The explination for how Kira survived is contained in one of the Astray manga's that basically exist to put stucko in the plot holes that seed contains.Originally posted by: drunkenmaster
you can survive a self destruct explosion if u have a jetpack... as athrun did. why does he have a jetpack? to escape when his gundam is about to explode, thats the whole point of having one. now how kira survived is a mystery. of course we all know GS is all messed up cuz of fukada. GSD better go over 50 eps or else there is no way they could fit in everything.