Audience reviews
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Canis_xo
Great sequel to an amazing first season! If you loved the original SEED, then you will adore this one too. Overall, it lives up to the standards of its predecessor, even if there are some issues which caused me to rate it slightly lower (9/10 vs. 10/10). Despite that, I can't imagine watching one without the other. Its the second half of the story and without it, SEED's ending is rather abrupt and unresolved.
The story is actually more complex than SEED, filled with more moral ambiguity and dyanmic characters. However, it is told in an *extremely* heavy handed fashion, so those desiring cerebral and subtle storytelling may find the presentation to be overbearing. On the contrary, those who enjoy anime with a direct style may find it refreshing to see everything portrayed in an explicit ma…
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Ok im ging to be out and say it. After watching SEED Destiny, I dont get its negative reputation. And I think a lot of the criticisms are in bad faith.
Gundam SEED Destiny is probably the most intrigued in one of these major 50 ep Gundam shows, save for G Gundam. Its scope is far bigger, a story of everyone, no real main lead. We have Shinn, we have Athrun, we have Kira, but despite what ive heard over the years, none of them are really the main character.
Gundam SEED Destiny is basically like a real snippet into a fictional worlds and all the people living in it. The takeover by undesirable parties, the indoctrination in order to keep the status quo going, and the fight for Freedom.
Now, the biggest con is that despite this, they also decided specifically Athrun and Cagalli to be dumbe…
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Are our roles in society pre-determined as part of destiny? Should it be? Etc. This is the core theme and namesake of the show that Gundam Seed Destiny is trying to tell. Unfortunately, it doesn't manage to quite get the message across amidst the many other concurrent themes and ideas that gets swept along the series -- this I mostly blame Bandai, as they severely limited the budget/cost cut for the series for the sakes of corporate profit (see below).
Seed Destiny is a divisive and controversial anime, probably one of the most ever for a Gundam series, and the reason for that is probably because of it's potential. No one gets seriously mad about a bad anime. They simply stop watching and move on. It is when a show that builds up a lot of potential and manages to waste it, that people of…
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An extremely disappointing sequel to the great first season. I honestly see little point in this season existing, but it at least wasn't boring. There are a lot of genuinely good ideas here, but their execution is lacking, which makes it disappointing even off of its own merits. I would like to note that I watched the HD remaster.
I would also like to note that I was lucky enough to watch the fan edit that combined the old English dub with the newer HD-remaster. This English dub was very good and, like the standard definition English dub of Gundam Seed, I preferred it over the Japanese voices. If you can watch the show with theis dub, then I recommend you give it a try, assuming you're already familiar with the old dub from Gundam Seed, because this is done by the same people.
There are…
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To be completely honest, I still enjoyed this sequel, even if I thought the show didn't really need it. The first season was so perfect to me and I loved it from beginning to end. However, 'Destiny' had some problems which the first season didn't have. The main character Shinn Asuka was soooo annoying how he just purposely try to pick a fight with literally everyone, and his character didn't even improve up to the last episode, or he probably did but it wasn't enough for me to even begin to like him. Whatever your past is, you can always choose to do better and not take it out on others. Anyway, for what it's worth, I still loved this because it has Kira Yamato and Freedom in it. The first season, I can watch over and over, but this, I would really need to be motivated, or if I want to see…
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I thought Gundam SEED was fantastic loved the whole series.
This sequel had some good parts where athren and kira were involved but the new "main" character shinn was the worst thing that could happen to this series. His attitude and feelings while we could try to relate to them they fell short. He was just annoying and really took away from what could have been a fantastic sequel.
Still there are some great fighting series and Kira kicks ass and shinn loses (as his whinny ass should). Kira fighting early on in the first couple epsidoes was great and at the end of the series when he finally pulls out the strike freedom he kills it and it makes the series much more fun to watch. But honestly at this point if you aren't fed up with shinn you didnt watch the series fully through
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[Edit] I`ll say a balanced amount of positive/negative points for Seed Destiny, thus, you can look and decide for yourself. In a nutshell, Seed Destiny is a good closure of the events you saw on Gundam Seed, thus, I strongly recommend it but be prepared for some bad decision in terms of the protagonist. I recommend you see my review of Seed first, so you understand many of my points of view. Ikimasu!
