What Happened in Gundam SEED Destiny? - The Full Series Explained

[@GundamHQ]

Join the Discord: discord.gg/zVWWJ6E Its finally done - this was a beast to put together in more ways than one. What should I do next?

[@pattouco]

Gundam OO please

[@jba8472]

Wing or G, please

[@Emiliodelgado25]

@@jba8472 I hope it’s G cause I just started re-watching that Gundam show a few months ago but in the Japanese version

[@rafaelcastillo8573]

Thank you. We appreciate it

[@the1ofus]

iron bloodedorphans

[@sdfqkf]

i totally forgot about that part where luna falls for shinn after he "kills" her love interest and sister, actually peak comedy. amazing recap, thank you for putting this together!

[@sanicthesledgedog9336]

Luna into some weird stuff

[@Ruki-gq5bc]

In the Drama CD, even Meyrin was like "What the heck?!" at first and said, "You're dating the guy who shot down Athrun and me?!" And for some reason, she started using it as a joke in conversations

[@kurosan0079]

​@@Ruki-gq5bcWow. She took it pretty well, all things considered.

[@wingdragonzero]

Boy take note line 😂😂😂😂😂

[@masashiisan]

😂 reminds me of flay blaming kira of the death of her father girl supposed to use and hate kira to go against his kind yet had sex and falls in love with him 😂 i think it's a red haired girl thing? HAHAHA

[@Tokisaki8815]

This, and seed freedom, really solidifies Athrun as the goat most forgiving mass murderer of the series

[@GundamHQ]

I fear for my life every time he's on screen

[@nadelcnu]

And he just gets better in Seed Freedom

[@alcatrazvongola]

Athrun is the real MVP.

[@praneilramdin6701]

Also horny 😂❤

[@RedFireYGODL]

And the funniest part he's also a man of culture and the movie proves that😂

[@deadair101101]

Alex Dino is the real main character of Destiny.

[@gridman887]

Just watched SEED Freedom and it just solidified my love and adoration for gundam SEED idc what anyone says

[@kurosan0079]

It's a lot more campy than other shows, but I think that's part of what makes people like it (or dislike it). It's not my favorite, personally. But I get the charm.

[@DesX42S]

SEED and SEED Destiny solidified my love of Gundam as a kid. I’ll never not love them.

[@OcGuy1]

Earth Alliance when there's slight inconvenience: all out nuclear retaliation

[@20Meister]

Seed Freedom solidify Athrun's loyalty to Cagali besides getting dragged by 3 women in Destiny. LOL

[@Skroopy]

I've only just discovered you, but I gotta say you put out some of the most well edited gundam videos on youtube. Thanks for doing the recap, I can't wait to watch Freedom after this :)

[@GundamHQ]

I really appreciate that - can be really time consuming but if people can notice the effort it's worth it

[@Jerv165]

Honestly, what went through Shinn's mind when he thought a kicking contest versus the justice was a good idea? The thing has beams everywhere

[@rockinstampede]

12:15 I laughed way too hard hearing The Rugrats theme song to perfectly sum up Shinn’s situation to Athrun risking his ass for him.

[@alcatrazvongola]

This reminded me of how many factions they had in Destiny. They really loved to mess with acronyms.

[@androyus]

Destiny's number of factions is child's play compared to *G-Reco* (which is not exactly a good thing for G-Reco 😅).

[@masao3582]

30:15 "and it's up to Luna Maria to shoot him down!"🗣️🗣️ "GOT AWAY"

[@kokylee8098]

Stormtroopers in a nutshell

[@xiLABNA]

Man, your recap of SEED and SEED Destiny were insane, absolutely amazing, you reminded me of how amazing these shows are. Your 2 videos were so good and funny I had to rewatch them twice! I love your style of retelling the story and I love how you emphasized certain things in the story, like how you painted Athrun as a Murdering psychopath as a joke, it was absolutely hilarious and made Athrun seem much more badass than he already was! Your commentating skills are very good, you were very entertaining to listen to and very funny! Please man, please, do more recaps like this for other Gundam shows. I would love to watch a recap you make of a Gundam show that I never even watched.

