Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer
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| Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73 Stargazer | |
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 Gundam Seed C.E. 73 Stargazer title screen |
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| 機動戦士ガンダム・シード C.E.73 スターゲイサー (Kidō Senshi Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer) |
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| Genre | Mecha, Action, Drama |
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| Director | Susumu Nishizawa |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Released | July 14, 2006 |
| Runtime | 16-18 minutes |
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer (機動戦士ガンダム・シード C.E.73 スターゲイサー Kidō Senshi Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer?) is a side story to the anime TV series, Gundam SEED Destiny. As of July 2006, it is being streamed on Bandai Channel as an original net animation. The show is directed by Susumu Nishizawa and written by Shigeru Morita, both staff members of Gundam SEED Destiny.
The series consists of three episodes, each running at 15-minutes long. The web broadcast began in July 2006, with a new episode showing monthly. A DVD containing all three episodes as well as the two 5-minute long Gundam SEED Astray animated shorts was released on November 24, 2006. This DVD also contained a different ending for Stage 3 in which several scenes after the Phantom Pain attack are shown.
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[edit] Overview
Taking place immediately following the Break the World incident, Stargazer stars Sven Cal Bayan, a 19-year old male Natural who is a member of the Phantom Pain special forces and pilots the GAT-X105E Strike Noir. It also features Selene McGriff, a 28-year old female Coordinator and a researcher of the "Stargazer Project" for the Deep Space Survey and Development Organization (DSSD).
[edit] Characters
[edit] Phantom Pain/81st Autonomous Mobile Group
- Sven Cal Bayan (スウェン・カル・バヤン Suwen Karu Bayan?) [GS73]
- Shams Couza [GS73] – Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya/Mamoru Miyano (Japanese)
- Natural; a male Lieutenant Junior Grade who works for the Phantom Pain. Together with Sven Cal Bayan and Mudie Holcroft they form a special MS platoon. Like them, he underwent training as an anti-Coordinator soldier as a child. Shams wears large rectangular glasses, but they are just for show - his eyesight is excellent without them. He and his teammates encounter Martian pilot Agnes Brahe, pilot of the GSF-YAM01 Δ Astray. The most cynical of the three, Shams pilots the GAT-X103AP Verde Buster. Shams is killed in the failed assault on the DSSD space station when his suit runs out of power and gets shot by the DSSD Astrays.
- Mudie Holcroft [GS73] – Voiced by: Rina Satou (Japanese)
- Natural; a female Ensign who works for the Phantom Pain. Together with Sven Cal Bayan and Shams Coza they form a special MS platoon. Like them, she underwent training as an anti-Coordinator soldier as a child. She is quoted on two occasions as saying "The only good Coordinator is a dead Coordinator". She and her teammates encounter Martian pilot Agnes Brahe, pilot of the GSF-YAM01 Δ Astray. She is killed when a Kerberos BuCUE Hounds destroy her GAT-X1022 Blu Duel unit. In the Cosmic Era timeline, she is the first pilot whose Gundam unit is destroyed by grunt units, a distinction, previously held by fellow Phantom Pain pilot Sting Oakley, in the main SEED Destiny series. Unlike Sting, however, she did not survive the destruction of her unit.
[edit] Deep Space Survey and Development Organization
- Edmond Du Clos [GS73] – Voiced by: Jouji Nakata (Japanese)
- A 37-year-old security officer in the DSSD's Technology Development Center in South America. Was once in the military as a tank platoon commander but retired after the First Bloody Valentine War when he held the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Because of this he however holds stronger resentment towards ZAFT members. He also has a strong sense of responsibility which he showed when he took his sister's son under his care. His sister was a DSSD engineer but was killed during the war. He successfully destroys a GINN Insurgent Type, allowing a DSSD shuttle to launch safely, but the GINN fires back, just before it got destroyed, killing Edmund and the Linear Tank he was piloting.
- Sol Ryuune L'ange [GS73] – Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese)
- A 16-year-old male 1st generation Coordinator. He lives with his uncle Edmund du Clos after losing his parents in an accident. He is also the test pilot of the GSX-401FW Stargazer.
- Selene McGriff [GS73] – Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese)
- A 28-year-old female Coordinator who works as an engineer on the GSX-401FW Stargazer Project. Her parents are also members of DSSD and like many other members of the organization she was born and raised in space. Can be egotistical some times but concentrates very hard on achieving her goals. After the failed assault on the DSSD space station, Selene is sent to somewhere between Earth and Venus, along with Sven, in the Stargazer. To conserve energy because the Stargazer's oxygen supply was estimated at 27 days, Selene places them both in a hibernation state. They are located 27 days and 21 hours later by Sol; their deaths, however, are unconfirmed.
[edit] Epilogue
In 2007, a special manga epilogue, authored by Naoki Moriya, was published. In it, the previously uncertain fate of Selene and Sven is revealed as they are shown to be alive and mostly unharmed from their ordeal. Sven joins the DSSD. [1]
[edit] Staff
- Director: Suzumu Nishizawa
- Screenplay: Shigeru Morita
- Character Designer: Kenichi Ohnuki
- Mechanical Designer: Kunio Okawara, Kimitoshi Yamane, Kenki Fujioka, BEE-CRAFT
- Music: Megumi Oohashi
[edit] Openings, endings and insert songs
Ending:
- Stargazer ~Hoshi No Tobira~ (Door Of The Stars) by Satori Negishi
[edit] List of mecha
Deep Space Survey and Development Organization (DSSD):
- GSX-401FW Stargazer
- UT-1D Civilian Astray DSSD Custom
Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty (ZAFT):
Civilians
- ZGMF-1017 GINN Insurgent Type
[edit] Spinoffs
The manga Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73 Δ Astray is a tie-in to Stargazer, and expands upon the technologies and organizations from this show. It is also the sequel to the Gundam SEED Destiny spinoff, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Astray.
[edit] References
- ^ Moriya, Naoki (w), Moriya, Naoki (p), Moriya, Naoki (i). "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE73 Stargazer" Epilogue vol. ISBN 4047139319, #4 (June, 2007) Kadokawa
[edit] External links
- 機動戦士ガンダムSEED C.E.73－STARGAZER－: Official website (Japanese)
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Stargazer Special Site Stargazer model kit website (Japanese)
| Preceded by Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny |
Gundam metaseries (production order) 2006 |
Succeeded by Mobile Suit Gundam 00 |
| Preceded by Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny |
Gundam Cosmic Era timeline C.E. 73 |
Succeeded by Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: The Movie |
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