Story: The story of Seed Destiny has a similar background of Seed because it is a follow-up. Thus, you will have no problem following and will get comfortable fast. Although the military and political settings are similar, Seed Destiny has a major plot twist. Of course, I won`t tell you, but there is a catch, and it is a great one. Even though I enjoyed the plot, the fights, and the military…
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Gundam Seed is one of the most beloved Gundam series of all time. Ever since it’s a success back in 2002 it has gained a big following especially in Japan where it was most successful. The series has been praised for amazing music, engaging plot twist as well telling an intriguing story where two close friends are in the opposite side of the battlefield fighting each other. While Gundam Seed Season 1 didn’t impress me all that much with its storytelling and characters it was still a fun watch despite being average. Once I was done with Gundam Seed I decided to check out the squeal called Gundam Seed Destiny. Now unlike the original series many people especially hardcore Gundam fans seemed to have a polarizing reaction of Seed Destiny where it’s very diverse. Camp A is the people who loved…
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In life, there are examples to follow and there are examples to avoid. Gundam Seed Destiny (GSD) is definitely an example of how not to produce an animated weekly television series.
The premise isn't bad in and of itself: What if, as the emo hero from series 1, you destroy the family of a completely innocent person and turn him into an anti-hero?
That's fine, that's well and good, but this is Gundam. Gundam regularly deals with things as big as diplomacy and intrigue between powerful alliances in addition to the personal stories of the individuals caught up in conflict involving giant robots. The problem with this show is, it didn't do a particularly good job of writing a large-scale conflict convincingly. Rather, it handed everyone but ZAFT The Stoopid Ball (TM) and they blundered into…
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First I want to say I’m torn between reviewing this objectively or subjectively. It’s a sequel to a reimaging, yet one of many alternative stories of the original. So here’s what I liked. i liked the fact there was action in nearly every episode, and that’s what i watched it for; hot mech on mech action. And it was gorgeous, though I watched the HD remaster. I liked the character progression in Athrun and I liked some of the songs.
My issues start with the amount of scenes used over and over and over again. How much screen time does the Impulse Gundam's transformation get? Every single action performed by a mobile suit is animated once and reused, over the span of 50 episodes it’s tiresome. Also all the characters come off as one dimensional, like their point of view of the plot is the onl…
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Mobile suit gundam seed destiny is the direct sequal to the (in my opinion) very good mobile suit gundam seed. The latter was about dynamic characters dealing racism, war, realizing things about themselves, and giant robots! Seed desinty is about ... characters... and giant robots!
STORY 4/10
The story is pretty damn bad if I say so myself. Theres not a whole lot to talk about without getting into spoilers, but I can give you a brief synopsis: everyone is happy that the war is over, so countries are enjoying peace. One day some bad stuff happens, people die, people get mad, Athrum gets laid and giant robots! I honestly don’t remeber the bulk of the story. Its not all bad, in fact I do remember some of the more competent, intesne, well-written scenes. One of my favorite things about OG se…
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Potentially one of the best turned to easily one of the worst; the best description for Gundam SHITTO Destiny.
*SPOILERS FOR MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED DESTINY! I WILL COVER THE HD REMASTER.*
It's not a secret that I'm not the biggest fan of SEED. Even still, there's no doubt that the SEED series as a whole could`ve been epic. Season 1 laid the foundation for an even more dramatic and depressing Gundam series to spring up, on the level of Zeta, in more ways than one. This quote represents this perfectly. SEED Destiny in particular also made itself an interesting template that, under the right hands, would`ve made one of the most critically acclaimed Gundam shows of the franchise. However, it failed on that massively (something the score on this review and the show`s MAL score can attest to)…
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The Gundam meta series is colossal in size, and the fanbase splits are arguably even bigger than the franchise itself. Get any two Gundam fans into a room, and you're bound to find some difference or another that would make a big enough difference.
You have fans of Universal Century, 00, Wing, G, Turn A, SEED and X, all of whom like something about their respective series/timelines that they feel other fans cannot see.
