List of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED characters
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This is a list of fictional characters featured in the Cosmic Era (CE) timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries. These characters appear in the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny anime television series, the sequel film Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom, and in the manga and OVA spinoffs. Both series focus on the raging conflict between Naturals and Coordinators, the former being regular humans and the latter being genetically-enhanced ones.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED begins when the neutral space colony Heliopolis is attacked by ZAFT, a military organization composed of Coordinators. Coordinator Kira Yamato pilots the mobile suit GAT-X105 Strike to protect his friends on the Naturals' ship Archangel from potential enemies as they head towards Earth. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny continues two years after Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and follows the teenager Shinn Asuka and his duties in ZAFT.
Protagonists
Kira Yamato
Kira Yamato (キラ・ヤマト) is a first-generation Coordinator, who lives on the neutral space colony Heliopolis to avoid war between the races of Coordinators and the Naturals, but such area ends involved in the war. Born as a Coordinator, Kira is the only person able to pilot the Strike mobile suit created by the Naturals, and is forced to pilot it into numerous battles to protect his friends. In Gundam Seed, Kira uses the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam until it was severely damage and would later gain the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam and the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam in Gundam Seed Destiny. He also pilots the STSS-909 Rising Freedom in Gundam Seed Freedom until it was destroyed during the battle with the Black Knights and would later pilot a rebuild version of the Strike Freedom, the ZGMF/A-262B Strike Freedom Type II, which receives a further upgrade in the climax of the film with a new backpack, the MDE262S Proud Defender, to become the ZGMF/A-262PD-P Mighty Strike Freedom. He is voiced in the Japanese series by Sōichirō Hoshi.
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