For a limited time, starting on December 15, 2023, the official Gundam Info YouTube channel will offer free streaming of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny HD Remastered. This announcement commemorates the scheduled January 26, 2024, screening of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom film.
The announcement of the HD Remaster of Gundam SEED Destiny came shortly after the conclusion of the HD Remastered Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. In March of 2013, the HD Remaster started to air. Similar to Gundam SEED's HD Remaster, this series' remaster adds new mobile suits and changes lines and sequences from the original in addition to enhancing the animation. The remaster consisted of fifty episodes. The final episode of the HD Remaster was split into two parts, "Final Power" and "The Chosen Future," which was based on the television special "The Chosen Future" and featured extra footage. The recap episode "Refrain" was completely removed.
Both the original video animation and the final compilation feature extended the series' ending. The Earth Alliance, ZAFT, and the Orb Union convene shortly after Durandal's passing to negotiate an end to the conflict, with Lacus Clyne serving as the mediator. Kira and Shinn meet in person for the second time after fighting repeatedly in their mobile suits and make a commitment to work together for a brighter future.
Plot
Two years after the events of the first series, Gundam SEED Destiny picks up with Cagalli Yula Athha, the head of Orb, meeting again with Gilbert Durandal, the chairman of the PLANTs Supreme Council, to talk about building new mobile suits for the military group ZAFT. A group known as Phantom Pain, which is under the command of the terrorist group Blue Cosmos, takes three of them. Athrun Zala, Cagalli's bodyguard, teams up with Shinn Asuka, ZAFT pilot, to stop them. The battleship Minerva of ZAFT is given the mission to demolish a space colony's remnants during the conflict in order to keep it from colliding with Earth. They learn that the colony is being controlled by rogue ZAFT warriors with the intention of crashing it into Earth.
Once word spreads that ZAFT soldiers were responsible for the colony colliding with Earth, a second conflict breaks out between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT, after the first attempt to destroy it fully fails. Orb, a neutral nation, is an ally of the Earth Alliance; it has also joined Blue Cosmos. As a result, Athrun returns to battle the ZAFT forces multiple times with the three factions.
Subsequently in the war, the Archangel battleship gets involved in combat between the Earth Alliance side and ZAFT. When Cagalli, who is allied with the Archangel, is unable to stop her nation from warring, the Archangel steps in to mediate. After Gilbert Durandal declares his buddy Kira Yamato and the Archangel to be adversaries and commands their annihilation, Athrun feels disillusioned. When Durandal accuses him of betraying his country, he defected with Meyrin Hawke. When Cagalli overthrows Orb as leader, the Blue Cosmos' members take to space in retreat. Lord Djibril, the commander of Blue Cosmos, orders the use of the super weapon Requiem, which destroys multiple PLANT space colonies and kills countless people.
Lord Djibril is killed by the Minerva crew, who also manage to seize the Requiem. Next, Gilbert Durandal uses the Requiem to destroy anyone who opposes him and unveils the "Destiny Plan," in which a person's career or work will be determined by their genetic makeup. This puts Shinn and the Minerva's crew in direct opposition to the Archangel group. With the help of their allies and new mobile suits, Kira and Athrun vanquish the ZAFT soldiers and destroy the Requiem. Rey Za Burrel, one of Durandal's own supporters, murders him.
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