[@bacd-nn2lg]

The main reason why foundation is so strong was stealing ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam six months prior to the events of the Gundam Seed Freedom movie. If you watch Gundam Seed Destiny then you know that both ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam, and ZGMF-X19A Infinite Justice Gundam were the strongest mobile suits from Second Alliance-PLANT War. Ps. The soundtrack is really badass in both Gundam Seed, and Destiny anime show.

[@PrnsMinevaZabi]

Of course Heine is so beautiful HE IS VOICED BY ONE OF THE SEXIEST J POP ARTISTS EVER Takanori Nishikawa aka T.M. Revolution!!!!!

[@DestinyZX1]

How meta. The same guy that did Ignited and Invoke actually voiced a character.

[@sanicthesledgedog9336]

​@@DestinyZX1he was Miguel too

[@HAVOCprojects]

And Sunrise unfortunately couldn't afford to have Nishikawa for the entirety of both shows, which resulted on both his characters being killed off only partway through. Fans have also speculated that Shiho (one of Yzak's team members) could've suffered the same fate had Nami Tamaki become her VA.

[@Joshua_N-A]

No wonder GSD got so many recycled footage! That's where the budget went!

[@JA-Sol-]

Shinn Asuka's entire vocal : ‼️‼️⁉️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@Tyrarl]

uuWWWAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHH! D:

[@ssbac98]

LOL

[@Tokisaki8815]

I just finished watching the SEED recap and then this pops up, nice

[@iemzaf]

Not a subber so I have to admit I was actually apprehensive about clicking this video, thinking it was another hate/whine video about my favourite Gundam series. After enduring 20 years of hate, it's become second nature now. But then I just said "eh eff it", and it turns out this video is probably the best recap vid on the series I've seen, reserving jokes for only the most ridiculous parts that even I poke fun at (everything Lunamaria lol). Now I'm sharing it with my friends who haven't watched FREEDOM yet but are interested. I've always loved SEED/Destiny as a series, and FREEDOM just solidifies that I'll always love it regardless of all the hate and misinformation westerners spew about it. So thanks for this. At least there's one great video that objectively recaps Destiny without bias.

[@GundamHQ]

I know the feeling. These shows were the first I ever saw of Gundam. I have one for SEED too + the Freedom prequel if you haven't seen that yet.

[@freddekl1102]

"After enduring 20 years of hate" if someone is bashing a tv show with "hate" and without any constructive and meaningful things to say, why would you care or watch/listen to sth like this ...this however isn't a case for Seed and GSD, especially GSD, any video on it pretty much deconstructs how those are conceptually flawed if not braindead series and I'm low-key surprised that you admit this being a prevailing opinion and not noticing that maybe, just maybe, everyone else aside from you is onto something

[@iemzaf]

@@freddekl1102 So what? I love the series regardless of all the hate, warranted or not. Who are you to tell me what I like is wrong or not

[@Fomfom4u]

Although Shinn's not win the war, but he's got Luna as his girlfriend, At least. (Both Series and Real Life)

[@UMIF001]

I really like the global conflict in the Seed series not gonna lie

[@Voidwalker903]

They really gotta start locking or securing these gundams better😅

[@rafaelcastillo8573]

This is crazy and i mean crazy. I saw your gundam seed recap last night and i couldn't find a gundam seed freedom recap. Thinking dang i wanna see your seed destiny recap before i watch the movie. Literally just over 4 hours ago. Haha. Now i just woke up and this video is here. Most awesome

[@GundamHQ]

Great timing lol, hope it helps

[@FN-170]

27:20 😂 actually the akatsuki was in research and development hell for most of ce71 - ce73 and only just finished testing during the second orb war. The anti beam coating "yata no kagami" was notorious for being impossibly difficult to apply + maintain as well as having being so expensive that it requires the same money to make 20+ astray on orbs military budget lol 32:25 the reason cagalli stays behind was because her va left mid production. This was at the height of seed behind the scene production scandal.

