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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

That'd be cool. Unicorn is a solid enough series that I'll watch it again if it airs somewhere I can, but I won't get excited until it's more than a rumour.

You know, this rumor of a rebroadcast combined with the new Unicorn novel coming out in the next few months has raised my animated Unicorn alarms from moderately suspicious to very suspicious. This could all be a coincidence, or we could be getting something new.

Since it says spring, and IBO is ending in a few weeks, I think Unicorn could be taking IBO's time slot after the show ends/is on hiatus for a season 2. Normally in this kind of situation, I don't regard much of the potential for any new animation, since if you just total up Unicorn's run time, and divide it by 24 minutes (the average length of an anime episode), you get 18.5 episodes. Assuming the time of the content remains the same, with appropriate TV titles and endings, Sunrise could just fill in around 12 minutes of footage to get a nice 19 episode count, minor animation fixes, fight scene extensions that no one would notice until someone on a blog posted all the 30 second clips and we all go "Huh, interesting."

Unless you do the math differently. If Unicorn could be split up into 3 TV length episodes per OVA episode each around 60 minutes, 20 minutes just based off of the core Unicorn stuff (not counting episode 7, which is 90 minutes, and can be broken up into 4-5 tv length episodes), and add in footage to each episode to meet the 24 minute run time, you can get around 22 to 23 TV length episodes. Which is just a few episodes short of a 25-26 TV episode season. Now, do I think we're going to get an extra OVA's worth of animation just to make Unicorn fit in a nice little 26 episode form and for Bandai to charge out the ass for new blu-rays? Not necessarily. But it could mean we could some time to expand character development, explanation of the story, e.tc. 7 and a half TV episodes could do wonders for something like this, especially since Sunrise didn't include a lot more moments from the novel, such as the Banger and Full Frontal lance fight.

Or we could just get 7.5 episodes worth of padding to stretch it out.


tldr: Unicorn TV broadcast could mean a sequel, could mean nothing. On one hand, one way to do the math on runtime works out to be we might not get that much new. On the other hand, we could get a decent amount of new stuff, or just filler.