Gundam SEED Destiny

Cosmic Era 73. Though the signing of a peace treaty brought the war between the Naturals and Coordinators to an apparent close, tensions fueled by the continued threat of Blue Cosmos continue to run high. During a conference between PLANT chairman Gilbert Dullindal and Orb representative Cagalli Yula Athha concerning the threat of a new military arms race, an Alliance special forces team attacks the ZAFT base they're meeting at and makes off with three new Gundam mobile suits. Forced to pursue them, Shinn Asuka of ZAFT and Athrun Zala of Orb set out aboard the new space battleship Minerva, and engage the retreating Alliance strike team in combat. But just as they catch up to the fleeing ship, the crew of the Minerva receives word of an even greater catastrophe in the making, which will undoubtedly re-ignite the brutal war between the Naturals & Coordinators all over again.

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Series Status: Completed

Member Reviews (134)

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Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 06:54 am Cupox wrote:

Greatness!

I support Lancer all the way! Shinn is a great character and quite believable even though he does go on my nerves sometimes, so don't listen to people who can't watch these series without first Seed attached to it and Kira as a main character. Good storyline and great set of characters. Good fighting scenes but with too much over usage of the same animation. Can't tell more unless spoiling so I won't say anything else. I would give it a 4 stars but with most kids giving it two and labeling as bad, I will give it five. Thumb up!

Wed Apr 16th, 2008 at 11:49 pm Lancer wrote:

Cool!

Hey guys, I know you don't think this series was as good as the first one. I also know most of you hate the main character(Shinn). Probably because he's obnoxious,stubborn,arrogant,stupid and one of those people who blames everyone else for his problems.

Well guess what! The main character was actually made that way by the director on purpose. He said that the youth of Japan were getting to be pretty rude lately so he decided to make the character based off them. He said the reason why so many people hated is because it was like looking at themselves in a mirror. I read it in one of those anime magazines about a year ago though I can't remember which one. Just thought you might like to know that interesting little tidbit.

By the way,I hated him too at first.LOL

I gotta say, it is an awesome story once you get past the main character. While many people say that this one feels like a copy of the original seed, I didn't think so mainly because it goes delves deeper into the problems and questions that Kira and Athrun have.

The fight scenes are way better in this series then it was in the first one. I'm still pretty mad about how Shinn beat Kira though.(sigh) Oh well

Anyway 5 stars in my opinion

Mon Mar 31st, 2008 at 04:15 am crescent_aries wrote:

sorry guys....

but this anime IS bad......
>>sure the music is terrific, much better than Gundam SEED
>>and i knew that they are trying to make Shinn the complete opposite of that seemingly heartless Kira, but one thing that this Shinn lacks is brain...how come he can mercilessly kill people but when it comes to that Stellar he became that ......stupid, i mean it's like there's no really clear reason for him being all angry and stuff the whole series, and that turning to Lunamaria just make me even more sick of him
>>seriously.....this series lacks character development..LACKS...
>>and not to mention Ahrun, where's his love for Cagalli? it ends just like that ?!?!?
>>so Lohengrin can be repelled by everyone now? what's the fun in it? if u want real Gundam battle, it should be like Gundam 00
>>sorry guys, but this show just doesnt please me at all, that's why i gave it 2 stars

Sat Mar 8th, 2008 at 02:50 pm max007 wrote:

This anime is of the chart of awesome it ROCKS

I am still watching but so far i think it may even surpass the original Gundam seed i strongly recommend it

Tue Mar 4th, 2008 at 12:31 am Immolation wrote:

Nice MS

Shinn Asuka experienced a similar situation as Kira in Gundam Seed. However, he is too easily affected by the words of others and hence, easily manipulated by the Chairman and his friends. Secondly, he blames everything and anything bad that happened on the others and uses the fact of his victimization as an excuse to act like a brainless emo destroyer. Shinn Asuka tends to get conceited easily upon any achievements and openly despises those that he thinks are weaker than him. He does not understand true strength and thinks the world of himself when clearly, he is not the strongest. Although it is true that Shinn was struck with far more tragedies than anyone should experience, he allowed his emotions to get the better of him and cloud his judgment. Furthermore, Shinn tends to misdirect his hatred on the wrong person on more than one occasion.