[@DestinyZX1]

Go figure.

[@MegamanNG]

Yep. SEED Destiny had a lot of production issues. Hell it was so bad that they had to make a revised version of the ending aka Final Plus: The Chosen Future. Man what a mess.

[@SONICX1027]

If you paid attention, you could see some Easter Eggs of Cyber Formula. Sunrise’s other series that most don’t know about

[@ShadowR89]

Cut comparisons between original version of Gundam Seed and HD remaster.

[@CrimRui]

After watching Freedom movie, I like the series even more.

[@spuppet4582]

Heine's gundam must've been poorly maintain because there wasn't any alarm going off to convey enemies behind him.. Edit: Luna: you killed my sister?... that is so hot.

[@kyoyaizayoi]

As soon as I heard the "Crack Shot" Lunamaria, I knew I was in for hilarity Everytime she tried.

[@ju5t1ce33]

Seed Destiny is what reinvigorated my love of Gundam. I bought every DVD until I had the full series. This show got me through a lot of tough times during Middle School. I loved it… until Kira (Jesus) Yamato returned, messed everything up, got Heine killed, and killed Stella. I was so happy when Kira was defeated by Shinn, but then Jesus tier plot armor happens and he cheats death… AGAIN! But then he redeems himself when Chairman D, Shinn, and Rey lost their collective minds. He once again brought balance to the force lol. Destiny gets a lot of criticism (mostly because of Shinn I think), but I loved it. Thank you for making this video!

[@GlassesLeadTheWay]

Fun Fact: Durandal already knew about Destroy Gundam, Heaven's Base super weapon and Requiem and The Logos early on the series.

[@ivanlorenzovisande2492]

The "open season" got me crackin

[@Joshua_N-A]

As a kid, I watched because of interest but watching it as an adult, no wonder there are a lot of fanfictions of fixing GSD. Man, Cosmic Era had that potential, A MOUNTAIN OF IT. I see new characters with potential but it's a wishful thinking to see them reach their full potential. Lunamaria can only be accurate IF THE PLOT WANTS TO! Sad, as she's my favourite redhead waifu. Competent female MS pilots only exist in the 1980's I guess. Cagalli in GSD felt like a different person, now that Naomi Shindou no longer reprise that role forever, perhaps that the fallout was beyond repair. Meyrin reminds of Flay with her hair down and that hair colour. The Saviour is the true wasted potential of a mobile suit so is the other original CE designs. Those UC designs look out of place even if it's to celebrate 25th anniversary of Gundam. About the pacifist thing, it's as if as they try to make Kira a Kenshin. Funny how my rewatch of SEED count is higher than Destiny though, I have more comfort in watching SEED all the way through than Destiny. I'm waiting for Stargazer.

[@kevinriles5176]

Athrun got that dawg in him😤😤

[@rayshinsan]

Lol i love your recap. Arthun the mass murderer... Wait wouldnt that be Shinn given all the deaths of civilians caused due to his actions?

[@chrisidore023]

Why watching this recap makes the Destiny series not bad at all compared to when we first watched it? Possibly the series phasing was chaotic that time so it was not explained well. Again, another great recap. More power to this channel.

[@muhammadaffry2123]

Despite most hated series, I love Seed Destiny. The anime, ps 2 game and ost are memorable to me.

[@kokylee8098]

16:05 subscribe buttons are lethal?

[@GundamHQ]

Always have been 🔫

[@garrettmastantuono8043]

Am I the only one who noticed the extremely satisfied look Waltfeld had on his face when he was finally able to use his gun arm. Makes me laugh every time.

