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The Best Episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1

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Cosmic Era 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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 49 - The Final Light
    9.4/10(60 votes)

    S1:E49

    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:Unknown

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  2. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 30 - Flashing Blades
    9.1/10(53 votes)

    S1:E30

    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:Unknown

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  3. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 40 - Into the Dawn Skies
    9.1/10(51 votes)

    S1:E40

    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:Unknown

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  4. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 35 - The Descending Sword
    9.0/10(52 votes)

    S1:E35

    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:Unknown

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  5. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 38 - Decisive Fire
    9.0/10(50 votes)

    S1:E38

    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:Unknown

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  6. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 43 - What Stands in the Way
    9.0/10(48 votes)

    S1:E43

    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:Unknown

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  7. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 44 - Spiral of Encounters
    9.0/10(50 votes)

    S1:E44

    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:Unknown

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  8. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 50 - To an Endless Future
    9.0/10(58 votes)

    S1:E50

    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:Unknown

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  9. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 29 - The Turning Point
    8.9/10(51 votes)

    S1:E29

    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:Unknown

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  10. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 36 - In the Name of Justice
    8.9/10(48 votes)

    S1:E36

    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:Unknown

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  11. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 39 - Athrun
    8.9/10(48 votes)

    S1:E39

    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
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  12. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 45 - The Opening Door
    8.9/10(47 votes)

    S1:E45

    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:Unknown

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  13. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 13 - Stars Falling in Space
    8.8/10(53 votes)

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown

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  14. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 21 - Beyond the Clouds of Sand
    8.8/10(51 votes)

    S1:E21

    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:Unknown

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  15. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 23 - Fateful Encounter
    8.8/10(49 votes)

    S1:E23

    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:Unknown

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  16. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 42 - Lacus Strikes
    8.8/10(49 votes)

    S1:E42

    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:Unknown

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  17. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 47 - The Nightmare Reborn
    8.8/10(49 votes)

    S1:E47

    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:Unknown

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  18. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 48 - Day of Wrath
    8.8/10(50 votes)

    S1:E48

    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:Unknown

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  19. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 22 - The Sea Dyed Red
    8.7/10(49 votes)

    S1:E22

    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:Unknown

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  20. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 28 - Kira
    8.7/10(49 votes)

    S1:E28

    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:Unknown

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  21. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 32 - In the Promised Land
    8.7/10(49 votes)

    S1:E32

    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:Unknown

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  22. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 34 - Seen and Unseen
    8.7/10(47 votes)

    S1:E34

    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:Unknown

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  23. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 37 - Divine Thunder
    8.7/10(49 votes)

    S1:E37

    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:Unknown

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  24. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 46 - A Place for the Soul
    8.7/10(49 votes)

    S1:E46

    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:Unknown

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  25. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Season 1 Episode 19 - Fangs of the Enemy
    8.6/10(50 votes)

    S1:E19

    Kira and Cagalli are sent into a nearby ZAFT controlled city to gather supplies with Natarle and the Desert Dawn. The two teenagers get caught in an attack by the Blue Cosmos, and when Kira saves a man who happens to be Andrew Waltfeld, they are invited to the ZAFT base. There, Andrew reveals that he knows Kira is the pilot of the Strike and a Coordinator, but lets them leave safely.

    Director:Mitsuo Fukuda
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Final Light" is the best rated episode of "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" season 1. It scored 9.4/10 based on 60 votes. Directed by Mitsuo Fukuda and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/20/2003. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Flashing Blades".