*WARNING - Potential spoilers below*

After the long building up of hate for Shinn, it was nice to see how he got his @ss handed to him by Athuran in the end. At one point, he even brutally murdered the colonel that saved his life although I agree that there is no way he could have known then. Near the end, the few main gundams can be said to be of equal strength other than the fact that the Destiny gundam needs to recharge itself due to the lack of a nuclear generator. However, I do not believe that the Justice and Freedom was stronger than the Destiny gundam in terms of combat capabilities.

Think of it this way, Each of the three gundams are specced differently. The Strike Freedom is made for multi-targeting ranged combat. The Infinite Justice is made to be versatile between Range and melee combat. The Destiny is made for speed and to excel in melee combat. Thus at the sword clash point, the Justice gundam was not any stronger than the Destiny gundam especially since they are doing melee combat at that point of time. Furthermore, Shinn was already using his seed program and yet Athuran managed to slice off an arm without using seed. At that point of time, Shinn Asuka is more than experienced in combat. However, in the end, it is heartening to see that Shinn Asuka finally realized for the first time in the whole show what he really wants. This can be seen when he shed tears of relief upon hearing that Orb was not destroyed by the Requiem. At that moment, my personal hate for him died.

One of the main attractions of Gundam Seed Destiny will have to be the new mobile suits and that the songs were above average.

Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 at 05:41 pm jackilynhyde wrote:

what!

i don't know what you guys are talking about. Without Shinn, the story would S-U-C-K. If they continued to focus on Kira, and Athrun they would run out of things to show. Kira is the ultimate coordinator of course he is going to be the strongest character. But shinn shows a different side of strength, one that you have to work hard for. He didn't have any experience to begin with and yet he was that powerful, if he had experience like athrun and everyone else, he would be the strongest. and plus, the destiny gundam is not stronger than the Justice and of course the strongest is the Freedom.

Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 03:52 pm Muzzza wrote:

It's okay

I wouldn't call this a amazing anime, nor would would I call it a bad one. A lot of people don't like this anime because of Shinn and that it sort of copy's the seed storyline. Guys, Shinn is probably supposed to be posed as a EMO **** that is good, cocky, but he still a good person, maybe they did him as the opiset of Kira??? Anyway guys, how can you say this is a bad anime, if it has the same storyline as seed, how can it be bad?
I don't think its the same anyway, things like Muw n stuff are not in Seed, its got some more twists in it a lot more secretive stuff, like between Rey and Dulindal.
The music is great, the animations are great, as with seed, they copied the animes for some parts for another, which always let me down, but doesn't degrade the whole anime. Also guys, when Kira got shot down I was like *!!! Bakana! (Impossible?) KIRA CANT LOSE WTH!!! Then I found out he lives, like in seed, but it was about time he truly lost. It HAD To happen, Kira couldnt be in the same unit (Freedom) the whole series!!

Sorry if that was a spioler!! Enjoy the series guys!!

Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 08:46 am Crimson Cloud wrote:

Pretty good Gundam anime

I don't know why are people bitching about this awesome anime. And what the hell is all comments like ''No Kira!'', did they watched the show? He is still in it damn it. Good story with some slight holes, great animation and a lot's of characters, thats what I want to see. Fights are just like in any other Gundam anime, and I fancy this show better the the previous Seed.

Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 03:05 pm Yukimochan wrote:

nooo

I can't believe that they actually replaced the main character! That they replaced Kira! Dx
This is absurd...D:

Thu Feb 21st, 2008 at 04:54 pm aakaido wrote:

stop the hate

I really hate that people keep downing the show and actually thought that SEED was better. (how could anyone have thought that?) True, the show could have been better in a number of ways, but I think that a lot of you are letting your judgement for the show be dictated by the few who really hated it. And if it was so bad, why did most of you bother to continue to watch it to the end after so many episodes...?? (And don't say that you didn't cause I know you did) Me and you Jilin01, we're on the same page. Some of these people need get their own opinions and see for themselves what the show is truly like without having their thoughts manipulated beforehand.