@@lauraazure6462I'll say this much: I didn't expect Hathaway to turn that goober into someone I'm actually interested in watching. CCA Hathaway sucks ass, but Hathaway Hathaway actually has some rizz.
I love Captain Otto. He's the retail manager Captain. He's not very good at his job, but his hearts in the right place for the most part. Him just getting fed up and shouting down Angelo is one of my favorite moments in this entire show.
My explanation for why Rhidde acted like such an unlikable twat for the middle part of the story, was because he thought he was the main hero of the story, just because he was a hot shot MS pilot with traditional leading man good looks,and would get the girl but then got all butt hurt when he realized this kid Banagher actually had the title of main protagonist and got all mad 😂
Now why does that explanation remind me of a certain corporation Redgun...? - Both think they're the main character of their story (both are Gen 4 humans, after all) - A hotshot pilot (good looks, iffy, his Arena bio did say Michigan gave him a facelift after he picked a fight) - Realized the main character was the actual protagonist (621 being much better than him by virtue of being the player) which makes him mad (enough to repeatedly try to kill "the freelancer" as he calls 621)
A correction regarding Marida breaking her programming, it was not the suit but herself. All the Ple clones are basically hardwired to view all Gundams as enemies. And thus once she is told she is in a Gundam herself, the resulting contradiction breaks her brainwashing.
All the ones we see in ZZ and Unicorn at least. The three failure clones in UC Engage don't have that programming. Then there's also that one Ple clone Judau saves on his way to Jupiter in Revive. That one doesn't show any anonymity towards Judau who is in the ZZ Gundam.
That battle of Torrington with all the old and odd suits from both sides is the biggest commemoration of Gundam ever made, it looks amazing, shows an immense amount of mech brutality, and although there is some bias towards Zeon pilots being better, it's still a very nonsense soldier on soldier battle, which we don't usually see.
Yeah, the bias on Zeon side is a…..contentious issue imo. As a side note, even with the new Gundam project announced, I would not be surprised if there was a Zeon bias.
the name is mentioned in the episode around the time when Karaba was staying at Hong Kong and Four first shows up, so its kind of memorable (for me anyway)
@@lucasoliveirafrancisco6868 No. Luio was the company that wanted to catch the Phenex, not the one who made it. Federation had a role in the Phenex project.
Shame he didn't mention that MVP Byarlant Custom during Torrington segment on this video. Still good video on Gundam Unicorn though. The Unicorn Gundam is the one that makes me interested on Gundam Franchise as a whole.
It was super cool to see it in action but really had no impact to the plot. It's wonderful to see that with as much war the Universal Century has that there are more than one ace pilot
ironically enough, despite being a pretty bad starting point, Unicorn was the first Gundam series I ever watched start to finish. I was also watching it while sick in bed, so combining that with my complete lack of knowledge of the UC, I was pretty lost almost the whole time. But even still, the beautiful animation, incredible mech design, and the strength of the themes and characters still allowed it to stick in my mind for years and eventually bloom into an interest in watching the rest of the series (which is something I'm still in the process of admittedly). Even with all the knowledge I now have, I think Marida is still my favorite Gundam character. So yeah, weirdly enough despite being a terrible starting point in terms of plot, still managed to get me into gundam (after a few years)
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not (probably was,) but Full Frontal's plan is basically Imperial Japan's "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," and has the exact same problem: the assumption that all the colonies have the same interests, and see the Federation as a bigger danger than each-other. The irony is, we already know that _Jupiter_ is the rising power courtesy of their effective monopoly on fuel, and many of the space colonies will eventuality just leave the solar system outright.
Don't worry a Ple Clone does survive with Judau and has descendants that live well beyond victory. Merida may be gone but a dream of her sisters living beyond their roles as weapons is realized.
Full frontals plan is extremely silly, and Audrey is right to call him on it, But it almost makes a hilarious amount of sense why his plan for the box would be that stupid. Because him being a literal clone of char, obviously made by a fervent OYW principality Zeonic remnant. of course their 'idealized' version of char would come up with a plan that Ultimately benefits and creates the Ideal Principality of Zeon cutting out earth.
Bright Noa being ready to break the law or go full turncoat is what made him my favourite character. It really runs in the family as we see with Hathaway.
Fun fact: The General Revil is a Dogosse Giar class battleship, and has a hanger capacity of 48 mobile suits. So Full Frontal fought off 48 high spec mobile suits and their heavily armed carrier ship in that one battle in a setting where most skirmishes consist of maybe 3-10 suits on either side.
the scene of gael shooting a hundred different ridiculous weapons at the neo zeong with the silver bullet while the NZ just *boops* them all effortlessly feels a lot like every time i play battle operation 2 lmao.. of course i'm gael in this comparison. good stuff btw!
@@seraph_dalgon_9216 yeah, he and angelo are both just simps tbh. riddhe is worse though because he is shown to just not know wtf he's doing pretty regularly and more consistently acts like a baby whenever banagher is treated in some perceivedly "better" way than he is
Riddhe is an important character for being an example of thinking too highly of your position and taking your own influence for granted, as well as taking drastic action without thinking on it throughly. He is impulsive and spoiled, but not irredeemable. The “incel” smear just forever brands him as human garbage, where his existence proves that the concept is a fallacy, no human is deserving of being discarded.
Gundam Unicorn is my first introductory Gundam series and it confused entirely. However, I love the message really much and got me into a better person as a whole. It was a series that truly wanted the war to actually end. The message is when Audrey was at the dinner and the owner said all he could do was to give the Princess a coffee. That indicates to me that people with power should act like every decision matters because it affects a lot of lives trying to end the cycle of hatred and let’s move forward in another evolution of humanity. And don’t act like Riddhe as he just conjured a useless battle at the end just he lost his mind from being so sane calling Banagher insane when he confronted Red Mega in Ep. 3. It also taught me to speak English in a very formal setting to some degree sounding quite fancy at times. I believe in Newtype to some degree with Sixth Sense making right decisions at the right time. Thanks for revisiting the Unicorn!
