Kidou Senshi Gundam NT

U.C. 0097, one year after the opening of "Laplace's Box."
Despite the revelation of the Universal Century Charter that acknowledges the existence and rights of Newtypes, the framework of the world has not been greatly altered.

The conflict later dubbed the "Laplace Incident" is thought to have ended with the downfall of the Neo Zeon remnants known as the Sleeves. In its final battle, two full psycho-frame mobile suits displayed power beyond human understanding. The white unicorn and the black lion were sealed away to remove this danger from people's consciousness, and they should now be completely forgotten.

However, the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 03, which disappeared two years earlier, is now about to show itself in the Earth Sphere once more. A golden phoenix... named Phenex.

(Source: Gundam.info)

Basta, Jona Main

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Akkanen, Zoltan Main

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Luio, Michele Main

Muranaka, Tomo Japanese

Bernal, Rita Main

Matsuura, Ayu Japanese

Aznable, Char ing

Ikeda, Shuuichi Japanese

Links, Banagher ing

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Zabi, Mineva Lao ing

Fujimura, Ayumi Japanese

Zinnerman, Suberoa ing

Tezuka, Hideaki Japanese

Vist Carbine, Martha ing

Shiota, Tomoko Japanese

Taman ing

Komada, Wataru Japanese

Ogata, Naohiro Producer

Yoshizawa, Toshikazu Director

Kimura, Eriko Sound Director

Hara, Hidekazu Episode Director

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Oct 13, 2022

CalJealous

Recommended

On my first viewing of this movie, I thought it was alright. After I fully watched and completed all of the UC timeline, I realized this movie has a lot in such a small package. It's a great culmination of everything that has happened in the UC timeline so far, we get some really nice fanservice, and we also get some great story with it. So I would definitely recommend watching the UC timeline up to Unicorn before watching this, or else you'll just be watching great animation and great music but nothing else. The characters are really awesome, and as always, Sawano kills it ... with the music, even remixing some of his tracks from Unicorn. Back on my first watch I thought some of the scenes were kinda "Ok this doesn't make sense." but then I rewatched CCA, Unicorn and Zeta, and it actually does make a lot of sense that they're like this. Narrative adds a lot to the UC timeline and gives some new perspectives on events that we've already experienced in the timeline so far, and I would say it's a must watch for anyone who wants to enjoy the UC timeline to the max. Seriously give this movie a try if you're a UC fan.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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May 30, 2024

Armio

Mixed Feelings

Can't escape feeling like a spinoff rather than sequel.

I enjoyed the movie and it's quick pace. The core relationship between the three main characters was interesting enough, and the show had plenty of callbacks to prior events in the Universal Century timeline of Gundam. However, beyond some the delving into the power of Newtypes and the Psycommu system, the show can't shake the "direct-to-dvd unofficial sequel" feel.

As someone who enjoys the supernatural aspect of the Newtype mythos, this movie was very informative for me, confirming longheld theories I had about what a newtype is and how key events in earlier shows manifested themselves. This is ... held back by a poor enemy that really has no importance or motives beyond being deranged. Gundam is at its best when the enemy can make a good a point; this one doesn't even give a point besides one throwaway line.

As a sequel to Unicorn, it may make some fans of the series sad that such an event happens so soon after the resolution of that series. That is the nature of the world in Gundam though; war always returns. I think as a popcorn movie it is great, for fans of Newtype shenanigans it is good, but for other Gundam fans that are hoping for more relatable and grounded themes I can definitely see where the disappointment comes from.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 25, 2024

Yes_that

Not Recommended

I don't like to give spoilers in my reviews, but this movie is so garbage that I have to make an exception. Spoiler warning ahead, I guess, in case you're really determined to go into this sorry excuse for a film blind.

Narrative centers around 3 "miracle children" (never mentioned before), who have been trapped in a cyber-newtype lab for a large portion of their lives, presumably during the Gryps conflict. Only one of them, apparently, was an actual newtype, and the other two only have powers due to some vestiges of proximity to her. Years in the future, the two escaped non-newtype kids are Federation ... soldiers. A year has ed since the events of Unicorn, but tech has once again progressed at an absurdly unrealistic speed, and the Unicorn is no longer called by its name, instead referred to as "singularity one." But woah, in addition to the two "Unicorn brothers" the Unicorn and Banshee, there was a secret third one, the Phenex!!! It was covered up by the government, but now it's being piloted by the soul of the third miracle child, and needs to be hunted down. The two other miracle children are deployed to find it.

The Axis Shock, Newtype resonance, whatever you want to call it - it's the final culmination of 150 episodes and a movie, a series that had gone on for almost a decade by that point. It's the combined wills of all of humanity, born of their squabbles and flaws, but representative of the hope that humans can be better than what they are and have been. In Narrative, it's a handy-dandy shonen deus ex machina power-up that happens whenever someone tries hard enough, or a weapon that psycho-frame machines can shoot from their hands at will.

Narrative is an adaptation of the 11th Gundam Unicorn novel (11?? God, why), but it's very clearly just rehashing Unicorn's own nonsense, just as Unicorn brought back soulless cameo after cameo to hold viewer attention. Narrative takes all the flaws of Unicorn and cranks them up to the highest possible degree. Full Frontal had great potential, which Unicorn fully squandered, but Narrative's villain is entirely without a personality, and every scene he's in is a slog. He even pilots the II Neo Zeong, which is, as the name suggests, nothing but another Neo Zeong. I've been struggling to write this review in the week since I watched the movie, because even directly after finishing it, every plot point left my mind. Even skimming through the movie again, nothing stands out.

This is the absolute bottom of the barrel for mecha. This is the type of mediocre, fake deep, shiny object super robot mecha that you can find anywhere. I've never a true super robot show, but I have no bias against the genre - I have a bunch of super robot manga and shows I'm excited to watch in the future. Super robot is fine, but for UC it's not. Gundam is a series with some of the most realistic characters I've ever seen in writing, but in Narrative, the characters are cartoon characters. Narrative is filled with things like that, which would be ignored as part of a standalone or a series where they were the norm, but this is UC Gundam, and for this movie to exist is a disgrace to the timeline. This is soulless, meaningless, worthless garbage.

In reality I think it's probably a 4/10, but I'm taking another point off of it because I hate it. The issues with this movie are so numerous that they overloaded my mind and made me unable to them all, leaving me only with a lingering memory of pure hatred towards this movie. I tried to look for the best in Unicorn, and it was legitimately really enjoyable at some points. I went into this movie with an open mind, but it was a miserable watch, and just watching this lowered my tolerance towards Unicorn as well. Thankfully, I'm going chronologically, so I've got Hathaway and Victory Gundam next. Save me Tomino... save me...

But all is not lost!
The relatively new manga Gundam Pulitzer, which - in addition to its poignant premise of a college-age Kikka Kobayashi researching the life story of Amuro - also seems to be taking on the herculean task of making Narrative make sense, through a slow-moving B-plot of Luio & Co's Stephanie Luio ing Kikka's quest in an ulterior bid to get their hands on Psycho-frame research. It takes place in 0095, but Michele Luio's adoption has been mentioned in ing, and Bosch Weller (apparently from f91) has also made an appearance in the most recent chapters. It's flawed but promising, and has shown a proficient understanding of UC's characters and themes. I went into it knowing only the premise, and it would have been strong on that alone, but for it to attempt the inhumane duty of cleaning up Narrative's mess is more than irable. The plot is still in its early stages, but if it delivers it could well become required reading pre-Unicorn. Sometimes it's little manga like this that do the heavy lifting, so I'd recommend anyone at this point of the series to give it a read.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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