshin4539]

Love Unicorn tons! The mech designs and the weight of each is so cool! It would have been fantastic to have a 2 vid from ya, but that is quite a bit and big ask to have people stick around for the whole thing.

[@tylercharles4587]

Hey, Ridde's Mobile Suit isn't the Hyakku Shiki. It's a development of the Original plan for it (the Delta Gundam) called the Zeta Plus

[@nekrumzero8117]

"Delta Plus" zeta plus is another MS.

[@noofthecorn3380]

As someone who didn't know anything about uc before this show, wow cool robot

[@wingzero-0014]

Unicorn is the ultimate slice of fanservice in the Gundam UC timeline which is why you shouldn't watch this series until you watch 0079,Zeta,ZZ(seriously don't sleep on this series),CCA plus Marida and Kshatriya is the best

[@Jhn-yl3xx]

Re: 0096 (the tv rebroadcast) really fixed the pacing of the OVA and is alot easier to watch, same with Gundam the Origin tv rebroadcast

[@pressurechief]

Unicorn is by far my favorite gundam series, the DELTA PLUS is my favorite mobile suit, and Riddhe is my favorite gundam character

[@ivanbluecool]

I liked this series. Saw it after ibo and didn't really care much for it as i was still new to Gundam. Took my time. Saw other series then came back to it. Actually enjoyed it that time. Probably 3-5 favorite series behind 00 ibo and origins. Near to seed and the builder series

[@achsdu17]

Ya know, Unicorn lost me when I tried watching the 1st OVA when it first came out. Found it boring, while I've watched a ton of Gundam in my life. I forgot all about it, till it was made into a 13 episode TV series. That actually helped me a lot and watched the whole thing. Ended up really enjoying it. Will say Full Frontal 😂 who came up with that name? Sounds like a chip and Dale name. I do like Banager and his obsession with Audrey... Audrey you're the love of my life! 😂 love the Bright cameo and yeah we learned that Char and Amuro died... that witch Lala dragged them both to their deaths. She's a witch, succubus bitch. They would of done just fine if she left them alone.

[@Jhayzer021]

The biggest slap in the face for us gundam fans when it comes to fan service is the "KIA" on a legendary character they show in this series.

[@primusvsunicron1]

Retcon will you cover the Hathaway trilogy after the second and third movie are released?

[@rascallymanx8947]

Its great to watch this while building the PG Unicorn. Found it unbuilt at a flee market for 150$!

[@XXzacXX18]

I’ve been waiting for this to drop 😢

[@ChavaliMcIntosh]

THIS IS MY FAVORIT GUNDAM

[@gmsniperll9804]

SAMEE

[@CustardCream515]

Despite protest from my friend, who had gotten me into gundam from 40k T'au lore to watching the entirety of IBO, I decided to give Unicorn a go despite having seen no other gundam series. I loved it. The mech designs and allusions to history made the show feel like it was set in a real world, a bit like Tolkien or in other stories with well fleshed out worlds. I went on to watch all of 00 to really see if this gundam thing was for me, loved it, then watched all of UC in chronological order. The 79 movies made the original series easier to binge, Zeta was incredible, ZZ was difficult at first, and 8th MS Team and Thunderbolt were stellar side stories. Getting back around to unicorn gave me a whole new look on the show, but I wanted to be clear that as a fan of "gundam" but with no experience of the UC, Unicorn is absolutely watchable. Origin is next, just need to find a free place to see it in HD with my UK IP address haha

[@son_duby]

This is my favorite gundam/gundam show can’t wait for him to do it justice

[@henryfleischer404]

"one of the 12 people that liked ZZ" I'll have you know there's 13, and I'm one of them! Still rated it second to last out of every Gundam series I've watched though, above Gundam Seed but below Stardust Memory. ZZ was not particularly good, but it was entertaining.

[@Tahkaullus01]

I love Unicorn for 2 reasons: 1, it is genuinely good and I love the art style. 2. It was my introduction to musical god and lord on high: Sawano-san. God damn him.

