For me, the only major issue with Unicorn is what the charter suggests about Zeon and which the episode directly voices. Did we really need a 'Zeon weren't the real bad guys' retcon after 3 decades of them clearly being an elaborate puppet of a would be dictator? How does Unicorn suggest "Zeon...

I always thought of the Ghosts as just another extension of the ability for a newtype to fully understand another person. If a Newtype bond is actually being able to completely understand someone, that means not just seeing their memories, but feeling what they feel, understand why they feel what th...

@BraveFencerKirby To put it another way, if you wanted to rewrite Zeta or ZZ without the Newtype Magic, you could without much trouble. Just have Kamille/Judau have their newtype abilities turned up another notch -- they get even more inhumanly fast, accurate, and precise than they already were -- a...

@BraveFencerKirby Can't say I agree with you re the Newtype stuff though I appreciate your well reasoned and well expressed counterpoints. The Bio-Sensor isn't even mentioned once in Zeta's two animated forms. It's just a pink glow of invincibile, MS freezing, beam saber extending for miles magic. Y...

I really didn't find any of the newtype magic in this one so over the top. But a lot of people here seem to strongly want a hard sci-fi style in UC Gundam and I personally enjoy the crazy Newtype insanity and I find it usually represents the spine of UC Gundam and the optimism and hope that makes th...

Lets not forget poor Char had that whole "His beam saber's overpowering mine?!" event, which imo led to his reckless stab against Amuro, knowing he would lose a battle of attrition. :wink: In UC, it seems to be a combination of the two. For instance in ZZ we see that Fa in the Zeta Gundam ...

I think it'd be cool for it to have been built partially out of the remains of Alpha Azieru, which took a grenade to the cockpit, something the Neo-Zeong lacks. If the series adheres to the timeline set out in the manga's set in late UC then it won't be the Alpha Azeiru wreckage. The remains are co...

Regarding The Sleeve's ability to have a surprisingly deep bench of advanced mobile suit forces, I dunno that it's too far fetched. Consider that it's all but said in the anime that they have unofficial support of certain political parties within the Republic of Zeon, likely coupled with a few suppo...

Never mind jumped the gun

Banagher still failed though. That's the point of that scene - he thought he knew how to handle the situation, and he didn't, and there truly was no other option than to kill Loni. That's certainly true in both, but while Novel Loni is tragic because she had to die in order for her crazed father to...

I've pre-ordered each volume as they become available on Amazon and have enjoyed them both immensely. The dialog, between the jilted translation and awkward spacing inside the word balloons hasn't really bothered me to the point where my attitude towards these books has changed in any way to damn th...

I believe we'll see that all of Frontal's "Vessel" talk will be tied into his origin. He says "only those who have been emptied out can become a vessel". Whatever he is, it isn't normal. If he's Char then the Psycho-Frame resonance experience did something wild to him. And I beli...

ShadowCell wrote: to wit: i can't tell what to make of Sinanju's junk in the trunk there.

It reminds me a lot of Nightingale's lobster tail. It strikes me now that Sinanju and Nightingale's propellant tanks are awful similar. I wonder if this new design will take some of Nightingale's stylings?

Even in the mecha and technology thread? Usually I am not adverse to people posting opinions but no offense Homeless, you going into every thread about Unicorn to reiterate that you think the series sucks in some way, is starting to get to DuelGundam levels of 'Going into threads about things you d...

Beating a dead horse is thematically sort of the point of Unicorn, so I guess I can understand why they're so eager to crank out uninspired recycling like...well, nearly every Sleeves unit. If you say so. I'll just be over here enjoying a show I dig a lot and expressing one or two problems I have w...

Beating a dead horse is thematically sort of the point of Unicorn, so I guess I can understand why they're so eager to crank out uninspired recycling like...well, nearly every Sleeves unit. If you say so. I'll just be over here enjoying a show I dig a lot and expressing one or two problems I have w...

Hmm, I dunno how I feel about a Sinanju Zeong. I'm not the biggest fan of the Zeong design itself and if this is designed to be evocative of that one that's a little iffy for me. Hopefully it's like the FA Unicorn addon and can be purged to allow regular Sinanju to be active.

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That's beside the point though. One thing I noticed is that Char's 'plan' in regards to actually dropping Axis, wasn't set up for failure. He won . Axis was falling to Earth, or at least part of it. He even states he was sure the plan was fullproof. The only reason lots of people didn't end up dead...

So why weren't Frontal and Angelo shooting to kill? When it was first pointed out last year about Angelo not taking any killshots last year, my guess was it was for Banagher's benefit. Full Frontal has seen the power of Unicorn and by now likely knows about Banshee. I believe he wants that power on...