The crazy thing is that I watched gundam unicorn first, before anything else gundam. The self indulgence and dense philosophical dialogue is what got me hooked weirdly enough. Not to mention the animation especially for the fights and robots is eye candy. I recently went back and watched it after catching up on all things UC (except ZZ I know how dare I) and it was less confusing in some aspects. Unicorn is STEEPED in the overall story of UC even not considering the returning characters and references. I still did find something truly special that first watch through while knowing near nothing about UC gundam overall. Which goes to prove how quality unicorn truly is as a show.
13:50 while you were right in pulling the trigger was technically the right move, it's immediately nulled the moment the deflectors stop the beam and thus saving the unicorn & Delta, even if they didn't realize it.
Episode 4 was one of my favorite moments from Gundam overall. It showed off the Philosophies involved in the UC timeline, but the hate is too deep to overcome. Was also the moment when Banagher willingly used the Gundam for his own ends and attempts to stop the carnage. Though despite all his effort, at the end, the enemy he wanted to stop and save ended up dying as well. This single episode was what convinced me to look into the UC timeline after only watched AU series prior to that point.
I really hope at some point you end up making a review for narrative, I have been going through every gundam series I can find starting with the entire UC timeline (currently on victory so I'm about done I started this journey near the beginning of the year with witch from mercury being my introduction) and for whatever reason narrative really stole my heart, it isn't perfect by any means but it might be my favorite or top 3 so far and hopefully you really enjoy it as well if you ever cover it! Also obviously there's a lot I could say about what I loved and disliked but I don't wanna spoil I just love the characters/structure/plot/ending and etc. i am absolutely in the minority though cause from what I have heard people in the gundam community kinda hate it and as I said I can't fully justify my weird love for it though maybe the niche it covered was just right up my alley
I think the big issue that Unicorn runs into, continuity wise, is that Hathaway's Flash happens 9 years later and is *really* what starts to weaken the Federation. Curious if it's going to come up at all in the animated movies whenever they come out, as it obviously wasn't in the original.
I saw somewhere here or the part 1 video of there being zeon bias with the pilots. The federation pilots weren’t frontline troops. Most of them probably didn’t have any combat experience. Hence why the battle of torrington was more in zeon’s favor in the beginning.
I still dont get how some people claims to be Gundam fans but they keep finding annoying all the metaphisic newtipe magic thats basically the main thing of UC and most of the "remakes" and spin off the franchise got. Its a story about humanity advancing and evolving through any circunstance becoming something more once we reach a new state as a species. And its also nothing added midway or nothing like that, newtipe are there since the beggining of it all.
It never really registered to me how old Riddhe is relative to Banagher and Marida. I always thought he was like 20 or something, but he's actually a 26 year old who has the hots for a 16 year, that'll probably ruin my view of him forever.
A nice bit of running consistency when the zeta plus uses the beam magnum the arm breaks, This carries over into gundam narrative with the silver bullet suppressor just a nice bit of added plot about just how heavily built up the Unicorn was compared to other suits of the time.
Its still pretty amusing how much he loved his Giant mecha Gun that his new custom has a specialized Arm replacing option just for it maintenance & Costs be damned. I guess it helps his 'Sugar Mommy' is the Big Boss.
When are you gonna do a Gundam NT review? I’d love to hear your thoughts on that film. I actually loved it and really liked how they explained the new type abilities especially how they can effect the physical plane with their powers
It's a shame you glossed over Zinnerman's dad moment with Banagher and Loni's whole story. Really emotional stuff there. Also, the Banshee doesn't freak out when it realises it's a Gundam, Marida's conditioning breaks when she herself realises she is the thing she is brainwashed to hate; a Gundam.
I completly agree, the loni story its a great reminder of the ill in this charatcers, the deep hate carried through generations, they made hate a part of their whole persona and as banager says thats just too sad.
the battle of torrington was what got me into gundam originally. I loved G gundam as a kid but started with that episode of unicorn. you were right in the fact the series is not beginner friendly and the UC timeline can be a little hard to grasp unless you sit through all of it. I genuinely did not know what was going on the entire time but was entranced by the superb animation. it was just cool to watch. but I gave it a rewatch very recently and was really frustrated with the long dialogue tangents and the fact that if I glanced at my phone for a couple of moment then looked up, I would have no idea whats going on. I cant tell you how many times I would have to rewind a scene because I got distracted but would hella confused as to what happened next if I didnt rewatch it. that coupled with the fact that I wasnt too familiar with the UC made it a real head scratcher to understand at times. its wishy washy morals are tacky but not over the top corny, though it does get there sometimes, I do think the animation and the nostalgia factor really do hold it up though. I enjoyed it. and I enjoyed your analysis on it. really cleared up some missing pieces for me. you are doing God’s work by giving everyone an overview on how the gundam universe works. I really appreciate the effort man. keep up the good work?
Using still images aren’t too bad, 3 minutes in and I don’t really mind with the stills. This skirts away on the copyright claims, eh? It’s a nice compromise, I definitely don’t mind it, barely look any different.
Hell yeah! It’s a bad@$$ mobile suit! Do you like the standard Banshee form more or the Banshee Norn form more? I personally like the Banshee Norn form more
Unicorn important to the canon yes. It does not treat it sell nor fit in beyond the cop out of "oops too expensive and oops sweep sweep under rug" Jesta snd ReZel only exist within unicorn to never be seen again. CCA originally had 1 follow up: Hathaway's flash where the inly ms dev was the gustav karl as anahiem was crippling and penelope and xi are its final relevant ms. Jesta and ReZel never existed till unicorn. Same thing with the 3 RX-0. Wish unicorn fit into uc properly and without the cop out of too expensive or swept under the rug. Thunderbolt took the right path and just went full alternate uc and jumped on the origin retelling and ads a lot while cucking kamille from designing the zeta. Maybe he does the transformation mechanism. That alt uc has yet to reach the zeta era unless it just retconns the movies. That said while unicorn is fitting into clothing that is way too dmslk for it, it is a spectacular UC entry.
I cant believe i missed this originally. The Unicorn creators seems to have had the same affection for the Byalant from Zeta (Jerids machine) and gave a custom variant a special sequence...im surprised you didnt mention it. Riddhe is a pretty confusingly badly written character. Considering how almost everyone is given a decent arc...Riddhe is exceptionally bad. Hes a loser througout, and eventually earns the hatred of the audience. Alberto...of all people, has a better arc than he does. This is one of my favorite Gundams...so its strange that I dont really like Banagher at all. He's just kind of bland and floating through events. Hes not all bad, its just that hes "powerful" rather than having a real personal effect on the story.
