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Gundam Unicorn Episode 7

Wow.... the best ending I have ever seen in a Gundam series. The most tears, the most gripping action, the biggest twist and the most satisfying conclusion. As much as like Awakening of the Trailblazer's ending, this episode is now my favorite ending.

Marida Cruz's death felt.... good. Usually, when characters I like in Gundam die, they usual die in a shitty way or it just feels wrong. This death felt appropriate and is probably the best Gundam death I've seen. It didn't feel cheesy like a lot of U.C. female deaths, ti was very heartfelt. The fact that she had something unique to say to everyone made my heart jump. I'm glad she ended up a good guy and I will deinfltey get the Khsatriya when I can.

All right, time for the thing that I've been speculating this entire time the Laplace box is.... a document? I was surprised at the initial reveal, with Gundam Unicorn having such crazy tech and battles being ridiculously insane, I would have thought the Box would have been something more supernatural. The reveal is that one article under the Federation Constitution is that new humans have priority in the government.

After sitting and thinking about that reveal, it does make sense how it could destroy the Federation. The federation itself has never really acknowledged Newtypes as a real thing. None of their mobile suits has weapons compatible with their abilities (even if you count Nu and Alex, Nu was under Londo Bell, which technically isn't Earth Federation Forces and Alex was just faster reaction speed.) Zeon is the ones who have given many people the weapons to use their abilities. So if this article would be revealed under the wrong circumstances, it would cause a never ending racial war between Newtypes and Oldtypes, making the Federation's exist to keep a corrupted peace impossible. While it wasn't what I expected, I think it was one of those clever kinds of things like the ELS in 00 where had they taken it the more traditional/easy to write route, it would have made the ending far less special.

Wow, the Neo Zeong did less then I thought. Okay, it went into Super God mode and destroyed every weapon the unicorns had but it never felt destructive. Like, if it destroyed a colony or something, I'd be scared as shit but it just flies around and grabs the Unicorn. Banagher and Full Frontal travelling through time was really weird. Visions like this happen in Gundam all the time but that was some trippy shit. I just love how Full Frontal just casually remarks about going to the end of time now.

Full Frontal was sort of vague. I guess he was Char's spirit, with FF's death now passing on into the afterlife along with Amuro and Lalah but it's never really clear if his body was just some crazy dude who emptied himself or a cyber newtype based body created by Zeon just for that purpose.

But the biggest kicker was at the end, when Banshee Norn turned Green, Mineva revealed the Box and the Unicorn turned crystallized. First of all, about damn time that the Norn got a similar power level to the Unicorn. Secondly, it was cool to see a twist on the Newtype powers Deus ex Machina thing from Char's Counter Attack where instead of moving Axis, they block the laser entirely. And the fact that it was Mineva who got to reveal the box and have the differences between the Spacenoids and Earthlings be quelled with the reveal was quite satisfying and wraps up the entire arc of Zeon.

But I did get my evolved newtype though. With Riddhe saying that Banagher is a Perfected Newtype, I got what I wanted to see from Unicorn.

So what did I think of Unicorn overall? I liked the beginning and I loved the ending to death but the middle (episodes 4 and 5).... I have to rewatch it in English to see. That ending alone is legendary and propels it to my number two favorite Gundam series (00 is still number 1 to me but a rewatch of Unicorn may change that.)