The Series (4.5/5)

    I am now at my third Gundam series, Gundam Unicorn. As I've been made to understand this is essentially a sequel to the events of Char's Counterattack and that particular timeline. It was also basically made as a gift to franchise fans that wanted to see its manga version adapted into anime form, as they felt it would be an appropriate way to continue Gundam's UC timeline.   I had found out a lot about this before watching (purely by accident), so I expected some complex storyline that references past events deeply. Fortunately, I was to find this was not the case. It was an extremely well made 7 episode OVA series that could easily be picked up and gone along with, that I'm sure has plenty of treats for long time fans.

        The story for Unicorn begins at the beginning of the Universal Century and space colonization.  A space station "Laplace" is destroyed by a group that is anti-federation. After this the story fast forwards 95 years and 16 years after the One Year War of Gundam Legend. We find Audrey who is trying to stop war from breaking out. When her attempt fails she finds her life saved by a Newtype named Bangher Links. The pair team up, and Bangher becomes the pilot of a Gundam that has connections to the aforementioned incident and an item called Laplace's Box which everyone is searching out.

    Gundam Unicorn was a blast. I do feel like in the end I would have gotten more out of it, if I was a deeper fan of the series, but as I'm not entrenched in series mythology yet, I had to take it as a mostly surface level experience, and the surface really shined. The narrative was reasonably well put together, and I found it compelling from one episode to the next. The characters were decent enough that you cared about what transpired in regards to their fates in the story. Of course, the animation was absolutely brilliant, and the action sequences top notch.

Audio/Video (5/5)

    Gundam Unicorn is presented by Right Stuf in an absolutely mind blowing 1080p transfer that is bursting with color and detail. This is just an absolute gem of an animation transfer that shines all the way through.

    Audio is handled by Japanese and English 5.1 tracks which similarly sound amazing. Both tracks sounded full, clear, and well balanced on my setup.

Extras (2.5/5)

    There are trailers, an episode called One Hundred Years of Solitude, a Story So Far Piece, character highlights and a clean ending for episode 3.

Overall

    Though quite short Gundam Unicorn really packs a punch. I don't want to say it's my favorite Gundam experience so far, but I really loved this one. The Blu-ray looked and sounded fantastic and had some decent extras HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.