The Best Episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Every episode of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED!
Cosmic Era (C.E.) 71. Mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth, and Coordinators, genetically enhanced humans capable of withstanding the rigors of space who inhabit orbital colonies known as PLANTs. The story revolves around a young Coordinator named Kira Yamato, who becomes involved in the war between the two races after a neutral space colony secretly developing mobile suits for the Earth Alliance is attacked by the PLANTs' military force, ZAFT.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" is "The Final Light", rated 8.8/10 from 23 user votes. It was directed by Mitsuo Fukuda and written by N/A. "The Final Light" aired on 9/20/2003 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "To an Endless Future".
8.8/10 23 votes#1 - The Final Light
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 2003-09-20
GENESIS' second attack cripples the Earth Alliance's reinforcements and destroys their Ptolemaeus lunar base. The Three Ships Alliance save the PLANTs from the second wave of nukes. Mu fights Rau in the ZGMF-X13A Providence while Kira and Athrun fight the Forbidden, Raider, and Calamity. On the Dominion, Natarle becomes fed up with Muruta and orders the crew to escape. Muruta fires at the Archangel , but Mu sacrifices himself to protect them. In revenge, the Archangel fires and destroys the Dominion.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.7/10 23 votes#2 - To an Endless Future
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 2003-09-27
The Archangel, Eternal, and Kusanagi plunge into the battle, trying to keep both sides from using their weapons of mass destruction. Rau destroys Flay's escape shuttle, killing everyone on board. Flay's spirit visits the grief striken Kira to apoligizes and thanks him. Kira destroys the Providence with the Freedom, while Athrun remote-destructs the Justice to destroys GENESIS. With both the PLANTs and the Earth Alliance forces in disarray, the renegade moderate faction of the PLANTs seize the opportunity to call for a cease-fire, effectively ending the war.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 20 votes#3 - Flashing Blades
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 2003-05-03
The Zala Team make another effort to destroy the Archangel and the Strike. Dearka in the Buster is shot down by Mu and surrenders. Tolle attempts to aid Kira, but he is killed by Athrun. The grief Kira and Athrun suffer over their friends' death is enough for them to try to kill each other.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 19 votes#4 - Into the Dawn Skies
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 2003-07-12
The Earth Alliance attacks again, but the results are the same as the previous battle. The Archangel and the Orb ship Kusanagi launch into space, while the leaders of Orb stay behind. They explode Orb's mass driver and armaments factories, sacrificing their own lives in the process.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 19 votes#5 - What Stands in the Way
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 2003-08-02
The newly-formed Three Ships Alliance take shelter at the abandoned Mendel colony. Unfortunately, they are tracked down by both ZAFT and Earth Alliance forces. Rau Le Creuset commands the ZAFT fleet and Captain Natarle Badgiruel, commands the Earth Alliance assault ship Dominion. Dominion takes the initiative and attacks with the mission of capturing either the Freedom or Justice.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 19 votes#6 - The Nightmare Reborn
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 2003-09-06
Equipped with Neutron Jammer Cancellers, the Earth Alliance forces launch an all-out attack on the PLANTs. The Boaz military asteroid is destroyed by nuclear weapons with Earth Alliance's next target being the PLANTs. The Freedom and Justice arrive at the battlefield in time to destroy all the nuclear warheads. In retaliation, Patrick Zala orders to fire the GENESIS.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 20 votes#7 - Spiral of Encounters
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 2003-08-09
The Dominion retreats so their pilots can get their medicine. Mu and Dearka enter the Mendel colony to confront Rau and Yzak. Kira comes to their aid and he and Mu are shocked to discover Rau has a few secrets to reveal.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 20 votes#8 - A Place for the Soul
Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 2003-08-30
Flay, who was held captive by Rau, is rescued by the Dominion despite Kira's desperate attempts to steal her lifepod. She gives Muruta Azrael the disk she was given by Rau which contains the specs on the Freedom and Justice and the Neutron Jammer Canceller technology.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 21 votes#9 - The Turning Point
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 2003-04-26
The Archangel, without Cagalli and Ledonir on board, leaves Orb territory for Alaska. The Zala Team, who is patiently waiting, engages them in a battle. Kira grounds the Duel, Buster, and Blitz with the help of Mu and Tolle, who is now the second Skygrasper pilot. As Kira and Athrun fight, Nicol intervenes, but he steps into Kira's fatal attack.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 19 votes#10 - Divine Thunder
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 2003-06-21
Kira and the Archangel make their way to Orb, where Lord Uzumi welcomes them and asks that they decide for themselves why they are fighting. The Panama mass driver is destroyed by ZAFT in retaliation for the blow they took at Alaska. Meanwhile, Erica Simmons presents a reconstructed Strike for the Archangel crew's use.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 18 votes#11 - Trembling World
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 2003-07-19
Cagalli, though grief striken with her father's death, confronts Kira with a mysterious photograph given to her by Lord Uzumi, of a woman with two infants and Kira and Cagalli's names written on the back. On a PLANT, Lacus is still on the run for treason, but broadcasts messages to counter PLANT Supreme Council Chairman Patrick Zala's propaganda. She soon discovers that her father has been assassinated by Patrick Zala.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 18 votes#12 - Lacus Strikes
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 2003-07-26
