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At the Gundam Big Expo event in Tokyo it was confirmed that the anime will launch in early Spring of 2010. The official website for the anime adaptation of the Gundam Unicorn novels has confirmed this. There will be six original video anime volumes of fifty minutes each, and it will be presented on Blu-ray Disc and DVD, shown at events, distrubuted through other unspecified means and exhibited overseas.

The original Gundam Unicorn novels are set in the same Universal Century (UC) timeline as Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise's first Mobile Suit Gundam science-fiction television anime series and its sequels. Fukui finished serializing the novel version in the August issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shonen Ace magazine in June. The final two compiled book volumes, #9 and #10, will ship in Japan on Monday. ~Anime News Network

In an interview conducted last wednesday novelist Haurtoshi Fukui confirmed that the first anime episode will incorporate material from the first two novel volumes. Despite the fact that the anime will be a reconstruction with new ideas developed between the original novelist and scriptwriter Yasuyuki Muto, Fukui has assured fans that he is faithful to his original works.