Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
Cover of volume one of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn light novel series
機動戦士ガンダムUC(ユニコーン)
(Kidō Senshi Gandamu Yunikōn)
GenreMecha, Military science fiction
Created by
Serial novel
Written byHarutoshi Fukui
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineGundam Ace
DemographicSeinen
Original runFebruary 2007August 2009
Volumes10 + 1 extra
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn: Bande Dessinée
Written byHarutoshi Fukui
Illustrated byKouzou Oomori
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineGundam Ace
DemographicSeinen
Original runJanuary 26, 2010December 26, 2016
Volumes17
Original video animation
Directed byKazuhiro Furuhashi
Written byYasuyuki Muto
Music byHiroyuki Sawano
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
Released March 12, 2010 June 6, 2014
Runtime50 minutes (ep. 1−6)
90 minutes (ep. 7)
Episodes7
Anime television series
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096
Directed byKazuhiro Furuhashi
Written byYasuyuki Muto
Music byHiroyuki Sawano
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
  • NA: Sunrise
Original networkANN (Nagoya TV, TV Asahi)
English network
Original run April 3, 2016 September 11, 2016
Episodes22
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn: Bande Dessinée Episode: 0
Written byHarutoshi Fukui
Illustrated byKouzou Oomori
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineGundam Ace
DemographicSeinen
Original runSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 2018
Volumes3
Film

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダムUC(ユニコーン), Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Yunikōn) is a novel series written by Harutoshi Fukui with character and mechanical designs provided by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Hajime Katoki, respectively. It is first serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine from February 2007 to August 2009, compiling into 10 volumes alongside one extra volume released on March 26, 2016. The novel originally serves as a sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack.

An anime adaptation was produced by Sunrise as a seven-episode original video animation series and released between March 12, 2010 and June 6, 2014 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. It was directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi. A television recompilation of the anime adaptation titled Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 began airing on April 3, 2016, replacing Brave Beats, and becoming the first Gundam series to air on TV Asahi since After War Gundam X which ended in 1996. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 also aired in the United States on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block beginning on January 8, 2017. The 11th novel volume, Phoenix Hunting, was loosely adapted as an animated film titled Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative in 2018.