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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
機動戦士ガンダム・シード
(Kidō Senshi Gundam SEED)
Demographic Shōnen
Genre Drama, Mecha, Romance, Science Fiction
TV anime
Director Mitsuo Fukuda
Studio Sunrise
Network Flag of Japan MBS, TBS, Animax
Flag of the United States Cartoon Network
Flag of Canada YTV
Flag of the Philippines ABS-CBN, Hero TV, Cartoon Network, Studio 23
Flag of Australia Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)
Flag of South Korea Champ TV, Tooniverse
Flag of Malaysia TV2
Flag of Singapore MediaCorp TV12 Central
Flag of Hong Kong TVB
Flag of the Republic of China China Television
Original run October 5, 2002 – September 27, 2003
Episodes 50
OVA: After Phase: In the Valley of Stars
Director Mitsuo Fukuda
Studio Sunrise
Episodes 1
Released March 26, 2004
Manga
Author Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino
Publisher Japan Kodansha

United States Del Rey

Taiwan Ching Win
Original run February 17, 2003 – January 29, 2004
Volumes 5

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (機動戦士ガンダムSEED　[シード] Kidō Senshi Gandamu SEED [Shīdo]?), shortened to Gundam SEED, is an anime television series by Sunrise. It is a part of the Gundam franchise that started in 1979, but takes place in an alternate universe called the Cosmic Era. The series spanned 50 episodes, aired in Japan from October 5, 2002 to September 27, 2003 at 6:00 p.m. on the JNN TV stations TBS and MBS. The series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 2002. Gundam SEED's story continues in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.

Contents

See also: List of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED episodes

Directed by Mitsuo Fukuda (Future GPX Cyber Formula and Gear Fighter Dendoh) with music by Toshihiko Sahashi, the series is the first set in the Cosmic Era. This series begins with the Bloody Valentine War between Earth and the colonies that is similar to the One Year War of the original Gundam series with certain traditional elements from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and After War Gundam X such as the presence of five multicolored Gundam mobile suits and the threat of an apocalypse. On one side is the Earth Alliance, and on the opposite is the space colonies that form ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty). Mankind is divided over human genetic engineering, with normal humans known as "Naturals" and the genetically altered humans known as "Coordinators". Like the original series, ZAFT has a head start on mobile suit design, the Earth Alliance quickly catches up with its five prototype Gundams. With ZAFT having stolen four of the prototypes, young Coordinator Kira Yamato pilots the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam and is forced to fight his old friend Athrun Zala. Little do they know that there are sinister forces at work that go far beyond their worst nightmares.

According to the analyst John Oppliger of AnimeNation, Gundam SEED became the first Gundam series which was widely successful not only among "Gundam fans and hardcore otaku" but also "mainstream, casual Japanese viewers".[1]

The series first premiered in Japan on the terrestrial MBS and TBS networks, where it occupied the Saturday 6 p.m. timeslot.

The series is licensed by Bandai Entertainment. The English adaptation was produced by Bandai Entertainment in association with The Ocean Group and the English-language dub was recorded at Ocean Studios. The series has been released on DVD in North America in uncut bilingual format.

On April 17, 2004, an edited version of the English dub premiered at 10:30 p.m. on Cartoon Network's Toonami block, which ran on Saturday nights. On October 23, 2004, it was moved to 1:00 a.m. on Saturdays starting with episode 27 due to below average ratings. It looped back and started over in this time slot, but was pulled half way through the second run, after being on the air for approximately a year and a half.

The majority of the series was aired with a TV-Y7, apparently, at the insistence of Bandai who were desperately trying to push the new Gundam SEED toy line. However, since most retailers had stopped carrying the Gundam line due to over-saturation from the G Gundam series, this soon became a lost cause. Only the final episode was given the TV-PG-SV rating rather than the usual TV-Y7 rating.

Things that were edited out on the Cartoon Network version include mature content (e.g. most references to the sexual relationship between Kira and Flay Allster — though the initial scene presenting this was left partially intact); scenes of intense combat violence (e.g. almost all shots of pilots, including main characters, in their cockpits before having their machines destroyed); cold-blooded or brutal murders that are non-mobile suit related (e.g. Siegel Clyne getting shot by ZAFT soldiers loyal to Patrick Zala); all references to the fact that the "Living CPUs" need to take performance enhancing drugs; and most notoriously, handguns being sloppily and inconsistently transformed into neon-colored lasers, dubbed "Disco Guns" by fans, for most of the show's run. Also, there was little to no use of the words "kill" or "die" in the middle of the series airing, with the phrase "taking his/her life" or some variant of the phrase in the place of either word.

