The one thing I love about watching practically anything - especially Japanese Anime - is the cinematics, scenese that look just so beautiful coupled with appropriate music and heart-wrenching story.

SEED captivated me and Destiny has done an even better job; I'll list my two favourite scenes from both, and encourage you to do the same.


SEED:
- Nicoul's death. The turning point in the series (as far s Kira and Athrun are concerned) and the final straw that breaks the emotional ties Athrun has been clinging too.

- Rau's entire speech on human greed, punctuated by the climatic battles he fights and the flashbacks "Who could understand what can't be understood?" "If found out, they would wish to be like your kind. That is why your existance cannot be forgiven!" - and Kira's comeback - "Even so! My power is not my all!"

Destiny:
- The entire first scene, where Shinn loses his family. I cried, really, just the brutality of his family's death and how innocent he was before - I sympathyse with him in his later life, I understand how he is how he is, simply because of this moving scene.

- Junius' fall to earth. Backed by Lacus' song 'Fields of Hope' and the absolute devestation wraught on earth triggering the next war. This is the scene that was missing from SEED, I think something similar should have been done to puncutate the loss of Junius 7 and what it meant to people - instead it is lost is a myriad of flashbacks.