Ive been a Gundam fan for a long time now it has been a part of my life since some years I would and still do spend hours and hours thinking about the franchise the shows I liked the ones I disliked how much I adored and agreed with certain characters etc. I love Seed it was my second AU and its still one of my favorites even today. When Freedom was announced I was crazy hyped it was something amazing to wait for the grand finale the end of a rich and wellwritten story filled with great characters amazing action relatable and wellwritten politics/philosophy etc. When it released I ended up not watching it not because I wasnt interested in it anymore it was because I got lazy and shelved it like I did with the whole franchise. I decided to leave Gundam for a while to seek new franchises and try to expand my knowledge on mecha and anime beyond Gundam. And well Solomon I have returned and its time to talk about Seed Freedom the movie I was waiting for for quite a while. We start the movie in action it already showcases the level and quality the animation will be. The CGI MS look wonderful the ships the effects everything is amazing. You can see the budget the love and care everything poured in to make a spectacle and boy it sure lives up to be one. Visually speaking Freedom has one of the best productions in the franchise. It takes all the elements from the previous entries and enhances the quality by 10 times. Ive already mentioned the CGI but not the sound design and mecha design both of which are spectacular. We have new suits some done by new Mecha Designers some by old ones still they all end up blending well and working perfectly in the narrative. However on that same note I feel like the characters leave a lot to be desired visually. It isnt uglySeed wont EVER be uglyHisashi Hirai is amazing and talented but... I dont know the changes or maybe the modern look the weird lipsticks... I feel like they dont look as pleasant as the HD remasters did. Though its probably just because I was too attached to them because around the late half of the film I was barely thinking about that anymore. Now the real part... The story. First things first Seed Freedom IS NOT CCA for better or for worse. It doesnt even try or want to be so if you go in wanting that there is a BIG chance youll feel highly disappointed. Lucky for me I dont like CCA Hot take I know might as well do a review about it someday and explain myself and had no expectations for it to be. Rather I was afraid it would try to be a new CCA. Oddly enough it had a similar effect of boosting the franchise and selling an insane amount. Seed Freedom is nothing more than an epilogue of Destinyof the message of the characters of everything. You will feel that early on the dilemmas are the same the ideas everything. The story spins around the Destiny Plan and the end of Seed Destiny. Durandals ideals lived on and the story is mostly about that: the journey to oppose this group called Foundation which is trying to impose those ideals by force causing chaos among factions to usurp the situation and take control of things. That being said the Foundation is a terrible groupnot in the sense of being bad people which they are but in the sense of being so weirdly written. They only exist for the sake of propagating the storys message which I will soon talk about and to make the story flow properly. The thing is they are boring uninteresting and dont have 1 of the charisma Durandal had. The members are exaggerated common for Seed to feel evil and talented but in reality they are just background characters with little to no development just there to show how good the main pilots are. The leader of the group Orphee is the worst antagonist of Seed. He is so weird and uninteresting they try to make you hate him but you will most likely just not care about him because his motivations arent wellwritten enough to hook you. They are just there to prove the point of Kira and Lacus. The message of the story is basically that love isnt something forcedits something built something born from desire care and freedom. Conflict isnt a result of it and the lack of it takes away the reason for life. Living isnt something that has to have a meaning you just live because you want to. Its a pretty message and I summarized it really badly. Its something you should see for yourself and interpret however you want but thats a short version of what I thought of it. In the end true love prevails. If they have to find a way to end conflict it isnt by taking everyones desires and freedomits by trying to understand each other and relying on each other seeking new dialogues and ideas. As long as there is desire and love there is hope and freedom. The old characters are pretty good. Shinn has become some sort of comedic relief in the story and it works really welland also makes me happy for him. My favorite character freed from that cycle of anger to become a happy boy... he deserves that. It was a great development for him. As for Athrun he is the same as alwaysthe right arm and the one who puts sense into Kiras troubled head. He is always fun to watch and his Zgok was nothing but peak. Kira was also great I liked his archis fear and tiredness from this repeating chain of events these neverending wars which have plagued him since he was 14. Its cool to see him rising up after all of that and a good contrast to the conformist Amuro who just accepts everything. Luna was funnothing really different but fun. However Agnes the new character was straightup bad. She really feels like a Gundam character and reminds me a lot of Reccoa from Zeta but worse and really unnecessary. Agnes is a character that has no meaning or reason to be in the narrative she has no meaning or reason to exist none at all. And Lacus was okay the story tries to make you dislike her but it doesnt work really well because you already know the character and how she is. The story has many fun and hype momentssome that will get you on your toes some that will make you laugh a lot. Overall its a really fun movie to watch. It has some bad and annoying things Foundation but the hype moments and fun characters manage to overcome that. Its not as deep and wellwritten as Destiny but its still a great movie. Now listen to this peak https://youtu.be/W3YfiVGSbus?si=SBrzBJPXKl5P5AOV