Since most of the series had been edited by Williams Street before broadcast, Cartoon Network changed very little in terms of content allowance. However, the airings of the final two episodes were left mostly unedited, with only a few elements being affected — namely the guns used by Muruta Azrael, Patrick Zala, and one of the ZAFT soldiers (which was given neon-colored lights in certain but not all of the image frames), airbrushing the naked Flay's body in the final episode to avoid showing her cleavage, reducing the amount of blood shown, editing the character's lines to remove either inappropriate language or controversial lines, and the removal or altering of flashbacks of graphic assassinations.

The Canadian version debuted on YTV's Bionix programming block on September 10, 2004 at 9:30 p.m. where it got a better reception and aired comparatively uncut, with almost all of the material listed above intact. On September 2, 2006, YTV stopped broadcasting the show after airing the entire series three times through. Gundam SEED returned to the Bionix block on March 9, 2007 at 11:30 p.m., beginning its fourth run on YTV; the same evening Gundam SEED Destiny made its North American premiere on YTV. On June 2, 2007 at 11:00 p.m., Gundam SEED began its fifth run on YTV in Bionix's Saturday lineup. In September 2007, Gundam SEED was finally taken off the air. It is currently unknown if it will air on YTV again.

On Cartoon Network Philippines, Gundam SEED aired on Toonami and editing was also implemented, later it was aired on Adult Swim in its unedited version.

On March 26, 2004, a five minute original video animation (OVA) titled "After Phase: In the Valley of Stars" was released on DVD in Japan. The OVA was an epilogue to Gundam SEED.

A three-part compilation of the TV series has been released as Gundam SEED: Special Edition.

An adaptation of the TV series, authored by Mizuho Takayama, was originally a supplement of Comic BomBom. This version comes with folding color posters of the mobile suits, and a bonus Gundam SEED Destiny episode 0 comic. The stories were eventually published into 2 volumes by Kodansha. The 2 volume version is available in Chinese, published by Rightman Publishing Ltd. in Hong Kong.

The TV series was also turned into a series of novels by Riu Goto, published by Kadokawa Shoten.

Also running with the TV series was a series of manga called Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray that told a side-story to the anime series. This proved popular enough to generate two more side-stories: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray R and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X Astray.

The English manga, authored by Masatsugu Iwase, is published in North America by Del Rey Manga and in Singapore by Chuang Yi, while Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray is published in North America by TOKYOPOP.

On July 6, 2004, the sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, was announced after over a month of rumors. It started airing in Japan on October 9, 2004 on the network Mainichi Broadcasting System and ran until October 1, 2005.

A third Gundam SEED production, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer, is an original net animation side-story to Gundam SEED Destiny, the first of three episodes began streaming on Bandai Channel on July 14, 2006, and a DVD containing all three episodes was released on November 24, 2006 in Japan.

On May 7, 2006, a new movie based in the Cosmic Era was announced by Sunrise.

The first Gundam SEED & Gundam SEED Destiny Fan Disc: Seed Supernova was released by Sunrise on 22 June 2007 and the second will be released on 25 September 2007. Both discs contain bonus material and specials. [1] Some specials included, "World Wide Seed", [2] which shows Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny in different languages including, English, French, Korean, etc.

See also: List of Gundam SEED characters

One striking fact of the series is that the voices of characters, both major and minor, were done by many veteran seiyu. The cast list reads like a "Who's Who" of Japanese voice actors and actresses. This is also carried over to the sequel, Gundam SEED Destiny. Likewise, its English language version features a cast of many veteran English voice actors from Ocean Group studios, the Canada based company which revoiced it. This includes many actors who had previously worked on other Gundam series, namely Gundam Wing and Mobile Suit Gundam.

The English opening quote in episodes 1 to 3, 8, and 14; narrated by Alison Matthews:

“ Year 70 of the Cosmic Era, tensions were mounting between Earth and the ZAFT organization. Due to the Bloody Valentine tragedy, these tensions suddenly escalated into a full scale war. It seemed a foregone conclusion that the Earth Forces, with its superior numbers, would be victorious, but these initial assessments proved to be false. Almost 11 months have passed since the conflict began, with no end in sight. ”

In episode three, "with its superior numbers" was omitted from the opening quote.

