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The first episode of Gundam Seed aired on October 5, 2002. The last episode of Gundam Seed aired on September 27, 2003.
Directed by Mitsuo Fukuda ( Future Cyber Formula GPX and Gear Fighter Dendoh ), the series is set in an alternate universe to the original series, the Cosmic Era universe. This series begins with a war between Earth and the colonies that is similar to the One-Year War of the original Gundam series with elements from Gundam Wing and Gundam X. On one side is the Earth Alliance, and on the opposite is the space colonies that form ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty). Mankind has evolved into new forms through genetic engineering, with normal humans known as 'Naturals' and the genetically altered known as ' Coordinators'. Like the original series, ZAFT has a head start on mobile suit design, but the Earth AllianceThe Earth Alliance is the name of at least two fictional governments or alliances in modern science-fiction. In Gundam Seed, the Earth Alliance is the military alliance of four powerful nations which controls most of the Earth and fights against ZAFT duri quickly catches up with its five prototype Gundams. With ZAFT having stolen four of the prototypes, young pilot Kira Yamato takes the Strike Gundam and is forced to fight his old friend Athrun Zara.
The series began broadcasting in Japan in October 2002 and is currently licensed by Bandai Visual. The AmericanThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in edition is currently being broadcast on Cartoon NetworkThe Cartoon Network is a cable TV channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing cartoons. It premiered on October 1, 1992. History Ted Turner's cable TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film library (which included the older catalog of as of April 2004 on ToonamiToonami (a pun on tsunami, suggesting a "tidal wave" of animated cartoons) is a trademark of Cartoon Network, used initially for action-oriented programming blocks on the US and UK Cartoon Network television channels, among other countries. The name was s. An abridged, six part version of the TV series is also being released in Japan as . The English manga is published in North America by Del Rey Manga and in Singapore by Chuang Yi, while Gundam Seed Astray, a spinoff of Gundam Seed, is published in North America by TokyoPop.
Another element leftover from the most popular recent Gundam series (1994-5's Gundam Wing) was the presence of five color-coded Gundams piloted by angst-ridden bishonen. This made the series quite attractive to female fans, though to date SEEDslash is primarily concentrated among the ZAFT adversary characters, rather than among the Archangel crew members.
Also running with the series as a series of manga called Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray that told a side-story to the anime series. This was also popular enough to garner two more side-stories, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray R and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X Astray .
On July 6, 2004, the sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, was announced after over a month of rumors; the series will start airing on Mainichi Broadcasting System in October, 2004.