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.

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Apparently it's not a movie, but it is in 2009 :D

Sup,

Today's been pretty cool. We had our first Bruegel rehearsal since god know when, and I found out a few awesome things.

The Bruegel rehearsals, i thought, went really well to say that we hadn't seen each other or even thought about the damn thing since way before easter. Alex decided to live stream bits of the second run through, videos of which you can see here - keep an eye out for Paul running away from Abi, it's genius.

Now even though I'm compleatly broke and can barely afford to eat - infact, forget that - I can't afford to eat properly. Seriously, I'm down to like one meal a day, if i'm lucky. MEGA HUNGRY 24/7. Anyways, even though I have no cash what so ever, this week the sequal to a fantastic 'hack and slash' game is released. That's right folks, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 is out on friday. America saw its release today and my tweetdeck has been buzzin all day with folks shouting about how awesome it is. I can't wait. I loved the first one, I know i'm love this. Shame i'll have to wait untill payday... no Gundam fanatic should be put through this :(

More Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 Info

Anyways, placing Gundam to oneside... for now, Fox have released a 3rd and final trailer for X-Men: Origins -Wolverine. I think it looks awesome, but why wouldn't I? I am an X-Men fan. A high-res trailer can be found here.

Ok, back to Gundam. Way back before i'd been born, or even thought of, in 1979 the first Mobile Suit: Gundam TV series was aired in Japan. It was canceled before its mammoth 50 episode run finished. The series was cut down to make three movies a few years later. Now, 18 series, 14 movies, a silly amount of graphic novels and thousands of model kits later we find ourselves in 2009 celebrating the 30th aniversary of MS:Gundam.
Because of this, the folks at Bandai have decided to do something special to celebrate. Already this year we've seen the epic ending to Gundam 00 the latest seires, a PS3 exclusive game for autum, and an 18 meter life size Statue of the original Gundam to be erected in Tokyo have been anounced.
2 weeks ago, a Bandai press conferance held in Spain announced that a movie based on the 'more than awesome' Gundam Unicorn graphic novel series was being 'discused'. Today we got confirmation. ZOMGSPLOSION!!!!!
However the Gundam Unicorn movie will not be a movie. It will either be a fully fledged 50 episode epic, like Zeta, First or Victory, or a shorter OVA series such as 0080: War in the Pocket or 0083: Stardust Memory.

Am I psyched? Yes, yes I am.

BenGP02