Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (eps 4-7) | The Gundam Retrospective 

Bright Noa deadass seems to be a better father to these Newtypes than he was to his own son.

Frontal was blackpilled by traveling through time and finding out he's a model kit commercial

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.

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.

I love that the resident Char Clone for this series was a literal clone of Char. That is so hilariously on the nose.

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 😂

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.

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.

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.

Unicorn had such a great soundtrack

ahhh, Bright Noa, the most competent man in the entire UC timeline. lol.

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.

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.

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 love your gundam retrospectives! Hopefully we can see you continue on the Macross series!!!

To quote my favorite description of Riddhe ever: "Riddhe is weaponized inceldom"

Marida's story and ultimate fate make me cry harder with every rewatch, especially after I watched ZZ in between my last two rewatches.

The air battle is hands down my favorite mobile suit fight, the Garencieres having door gunners is such a cool design aspect

You can hear the sounds of the ideon swords when the unicorn travels though time.

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!

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.

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.

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.

suberoa zimmerman talking about life in the desert and when he rescues marida from the flying carrier makes me cry

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.

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.

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 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.

Its here!!! Still my favorite Gundam series.

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.

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!

Kai shiden is apparently puertorican now that's ain't a puertorican name I tell you

Completely agree with you on Riddhe. He's the most annoying character in the show. I wish Marida won the duel.

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.

damn i love gundam unicorn

I'm glad everyone always come together in hating Riddhe.

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

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?

no comment on the "crying because you care" line?

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.

Thank you for making another great Gundam retrospective!

I love the banshee

Very cool review and also kudos on learning a new Editing Program. The vid came out great, audio was lovely, and yea. Well done!

Zinerman was awesome

Thank you for covering that massive series

YOURE BACK GREAT ANALYSIS AS USUAL

Ty for being one of the best content creators!

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.

Please do an IBO retrospective!!!

God Bright Noa is such a good character. Good review over all keep it up!

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.

35:55 the banshee and riddhe fit each other so well huh..

Am I the only person who wants an OVA about Kai being a war correspondent during a military conflict told from his perspective.

Unicorn does have a sequel, the Gundam Narrative movie

Just realized, that was Armored Core 3 music playing in a Gundam video

Couple years ago I watched all of UC in chronological order. By the time I got to Unicorn I was tearing up.

One of my all time favourite Gundam shows ever!😁

Silver Bullet is a scaled down version of Neo Zeon's Doven Wolffe.

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.

You forgot the perfect ass opening that last episode has

Now we just need a G Gundam remaster series that looks this way 😬

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.

Torrington is the same base from the start of stardust memories

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.

Thank you for this release. I thought you have forgotten us hehe

So good!~

I can't wait til you do the Witch From Mercury.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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 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.

gryps 2 IS the laser from zeta, not a throwback or reference

good thing Yoni doesn't die in SRWs lol what a dum death

Old guy shoulda offered Mineva a toke 😔

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

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.

Oh snap. One of my favorite set of episodes from Unicorn. Watching this later when I get off work 🔥

As someone who daily’s an Evo I feel called out by your Mitsubishi hate.

Hey Retcon! Wondering if you’ll ever make a video on Break Blade(The movies). Really good series as well.

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.

I keep thinking your end card music is "Swan" from CCA 😂

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.

Will you review Gundam Narrative and Hathaway's Flash?

PLEASE Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans next

Ah yes another video of banana man

Any chance you may do IBO or Hathaway

Now in the UC timeline is the mobile suit Gundam narrative or Gundam NT the movie

Full Frontal aka the Liquid Ocelot of Gundam

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

Riddhe Marcenas is the Gundam version of Criston Cole from HoTD.

What's next then, Gundam AGE? Gundam Narrative? For unicorn, despite the new type stuff getting out of control it was fun. Riddie really got off to easy after all he did, and I wish Full Frontal's master plan was more then just a treaty but, at least it did not weight it down entirely. And, I guess explains the reasons they went for smaller suits in the F91 era, sort of.

The thing about the silver bullet is that it’s essentially the dolven wolf just changed cosmetically

So igeuss next fir uc would be NT and alt verse would be age?

Oh shit i missed one

I really liked this until the final episode and seeing what was actually in the box disappointed me. The clause doesn't even matter - billions of humans aren't going to suddenly become subservient to Newtypes and create an autocracy around them, especially since Newtype is never even defined. Also all the magic and repeated conversations at the end really made it drag. Also it doesn't just say Newtypes should be involved, it says they should automatically be appointed as rulers.

Isn't Riddhe playing with the Delta Plus?

They need to animate moon gundam and blazing shadow