Gundam Seed (2002) & Gundam Seed Destiny (2004), both span 50 episodes each, making a total of 100 episodes. In the near space of the earth lies the PLANTs, which are colonies built by humans to live in space. As the Earth; PLANT has its own military, called ZAFT. The anime starts with the Earth Alliance forces & ZAFT being in war, this is an aspect of the storyline through the whole series.

Coordinators are the new type of humans, it's a human made with technology which allows advanced gene & DNA customization. Coordinators have higher knowledge, better understanding & are stronger than regular humans, neither can they get infected with deadly diseases. Coordinators make up most of the population in the PLANTs, being not accepted on the Earth, in which Blue Cosmos (an anti-Coordinator group) pulls the strings of the war.

Athrun (left) & Kira (right) are both coordinators, being friends since childhood they had to go separate paths. Athrun joins the ZAFT forces, while Kira somehow get into the Earth Alliance force. Causing the close friends to battle each other and question their beliefs.

Both Kira & Athrun are Mobile Suit pilots, the trademark of the Gundam animes. Giant robots battling each other. The anime has a huge crew of characters, subcharacters and different kinds of mobile suits. Philosophical questions regarding war and racism is being questioned again & again in the anime. it will have some effect on you, how you see the world and how you should treat it.

If you could only watch one show on the TV in your whole life, Gundam Seed is one of the better choice, because this is an insanely good anime and should make anyone understand why Gundam has such a popularity.