Gundam Seed: Destiny

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You know, there's "don't change a winning formula", and then there's overkill. By my tastes, Seed Destiny straddles the line between those two.

There is the repetition in a good cause, such as Shin's rage at losing his family, which echoes Athrun's but also points out that, no, this isn't an issue that's just going to go away, after all. Or the fact that ZAFT's new suits, produced in the same cause that was validated in Seed, when Uzumi Assa espoused it, are stolen just like Orb's were; in this case, it points out the limits of the "enough power to be neutral" policy.

Then there's the overkill, such as Rei and Neo having precisely the same telepathic zzztz between them that Moore and Rau did.

I am, however, willing to overlook the overkill, because they got Suwabe Junichi to do the voice of Sting Oakley, and that makes up for quite a lot in my book.