Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Vol. 1 [DVD]

The first thing that struck me was the strange and interesting box for the series. It folds out flat and has slots for six DVD's. That's the weird part- this series is supposed to be 50 episodes long, with a 45 min OVA. How is that supposed to fit 6 DVD's and the first one only has five episodes on it? Anyways, the box is nice and sturdy and has great art work on the outside and on the inside.The CD was a bit of a disappointment, though the songs are great, it only has six of the ten or more openings and endings along with a good 5 or 6 insert songs.Now on to the episodes. The very first scene is one of the best opening scenes I've seen. Shin Asuka and his family are trying to evacuate the main island of Orb while a battle is going on around them. A shell from one of the flying mobile suits explodes on top of Shin's family. He survives because he gets back his sister's dropped cell phone. The scene definitly left an impression on me, in fact I was actually stunned for a moment (especially after seeing the results of the blast).This sets up some great action sequences as Shin ends up becoming a soldier and helps with Zaft's new top secret Gundams. After a couple of earth forces soldiers steals the new Gundams, Shin and a team of elite Zaft soldiers have to go after them. On top of that, Orb's princess, Cagalli Ula Atha and the Zaft chairman, Dullindal (the English dub pronounce it Durindal) end up in the crosshairs.The action is fierce and heavy along with some great dialogue in between, that makes gundam Seed Destiny look like its going to be a promising series. The voice actors are great, i especially like Lunameria's English VA, she gives the character some added spunk.I give the DVD 5 stars. The five episodes are almost nonstop action and has a super-speed pace that left my head spinning for a bit.The box is great design, yet only has six slots I hope they won't stop at episode 30... so the box gets 4 stars.The CD has great J-pop songs but only has 6 of the many that included in the soundtrack (Gundam Seed Destiny Greatest Hits. It gets 3 1/2 stars.Over all I thought that Bandai did a great job in producing the english version of GSD, but because the box is a little suspect and the CD does not have a great amount of songs on it the grade is 4 stars. Otherwise id give it a 5 star rating.

I came into the whole Gundam universe with the Gundam Wing Series. Personally, I'm a hugh fan of Gundam Seed and Seed Destiny and I'm looking forward to Gundam Seed Stargazer. I have both the Gundam seed series and well as the Zeta Gundam series so your the opinion of someone who has both. Personally I thought Zeta Gundam was good but I think Seed is a whole lot better. Unlike the previoue Gundam series, Seed makes most of the science in Gundam as well as a lot of the war aspects real. Zeta seems like it was more for kids than anything. Seed and Seed Destiny show what tends to really happen in a war and how people respond to it. Other Gundam series seem to have Gundam's with unlimited ammo and energy. At least seed shows you the reality of it. Also people complained that the series kept switching from main character to main character. Obviously the series main characters were Kira, Athrun and Shin. Even I noticed that. Focus was shifted to show what personal problems each one faced. When you look at each character in depth, Kira has a higher understanding and knows what must be none. Athrun tends towards following what he's told but then figuries things out. Shinn is basically a Kira with Athruns trait to follow. When you look at it, Kira's a brain, Athrun's strenght and Shinn is a gun. I don't think to bad mouthing people been giving SEED is fair. The only thing I agree with is that I do think they reused animation a bit too often. I noticed to reuse watching to show just one time. I hope then don't do this in Stargazer.

One of the better limited edition sets released by Bandai in their later years. It has an accordion design, and holds the first half of the series while the volume 7 limited edition holds the last half. It's definitely not the best show in the Gundam franchise, but the box looks great on the shelf.

Just getting into it, and like Wing a very complex story.

Bought as a gift and they loved it

Great condition. Really enjoyed the dvd.

Being new to the anime scene this was the first anime I ever bought, and I must say I am thoughoughly impressed. I've since bought volumes 2 and 3 and have plans to buy the rest, in increments. Great series! My only suggestion is, go buy the series Gundamn Seed first, as there are events that Destiny refers to that might confuse you if you had not seen the series before.

fast shipping!! great movie thank you

Die Serie ist cool, aber die Angabe ist falsch. Sie ist nicht auf Deutsch, sondern nur auf französisch, englisch und japanisch es gibt auch keinen deutschen Untertitel.