Like I said before Unicorn was my very first proper Gundam Series and I still love it. That being said when put into the overall context of the UC it kind of honestly seems like a waste of time considering the Federation goes all out on suppressing the truth of Laplace's Box during the events of Hathaway's Flash just to make sure that the events of F91, Crossbone and Victory Gundam still happen (despite Tomino wanting Victory Gundam removed from cannon even more than the fans.) Speaking of Tomino remember those changes I mentioned last time? The first was covered in the video, Tomino for some reason wanted Full Frontal's background as a Cyber Newtype clone of Char to be more ambiguous. The second was the treatment of Loni, since in the Unicron novels Loni's role was filled by her father, who as far as I know was completely batshit insane and wanted to kill every person on earth for what happened during the One Year War. Hell during the battle of Torrington he was the one piloting the Shamblo and would not stop no matter what especially aiming for civilians, requiring Loni to force him away from the controls and lowering its defenses so that Banagher can destroy the cockpit and stop their rampage. But then Tomino showed up, made his changes and had Riddie be the one to kill her, which rubbed Unicorn's original author and the animator the wrong way just so Tomino can have an excuse to kill another woman. But speaking of Riddie, this dude was an asshole to the point where apparently in Super Robot wars V he thinks that Spacenoids don't deserve any human rights and calls Banagher wanting to save Mirida and acknowledging her basic humanity "lip service". Not exactly helped by his English voice actor being Yuri Lowenthal who also voiced Suzaku Kururugi from Code Geass and Riddie himself having a lot of Suzaku's worst traits. But at least unlike that Uncle Tom Riddie at least had his "oh god what have I done" moment. Too late to redeem the guy but at least he had it. Anyway on its own Unicorn is honestly the best piece of UC Gundam content to date, but in context of the UC, it's a slap in the face. Not helped that the last of the Unicorn novel's adaptations; Gundam Narrative is a big ol nothing burger.
I did wind up liking unicorn butt it didn't end things as neatly as I had hoped and I still stand by the universal century should have ended with Chars counterattack
@@Retcon404 worth watching the dub over the sub as well, Greg Ayers captures the personality of the protagonist(compared to the manga) better than the original voice actor.
I like how Gundam constantly craps on Zeon Ideology. Zeon Ideology takes a few cues from Marxism and Fascism. Which are sibling ideologies that generally hate each other. For example the Oppressed vs the Oppressor Narrative that Marxist have latched onto which has heavily influenced nearly every Social movement since the late 19th Century. In Gundam this is the Poor Space Colonist vs the Rich Earthnoids. But Repeated throughout the franchise they've shown that many Spacenoids live pretty luxurious lives, meanwhile even in the original TV series many who live on Earth do not. Basically pitting in the very face of the Oppressed vs Oppressor Narrative the Zeon rely on. This one is relevant in Unicorn as like so many other Gundam animations, they show people who live on Earth also live in poverty. While showing many who live in space are pretty wealthy. In fact Full Frontal's entire organization is sponsored by Wealthy Spacenoids who believe in the cause. Then there is the Newtype Theory, which you can argue whether it's part of the Übermensch, New Man, Soviet New Man, or Aryan theories of history, but personally it has more in common with the New Socialist/Soviet New Man theory because it revolves around man evolving in a new environment into a NEW MAN, or New Type as the Gundam universe uses. Where as Nazi Aryanism is built on bringing back an old superior race, Marxist New Man Theories are built around Socialism will bring about a New Man. Either way, in Gundam, this is also thrown into the wind. When you take into consideration just how many Newtypes were born/raised on Earth, spent much of their lives on Earth. From Gundam Narrative, Gundam Char's Counterattack, even the original Mobile Suit Gundam both Amuro and Lalah were originally Earthoids. So Zeon's idea of the "Superior Race" as Gihren would put it or just the Newtype as Zeon Zum Deikun would put it are challenged from beginning to end throughout the whole franchise.
Always a treat to see your videos. Will you be doing one for Gundam AGE at some point? Now there's a show with a long storyarc. And for those who love Unicorn there is also the one shot movie "Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative" that concludes the story. Well, sort of anyway.
Angelo was defeated by the unicorn's control over his suit. Angelo's actual death i don't believe was fully confirmed as he drifts through space to find the core cockpit of the sinaju. After opening it and seeing full frontal's lifeless corpse with a blissful expression and holding him dearly just to look up at the stars seeing the glow of the unicorn and banshee flying back towards side 7.
Gundam Unicorn always felt kinda weird to me after watching Gundam X. Its like the franchise is backtracking on its message about newtypes by deifying the crap out of them. Or is that supposed to be the point since this is before Gundam X in the timeline? Also the UC charter having a line it from the beginning of the colony era stating (I think predating newtype theory being a thing too) "Hey if some kinda new form of humanity evolves in space? We gotta let them run shit." Seems really weird for a group of politicians to actually agree on.
Bro, your thoughts are well organized; your voice is soothing, you're handsome as fuck, and talking about my favorite anime- I think I'm in love! Great video!
The one correction I will make is about your analysis that "the banshee recognized its self as a Gundam and therefore an enemy" What actually happened was Merida, as she did it when she first encountered the unicorn at the beginning of the series, in a manic state, said "Gundam is the enemy!" This combined with her mental link with the banshee caused a feedback loop to its systems due to her mental state believing that she herself was the enemy
So glad to see all your thoughts on my favorite or second favorite Gundam series (depends on the year) and even tho we’re still a few series away, I’m looking forward to what you think of Iron Blooded Orphans. Can’t wait for AGE, no one talks about this series or Reconguista in G and it’s gonna be great to see your excellent analysis on them.
I loved Reconguista in G, AGE was... An interesting premise poorly executed? I felt. I think I'm most excited for Hathaway's Flash. That scene. THAT SCENE.
I’ll just say it, Bangrier is probably the only protagonist I don’t like very much. And that’s something someone like me is hard to admit who tends to like the protagonist’s most of the time
Great job. I love the suits in Unicorn but the story and Newtype magic turned me off it a bit. You have an underrated sense of humor, I love the non stop roasting of Riddhe.
