Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
Volume 1

The war between Earth and its space colonies has turned childhood friends Kira and Athrun into enemies. In their Mobile Suits (giant manned robots), they undergo a life-changing epic.

The war between the ZAFT Coordinators and the Naturals of the Earth Alliance has been going on for 11 months. Kira Yamato is a young Coordinator who went to Heliopolis, a neutral colony, to escape the war. His life is turned upside down the day ZAFT forces attack the colony to seize five Mobile Suit prototypes that the colonel was secretly having built for the Alliance. During the attack, Kira comes across his childhood friend, Athrun Zala who has now joined ZAFT!