The audio and visual quality is also excellent and what I have come to expect of all Gundam related releases from Right Stuf Anime at this point. The good news is that this new Gundam Unicorn anime release is affordable and comes brimming with extras, mostly there to explain the backstory for people coming in cold to the Universal Century. Previously, we had to buy each episode separately and at truly eye-watering prices. Not least for the fact that it contains all seven episodes in one collection. So that means this new set by Right Stuf Anime is basically the one to get. In reality, I still think the OVA version makes more sense and holds together better. While Sunrise tried to solve some of the exposition issues from the novels in Gundam Unicorn RE:0096, which was an extended 22-episode television series that re-used elements from the OVA.
Not to mention the almost magical aspects to some of the technology later on.īroadly speaking, the OVA of Gundam Unicorn does hold together but much of what makes you overlook these faults is the fact that it is beautifully animated and also has a fantastic score by Hiroyuki Sawano. The result of these omissions in the anime makes for events in the story as well as decisions made by characters to be a bit baffling. From character development to key plot points and technological foreshadowing. For the most part, it works but Fukui added a great deal of exposition to the story in the novels. This exposition was all but omitted in the anime. The only issue with this OVA though was that it tried to cram the ten main light novels into seven episodes. So to animate Gundam Unicorn would surely cause all manner of timeline issues but it was clear that the fans loved the story and the mecha designs, as the model kits and toys sold like crazy, and that in turn resulted in the anime being made. In that, Gundam Unicorn follows on from other novel spin-offs, namely Beltorchika’s Children and also acts as a prequel to Hathaway’s Flash. This is because while Gundam Unicorn does follow on from Char’s Counterattack, it does so from a different version of the timeline.
'Gundam Unicorn' is now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
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