Here is some engagement for you. Laplaces box's content literally dont matter. After the colony drop space proved to be too dangerous for earth not to control, all other factors about NeWtYpEs or whatever are pretty much not a factor when compared to that. Earth is just never going to let space be independent. Also all the people that signed that treaty are dead, and it was never used in practice so it has to legal basis for being utilized what so ever. And one more thing, how the hell wasn't the contents of that treaty known to literally thousand of people before it was LASERED INTO STONE? Well whatever, magic solves the problem so all the dense geopolitical stuff can eat it. On the earth till being destroyed The idea that earth is not food independent is kind of...insane. Any effort that could have been spent to build the infrastructure to get food from space could just as easily have been used to build twice as much food production on earth. Hell they have fusion/fission power, which would enable cheep vertical farming. If any thing, this long after the war earth should be experiencing as massive uptick in growth. As for space magic, I understand it's been with gundam form the start but it has effectively no limits and that makes it a Deus Ex machina which cheapens it's over all inclusion. If your going to put magic in your show, give it a counter point, make normal people naturally resistant to it as they have evolved to not be victimized by mind reading.
Yeah these are all basically my issues with Unicorn too. It’s very, very self-indulgent and while a kinda fun and very fanciful story with some interesting elements, so much of it is out of control from a “difficulty of suspension of disbelief” perspective that it sort of cheapens a good amount of it. The entire Laplace’s Box thing is like, MAYBE conceptually interesting but it feels entirely superfluous and like a grandiloquent metaphor for basically nothing at all, and I feel like it essentially causes the whole entire plot to summarily disappear up its own ass spectacularly
It's not magic though. It's closer to psychic abilities. But, granted, Unicorn and Narrative kind of miss the point of newtypes but going too all in on them with the wrong treatment. It's really just supposed to be "Understanding as a super power".
Unicorn is at best a half-baked self indulgant piece of over supported fan fiction that just so happens to feature some nice animation of mobile suit variations.
I don't hate Unicorn at all, but it really does a disservice to what newtypes are supposed to be. Narrative doubles down on the wrong depiction of newtypes. Gundam X had a better take on newtypes than Unicorn and Narrative. Newtypes basically have super powered understanding/communication skills. That's why the closest description of them is people with high sensitivity. At the same time, understanding is a thing everyone can do if they're willing, newtypes just have it a bit easier because they can communicate with each other and fully comprehend what each other means and intends. This difficulty/struggle to properly communicate is exactly what drives the human drama element in gundam.
I really wanted to like unicorn g. Laplace's box was a cool Mcguffin but the motivation for its revelation was... Weird. I really prefer the "low magic" Gundam series and this one is more "high magic". I really liked the idea of the unicorn being used to boost telepathy. It would have been cool if that's what became it's ultimate power rather that super shields.
As much as I love how pretty this series is. At the end of the day it’s ultimately useless and unneeded do to events in series that place after this (chronologically speaking). Yeah everything that happens in this series is meaningless 100% of the time.
Frontal was blackpilled by traveling through time and finding out he's a model kit commercial
underrated comment
Bright Noa deadass seems to be a better father to these Newtypes than he was to his own son.
Yeah but Hathaway kind of sucks so it's excusable lol
you've slipped right into the plot of Gundam Hathaway essentially 😂
@@lauraazure6462I'll say this much: I didn't expect Hathaway to turn that goober into someone I'm actually interested in watching. CCA Hathaway sucks ass, but Hathaway Hathaway actually has some rizz.
doesn't help that Hathaway still seems to be a member of some unsavory groups.
Hathaway: “herein lies the problem!”
I love that the resident Char Clone for this series was a literal clone of Char. That is so hilariously on the nose.
I love Captain Otto. He's the retail manager Captain. He's not very good at his job, but his hearts in the right place for the most part. Him just getting fed up and shouting down Angelo is one of my favorite moments in this entire show.
His speech before the final push towards the box was just badass.
Otto is just such a bro. Love the man.
My explanation for why Rhidde acted like such an unlikable twat for the middle part of the story, was because he thought he was the main hero of the story, just because he was a hot shot MS pilot with traditional leading man good looks,and would get the girl but then got all butt hurt when he realized this kid Banagher actually had the title of main protagonist and got all mad 😂
Now why does that explanation remind me of a certain corporation Redgun...?
- Both think they're the main character of their story (both are Gen 4 humans, after all)
- A hotshot pilot (good looks, iffy, his Arena bio did say Michigan gave him a facelift after he picked a fight)
- Realized the main character was the actual protagonist (621 being much better than him by virtue of being the player) which makes him mad (enough to repeatedly try to kill "the freelancer" as he calls 621)
A correction regarding Marida breaking her programming, it was not the suit but herself. All the Ple clones are basically hardwired to view all Gundams as enemies. And thus once she is told she is in a Gundam herself, the resulting contradiction breaks her brainwashing.
All the ones we see in ZZ and Unicorn at least. The three failure clones in UC Engage don't have that programming. Then there's also that one Ple clone Judau saves on his way to Jupiter in Revive. That one doesn't show any anonymity towards Judau who is in the ZZ Gundam.
Yup literally her first introduction in ZZ are literally her trying to fight Judau in his ZZ Gundam.
That battle of Torrington with all the old and odd suits from both sides is the biggest commemoration of Gundam ever made, it looks amazing, shows an immense amount of mech brutality, and although there is some bias towards Zeon pilots being better, it's still a very nonsense soldier on soldier battle, which we don't usually see.
Yeah, the bias on Zeon side is a…..contentious issue imo.
As a side note, even with the new Gundam project announced, I would not be surprised if there was a Zeon bias.
@TheDarkkilla12 tbf zeon will lose the majority of the time so it evens out
17:52 That Luio company was one that funded the AEUG & Karaba in Zeta Gundam. Luio company will also play a big part in *Gundam Narrative* movie.
the name is mentioned in the episode around the time when Karaba was staying at Hong Kong and Four first shows up, so its kind of memorable (for me anyway)
They're the weirdos behind the phenex project right
@@lucasoliveirafrancisco6868 No. Luio was the company that wanted to catch the Phenex, not the one who made it. Federation had a role in the Phenex project.
