Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: Collection 1 (Anime Legends)

Gundam Seed Destiny Collection 1 Contains 6 Discs (Episode 1 - Angry eyes) To (Epiosde 26 - The Promise)English And Japanese Audio And The Japanese Subtiles and The Second Set Of Subtiles is To Translate The Title Of each Epiosde And The Intro and Outro songs

Overall the first half of Gundam Seed Destiny is simply incredible. The mobile suit battles in these episodes have gotten even more intense when compared to the same episodes from Gundam Seed. The story writers also continue to make numerous tributes to the original Mobile Suit Gundam through the designs of various mobile suits such as ZAFT's new mobile suits the ZAKU Warrior and the GOUF Ignited which are based on Zeon's mobile suits and ZAFT's Impulse Gundam which uses the 'Core Fighter' design that was used on the original Gundam.

The story line starts off in the PLANT Amory One which is dedicated to storing and building mobile suits and space ships. It is attacked by a group of Earth Alliance soldiers in a manner similar to how ZAFT attacked Heliopolis in Gundam Seed. The objective is the same in that several operatives are to steal several new ZAFT Gundams, the Abyss, Gaia, and Chaos. While significant damage is done to Armory One it is not destroyed like Heliopolis was.

After the EA makes their escape they are followed by ZAFTs new battleship the Minerva which holds the Impulse, a ZAKU Warrior, a ZAKU Phantom, and several GuAIZ Rs which get destroyed early on. The story continues to follow the Minerva who plays a key role during the second war.

The primary protagonist of the first episodes is the pilot of the Impulse Shinn Asuka. In later episodes more focus will be put on the original protagonists but in the earlier ones the focus is on Shinn.

I will admit that I do not like Shinn. He has a major chip on his shoulder. It is somewhat understandable since he lost his entire family during the Invasion of Orb. But he gives off the impression that he is the only one who knows the pain of loss and who suffered from the first war. He also shows intense dislike for Orb and its people and will even go so far as to discreetly or even not so discreetly insult the current Orb leader Cagalli Atha straight to her face.

Shinn also is shown to have a real problem with authority figures, often ignoring what they say to do his own thing. I actually find it hard to believe that someone like him no matter how talented could have been assigned to a machine as advanced as the Impulse. And even as a mobile suit pilot he does not seem nearly as good as Kira was in the Strike. Sure he can take on numerous opponents who are in Windam mobile suits but he has yet to face multiple Gundam units on his own except briefly during his first engagement.

Overall though I would recommend any fan of the Gundam franchise to purchase this item.

Gundam seed is one of the more modernized Gundam entries. The 2 previous shows, Gundam wing and 08th MS Team were pretty good. Gundam Wing had okay animation, but the voice cast was bad on the english dub. 08th MS Team has ok voice acting, but the animation was kind rough. Gundam Seed has neither of these problems. It has really good animation and pretty good voice acting. The soundtrack is also really well done. The story is also more interesting. There are some major plot twists and some great conflicts between the characters. It definitely deserves the 2 seasons that it ran. With lots of great characters, a pretty in depth plot and high quality production it's definitely my favorite Gundam since the original. You should give it a chance. I hope you like it as much as I do.