Opening songs:

  1. "INVOKE" by T.M.Revolution (episodes 1-13); (Toonami broadcast: episodes 1-26), (YTV broadcast: episodes 1-50)
  2. "moment" by Vivian or Kazuma (episodes 14-26)
  3. "Believe" by Nami Tamaki (episodes 27-40)
  4. "Realize" by Nami Tamaki (episodes 41-50)

Ending songs:

  1. "Anna ni Issho Datta no ni" (あんなに一緒だったのに; Although We Are Always Together) by See-Saw (episodes 1-26)
  2. "RIVER" by Tatsuya Ishii (episodes 27-39)
  3. "FIND THE WAY" by Mika Nakashima (episodes 40-50)

Insert songs:

  • "Shizuka na Yoru ni" (静かな夜に; In the Quiet Night) by Rie Tanaka (Jillian Michaels in the English dub) (episodes 7-9, 14, 20)
  • "Akatsuki no Kuruma" (暁の車; Wheels of Dawn) by FictionJunction YUUKA (episodes 24, 32, 40)
  • "Meteor" by T.M.Revolution (episodes 26, 29, 35, 47)
  • "Anna ni Issho Datta no ni" (Although We Are Always Together) by See-Saw (episodes 28)
  • "Mizu no Akashi" (水の証; Evidence of Water) by Rie Tanaka (Jillian Michaels in the English dub) (episodes 36, 41)
  • "FIND THE WAY" by Mika Nakashima (episode 46)


Gundam SEED related albums:

Each Suit CD usually contain songs sung by the seiyū of the characters featured, and audio drama clips of these characters in situations happening in the past or special encounters. While most are comedic in nature, they help to flesh out the characters as well, often offering an insight at their behaviour in the series. (e.g. in Volume 5, Yzak talks about his rivalry with Athrun.) There are only 10 Suit CDs in total for GS and GSD (the numbering for the GS CDs are from 1 to 5).

Note that this list only includes games with SEED and SEED Astray characters.

In Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 for the PlayStation 2, the last installment of the Super Robot Wars Alpha series, some story plots in Gundam SEED are central to the main story of the game. The climax of these plots would be the Second Battle of Jachin Due, where players would be able to see the re-enactment of the destruction of the GAT-X105 Strike (piloted by Mu La Flaga) and the Dominion.

Also, players would be able to use both the ZGMF-X10A Freedom and ZGMF-X09A Justice in battle against Rau Le Creuset and the ZGMF-X13A Providence. New dialogue was recorded for this non-canonical encounter.

  1. ^ John Oppliger (2007-10-12). Ask John: Which Gundam Series Have Had the Most Impact on Anime?. AnimeNation. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.

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Preceded by
G-Saviour		 Gundam metaseries (production order)
2002 — 2003		 Succeeded by
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO
Preceded by
none		 Gundam Cosmic Era timeline
C.E. 71		 Succeeded by
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
v • d • e
Gundam

Universal Century:
Anime: MS IGLOO · Mobile Suit Gundam · The 08th MS Team · 0080: War in the Pocket · 0083: Stardust Memory · Zeta Gundam · Gundam ZZ · Char's Counterattack · Gundam F91 · Victory Gundam · G-Saviour
Books: The Origin · The Blue Destiny · Gundam Sentinel · Double-Fake: Under the Gundam · Gundam Unicorn · Hathaway's Flash · Crossbone Gundam · Gaia Gear
Events: One Year War · Post-One Year War · Operation Stardust · Gryps Conflict · Neo-Zeon Movements · Late UC
Topics: Characters · Episode list · Locations · Mobile units · MSV · MS-X · Nations and factions · Newtypes · Superweapons · Technology · Vehicles and craft
Future Century:
G Gundam · Mobile units
After Colony:
Episode Zero · Gundam Wing · The Last Outpost · Endless Waltz
Characters · Episode list · Locations · Mobile units · Nations and factions · Operation Meteor · Technology
After War:
Gundam X · Under the Moonlight · Characters · Mobile units · Technology
CC (Seireki):
∀ Gundam · Characters
Cosmic Era:
Anime: Gundam SEED · Gundam SEED: Special Edition · Gundam SEED Destiny · Gundam SEED Destiny: Special Edition · Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer · Gundam SEED: The Movie
Books: Gundam SEED Astray · Gundam SEED Destiny Astray · Gundam SEED Destiny: The Edge · Gundam SEED C.E. 73 Δ Astray · Gundam SEED Club Yonkoma · Gundam SEED novelization
Events: First Bloody Valentine War · Second Bloody Valentine War
Topics: Characters · Episode list · Human enhancements · Locations · Mobile units · Music · Nations and factions · Superweapons · Technology · Vehicles and aircraft · Warships and spacecraft
Anno Domini:
Gundam 00 · Characters · Episode list · Mobile units · Nations and factions · Technology
Miscellaneous:
Gundam Evolve · SD Gundam · SD Gundam Force · Mobile weapons · Space colony · Manga and novels · Video games
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