Unicorn had such a great soundtrack
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Unicorn, Rx0 , Mobile suit and Otto's speech music Were all amazing along with the song that plays when they attack the colony to save Banagher
I still maintain that it's Hiroyuki Sawano's best work.
@@gundamnmechas8518 Absolutely agree, it's a shame to see how much Unicorn's OST is overshadowed by his later work.
@@CannedMarmaladehis stuff on aot is amazing, but man unicorn is just next level. I'd say it's his magnum opus
Shame he didn't mention that MVP Byarlant Custom during Torrington segment on this video.
Still good video on Gundam Unicorn though. The Unicorn Gundam is the one that makes me interested on Gundam Franchise as a whole.
It was super cool to see it in action but really had no impact to the plot. It's wonderful to see that with as much war the Universal Century has that there are more than one ace pilot
ironically enough, despite being a pretty bad starting point, Unicorn was the first Gundam series I ever watched start to finish. I was also watching it while sick in bed, so combining that with my complete lack of knowledge of the UC, I was pretty lost almost the whole time. But even still, the beautiful animation, incredible mech design, and the strength of the themes and characters still allowed it to stick in my mind for years and eventually bloom into an interest in watching the rest of the series (which is something I'm still in the process of admittedly). Even with all the knowledge I now have, I think Marida is still my favorite Gundam character. So yeah, weirdly enough despite being a terrible starting point in terms of plot, still managed to get me into gundam (after a few years)
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not (probably was,) but Full Frontal's plan is basically Imperial Japan's "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," and has the exact same problem: the assumption that all the colonies have the same interests, and see the Federation as a bigger danger than each-other.
The irony is, we already know that _Jupiter_ is the rising power courtesy of their effective monopoly on fuel, and many of the space colonies will eventuality just leave the solar system outright.
ahhh, Bright Noa, the most competent man in the entire UC timeline. lol.
Being competent everywhere except as a dad unfortunately.
I love your gundam retrospectives! Hopefully we can see you continue on the Macross series!!!
Marida's story and ultimate fate make me cry harder with every rewatch, especially after I watched ZZ in between my last two rewatches.
Don't worry a Ple Clone does survive with Judau and has descendants that live well beyond victory. Merida may be gone but a dream of her sisters living beyond their roles as weapons is realized.
Full frontals plan is extremely silly, and Audrey is right to call him on it, But it almost makes a hilarious amount of sense why his plan for the box would be that stupid. Because him being a literal clone of char, obviously made by a fervent OYW principality Zeonic remnant. of course their 'idealized' version of char would come up with a plan that Ultimately benefits and creates the Ideal Principality of Zeon cutting out earth.
The air battle is hands down my favorite mobile suit fight, the Garencieres having door gunners is such a cool design aspect
Bright Noa being ready to break the law or go full turncoat is what made him my favourite character. It really runs in the family as we see with Hathaway.
You can hear the sounds of the ideon swords when the unicorn travels though time.
That is so cool
Fun fact: The General Revil is a Dogosse Giar class battleship, and has a hanger capacity of 48 mobile suits. So Full Frontal fought off 48 high spec mobile suits and their heavily armed carrier ship in that one battle in a setting where most skirmishes consist of maybe 3-10 suits on either side.
On about Gryps 2 that's not the fact it's the second Gryps colony laser. It's the same laser just built from the Gryps 2 colony.
the scene of gael shooting a hundred different ridiculous weapons at the neo zeong with the silver bullet while the NZ just *boops* them all effortlessly feels a lot like every time i play battle operation 2 lmao.. of course i'm gael in this comparison. good stuff btw!
To quote my favorite description of Riddhe ever:
"Riddhe is weaponized inceldom"
Thank you, I will now make use of this every time someone talks about Riddhe.
@@seraph_dalgon_9216 yeah, he and angelo are both just simps tbh. riddhe is worse though because he is shown to just not know wtf he's doing pretty regularly and more consistently acts like a baby whenever banagher is treated in some perceivedly "better" way than he is
I"M A GOOD GUY, WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME
Riddhe is an important character for being an example of thinking too highly of your position and taking your own influence for granted, as well as taking drastic action without thinking on it throughly. He is impulsive and spoiled, but not irredeemable. The “incel” smear just forever brands him as human garbage, where his existence proves that the concept is a fallacy, no human is deserving of being discarded.
@@Astronopolis I don't think you know what incels are man. They aren't some kind of horrible, irredeemable monster.
Gundam Unicorn is my first introductory Gundam series and it confused entirely. However, I love the message really much and got me into a better person as a whole. It was a series that truly wanted the war to actually end.
The message is when Audrey was at the dinner and the owner said all he could do was to give the Princess a coffee. That indicates to me that people with power should act like every decision matters because it affects a lot of lives trying to end the cycle of hatred and let’s move forward in another evolution of humanity.
And don’t act like Riddhe as he just conjured a useless battle at the end just he lost his mind from being so sane calling Banagher insane when he confronted Red Mega in Ep. 3.
It also taught me to speak English in a very formal setting to some degree sounding quite fancy at times.
I believe in Newtype to some degree with Sixth Sense making right decisions at the right time.
Thanks for revisiting the Unicorn!
The crazy thing is that I watched gundam unicorn first, before anything else gundam. The self indulgence and dense philosophical dialogue is what got me hooked weirdly enough. Not to mention the animation especially for the fights and robots is eye candy. I recently went back and watched it after catching up on all things UC (except ZZ I know how dare I) and it was less confusing in some aspects. Unicorn is STEEPED in the overall story of UC even not considering the returning characters and references. I still did find something truly special that first watch through while knowing near nothing about UC gundam overall. Which goes to prove how quality unicorn truly is as a show.
suberoa zimmerman talking about life in the desert and when he rescues marida from the flying carrier makes me cry
Completely agree with you on Riddhe. He's the most annoying character in the show. I wish Marida won the duel.
13:50 while you were right in pulling the trigger was technically the right move, it's immediately nulled the moment the deflectors stop the beam and thus saving the unicorn & Delta, even if they didn't realize it.
Episode 4 was one of my favorite moments from Gundam overall.
