A roller coaster of emotions...

anime_queeny

This is my first Gundam series that I've ever sat through and it was a pretty outstanding series.

There is a war between two types of humans in this series - the earth forces and then you have the coordinators who were genetically altered to excel at certain abilities.

In comes, Kira Yamato who is in high school; the coordinators start to attack the earth forced alliance and his destiny is set when he meets a young commander by the name of: Murrue Ramues who is defending a mobile suit gundam. Kira is immediately drawn into this battle by using his special abilities to over write the operating system of the gundam and use the machine to his own abilities.

During defending the people involved in this battle at the beginning; he comes into contact with his best, school friend: Athren and from there the story takes off between the battles of 2 worlds.

I won't go into too much detail; the above sums up where it's headed. This is a really great battle, drama, war series that really makes you think. I know I did...

I gave it a 9 rating because the story is very long - it's 50 episodes long but every single episode from 1 to 50 builds up and the very last 10 episodes are bringing you to tears and you are the edge of your seat.

When Japanese animators put their heart and soul into a anime you get stories like Gundam Seed. Nowdays, there is a lot of weeboo type series that are really hard to enjoy but this series is not one of them.

I gave it a 9 also because there are a couple of filler episodes...you can kinda predict it because a series in Japan will either go for 26 episodes or 12 depending on how much screen time they have.

From episode 27 to 50 it's where it picks up a bit. So the first half its really getting to know the characters and getting a fill for what's going on and then the second half of the series is where...things really escalate quickly.

All in all, if you have time to sit down and give a Gundam series a go, this is my recommendation. The series, music, animation and overall feel of the show is well worth.

score 9/10

anime_queeny 3 July 2017

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