Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Subject: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:20 pm

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (機動戦士ガンダム00, Kidō Senshi Gandamu Daburu-ō) is the latest television anime of Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise.
It is directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Yōsuke Kuroda, and features character designs by Yun Kōga. The series was first officially announced by Sunrise during a 15-second trailer on June 2, 2007. Gundam 00 will consist of two seasons, with the first one containing 25 episodes. The second season is set to go on air October 5, 2008 and had its first trailer released on July 13, 2008. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is the first Gundam series to be animated in high-definition, as well as the first to be set in a non-fictional era (Anno Domini).

The series is set in a futuristic Earth and centered around Celestial Being, a private paramilitary force and their efforts to rid the world of war and conflict with a series of unique and highly effective mobile suits known as "Gundams".

PLOT
SEASON 1:
The series is set in the year 2307 of the Lunar Calendar. As a result of the depletion of fossil fuels,
humanity had to search for a new source of power. The power was found
in the form of massive arrays of solar power collectors orbiting the
Earth, and supported by three orbital elevators, each one serving one of the three "power blocs" on the planet.
With this nearly inexhaustible source of energy benefiting only the
major powers and their allies, constant warfare erupts around the globe
among minor countries for fuels and energy. Countries that once relied
on fossil fuels have plunged into poverty. Some even believe that solar
energy threatened the "promised land of God". This chaos led to the
formation of a private military organization, called Celestial Being (ソレスタルビーイング, Soresutaru Biiingu), dedicated to eradicating war and uniting humanity through the use of four humanoid machines called Gundams. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 follows four mobile suit pilots termed Gundam Meisters ( ガンダムマイスター, Gandamu Maisutā), sided with Celestial Being. The main protagonist is 16-year old Setsuna F Seiei (刹那・Ｆ・セイエイ, Setsuna F Seiei), a quiet, taciturn young man who grew up in the war-torn Kurdish Republic. He pilots the GN-001 Gundam Exia, a high mobility mobile suit effective in melee combat. Confronting the armed resistance of the three world superpowers, the
Gundam Meisters were forced to fight several opposing aces, such as Ali Al-Saachez, a mercenary who was responsible for the death of Setsuna's and Lockon's family.
Unable to counter Celestial Being's superior technology, the three major powers eventually unite into the United Nations Army (国連軍, United Nations Army) in order to counter Celestial Being's armed interventions. In order to fight the Gundams, the United Nations Army employed the help of Laguna Harvey. Harvey, a Celestial Being intelligence agent turned traitor, provides them with 30GN-X, mobile suits equipped with pseudo-GN Drives
that are on-par with the Gundams. As the United Nations resist
Celestial Being's interventions, a second team of Gundams, known as Team Trinity,
appears and assists in the Meisters' eradication of war, albeit in a
much more cruel and cold-blooded fashion, in contrast with the original
Meisters' more pacifist and less-aggressive nature of armed
intervention.
Celestial Being's supercomputer Veda, located on the moon, was later taken over by Alejandro Corner,
a former Celestial Being observer who plans to make use of the chaos
and destruction created by Celestial Being to rule a reconstructed
world. Without the organization's artificial intelligence, Celestial Being was subsequently overwhelmed by the equally powerful GN-X units and their superiority in quantity.
The United Nations Army initiates Operation Fallen Angels to destroy the Gundams, having discovered the location of the Meisters' mothership, Ptolemaios. During the operation, Ali Al-Saachez, kills Lockon Stratos after a climatic battle. Alejandro Corner, in his unique custom mobile armor Alvatore, attacks Gundam Exia
as the GN-X units destroy the Ptolemaios and the remaining Gundams.
Exia struggles with the monstrous Alvatore, but in the end succeeds in
destroying Alejandro. Graham Aker,
an ace pilot of the United Nations Army, then challenges Setsuna to a
fight, seeking revenge for his fallen comrades and questioning the
purpose of Gundams' existence. The fight results in the destruction of
both suits, with the fates of the pilots unknown.

