Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer is a side story to the anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. In July 2006, it began streaming on Bandai Channel website 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 Mobile Suit 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.
Overview
Taking place immediately following the Break the World incident, Stargazer stars Selene McGriff, a 28-year-old female Coordinator and a researcher of the "Stargazer Project" for the Deep Space Survey and Development Organization. The DSSD's project develops the GSX-401FW Stargazer Gundam for the purpose of space exploration. It also features Sven Cal Bayang, a 20-year-old male Natural who is a member of the Phantom Pain special forces and pilots the GAT-X105E Strike Noir Gundam. However, conflict arises when Phantom Pain plans to steal the research data relating to the Stargazer from the DSSD.Characters
Main characters
;Selene McGriff;Sven Cal Bayang
Phantom Pain/81st Autonomous Mobile Group
;Shams Couza;Mudie Holcroft
;Joaquín
Deep Space Survey and Development Organization
;Edmond Du Clos;Sol Lyne L'ange
Others
;ReyesMedia
Anime
Stargazer was released with all three episodes in Japan on November 24, 2006. The DVD added a new ending video, and included the promotional animation "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ASTRAY -RED FRAME- & -BLUE FRAME-". A UMD version was released on June 26, 2009, and a Blu-ray version on March 22, 2013.The ONA used the ED theme song, Stargazer Hoshi no Tobira, by Satori Negishi. The single was released in August 2006.
Manga
A manga adaptation of the ONA has been released in 2006 and 2007. Authored by Naoki Moriya, it features an epilogue that reveals the previously uncertain fate of Selene and Sven as they are shown to be alive and mostly unharmed from their ordeal. Sven joins the DSSD. The manga was fully released in June 2007.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.