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Gundam Unicorn episode 1

Way to start off the Universal Century with a bang.

I swear that red haired chick looks like that girl from the Gantz anime, especially in her suit, its really distracting. But she does pilot a really good mobile suit. As with Banagher's brown haired friend, I swear she looks like Rise from Persona 4.

I could honestly talk about the art an animation for hours on end. The art is beautiful and the action scenes are a godsend. Seeing Kshatriya using its funnels and attacking is such a beauty to see. And the Londo bell units look so beautiful. All of the characters look sort of generic but its still in the Gundam style so I can forgive them.

The scale is really awesome, everything feels big and gunshots and funnels and beam sabers sound right.

I thought it was a really odd twist that the Vist guy was actually Banagher's dad. i understand it was to push him over the edge to pilot the Unicorn but its just a weird twist to put in when I know almost nothing about the dude.

This episode essentially set up the Lapalace Box and people refer to it in really mysterious ways as world changing and the Unicorn somehow ties into it. My theory?

It evolves Newtypes into something above and beyond. People talk about it changing the world and stuff, so if one person could evolve beyond Newtypes and lead a rebellion against the Federation and destroying it, that would be world changing.

And if anybody has finished Unicorn, please please please don't spoil it for me. Even if its in spoiler tags, just don't post it.

Also something of note: This is the first Gundam thing I've ever paid for. Before this point, I had always been renting old DVD sets or watching through Gundaminfo (or illegally to finish ZZ since I started it on Daisuki), so renting Unicorn on PSN was my first contribution to giving back to the creators for making such an awesome show.