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penguintruth
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And all you need to do to understand it is watch three TV shows and a movie!
At least they put the OVA version up there. The version I spent a couple hundred bucks on when it first came out. 
The TV version was a little lopsided. |
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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I have learned that I must never compare my purchases to how much it would have cost me to watch them on Netflix (eyes my Madoka Blurays). |
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MattB1
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It's also on Yahoo! View, if anyone's interested.
https://view.yahoo.com/show/mobile-suit-gundam-uc-unicorn/episodes?language=en |
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Top Gun
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Honestly I did pretty well with just a cursory knowledge of the UC timeline. I'm sure I missed a lot of references and Easter eggs, but I was able to get the gist of Unicorn's place in the grand scheme of things. |
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GeorgeC
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The TV series is also up on YouTube playing under Bandai's official channel, Gundam Info.
That's how I saw it. You can watch the English dub or pick up the sub version in your choice of language. Gundam Info has both Build Fighters series released in the West, Zeta Gundam (complete, sub at least), Gundam Wing (sub at least; I didn't look for the dub), and other shows I'm sure that I didn't see or really look for. TRSI listed a Gundam Unicorn Complete Blu ray box for next year but I don't see the point. 600 dollars for two different edits of the same material. It seems even worth less to me than most director's cuts of movies are. The major differences between the OVA and TV shows are the new credit animation sequences. That along isn't worth a repurchase and I own the original 7-disc Blu ray release. If that wasn't enough and people want it cheaper, they've had the cheaper two-disc release Blu ray of the OVA edition on sale for months now at TRSI. I thought Gundam UC had the usual strengths and weaknesses of a Gundam series. Better-than-average production values. Decent music if nothing really stands out this time. As far as closing up the UC timeline -- not really. We have Gundam series set much later in that continuity already. I think if it closes anything it's the storyline for Char and Amuro. That's pretty decisively concluded in this show. The main lead shares the same problem any teen Gundam does -- he's a teenager, erratic, and extremely naive. So, no, Bannagher Links isn't my favorite Gundam pilot, either. Neither is Unicorn my favorite Gundam series but I will say it's a heck of a pretty-looking show. The dub was decent but doesn't really stand out. I do like Zeta Gundam, better, though, even if Camille is at least as annoying as Bannagher Links. |
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MadHi
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I don't know why this is so critically acclaimed, it's just stuff happening. It doesn't add anything to the early UC series and it doesn't bridge into F91. Like most new UC series, actually all of Universal Century now, it was a waste of time.
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LegitPancake
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Netflix also added the full season of Dragon Pilot a couple days ago, though I believe that was planned from a couple months ago.
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Go back to the reviews of the first volume from back when it came out (like ANN's review of Madman's DVD release) and you might get an idea of why people remember it so fondly. It came out at a time when a lot of anime fans were starting to make the jump to HD torrented mkv files and Bluray discs, which only served to exaggerate its reputation as a visually stunning production. It attracted the gunpla crowd (who often don't care so much about the plot of Gundam shows so long as they contain mecha designs that they like) by constantly making references to obscure MSVs that, up until that point, weren't considered "canonical" designs. It had a a pre-Attack on Titan, pre-Guilty Crown Sawano soundtrack, back when the biggest things he had worked on were Sengoku Basara and the live-action Team Medical Dragon adaptation, so it even sounded different from other shows. Finally, it might have just been a series of "stuff happening", but it was presented in a way that, at the time, felt very exciting. |
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nDroae
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The score seems to be a legend among Sawano fans. I listened to the title track a lot before I started the series, and got a major emotional impact when it played at the climax of the first episode.
I liked F91, but I can't picture such a bridge being much of a draw for praise. The recent comparison that comes to mind is Tenchi Muyou Ryououki 4th Season being used to make connections to spinoffs from 10+ years ago. With Unicorn being 27 years before F91, and the upcoming Narrative being only one year after Unicorn, it seems to me there might be an active intent to avoid ever touching the "unpopular" F91/Victory future, without outright erasing them from canon like Superman Returns did to the original third and fourth movies. It seems very unlikely, maybe impossible, but I'd like to see F91 remade as a series someday. It's not like conflicting versions of UC events haven't been done before (Zeta compilation movies). I didn't start watching Gundam until 2015, but I thought it was incredible that I could see a baby born in a 1979 show, a child in the 1985 sequel, become a major character in a 2010 continuation. I think it's accurate to say that to me, that was one of the coolest things I've ever seen in anime. Don't know how longtime fans felt about it. |
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fuuma_monou
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Also available in the Philippines.
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