[@SWW1987]

Another great job. This was a perfect follow up to your seed recap and I would recommend both of these too my friends who need a tldr before watching SEED Freedom

[@kennethmana3103]

Maybe athrun is the real ultimate coordinator 😂😂😂😂

[@GundamHQ]

Thanks, Destiny can be so convoluted so this was such a pain lol

[@wingdragonzero]

😂😂 best video ever luna cant shoot for shit😂😂😂😂

[@xenogeekmotion7686]

Please do Iron Blooded orphan next, or anytime

[@mrrizkhan3000]

great recap, now i'm booting up my ps2 to play shadow the hedgehog

[@jasingyang4944]

This channel needs more Gundam Recaps! Love this video style

[@setsunaquanta8795]

40:32 and that's the beginning of COMPASS

[@wezkerlim]

destiny plan....all cuz durandal wasn't able to be with talia cuz he's infertile...so he wanted the world to follow him living based on his destiny, & probably why talia decided to commit suicide in the end.

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

And leave her child behind. She's the worst mom of all gundam mom 😂

[@wezkerlim]

@@trollinoakenshield9822 you're not understanding the character...she felt guilty & responsible of Durandal turning out that way.

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

@@wezkerlim so if it you, you chose your lover over your own child? Dang.. worst parent man

[@wezkerlim]

@@trollinoakenshield9822 no...but the point here in the plot isn't to show she did the "right" choice, but rather a choice influenced by guilt. humans are complex.

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

@@wezkerlim yeah.. actually durandal already concocting destiny plan way before he met the worst mom.

[@MiguelCuevas-m2y]

Can you please do this for EVERY other gundam series/movies/ovas? I love listening to them and i like the comedic dialogue and edits. If not, its still fine, but i hope you do this for a few more gundam media pieces. Thanks!

[@xtexasxfightx]

Sure, the show has its issues, but I enjoyed it.

[@Keryaken133]

"Athrun, lets do a trade, you give me your fiance which i have a crush on, and i give you my badass short hair blonde tomboy twin sister".

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

Kira always drawn to manipulative B

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

Gundam is full of bad parent, but talia chose to die with her lover n a mental clone over living for her son is the peak of gundam bad parent 😂

[@khadz1705]

I guess she finally realised that she didn't want a child more than she wanted Durandal. It kinda makes her look bad because she originally broke up with Durandal because she desired a child. In the she always selfishly follows her desires at the cost of people. She is partly responsible for turning Durandal into an extremist then she's responsible for causing her son to feel abandoned.

[@androyus]

Worst Gundam-mother ever.

[@carlosfromearth]

Honestly, your Sonic music choices were impeccable!! You did an absolutely fantastic job!! Also, I love Gundam Seed Destiny and you did it justice!!

[@WestbrickFansGotNoBrains]

damn they really close the potential for another season with the peak engineering. Shinn changed from a brainless bipolar kid to a kid with kira daddy issues forwards the man that made him orphan.

[@khadz1705]

He's always been puppy like towards his superiors and Kira had higher military rank than him in GSF. However, based on an interview with Fukuda, Fukuda said that Shinn felt dependent towards Athrun. We don't actually see it because Athrun has barely 10 mins screentime in the movie.

[@androyus]

"The man who made him orphan" Kira/Freedom actually defended ORB from Orga/Calamity in that scene. Without Kira/Freedom, Shinn would've died along with his family.

[@crimsondeception]

Huh, Murrue never visited that son did she.... at least not that I remember in Seed Freedom...

[@androyus]

Murrue was probably confused about what she will say to Talia's son. I mean, saying "Sorry kid, your Mom would rather die with her former boyfriend than continue living as your mother." to him would be a sick burn 😅

[@NemesisSP]

@@androyus Except no one but Talia and Durandal knew they were formerly a couple. They have a one night stand and doesn't seem like anybody. Murrue certainly doesn't. We the audience know, but that doesn't mean the characters know. I know you're intending to make a joke, but it just doesn't make sense because Murrue would have no way of knowing Talia was formerly Durandal's lover.

