Well?

>>23376035 (OP)
Promoting the manga. There was also a promo OVA

Same reason Char was in ZZ's first OP.

>>23376035 (OP)
Which op? Seed +D has like 10 openings. What timestamp? I call bullshit. That looks too good for a ~2003 op.

>>23376241
INVOKE
You'll find a few crossfade images after a shot of Miriallia Haw, around 0:48.
In the remastered opening, these images were replaced by some quick text flashes, a la NGE's OP.

>>23376300
I kneel.
Here's the original op btw
https://animethemes.moe/anime/mobile_suit_gundam_seed/OP1-NCDVD528

original OP also had Murrue boobs instead of Flay boobs

>>23376035 (OP)
Astrays were shown pretty prominently in the original Gundam SEED trailer as well but that seems to be impossible to find on the internet these days.

>>23376351
Yeah but Murrue boobs is still there in the next OPs.

Tried to read Astray but it's total dogshit. Frames are god tier mech designs though.

>>23376441
I found it

>>23376441
Dumb bitch
https://youtu.be/bIeaQriBJ7w?si=E_E0BKvjOgVxRYZh

>>23376197
They don't try to pretend that didn't happen though

Fukuda is contractually obligated to promote Astray, he's just butthurt about it and has to keep backpedaling. It's why Mighty Strike Freedom has a katana for no reason.

A Red Frame was in the normal American Gundam Seed toyline too. It didn't even have Astray markings or logos, they just presented it like it was part of the series.

Isn't there a very high possibility that because it's virtually indistinguishable from a regular M1 that the animator just assumed the model without the backpack was the grunt suit?

>>23376689
Why was it even in their pool of animation models? It's only in the OVA.

>>23376689
It's clearly not an oopsy going by
>>23376552

>>23376689
Dumb bitch

>>23376035 (OP)
Most Gundam series from SEED onwards are multimedia projects, somewhat. Astray manga was releasing at the same time as the show and offered more depth and context for the story and the world for fans who wanted it. Same with various datebooks and interviews etc. Of course it was all still second fiddle to the show itself.
It's just that this approach kinda falls flat outside of Japan where the supplementary content doesn't follow along with the show. Even if people know about it at all in the first place, they have no easy way to access it without investing extra to ship from Japan (assuming they know the language at all which is rare) or rely on third parties to translate it. So much shit just never really leaves Japan's borders, at the best of times we simply don't have the means to fully interact with the IP without jumping through a comical amount of hoops.

>>23376792
Yeah no we already proved that’s a lie and it was supposed to be in the show before things changed

>>23376835
Uh-huh yeah sure little buddy

>>23376035 (OP)
Because it looks cool

>>23376351
>>23376446

In college I showed Murrue boobs to my friend down the hall and it turned him straight.

>>23376035 (OP)
It looks cool.

>>23376552
>video from 16 years ago

Only thing I get when searching for SEED trailers is newer Crunchyroll stuff.

>>23384697
I said what I said. Stop being a dumb bitch

>>23376351
Fllay has superior tits over the hag.

Dumb bitch. You are all a dumb bitch.