I've not read the novels, but from the little that I know of the later events in Unicorn, you're going to be disappointed there.LightningCount wrote:Speaking from a purely anime Unicorn viewer...I really wish the 0079 homages would stay far away.
That said, I do think you have a point - though to be honest, it's understandable given that we have a "Char" who is almost literally a Char, a brown-haired protagonist with daddy issues, said daddy having built the Gundam, and a ship that is literally the exact same ship(almost) as the one used by a previous series, which also featured a brown-haired protagonist.
It's almost like Harutoshi was actively trying to pack as many references to the original Mobile Suit Gundam and its immediate successors as he could get away with into the story.
Which he probably was.