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)
Genre	Drama, Mecha, Action, Military, Cyberpunk
Serial novel
Written by	Harutoshi Fukui
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Gundam Ace
Original run	February 2007 – August 2009
Volumes	10 + 1 Extra Chapter (List of volumes)
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn: Bande Dessinée
Written by	Harutoshi Fukui
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Gundam Ace
Original run	March 2010 – present
Volumes	12
Original video animation
Directed by	Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Written by	Yasuyuki Muto
Music by	Hiroyuki Sawano
Studio	Sunrise
Licensed by	NA Sunrise
Released	March 12, 2010 – June 6, 2014
Runtime	50−90 minutes (each)
Episodes	7 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096
Directed by	Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Written by	Yasuyuki Muto
Music by	Hiroyuki Sawano
Studio	Sunrise
Licensed by	NA Sunrise
Original network	TV Asahi
English network	US Adult Swim (Toonami)
Original run	April 3, 2016 – September 11, 2016
Episodes	22 (List of episodes)

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 by popular Japanese author Harutoshi Fukui (Shūsen no Lorelei, Bōkoku no Aegis, Samurai Commando: Mission 1549). The novel takes place in Gundam's Universal Century timeline. Character and mechanical designs are provided by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Hajime Katoki, respectively.

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 rebroadcast 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 premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block on January 7, 2017.

The series begins in U.C. 0001, at the very beginning of human space colonization, when a space station called Laplace is destroyed during a ceremony hosted by the Federation's Prime Minister ushering in the Universal Century Calendar. The main story takes place in UC 0096, sixteen years after the end of the One Year War, three years after the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, and 27 years before Mobile Suit Gundam F91.