[@joshkelso123]

ZZ is a good series

[@LongTran-kp3kz]

Usually, they're pretty different yeah, but I read the manga adaptation to Beltorchika's Children and, if it's anything close to its source material, then yeah... it's VERY similar to the movie we got... but with an ending that I liked a lot better bc it felt lit had more wait and Amuro's last words were Beltorchika's name instead of the obsession he has only with Lala like in the movie... Well, Cha'r's sef destructive, nihilistic tendencies are more pronounced and called out in Beltorchika's Children over the whole pseudo-Oedipus complex weird ass groomer thing he had going on... Hathaway killing Quess felt more believable and drew a better parallel to the whole Amuro/Lala thing they were setting up too... along with why he does what he does in Hathaway's Flash. Yeah, I never really liked the way Chan died for no reason and Hathaway killing her in a blind rage... I will agree that the first novelization wasn't grreat and I don't know shit about Hi-Streamer. Oh, and Zeta is apparently even darker than it is in the show, so i'm okay with leaving those out. Beltorchika's Children's version of Char's Counterattack had much more hope in its ending than the movie did to me though, and i liked that. Plus, I like the idea of Amuro finally trying to move on and wanting to start a family, even if...well, he still dies saving the world from Axis....

[@HSE331]

The first 4 episodes were really good. The last ones not so much.

[@broodo1]

Last episode dives way too deep into New-Type ass pull sorcery, even more than the re-edit 0079 movies, CCA, or re-edit Gundam Zeta movies

[@Tanuvein]

I really liked this part of Unicorn. I'm a new Gundam fan but I just watched Unicorn, doing a mostly chronological viewing of the UC (I did watch MSG 79 before Origin though). I did love how this part seemed to build up on everything we had before and I was actually surprised to see Mineva again after her last appearance in Zeta or ZZ. It makes sense this period serves as the end of the major Zeon faction storyline though.

[@DiodeMilliampere]

How well does that crapifying static snow effect work to please the copyright minders? I've seen very few people do it. It seems like a pretty smart way to go about using clips, but I wonder how well it works

[@kaguya6900]

I think you misinterpreted the scene where "Audrey" is falling inside the colony and Banagher saves her. She was in the center "hub of the wheel" part of the colony at the beginning. That's a zero-G area, but she didn't have control of her momentum, so in order to regain control, she grabbed at a lever. Unfortunately for her, the lever was to some gas nozzle which pushed her toward the walls (ground) of the colony. Even so, she wasn't "falling" then any more than when she was going sideways through the hub. She stays at her current momentum. You only feel "gravity" in an O'Neal colony when you are in contact with a floor or the ground and are moving at the same rate as the walls of the colony. Otherwise, you're in zero-G. And far from being scared of "eternally falling," that would be the feeling "Audrey" was most used to. She's spent most of her life in space ships and space stations. Zero-G is also called "free fall" because that is the feeling you get in zero-G. I'm sure uncontrolled momentum gradually heading toward a moving wall would be scary though, but for "Audrey," it would have been the fear of the impact rather than the falling itself that was scary.

[@rayhayes7701]

I didn't know anything about Unicorn until after it was over and done with. My friend Joaquin told me about Gundam Unicorn and I dug into it and I think it was already finished so it took me awhile to watch this. And yeah I have to agree with you; this is one emotionally draining Gundam show. Oh there is so much information and some much drama that I was about ready to go to bed because I watched these episodes on Friday nights

[@scarletrain6757]

The delta plus isn’t a rebuilt Shiki. Basically before Zeta Gundam the federation was still toying with transformable Gundam and they developed the Delta Gundam, but though simulations it was deemed unstable, the idea was reworked into the Hyaku Shiki. only until they captured a Gundam MK II and reversed engineered its Movable frame did they figure out how to make a stable transformable Gundam, then they went back to the original Delta Gundam plans and made the Zeta Gundam. Some time after Zeta Gundam they went back to the Delta Gundam plans again and make the Delta plus

[@JTMC93]

Anyone who watched ZZ and possibly Zeta should immediately recognize who Audrey really is.

[@warmachine5835]

I know I've commented on this before, but the utter butchery of Gundam names is part of the charm of the Gundam Retrospective series. And it works, really, because Gundam names are some of the wackiest shit out there. Seriously. Ramba Ral? Bright Noa? Kamille Bidan? Kakricon Cacooler? Quattro Bajeena? Quatre Raberba Winner? Rau La Cruset? Bring Stabbity? What do you have to seed a name generator with to get this stuff?

[@OtherMomo]

This just might be my damage but I don't like when people put the emphasis on the second syllable of Arghama tou don't call them ar-GO-naughts, they're AR-gonaughts, and that's the best way I can explain why it sounds more sonorous pleasing as AR-ghama

[@ResearcherAlexander]

Gundam unicorn was technically the first gundam show i watched even though i did play some gundam video games before like sd gundam battle alliance. But after i watched gundam unicorn i was left spellbound to the gundam ip as a whole.

