Gundam SEED

About Gundam SEED

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (機動戦士ガンダムSEED, Kidō Senshi Gandamu Shīdo ) is a 2002 anime television series created by Sunrise. It aired in Japan from October 5, 2002 to September 27, 2003 at 6:00 p.m. on the JNN TV stations (Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS TV), Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS TV, producing TV station), etc.). The series had was remastered in High-Definition for its 10th year anniversary, omitting two recap phases. A new English dub was recorded for the western HD Remaster release in 2020. It is available to be streamed on Crunchyroll & Netflix.

In the year 70 C.E., the war between PLANT and the Earth Alliance intensified when nuclear missiles were fired at the Junius Seven agricultural plant. The war, which was expected to end in victory for the Alliance, who had the advantage in terms of quantity, has been in a stalemate for 11 months.

In the year C.E. 71, Kira Yamato, a young Coordinator majoring in engineering, lives peacefully in the colony Heliopolis in the neutral nation of Orb. However, within the colony, the Alliance is secretly developing five Mobile Suits and building a new battleship, and upon receiving this information, the ZAFT Le Creuset Team begins a unilateral operation to seize them. Kira's daily life changes drastically, and the colony is transformed into a battlefield. As Kira flees, he arrives at the MS factory and is confronted by a fierce firefight between Alliance and ZAFT soldiers. One of them is his childhood best friend, Athrun Zala.

With ZAFT having stolen four of the prototypes, Kira takes the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam and is forced to fight his old friend. Little do they know that there are sinister forces at work that go far beyond their worst nightmares.