It showed off the Philosophies involved in the UC timeline, but the hate is too deep to overcome.
Was also the moment when Banagher willingly used the Gundam for his own ends and attempts to stop the carnage. Though despite all his effort, at the end, the enemy he wanted to stop and save ended up dying as well.
This single episode was what convinced me to look into the UC timeline after only watched AU series prior to that point.
Its here!!!
Still my favorite Gundam series.
I really hope at some point you end up making a review for narrative, I have been going through every gundam series I can find starting with the entire UC timeline (currently on victory so I'm about done I started this journey near the beginning of the year with witch from mercury being my introduction) and for whatever reason narrative really stole my heart, it isn't perfect by any means but it might be my favorite or top 3 so far and hopefully you really enjoy it as well if you ever cover it!
Also obviously there's a lot I could say about what I loved and disliked but I don't wanna spoil I just love the characters/structure/plot/ending and etc. i am absolutely in the minority though cause from what I have heard people in the gundam community kinda hate it and as I said I can't fully justify my weird love for it though maybe the niche it covered was just right up my alley
gryps 2 IS the laser from zeta, not a throwback or reference
I think the big issue that Unicorn runs into, continuity wise, is that Hathaway's Flash happens 9 years later and is *really* what starts to weaken the Federation. Curious if it's going to come up at all in the animated movies whenever they come out, as it obviously wasn't in the original.
Am I the only person who wants an OVA about Kai being a war correspondent during a military conflict told from his perspective.
I saw somewhere here or the part 1 video of there being zeon bias with the pilots. The federation pilots weren’t frontline troops. Most of them probably didn’t have any combat experience. Hence why the battle of torrington was more in zeon’s favor in the beginning.
Kai shiden is apparently puertorican now that's ain't a puertorican name I tell you
He's half japanese half puertorican to be precise. Guess the dad was japanese.
Amuro is half japanese half half canadian.
I still dont get how some people claims to be Gundam fans but they keep finding annoying all the metaphisic newtipe magic thats basically the main thing of UC and most of the "remakes" and spin off the franchise got. Its a story about humanity advancing and evolving through any circunstance becoming something more once we reach a new state as a species. And its also nothing added midway or nothing like that, newtipe are there since the beggining of it all.
Thank you for covering that massive series
It never really registered to me how old Riddhe is relative to Banagher and Marida. I always thought he was like 20 or something, but he's actually a 26 year old who has the hots for a 16 year, that'll probably ruin my view of him forever.
A nice bit of running consistency when the zeta plus uses the beam magnum the arm breaks, This carries over into gundam narrative with the silver bullet suppressor just a nice bit of added plot about just how heavily built up the Unicorn was compared to other suits of the time.
Its still pretty amusing how much he loved his Giant mecha Gun that his new custom has a specialized Arm replacing option just for it maintenance & Costs be damned. I guess it helps his 'Sugar Mommy' is the Big Boss.
@@Dogbold-Rueit's more that the reinforcement of a detachable arm is too costly so replace the arm every time it fires.
There’s another unicorn sequel where he has a MK II with a MASSIVE right arm for the beam magnum lmao
I'm glad everyone always come together in hating Riddhe.
When are you gonna do a Gundam NT review? I’d love to hear your thoughts on that film. I actually loved it and really liked how they explained the new type abilities especially how they can effect the physical plane with their powers
no comment on the "crying because you care" line?
It's a shame you glossed over Zinnerman's dad moment with Banagher and Loni's whole story. Really emotional stuff there. Also, the Banshee doesn't freak out when it realises it's a Gundam, Marida's conditioning breaks when she herself realises she is the thing she is brainwashed to hate; a Gundam.
I completly agree, the loni story its a great reminder of the ill in this charatcers, the deep hate carried through generations, they made hate a part of their whole persona and as banager says thats just too sad.
Please do an IBO retrospective!!!
It's ironic that revealing the original UC charter ended up doing nothing and the republic of zeon ends up back refolding to the federation.
Unicorn has some of the best mobile suit designs
35:55 the banshee and riddhe fit each other so well huh..
the battle of torrington was what got me into gundam originally. I loved G gundam as a kid but started with that episode of unicorn. you were right in the fact the series is not beginner friendly and the UC timeline can be a little hard to grasp unless you sit through all of it. I genuinely did not know what was going on the entire time but was entranced by the superb animation. it was just cool to watch. but I gave it a rewatch very recently and was really frustrated with the long dialogue tangents and the fact that if I glanced at my phone for a couple of moment then looked up, I would have no idea whats going on. I cant tell you how many times I would have to rewind a scene because I got distracted but would hella confused as to what happened next if I didnt rewatch it. that coupled with the fact that I wasnt too familiar with the UC made it a real head scratcher to understand at times. its wishy washy morals are tacky but not over the top corny, though it does get there sometimes, I do think the animation and the nostalgia factor really do hold it up though. I enjoyed it. and I enjoyed your analysis on it. really cleared up some missing pieces for me. you are doing God’s work by giving everyone an overview on how the gundam universe works. I really appreciate the effort man. keep up the good work?
Will you review Gundam Narrative and Hathaway's Flash?
Thank you for making another great Gundam retrospective!
Using still images aren’t too bad, 3 minutes in and I don’t really mind with the stills.
This skirts away on the copyright claims, eh? It’s a nice compromise, I definitely don’t mind it, barely look any different.
Unicorn does have a sequel, the Gundam Narrative movie
One of my all time favourite Gundam shows ever!😁
Very cool review and also kudos on learning a new Editing Program. The vid came out great, audio was lovely, and yea. Well done!
Torrington is the same base from the start of stardust memories
damn i love gundam unicorn
Same here! It’s my favourite Universal Century timeline Gundam story of all time!
I also love gundam unicorn
I can't wait til you do the Witch From Mercury.
I do often hear it's ending compared to Unicorn in terms of ass-pull endings
God Bright Noa is such a good character.
Good review over all keep it up!