[@pauljordan0203]

if you guys want my opinion, Chairman Durandal doesn't get to decide the fate, or destiny, of humanity on a whim, we get to make our own choices, not by some chairman's delusional pot dream.

[@setsunaquanta8795]

Speaking of, does C.E.73 Stargazer story was actually before Second Bloody Valentine War started?

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

Only first ova, the other 2 were during and after seed destiny ended

[@setsunaquanta8795]

@@trollinoakenshield9822 I know that, but do you think Stargazer exists according to CE Timeline?

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

@@setsunaquanta8795 yeah, cuz in the 2nd ova, the MC are escorting stella n destroy gundam.

[@novemberbravo6194]

These videos are phenomenal! I'd love to see you do the same for the UC/other standalone Gundam properties! Thanks so much for taking the time to put these together; they're beyond helpful for folks like me who missed SEED when they were kids and now, as you posit, don't have time to catch up.

[@TrojanLloydPer]

Kira's Plot armor is so thick if Mikazuki Augus is alive in that era he could have been given hima huge kick in the gonads

[@anwenlokier2292]

In my school vr game Shin played a major role in the game and has a very kind moment from Goalius (Goalius was protecting a converted so he made a deal that if any converted is found by ZAFT don't kill them but only knock them out so the people of Goalius hometown could actually reverse the process which during so Goalius stated that if they did he will revive Shin girlfriend which Shin had a flashback to it and him in the destiny Gundam were feeling emotional so Goalius hugged him)

[@SemutHitam22-q5i]

Thank you for the recap. I’ve rewatched this seed/seed destiny series more than 20 times over the 20 years (from age 12 until 32), your recap doesn’t missed out any single details. Goodjob 🎉

[@Milez1337]

highly competent recap, but there's also a lot of context that can't be included in a 40 minute video, so i'd say watching destiny for the full experience is still recommended destiny is best experienced blind imo

[@CrypticSquid1]

If you're not blind at the start, you sure will be by the end!

[@billySEEDDecade]

I think it's either the manga or novel that said Rey was talking about Shinn when he was crying about tomorrow.

[@RayMKV]

Thank you for putting this together!

[@toawing]

I seriously wonder what went through the writers minds with Kira surviving. I personally think he's just been cloned

[@DesX42S]

I just want to point out that the massive blast during the Freedom vs Impulse fight is intended to be from the Minerva’s positron beam cannon not from the Freedom blowing up. A lot of fans read that scene wrong, and I don’t blame them. It’s really unclear, even after the HD version tried to make it more clear.

[@brianwalsh1339]

God, I fucking these shows. Why is Lowe Guele the only likable protagonist in the entirety of the cosmic era? Oh that’s right, it’s because he’s not a whiny, pretentious dork.

[@wensan9923]

Love your Full Series Explained videos, I hope you can make more of it from all the previous series for both the animated and mangga ones like the Team Titans and Astray.

[@JgarnO1]

Poor Shinn. Had his character arc mutilated and his show stolen. Gonna go see FREEDOM this weekend and hope he gets some small justice.

[@billl.2441]

The sword impulse is by far the coolest gundam ever. The first time I saw it 😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@joshuagenna3635]

"What will you do when the world is thrown into chaos without the destiny plan?" Gundam Seed Freedom: Exists

[@zeroskillz90]

This summary and the last one made me realize that Athrun was a fucking menace.

[@darkwolf5869]

And Seed Freedom just hammers the statement home

[@zeroskillz90]

@@darkwolf5869 *Eagle noises and hitmarkers intesifies*

[@ZephyrosPhoenix]

I love that you used the "Sonic Appears" score from Sonic 06 XD

[@bry1188]

thanks for: saving us hours of time + meme + that small hit mark

[@anthonygaleano4666]

Awesome I did forget stuff lol. Pls do stargazer next time!!!! Pls and thank you

[@JapanFreak2595]

Sir you have my respect for all the Sonic music you put into these. Just makes all the stupidly cool moments even cooler.

