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“Unico, a happiness-bringing unicorn, is banished by jealous gods and wanders through time with the West Wind.”
Unico
ユニコ
7.15
7,381 rank · 1,839 readers · 15 favorites
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Unico, a happiness-bringing unicorn, is banished by jealous gods and wanders through time with the West Wind.
The Goddess Venus is jealous of the beautiful human girl Psyche and blames her pet unicorn, Unico, as Psyche's source of good luck. Venus has Unico banished, and it becomes his fate to forever journey from one place and time to the next, with the West Wind. Unico is a little unicorn which has the ability to make everybody happy. That's something the gods don't like of course. So they send out the west wind to bring Unico to a place where Unico never will be seen again. The west-wind however isn't able to as she likes Unico too much and brings him to a lonely island instead. From there, the adventures and travels of little Unico start. (Source: ANN)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 0.47
Agreement
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σ 0.47 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.33
Running avg · May 2013 → Sep 2020
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Osamu Tezuka is known in Japan as Manga no Kamisama, or the God of Manga, for a reason. He has written works in every genre, for every age, seemingly for every mood or situation one can find...”
- 8 “Manga review: Unico Over the years I have become somewhat numb to romance stories, and the more emotionally evocative or convoluted the plot twist, the less I seemed to enjoy the simple tale of...”
- 7 “Long before My Little Pony ever became a thing, Osamu Tezuka, a famous mangaka who would go on to lay the foundations for and popularize various genres all over with his work, created a manga about...”
Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 67%
Long · 33%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 9 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 12m approx
- Published Nov 1976 – Mar 1979
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M11066 catalog