I love the banshee
Hell yeah! It’s a bad@$$ mobile suit! Do you like the standard Banshee form more or the Banshee Norn form more? I personally like the Banshee Norn form more
Norn is my favorite
Unicorn important to the canon yes. It does not treat it sell nor fit in beyond the cop out of "oops too expensive and oops sweep sweep under rug" Jesta snd ReZel only exist within unicorn to never be seen again. CCA originally had 1 follow up: Hathaway's flash where the inly ms dev was the gustav karl as anahiem was crippling and penelope and xi are its final relevant ms. Jesta and ReZel never existed till unicorn. Same thing with the 3 RX-0. Wish unicorn fit into uc properly and without the cop out of too expensive or swept under the rug. Thunderbolt took the right path and just went full alternate uc and jumped on the origin retelling and ads a lot while cucking kamille from designing the zeta. Maybe he does the transformation mechanism. That alt uc has yet to reach the zeta era unless it just retconns the movies.
That said while unicorn is fitting into clothing that is way too dmslk for it, it is a spectacular UC entry.
Silver Bullet is a scaled down version of Neo Zeon's Doven Wolffe.
Actually it's a rebuild of the Doven Wolf to the specs of it's design origin the Gundam Mk 5.
Zinerman was awesome
YOURE BACK GREAT ANALYSIS AS USUAL
I cant believe i missed this originally.
The Unicorn creators seems to have had the same affection for the Byalant from Zeta (Jerids machine) and gave a custom variant a special sequence...im surprised you didnt mention it.
Riddhe is a pretty confusingly badly written character. Considering how almost everyone is given a decent arc...Riddhe is exceptionally bad. Hes a loser througout, and eventually earns the hatred of the audience. Alberto...of all people, has a better arc than he does.
This is one of my favorite Gundams...so its strange that I dont really like Banagher at all. He's just kind of bland and floating through events. Hes not all bad, its just that hes "powerful" rather than having a real personal effect on the story.
Couple years ago I watched all of UC in chronological order. By the time I got to Unicorn I was tearing up.
Like I said before Unicorn was my very first proper Gundam Series and I still love it. That being said when put into the overall context of the UC it kind of honestly seems like a waste of time considering the Federation goes all out on suppressing the truth of Laplace's Box during the events of Hathaway's Flash just to make sure that the events of F91, Crossbone and Victory Gundam still happen (despite Tomino wanting Victory Gundam removed from cannon even more than the fans.) Speaking of Tomino remember those changes I mentioned last time? The first was covered in the video, Tomino for some reason wanted Full Frontal's background as a Cyber Newtype clone of Char to be more ambiguous. The second was the treatment of Loni, since in the Unicron novels Loni's role was filled by her father, who as far as I know was completely batshit insane and wanted to kill every person on earth for what happened during the One Year War. Hell during the battle of Torrington he was the one piloting the Shamblo and would not stop no matter what especially aiming for civilians, requiring Loni to force him away from the controls and lowering its defenses so that Banagher can destroy the cockpit and stop their rampage. But then Tomino showed up, made his changes and had Riddie be the one to kill her, which rubbed Unicorn's original author and the animator the wrong way just so Tomino can have an excuse to kill another woman. But speaking of Riddie, this dude was an asshole to the point where apparently in Super Robot wars V he thinks that Spacenoids don't deserve any human rights and calls Banagher wanting to save Mirida and acknowledging her basic humanity "lip service". Not exactly helped by his English voice actor being Yuri Lowenthal who also voiced Suzaku Kururugi from Code Geass and Riddie himself having a lot of Suzaku's worst traits. But at least unlike that Uncle Tom Riddie at least had his "oh god what have I done" moment. Too late to redeem the guy but at least he had it. Anyway on its own Unicorn is honestly the best piece of UC Gundam content to date, but in context of the UC, it's a slap in the face. Not helped that the last of the Unicorn novel's adaptations; Gundam Narrative is a big ol nothing burger.
Actually Loni's father was an Islamic extremist who wanted to kill the white men in Dakar(Torrington in the ova)
The earth arc is far longer in the novels that develops banagher and riddhe way more
I did wind up liking unicorn butt it didn't end things as neatly as I had hoped and I still stand by the universal century should have ended with Chars counterattack
Ty for being one of the best content creators!
You forgot the perfect ass opening that last episode has
Now we just need a G Gundam remaster series that looks this way 😬
Oh good. The Delta Plus was corrected here. :)
Hey Retcon! Wondering if you’ll ever make a video on Break Blade(The movies). Really good series as well.
I've actually not heard of Break Blade, but it looks cool! I'll add it to the list for sure.
@@Retcon404 worth watching the dub over the sub as well, Greg Ayers captures the personality of the protagonist(compared to the manga) better than the original voice actor.
I like how Gundam constantly craps on Zeon Ideology. Zeon Ideology takes a few cues from Marxism and Fascism. Which are sibling ideologies that generally hate each other.
For example the Oppressed vs the Oppressor Narrative that Marxist have latched onto which has heavily influenced nearly every Social movement since the late 19th Century. In Gundam this is the Poor Space Colonist vs the Rich Earthnoids. But Repeated throughout the franchise they've shown that many Spacenoids live pretty luxurious lives, meanwhile even in the original TV series many who live on Earth do not. Basically pitting in the very face of the Oppressed vs Oppressor Narrative the Zeon rely on. This one is relevant in Unicorn as like so many other Gundam animations, they show people who live on Earth also live in poverty. While showing many who live in space are pretty wealthy. In fact Full Frontal's entire organization is sponsored by Wealthy Spacenoids who believe in the cause.
Then there is the Newtype Theory, which you can argue whether it's part of the Übermensch, New Man, Soviet New Man, or Aryan theories of history, but personally it has more in common with the New Socialist/Soviet New Man theory because it revolves around man evolving in a new environment into a NEW MAN, or New Type as the Gundam universe uses. Where as Nazi Aryanism is built on bringing back an old superior race, Marxist New Man Theories are built around Socialism will bring about a New Man. Either way, in Gundam, this is also thrown into the wind. When you take into consideration just how many Newtypes were born/raised on Earth, spent much of their lives on Earth. From Gundam Narrative, Gundam Char's Counterattack, even the original Mobile Suit Gundam both Amuro and Lalah were originally Earthoids. So Zeon's idea of the "Superior Race" as Gihren would put it or just the Newtype as Zeon Zum Deikun would put it are challenged from beginning to end throughout the whole franchise.
Always a treat to see your videos. Will you be doing one for Gundam AGE at some point? Now there's a show with a long storyarc.