[@stormeagle]

holy fuck , aside from some cool set pieces, i'm reminded how flat some of this characters are being absolutely shoe horned into generic archetype and the majority plot-line being absolutely comical. not to mentioned the characters switching side at the slightest breeze😂

[@mackyme001]

Gundam Series is so confusing

[@GundamHQ]

Definitely. Hopefully this series helps straighten that out for you

[@Neme5i5snanke001]

You know after watching the series so long ago and watching this plot synopsis seed destiny despite many of its flaws doesn't seem all that bad anymore,

[@chrisidore023]

Lmao, either LunaMaria needs an eye therapy or eyeglasses. How come that girl even passed the shooting training?

[@SingNa1]

10:20 Waltfeld did not regrow his arm, it was his prosthetic 🤣

[@cmp6291]

Heine's death looks so forced. he just accidentally got in the way

[@spectator6233]

Very nice recap video, I enjoyed it even if I watched destiny at least 4-5times. Looking forward to your other seed videos

[@TheDragonfly256]

I dont care, the introduction of Strike freedom is the best one, however its only as epic as it should be in original tv version, remaster for ungodly reason changed music when strike freedom is introduced. When you watch remaster I FULLY advice to watch at least that scene in original 39 episode.

[@StephenRogue]

Wow Shin is one annoying ass character glad i didnt watch this. He reminds me of gung ho American cops

[@NevG27]

28:40 feels like I'm wearing nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all

[@danielsgames8810]

For some reason, Sonic Soundtrack works well with gundam

[@lilbladeknight]

Mass Murderer Athrun and Jesus Kira Yamato. damn those are some crazy monikers

[@Emiliodelgado25]

Good recap, and I love the sonic game soundtracks perfecto

[@kanerobinson5264]

Thanks for all the hard work on the video man it doesnt go unnoticed 🙏🏽❤️

[@kurosan0079]

These SEED recaps are great! I love the bits where you point out the silliness of these shows sometimes. Idk if you're gonna make recaps for other Gundam shows, but if you do make them, I' sure they'll be great too.

[@bl9596]

Your full recap videos were amazing. I hope you bring more out like these in the future.

[@fryanne9750]

Nicol is only 15 and likes his piano

[@ljcool17]

Wait till they face the most dangerous pacifist

[@AbsoluteZeroGravity]

I don't get the hate SEED and Destiny got from westerners(yeah I'm talk about all of you Wingtard). Yeah it have some flaws but the characters and MS are very memorable and cool. it also have one the best gundam Char's clone(literally).

[@trollinoakenshield9822]

Pretty much no suspense. destiny n movie have the weakest antagonist of all gundam show. Even gym gingham who have zero combat experience is much more threatening than those 2 wimp. Also kira keep getting innocent people killed due to his stupid believe is tiring.

[@GerudoRamirez]

Really love the breakdown, your video came in clutch! You really like Sonic 06 don’t you? 😂 EDIT: picked up some sonic adventure 2 also 👍

[@GundamHQ]

@GerudoRamirez I don't think I used any Adventure tracks this time, but definitely 06, Unleashed, Shadow and Frontiers and more. They're good songs and SEGA never claims any of their songs on KZbin so they're a perfect fit

[@ShinnDestiny]

The ORB echo's really amazing🤣

[@serenity3157]

Seeing Zakus dominating Gundams is a chef kiss

[@wildarivera6800]

Freaking Lunamaria! 😂😂💀💀

[@zlee001]

Is this.... secretly star wars?

[@Sk3Let0r89]

Bad writing, that’s what happens

[@KuroninjaWatzu]

You got me, I subscribed

[@the1ofus]

this video was so much more fun to watch than the actual show