SEASON 2(October 2008):
Four years have passed since the final battle between Celestial
Being and the UN Forces. Humanity, having established the Earth Sphere
Federation, forms an independent security preservation force, A-Laws,
separate from the formal Federation army. Given un-fettered discretion,
A-Laws is charged with the duty to further unify nations and enforce
the will of mankind. Unknown to the general public, however, is A-Laws'
misuse of power and inhumane tactics to oppress freedoms, doctrines,
and ideologies in the name of 'unity'.
Saji Crossroad has followed the path to becoming a space engineer, to keep his promise to Louise Halevy.
But he ends up being mistaken for a member of the dissident
organization, Kataron, and unjustly imprisoned. Louise herself is
compelled to become involved in Federation government reform and joined
A-Laws as a mobile suit pilot during the four-year gap.
Meanwhile, Setsuna, having survived the battle with Graham Aker four
years ago, has witnessed a change in the world due to the actions of
Celestial Being. With the defeat of Alejandro Corner, he dreamed of a
peaceful world without conflict; but before his own eyes was the
reality of the continuing strain on peace, caused by the oppression of
A-Laws. Setsuna tries to confront the A-Laws by himself with his
battered Gundam Exia, but is easily overpowered by their newer models.
He is rescued by Tieria Erde,
piloting his new mobile suit, the Seravee Gundam. In the occasion, Saji
discovers that Setsuna is a Gundam Meister and confronts him, just to
be imprisoned at Celestial Being's base.
By combining the GN-Drives of Exia and 0 Gundam, Celestial Being's
engineers manage to complete their newest mobile suit, the 00 Gundam,
which was entrusted to Setsuna. To pilot the two remaining new units,
Lockon Stratos' twin brother is invited to assume his position and
pilot the Cherudim Gundam, and after Allelujah Haptism is rescued from the prison he was being maintained into during the timeskip, he assumes the command of Arios Gundam.
Meanwhile, to counter Celestial Being's reappearance, military
personnel with experience in combat against the Gundams like pilot Soma Peries and commanding officer Kati Mannequin,
are transfered to A-Laws. While both carry the determination to
confront them once more, they disagree with the merciless tactics used
by their new superiors.
Oblivious to Celestial Being and the A-Laws, a third party is
manipulating both sides of the conflict with unknown intentions. This
group call themselves "Innovators", composed of Alejandro Corner's
former assistant Ribbons Almark, and his five subordinates. Their contacts include Celestial Being's agent Wang Liu Mei and Setsuna's mortal enemy, the former KPSA cell leader, Ali Al-Saachez.

MAIN CHARACTERS

Setsuna F Seiei - (刹那・F・セイエイ, Setsuna Efu Seiei)
He is the primary protagonist of the show and was discovered by
Celestial Being at the age of 14 for having special potential as a
pilot. He is currently a Gundam Meister for their organization,
piloting the. Setsuna's real name is Soran Ibrahim; Setsuna is his Gundam Meister codename. He was a child soldier in the war-torn Kurdish Republic. He murdered his own parents under Ali Al-Saachez's influence in order to prove his devotion to God,and hence bears a deep hatred towards Saachez. Due to his previous
religious brainwashing (and awakening from it), Setsuna no longer
believes that God exists within the world. Setsuna believes that war
can only be stopped through direct confrontation, and therefore has
little tolerance for diplomats and politicians, believing that their
"peace talks" only lengthen the conflict and cause more casualties.
Disappeared since the end of the first season, Setsuna reappears four
years later and rejoins Celestial Being, piloting the GN-0000 00
Gundam. The death of the original Lockon allows Setsuna to assume the
role of team leader.

Lockon Stratos - (ロックオン・ストラトス, Rokkuon Sutoratosu)
Lockon decided to join Celestial Being after losing his parents and little sister to terrorists in Ireland;
because of this, he loathes terrorists. As the eldest pilot, he is
considered the team leader of the Gundam Meisters, and sports a more
easygoing, flamboyant personality as compared to the other Gundam
Meisters. He owns an orange Haro to control Gundam Dynames when sniping and has a personal feud with Ali Al-Saachez, who was directly involved in a terrorist bombing that caused the death of his family members.
Lockon, who died at the end of the first season, is replaced by his younger twin brother Lyle Dylandy who assumed the same codename and became the pilot of the GN-006 Cherudim Gundam.

Allelujah Haptism - (アレルヤ・ハプティズム, Areruya Haputizumu)
Allelujah spent his childhood as an orphan in the Human Reform League as a Super Soldier
experimental subject. While generally gentle and rational compared to
the other Gundam Meisters, he has another harsher, unstable, and
outright sadistic alter ego, named Hallelujah
inside him, which was the result of the Super Soldier experiments.
Allelujah/Hallelujah appears to harbor a grudge against the Human
Reform League for conducting superhuman experiments on children. He is the pilot of GN-003 Gundam Kyrios.
Allelujah is imprisoned during the four year timeskip between both
seasons, and after being rescued by his companions, assumes the command
of the GN-007 Arios Gundam.

Tieria Erde - (ティエリア・アーデ, Tieria Āde)
A boy with a rare kind of beauty, his history, nationality and
origins all a mystery. Within his gentle tone, he can give a sense of
cold intentions. He values the mission above all other issues,
including life, and does not show any 'concern' for his teammates. As
the Gundam Meister of GN-005 Gundam Virtue,
Tieria seems extremely loyal to Veda, and will go to any length to
ensure the secrecy of Celestial Being remains what it is, a secret,
even if he has to kill other Gundam Meisters himself to achieve this
end. Compared to the rest of the Gundam Meisters, Tieria is the most
enigmatic, with none of his past explained
Contrary of the other meisters who were either K.I.A. or M.I.A. in the
end of the first season, Tieria continued to work for Celestial Being
during the 4 year timeskip and became the pilot of the GN-008 Seravee
Gundam.

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