Athrun returns to the PLANTs on a shuttle to speak to his father, but he is arrested. Lacus and (the presumed killed in action) Andrew Waltfeld join forces, stealing the ZAFT support ship Eternal and rescuing Athrun. They join forces with the Archangel and the Kusanagi thus forming the Three Ships Alliance.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 21 votes#13 - The Descending Sword
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 2003-06-07
Operation Spitbreak is initiated, with both ZAFT and the Earth Alliance believing they have outsmarted the other. The Archangel is left behind to be destroyed in a calculated plan that would decimate everyone on the battlefield, until Kira arrives to save them.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 19 votes#14 - Decisive Fire
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 2003-06-28
To get a hold of Orb's mass driver, the Earth Alliance demands Orb to concede with them or be attacked for siding with ZAFT. Murrue decides the Archangel will support Orb and its crew members are discharged if they no longer wish to fight. Muruta Azrael, leader of Blue Cosmos, attacks Orb with three new mobile suits, the Forbidden, Raider, and Calamity. When Kira starts to have trouble with them, Athrun in the Justice arrives to help.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 18 votes#15 - Athrun
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 2003-07-05
Athrun in the Justice assists Kira fight against the Forbidden, Raider, and Calamity. As the fight continues, the three Earth Alliance pilots argue with one another, but they are interrupted when they are struck by intense pain. The Earth Alliance are forced to retreat and regroup. The two friends reunite and Athrun must make a decision regarding whether he should continue obeying his father's orders or fight for what he believes in.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 17 votes#16 - The Opening Door
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 2003-08-16
Kira and Mu face terrifying revelations in an encounter with Rau. Dearka and Yzak have their own meeting where they question what they are truly fighting against. Meanwhile, the Dominion and the Earth Alliance once again attacks. Rau returns to his ship and sends Flay back to the Earth Forces.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 28 votes#17 - Collapsing Land
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2002-10-19
Lt. Murrue Ramius takes over as captain of the Archangel and Kira and his friends are detained for seeing top secret military weapons. Rau Le Creuset is determined to capture the Strike after seeing how well it moved and sends out mobile suits to retrieve it. Disobeying orders, Athrun also dispatches so he could confirm if Kira is the one piloting the Strike, but when he finds his answer, Heliopolis crumbles as it sustains too much damage.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 19 votes#18 - Day of Wrath
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 2003-09-13
The GENESIS, a huge gamma-ray laser wipes out a large portion of Earth Alliance's forces. The Earth Alliance forces are forced to withdraw temporarily to regroup. During the intermission, each of the couples on board the Archangel, Kusanagi, and Eternal prays of each others safety in the upcoming battle.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 33 votes#19 - False Peace
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2002-10-05
The Orb Union space colony, Heliopolis, is attacked by ZAFT, despite its neutrality since the beginning of the Bloody Valentine War. Kira Yamato accidentally sees the Earth Alliance's new prototype mobile suits, which have been secretly constructed at the Heliopolis Morgenroete factory. He encounters his childhood friend, Athrun Zala, now a ZAFT soldier as one of the attackers.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 19 votes#20 - In the Promised Land
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 2003-05-17
The Archangel finally arrives in Alaska. A grief-stricken Miriallia attacks Dearka, now a prisoner on board the Archangel, but ends up saving his life when Flay tries to shoot him. Kira awakes and finds himself in the care of Lacus.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 18 votes#21 - In the Name of Justice
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 2003-06-14
Lacus, now denounced a traitor to the PLANTs for handing the Freedom over to an unknown pilot, confronts Athrun and challenges him to decide what he truly is fighting for. Athrun is ordered to pilot the ZGMF-X09A Justice to seek and destroy the Freedom.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 22 votes#22 - Stars Falling in Space
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2002-12-28
Le Creuset attacks once again as the Archangel and the 8th Fleet approaches Earth. The Archangel is able to descend to Earth, but not without the loss of the entire 8th Fleet. Yzak Joule, the pilot of the Duel, vents his frustration by destroying a spacecraft carrying Heliopolis refugees that Kira had rescued previously.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 21 votes#23 - Cagalli Returns
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2003-01-25
Murrue Ramius thanks the resistance group for their help and agrees to be allies. The resistance group introduces themselves as the Desert Dawn who are fighting Andrew and the Lesseps. Kira once again meets with Cagalli Yula Athha, the mysterious young woman he first encountered at Heliopolis' Morgenroete factory, who is now part of Desert Dawn. Meanwhile, Andrew attacks the Desert Dawn's hometown, but evacuates the town first.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 21 votes#24 - Beyond the Clouds of Sand
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2003-02-22
A battle between the Lesseps and the Desert Dawn commences. Kira and the Desert Tiger fight a battle where they realize the pain of having an enemy who is not an abstraction. With the Strike's power almost depleted, Kira has no choice but to destroy Andrew's TMF/A-803 LaGOWE or die himself.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 18 votes#25 - Gathering Darkness
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 2003-05-24
The crew of the Archangel find themselves questioned for their actions regarding their escape from Heliopolis, the fall of the 8th Fleet, and entrusting the Strike to Kira Yamato. Meanwhile, Lacus comforts Kira, who questions his right to live, especially after trying to kill Athrun.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A