History Manga / MobileSuitGundamSEEDAstray

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''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray R'' is the sister series to Astray by a different author, and more or less runs concurrently with the original. Both comics reference each other regularly. A photonovel, ''Astray B'', was also written. Astray R focuses specifically on Lowe's adventures, while Astray B focuses on Gai; the letters refer to their respective Astray Gundams, Red Frame and Blue Frame.

Another similar series, ''Gundam [=SEED=] X Astray'', takes place roughly during a short TimeSkip in episode 47 of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', and features Canard Pars, a "failed" experiment [[spoiler: in the same "Ultimate Coordinator" program that spawned [=SEED=] protagonist Kira Yamato]]. He wishes to prove that he's not a failure by defeating Kira and the Strike Gundam, but first runs into our Junk Guild and Serpent Tail heroes, and promptly attacks them, seeing as they have Gundams in their possession. During this, both teams come across Prayer Reverie, a young boy with a Mobile Suit that contains both a nuclear reactor, and a device known as a Neutron Jammer Canceller, which would allow said reactor to work. When Canard finds out about Prayer's N-Jammer Canceller, he naturally wants it to give his Hyperion Gundam the power to face Kira head on (as by this point Kira has upgraded to the nuclear-powered Freedom Gundam).

The next in the Astray series is ''[=Gundam SEED DESTINY Astray=]'', which features the reporter Jess Rabble, who is assigned to check out reports of a ZAFT Superweapon. It turns out to be none other than Lowe and crew, who are using the spoils of a battle in ''R'' to head out to Mars. Unfortunately, Jess' Mobile Suit is wrecked before things are straightened out, so before he leaves, Lowe gives him the Astray Out Frame, a mech he found in the base and fixed up. As the Junk Guild crew heads out to space, the story follows Jess as he views the events in and around the Second Bloody Valentine War through very large camera lenses. It also introduces the mercenary Kaite Madigan, who sometimes acts as a bodyguard to Jess. After going through a succession of customized mobile suits, Kaite eventually acquires Out Frame's nuclear-powered sister unit, the Testament Gundam.

''DESTINY Astray'' also has its own side story, a one-shot chapter following Rondo Mina Sahaku (Rondo Ghina's not-so-evil twin sister), which mainly serves to show off Gold Frame's latest upgrade (which may or may not have [[http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/destiny-msv/mbf-p01-re2.htm the longest name in Gundam history]]).

This is followed up by ''[=DELTA Astray=]'', a story of Martian colonists chased by the protagonist of [=STARGAZER=] (before the events of [=STARGAZER=]). Then ''FRAME Astray,'' which focuses on Gai and the Serpent Tail during the events of the ''[=SEED=]'' TV series, between their appearances in earlier Astray series.

After that came ''VS Astray'', centering on a new antagonistic faction called Librarian that makes use of "Carbon Humans", pseudo-clones made by injecting people with genetic material from others, and having them pilot copies of past mobile suits. Because the series received a huge marketing blitz mostly centered around [[PaletteSwap recolored and only barely changed versions of existing model kits]], fans are decrying this one as MerchandiseDriven (even moreso than the norm for Gundam) drivel.

Finally, ''Destiny Astray R'' and ''Destiny Astray B'' are coming along as the newest entries, covering short stories from the ''Destiny'' part of the series.

* JerkAss: Agnes Brahe from ''DELTA Astray'': very HotBlooded, looks down on Earthlings and has little tolerance for those who don't share his points of view.

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* FashionVictimVillain: Lampshaded. V.V., the [[TheDandy Dandy]] antagonist in ''Destiny Astray R''; he prepares a fake treasure to try and trap Lowe, but his sense of honor wouldn't let him just place an empty box so he put in a set of his clothing, which he considered a great treasure. When Lowe opens the box, he finds it contains a purple jacket, matching pants, and a pair of pointy-toed boots; he and 8 instantly agree that whomever this "Pirate King" was, his fashion sense was pretty tragic.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Canard Pars. His outfit doesn't help.

* CloningBlues: Prayer is said to be a clone of a pilot from the Moebius Zero corps; [[spoiler:''Vs Astray'''s enemy faction Library is full of "Carbon Humans", people injected with DNA from others making them pseudo-clones. An aged-up Prayer appears (even though he's supposed to already be dead by that point), looking like a poofier-haired Mu La Flaga, ending the mystery of his genetic source material.]]
** ''VS Astray'' centers around the concept of Carbon Humans, people who are almost-but-not-quite clones ("carbon" as in "carbon copy"). However, there are two more direct examples: [[spoiler:Lily Thevalley, pilot of the Nero Blitz, is actually several clones piloting identical Gundams, using their cloaking systems to make enemies think it's one machine that can teleport. ND-HE (No Data High Error), pilot of the Gale Strike, was implied to be a clone of Kira Yamato, only for a late chapter to reveal he's in fact a clone of ''Astray'''s own Gai Murakumo.]]

Another similar series, ''Gundam [=SEED=] X Astray'', takes place roughly during a short TimeSkip in episode 47 of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', and features Canard Pars, a "failed" experiment [[spoiler: in the same "Ultimate Coordinator" program that spawned [=SEED=] protagonist Kira Yamato]]. He wishes to prove that he's not a failure by defeating Kira and the Strike Gundam, but first runs into our Junk Guild and Serpent Tail heroes, and promptly attacks them, seeing as they have Gundams in their possession. During this, both teams come across Prayer Revierie, a young boy with a Mobile Suit that contains both a nuclear reactor, and a device known as a Neutron Jammer Canceller, which would allow said reactor to work. When Canard finds out about Prayer's N-Jammer Canceller, he naturally wants it to give his Hyperion Gundam the power to face Kira head on (as by this point Kira has upgraded to the nuclear-powered Freedom Gundam).