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A television rebroadcast of the anime titled "Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096" was announced by Sunrise on February 21, 2016 and began airing on April 3, 2016 in Japan on TV Asahi and other networks, replacing "Brave Beats". The series ran for 22 episodes and ended on September 11, 2016. This is the first Gundam series to air on TV Asahi since "After War Gundam X" which ended in 1996. The rebroadcast includes some reanimated scenes and episode recaps and previews narrated by Shuichi Ikeda as his Full Frontal character, as well as a new opening and two new ending themes all composed by Hiroyuki Sawano, under his alias, "SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]", the first opening theme titled "Into the Sky" is performed by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Tielle, the first ending theme titled "Next 2U -eUC-" is performed by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:naNami and the second ending theme titled "bL∞dy f8 -eUC-" is performed by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Aimer. Two special themes were shown during the series: the opening theme from episode 18 titled "", and the ending theme from episode 22 (last) titled "StarRingChild", both are performed by Aimer.