9.4/1045 votesLoading...#1 - The Final Light
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 9/20/2003
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
9.3/1043 votesLoading...#2 - To an Endless Future
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 9/27/2003
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
9.2/1041 votesLoading...#3 - Flashing Blades
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/3/2003
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
9.1/1041 votesLoading...#4 - Into the Dawn Skies
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 7/12/2003
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
9.0/1039 votesLoading...#5 - What Stands in the Way
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 8/2/2003
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
8.9/1042 votesLoading...#6 - The Turning Point
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/26/2003
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
8.9/1042 votesLoading...#7 - The Descending Sword
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/7/2003
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
8.9/1038 votesLoading...#8 - In the Name of Justice
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/14/2003
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
8.9/1040 votesLoading...#9 - Decisive Fire
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/28/2003
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
8.9/1039 votesLoading...#10 - Athrun
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/5/2003
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
8.9/1040 votesLoading...#11 - Lacus Strikes
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 7/26/2003
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
8.9/1040 votesLoading...#12 - Spiral of Encounters
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 8/9/2003
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
8.9/1037 votesLoading...#13 - The Opening Door
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 8/16/2003
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
8.8/1039 votesLoading...#14 - Kira
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/19/2003
Kira and his friends are given the chance to meet with their parents who have taken refuge in Orb. Kira refuses to go, but his parents meet with Uzumi Nara Athha who hints there is a deeper connection between Kira and Cagalli. Kira instead completes the operating system for the Orb Union's MBF-M1 Astrays. When Kira's mechanical bird flies off, Kira finds himself standing face to face with Athrun. They part ways pretending not to know each other, but not without saying kind words about each other.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.8/1039 votesLoading...#15 - In the Promised Land
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/17/2003
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
8.8/1039 votesLoading...#16 - Day of Wrath
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 9/13/2003
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
8.7/1043 votesLoading...#17 - Stars Falling in Space
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/2002
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
8.7/1043 votesLoading...#18 - Beyond the Clouds of Sand
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/2003
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
8.7/1038 votesLoading...#19 - Seen and Unseen
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/31/2003
Flay, Mu, and Natarle are to be transferred off the Archangel. Mu suspects that something is not quite right as the Alaskan JOSH-A base is evacuated. Flay is captured by Rau Le Creuset. Lacus and her father entrust Kira with the ZGMF-X10A Freedom, equipped with Neutron Jammer Canceller technology.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.7/1038 votesLoading...#20 - Trembling World
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 7/19/2003
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
8.7/1039 votesLoading...#21 - The Nightmare Reborn
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 9/6/2003
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
8.6/1041 votesLoading...#22 - The Sea Dyed Red
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/2003
The Archangel crew crosses the Red Sea to head towards the neutral Orb Union with Cagalli and Ledonir Kisaka on board. With the previous battle weighing heavily on him, Kira talks to Cagalli about his reasons for fighting, making Flay jealous. They are attacked by ZAFT air and underwater type mobile suits, but Kira and Mu manage to take them out.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.6/1041 votesLoading...#23 - Fateful Encounter
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/2003
A battle with ZAFT submarine forces led by Commander Marco Morassim prevents Kira from fighting alongside Mu and Cagalli in their FX-550 Skygraspers. Cagalli's Skygrasper sustains damage and is forced to turn back, but she encounters Athrun's transport plane; her Skygrasper is shot down, but not before shooting down his transport plane, forcing Athrun in his Aegis to eject from the transport plane. By chance, they are both stranded on the same deserted island.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.6/1043 votesLoading...#24 - War for Two
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/2003
Cagalli is surprised to find Athrun on the same deserted island. She attacks him, but she is overpowered and captured. When everything settles down, the two discuss the war and the reason why they are fighting. At sunrise, they are rescued by their respective comrades.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.6/1040 votesLoading...#25 - Grieving Skies
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/10/2003
The crew of the Archangel grieve for the apparent deaths of Kira and Tolle. Cagalli searches the wreckage for Kira but instead finds Athrun and confronts him for killing Kira.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
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Top Episode Ratings Summary
"The Final Light" is the best rated episode of "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED". It scored 9.4/10 based on 45 votes. Directed by Mitsuo Fukuda and written by N/A, it aired on 9/20/2003. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "To an Endless Future".