Sunday 26 July 2009

U.C. 0096 - The Year of the Unicorn

Sup,

When a movie adaptation of the Gundam Unicorn novels was announced earlier this year I nearly wet myself with excitement. Seriously. The 'light novel' series that has never seen western shores except through fans translations is finally making its way over here in winter of this year as a part of the 30th anniversary celebrations.

I don't know a great deal about Unicorn, other than it is set in Universal Century 0096, three years after the movie 'Char's Counterattack'.

A full list if the mobile suits and characters featured in the movie can be found here.

An English website dedicated to the Unicorn world can be found here. With summaries on the novels and character bio's, this website is pretty cool. It is, however, still in development.

As well as a few magazine scans of the mobile suits and the characters there is not much else out there except for these three little films. The first two are Japanese advertisements for the novels, but they show a small amount of animation, which I assume is from the movie. The third of these films is a 'Unicorn Preview' which shows stills that recap the history of the Universal Century from 0079 through to 0093. The last minute of this preview is full on Gundam Unicorn animation. Fuck me does it looks amazing. This baby is planned for a worldwide release too. I can not wait.

Advert #1


Advert #2


U.C. History / Unicorn Preview


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