And for those who love Unicorn there is also the one shot movie "Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative" that concludes the story. Well, sort of anyway.
Thank you for this release. I thought you have forgotten us hehe
Just realized, that was Armored Core 3 music playing in a Gundam video
Was Angelo’s death different in the OVA? As it was the Unicorn that turned his weapons against him and destroyed the suits ability to fight anymore.
Angelo was defeated by the unicorn's control over his suit. Angelo's actual death i don't believe was fully confirmed as he drifts through space to find the core cockpit of the sinaju. After opening it and seeing full frontal's lifeless corpse with a blissful expression and holding him dearly just to look up at the stars seeing the glow of the unicorn and banshee flying back towards side 7.
Gundam Unicorn always felt kinda weird to me after watching Gundam X. Its like the franchise is backtracking on its message about newtypes by deifying the crap out of them. Or is that supposed to be the point since this is before Gundam X in the timeline? Also the UC charter having a line it from the beginning of the colony era stating (I think predating newtype theory being a thing too) "Hey if some kinda new form of humanity evolves in space? We gotta let them run shit." Seems really weird for a group of politicians to actually agree on.
Bro, your thoughts are well organized; your voice is soothing, you're handsome as fuck, and talking about my favorite anime- I think I'm in love! Great video!
The one correction I will make is about your analysis that "the banshee recognized its self as a Gundam and therefore an enemy"
What actually happened was Merida, as she did it when she first encountered the unicorn at the beginning of the series, in a manic state, said "Gundam is the enemy!"
This combined with her mental link with the banshee caused a feedback loop to its systems due to her mental state believing that she herself was the enemy
So glad to see all your thoughts on my favorite or second favorite Gundam series (depends on the year) and even tho we’re still a few series away, I’m looking forward to what you think of Iron Blooded Orphans. Can’t wait for AGE, no one talks about this series or Reconguista in G and it’s gonna be great to see your excellent analysis on them.
I loved Reconguista in G, AGE was... An interesting premise poorly executed? I felt.
I think I'm most excited for Hathaway's Flash. That scene. THAT SCENE.
I keep thinking your end card music is "Swan" from CCA 😂
I’ll just say it, Bangrier is probably the only protagonist I don’t like very much. And that’s something someone like me is hard to admit who tends to like the protagonist’s most of the time
Great job. I love the suits in Unicorn but the story and Newtype magic turned me off it a bit. You have an underrated sense of humor, I love the non stop roasting of Riddhe.
Here is some engagement for you.
Laplaces box's content literally dont matter. After the colony drop space proved to be too dangerous for earth not to control, all other factors about NeWtYpEs or whatever are pretty much not a factor when compared to that. Earth is just never going to let space be independent. Also all the people that signed that treaty are dead, and it was never used in practice so it has to legal basis for being utilized what so ever.
And one more thing, how the hell wasn't the contents of that treaty known to literally thousand of people before it was LASERED INTO STONE?
Well whatever, magic solves the problem so all the dense geopolitical stuff can eat it.
On the earth till being destroyed
The idea that earth is not food independent is kind of...insane. Any effort that could have been spent to build the infrastructure to get food from space could just as easily have been used to build twice as much food production on earth. Hell they have fusion/fission power, which would enable cheep vertical farming. If any thing, this long after the war earth should be experiencing as massive uptick in growth.
As for space magic, I understand it's been with gundam form the start but it has effectively no limits and that makes it a Deus Ex machina which cheapens it's over all inclusion. If your going to put magic in your show, give it a counter point, make normal people naturally resistant to it as they have evolved to not be victimized by mind reading.
Yeah these are all basically my issues with Unicorn too. It’s very, very self-indulgent and while a kinda fun and very fanciful story with some interesting elements, so much of it is out of control from a “difficulty of suspension of disbelief” perspective that it sort of cheapens a good amount of it. The entire Laplace’s Box thing is like, MAYBE conceptually interesting but it feels entirely superfluous and like a grandiloquent metaphor for basically nothing at all, and I feel like it essentially causes the whole entire plot to summarily disappear up its own ass spectacularly
It's not magic though. It's closer to psychic abilities. But, granted, Unicorn and Narrative kind of miss the point of newtypes but going too all in on them with the wrong treatment.
It's really just supposed to be "Understanding as a super power".
Unicorn is at best a half-baked self indulgant piece of over supported fan fiction that just so happens to feature some nice animation of mobile suit variations.
Old guy shoulda offered Mineva a toke 😔
Unicorn: can time travel and hand wave destroy shit. The next mobile to follow it up in the gundam class is ultea mega chicken and dorito gundams.
As someone who daily’s an Evo I feel called out by your Mitsubishi hate.
Riddhe Marcenas is the Gundam version of Criston Cole from HoTD.
PLEASE Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans next
Any chance you may do IBO or Hathaway
Oh snap. One of my favorite set of episodes from Unicorn. Watching this later when I get off work 🔥
Full Frontal aka the Liquid Ocelot of Gundam
I don't hate Unicorn at all, but it really does a disservice to what newtypes are supposed to be. Narrative doubles down on the wrong depiction of newtypes. Gundam X had a better take on newtypes than Unicorn and Narrative.
Newtypes basically have super powered understanding/communication skills. That's why the closest description of them is people with high sensitivity. At the same time, understanding is a thing everyone can do if they're willing, newtypes just have it a bit easier because they can communicate with each other and fully comprehend what each other means and intends. This difficulty/struggle to properly communicate is exactly what drives the human drama element in gundam.
I really wanted to like unicorn g. Laplace's box was a cool Mcguffin but the motivation for its revelation was... Weird.
I really prefer the "low magic" Gundam series and this one is more "high magic".
I really liked the idea of the unicorn being used to boost telepathy. It would have been cool if that's what became it's ultimate power rather that super shields.
good thing Yoni doesn't die in SRWs lol what a dum death
Now in the UC timeline is the mobile suit Gundam narrative or Gundam NT the movie
As much as I love how pretty this series is. At the end of the day it’s ultimately useless and unneeded do to events in series that place after this (chronologically speaking). Yeah everything that happens in this series is meaningless 100% of the time.
So igeuss next fir uc would be NT and alt verse would be age?