Most/almost all of the above fans, however, including fans of SEED, have a notorious reputation for particularly hating Destiny, which is rather surprising since Gundam fans are notorious for not really being able to agree on anything.
Why is this the case in such a fanbase?
Well, the story is incredibly unoriginal. Gundam storylines don't tend to have much in the origin…
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For the most part, I fine this series pretty good, contrary to most or the rest of the English-speaking anime community. Yes, I'm talking about people like WackyModder84 et al. To be honest, I think people like him have good points here and there, freedom of expression and all. It's just that I believe this series deserves more justice than what Western and non-Japanese fans are giving it.
Story: It's not perfect. In fact it's heavily flawed, especially towards the late middle and until the end. The fact that you need to watch SEED first to even understand some of the things going on here is already saying something about this series. But for all its flaws, it was pretty good. For one, I could understand what the creators and writers were going through, fan flak on one end and cancer on t…
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As the name suggests, Gundam Seed Destiny is a sequel to the popular Gundam Seed. Now Gundam Seed was the first Gundam series that I ever watched, so I was happy to find out that there was a sequel for it. Sadly, the sequel disappoints greatly with regards to the plot and characters.
Story: 4
The plot revolves an anti-coordinator group known as the Blue Cosmos/ Logos (Think KKK) that happen to be in charge of the Earth Alliance forces (Who thought that would be a good idea?). Due to a series of incidents that were caused by this group, the Earth Alliance ends up going to war with Zaft. At this point it's difficult to separate Seed and Destiny anymore since almost everything has been rehashed; Earth and Zaft go to war over certain incidents, there are 3 druggies who end up being competent…
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If you are planning to watch this series, watch the hd remaster instead.
II'm sure that you have heard from people how much they hated the series. But are they really looking deep into the story, or are they jsu watching it from the surface? One mistake people have always made when watching Destiny is especting this series to be like Zeta. Guess what, it's not Zeta. Be glad, because everyone have done enough complaining about Seed being like 0079, and we don't need more complaints about Destiny being too much like Zeta. One more fault is thinking the title is representing the main gundam of this series, and thinking that character would be the "main" focus, but that isn't so. Seed and Destiny are probably the only Gundam series where the title pretty much have nothing to do with the main c…
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RE-Editing my review on my old account - Enigma10
WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILER !
you have been warned .
Some people hate this , some people love this, but i'm in the middle , I can't love this like seed but I can't hate I it either.
Characters : Although most Gundam Seed fans seem to worship at the temple of Kira Yamamoto , I found myself hating him not only in GS but in gsd , there no character development with him he has no personality, in GS all he did was get stronger with more battle and whine ,and in gsd all he did was fight and sprout his idealistic crap . not sure if this is the right word for this but he very generic , super hero main character , he not relatable nor is he realistic . I mean who would date there best friend ex fiancée ? and why does a side character to magicall…
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Some people hate this , some people love this, but i'm in the middle , I can't love this like seed but I can't hate I it either.
What I love and hate !!!
Characters :Although most Gundam Seed fans seem to worship at the temple of Kira Yamamoto , I found myself hating him not only in GS but in gsd , there no character development with him , in GS all he did was get stronger with more battle and whine ,and in gsd all he did was fight and sprout his idealistic crap . not sure if this is the right word for this but he very generic , super hero main character , he not relatable nor is he realistic . I mean who would date there best friend ex fiancée ?
My favourite character is Athurn one of the redeeming features that save this anime , he realistic , relatable , he seem more human than kira…
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Even though some of the story line follows the 1st gundam seed i think this one was done way better because the characters seemed more mature in Seed destiny than the first one. Also it does complete the story better and i thought more action was involved in this one.
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i don't know why american people tend to hate destiny; in japan, this anime can be view as one of the most decent anime. The music is very epic; character really match with real life. I mean it makes sense that 16 years old student, who suddently becomes pilot has to whine alot after seen all these bloody and loss of lives. It s true that the series is nothing new adding to it; but the plot and appearance ain't bad. The reason people tend to hate it is because it is kinda repetitive to other gundam. This series tend to have more romance and lots way better mecha fight. if you like a mecha fight and lots of romancce, then this is the one for u.
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