Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom

I held off watching this one due to the sour reviews in the Anime community. I was first introduced to Gundam through Gundam Wing and later watch Mobile Suit Gundam (0079) at the request of friends.

I've watched almost all of the Gundam series at this point and found many of them to lack the depth of Wing, 0079 was great the last few episodes but you had to watch so many to get to that depth.

Unlike the others Gundam 00 gets right to it and much like Gundam Wing it deals with plots inside of plots and the endless back and forth the tides of war cut. Its truly astounding animation coupled with its story puts it up there with the top Animes for me.

I didn't give it a ten because for me 10 is a mark of perfection.

This animation was great in many aspects. This was made in 2007. You can enjoy wonderful animation of space, ground with fantastic Sound and effect!

The Heroic robots that make this story more interesting. In the story, the main character Setsuna realizes what peace is through fighting with the enemy. However, each enemy has its own motives, so this is why I like this story.

There are many people who hope for peace, and a wide space that many people live. Each of them has their lives, so this is interesting. The view for the modern war will change, because this is the story of 2300 earth.

In this story, people call robots "Mobile suits". Setsuna is a member of an organization named Celestial Being which purpose is stopping war. And they own some robots which have a special power reactor called 'GN Drive'. This makes robots stronger, faster, and tougher. And mobile suits which have GN Drive are called GUNDAM. Namely, Celestial Being uses GUNDAM and destroy the weapons. Celestial Being mainly uses 4 GUNDAM. "Exia", "Dynames", "Curious", and "Virtue". Each has their own role in battle, and teamwork between them is very interesting.

Well one thing's for sure this is far better then Gundam Wing which was my first taste of the Gundam franchise. Because Gundam 00 has a very gripping storyline and better characters Also they did a good job with the technologies of the time that Gundam 00 is set in particularly those of mobile suits and especially the Gundam's. Also it does touch issues that are relevant today in its stories and things that can happen now and might still happen in the future at least in my humble opinion.

Overall this is a well animated and well written masterpiece of Japanese Anime and one of the worthiest additions to the Gundam Franchise there is.

It can sometimes take itself a bit too seriously but this is arguably one of the most mature and grounded entries in the Gundam franchise, by popular anime standards. If you are fascinated by mechs, but are turned off by anime tropes, this one is a very good place to start.

It has a large Game-of-Throne-esque collection of grown-up characters, often with dubious moralities and oblique agendas, and with believable personalities (again, by popular anime standards) and flaws.

The setting is essentially the same as our world, but a few decades into the future. Many of the real world issues of today are mirrored in this show, such as religious and racial conflicts, war-profiteering, absolutism, child-soldiers, and the core question of using violence as a means to achieve peace. It also delves into some classic Japanese concepts such as the meaning of honour for a warrior.

The plot is relatively easy to follow, and technology depicted in the show seems grounded. A visionary scientist sets in motion a shadowy anti-war organisation made up of small set of superlative war-machines called Gundams (hitherto unknown in this world), driven by a hand-picked group of pilots and an elite supporting crew. Their goal is to put a stop to military conflicts across the world, ironically, through military interventions of their own, planned by a semi-sentient AI. Of course, the interventions, while initially successful, have unintended consequences as the rest of the world comes up with desperate measures to make up for the technical superiority of the Gundams. The objectives of the organisation turns out to be not as transparent as it seemed, even to its members, with hidden forces at play with their own agendas.

As a mech enthusiast, I was mightily impressed with the mech designs in this show. They are the right mix of style and plausibility, and often exemplify pure mechanical joy of putting things together or taking things apart.

The animation style is absolutely superb, and the soundtrack is memorable. What more is there to say! Highly recommended. Would love to see this story revisited in the future, or adapted to other media.

I recently watched the English dub version of this series on SyFy, and I was blown away!

Let me start by saying that I have no familiarity with any of the earlier Gundam series, or that much anime in general.

First off, a lot of people called this series slow and boring. DO NOT LISTEN. The first few episodes are building up the story for the later episodes, which will have you on the edge of your seat at the end of almost every episode! It especially picks up at the second season with some epic battle scenes and some tension-building political and economic dilemmas.

I did have a few problems with it though. For one, a few of the characters came across as whiny and annoying, namely Saji, Allelujah, and Feldt, although this might be because it was the dubbed version.

Also, although the last 10 or so episodes were incredible, it became increasingly hard to discern which Gundam was which, especially in the finale. I had hardly no idea who was still alive until the "epilogue" scenes.

And, oh yeah, the animation? Absolutely astounding. Probably the best I've ever seen.

Don't pass this great anime up. You won't regret it!