[@legumez2125]

Regarding Audrey falling in the colony; freefall and floating in space should feel similar/identical, so given that she grew up in space, it probably isn't that jarring for her. Not sure if her relative nonchalance is intentionally due to that fact.

[@AngellMessiah]

This was one of the wost of the series. I hated all the characters and banagher is the worst mc's I've ever seen

[@thehatman7051]

I know the story can work no matter what kind of Newtype Banager is, but I personally like him being a cyber Newtype, if only for the fact it means we get a Cyber Newtype who gets a happy ending

[@Norbert_Sattler]

Considering how Anaheim has always sold to the highest bidder, regardless of faction, morality or ethics, ironically enough, they might well be the most unbiased history teachers in the UC, since they have no personal stake in making any of the warring factions look particularly good or bad.

[@DarthBoolean]

"Every line that every character says is the weightiest thing that's ever been spoken" Just got done watching Narrative and this is why I didn't really enjoy it.

[@PupOrionSirius26]

Do you have any plans to cover Aldnoah Zero at all? And after this will you cover Iron Blooded Orphans?

[@ENDfilms44]

I actually did enjoy binge watching Unicorn (OVA) last year, but also I watched the dub so long dialogue stretches were probably less draining to keep up with.

[@Giggity1080]

Great review. You just gained a follower with a bunch of likes !

[@Walmbat]

Sometimes, I think about the fact that there's an IRL Anaheim Electronics.

[@brodyot94]

Would love to have you on my podcast Fandoms and interview you about Gundam and your experiences as a fan of it.

[@brambl3014]

The first UC series i watched and the one that made me deep dive into it Still unable to watch ZZ and earlier gundam though. It looks so rough

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Honestly, I think I consider the Unicorn to be more of a protagonist than Banagher.

[@therougechipmunk8058]

Jokes on you I 100% would of sat here watching a 2 hour long video on gundam unicorn

[@xnflg3074]

also yeah pretty sure you're up in Maine right? I'm in MA and the freaking rain has been ridiculous. lol.

[@ashharkausar413]

I saw it when it first came out. I really felt like the series hit the ground running; I wasn't fatigued by the dialogue. For some reason I stopped at epi 4 and never got back into it, I think it's high time I complete this series! Hearing your points justifies why I felt so highly about this series back then too.

[@Aames32]

When I think Gundam I think Rx-78-2 or Exia.

[@Chris-df5se]

Hahahaha only american would use piss and vinegar as a positive statement while the rest of the world view it as a negative one

[@nicodalusong149]

It's Banana! His name is Banana! Also, they're the Sleeves because they are the fringe remnants of Zeon. Just like on a shirt where sleeves are the smallest, furthest portion of cloth from the main part of the clothing, the Sleeves are the tiniest portion of Zeon Remnants. I guess it's also because most zeon remnants are part of Mars Zeon, Oldsmobile or not.

[@Wil_Roadagain]

I thought it was because their suits had fancy sleeves 🤷‍♂️

[@nicodalusong149]

@@Wil_Roadagain Well, that's just appropriate theming design.

[@quantizedanson]

bananaji

[@evanerickson4217]

I haven’t seen this show in a while and I have only seen it once. I remember like it but I found the story at time confusing but over all was pretty Good and the Gundam Unicorn suit kick ass and the music kick ass.

[@EsmReparlana]

pshhhhhhhh ZZ is good, it's slow at first, but once they get to space it's hilarious, the desert drags out but you get ple and then the tonal shift matches zeta

[@theViewer221]

Watching this before it gets copyright striked. Lol

[@wannabkain4400]

I find unicorn my favourite universal century show

[@burryto3389]

Never wathced Unicorn. Now I kinda feel like I wan't to.

[@goodgriefchief]

I hate how my man helped her get there , then she’s immediately like go home …then after she see he can pilot a gundam then it’s run away with me , how dare you 😂

[@ObsidionshadowX]

DAT Armored Core soundtrack in the background tho. 😎

[@ricejuice8982]

Banagher is the name of a town like 2 hours away from me (Ireland)

[@forger03]

Alberto is The son of Cardias and half brother of Banagher

[@darndarn29]

I’m one of the 12 that appreciates gundam ZZ

[@rifleman1122]

Oh man, every time I hear that pronunciation of Banagher it hurts a little bit more.

[@Pandemonium-zp2fg]

Unicorn is a great series I just don’t like the MC

[@chriscueva1866]

I fucking love double Zeta!!!!