Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn tells a finished war story through seven OVA chapters, each with a 59 minute runtime that feels closer to a film than a standard television episode. Hulu and Netflix carry the complete OVA. The extended format gives its mobile suit battles room to convey scale and physical force, while the drama examines how a new generation deals with conflicts it did not begin. Viewers already familiar with the Universal Century will get more from its political history, but the immediate pursuit of Laplace's Box supplies a clear plot for newcomers. Choose it if you want Action and Mecha spectacle with a serious interest in memory, responsibility and the damage inherited from earlier wars.
About
Banagher Links lives on the space colony Industrial 7 until a meeting with a mysterious stowaway pulls him into the struggle surrounding Laplace's Box. Competing forces believe this concealed secret could disrupt the existing balance, and Banagher becomes connected to the white Unicorn mobile suit as the contest closes around him. He must work out whom to trust while people shaped by older battles try to claim the Box or keep it hidden. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn uses that pursuit to explore inherited loyalties and the pressure placed on people who had no part in creating the original conflict.
Information
- Japanese
- 機動戦士ガンダムUC
- Premiered
- February 20, 2010
- Episodes
- 7
- Duration
- 59 min per ep.
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studio
- Sunrise
- Source
- Light Novel
- Themes
- angst, drama, female protagonist, japanese production, speculative fiction, sci-fi
Seasons & Watch Order
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is set after the original Mobile Suit Gundam and Char's Counterattack in the Universal Century timeline. You can follow its central struggle without prior viewing, but watching those earlier works first gives the returning political divisions and old grievances greater weight.
- Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gyakushuu no Char(1988)prequel
- Kidou Senshi Gundam F91(1991)sequel
- Akai Shouzou: Char, Soshite Frontal e(2010)prequel
- Kidou Senshi Gundam: Twilight Axis(2017)sequel
- Kidou Senshi Gundam: Twilight Axis - Akaki Zanei(2017)sequel
- Kidou Senshi Gundam NT(2018)sequel
FAQ
Hulu and Netflix carry the complete Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn OVA. Both services offer the same seven-episode story, so you can begin on either one.
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