YMMV / Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray

• Awesome Music:
  • The theme songs written for Astray for the SD Gundam G Generation series, including Lowe's theme Junk Guild: Red Frame and Gai's theme Serpent Tail: Mission Commence.
  • Also T.M. Revolution's Zips during the action sequence in the Red Frame animated short!
  • Ergnes's unnamed theme song, courtesy of Cross Rays, is a track that highlights the contrast between the Delta's grace and Ergnes himself.
  • The theme of Frame Astrays, also from Cross Rays, plays more like a Super Robot anime, which is only fitting given the unique natures of the only characters from the series featured in the game.
• Crazy Is Cool: Lowe Guele. This is the guy who fashioned a katana for his Gundam, and later forged a 150 meter version of it, just because he thought that would be awesome (the sword is mounted on the side of their ship, and requires special equipment to wield). He also once attached a BuCUE head to the Red Frame's hand for use as an impromptu double beam saber (this being the only reason he bought the BuCUE head at a junk auction).
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Shiho Hanenfuss, the mute Ensemble Dark Horse of SEED anime, has much more of a role in Astray. Though still a relatively minor character, she actually speaks in the manga (she would have spoken in the anime, mind you, but her voice actress bailed). Naturally, her extended role made her even more popular.
  • Canard Pars has a few fans due to his cool MS, sympathetic motivation, and his desire to murder Kira. Him becoming something of an Anti-Hero helps too.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!:
  • Like the HGUC Unicorn kits, Some foreign Gunpla builders are starting to get tired to Bandai releasing the MG Astray variants (Astray Noir, Astray Turn Red).
  • The entire series is this as well, as the sequels continue to milk its popularity by giving more Astray variants.
• Les Yay: Very briefly when the Professor and Erica Simmons greet each other, with the sparkle-and-flower imagery coming up during their embrace. The manga's SD comic strip lampshades the author's intent when the two go somewhere private for some "catching up to do", leaving Lowe and the rest of the gang to assume that they're gonna do it, and then subverts the trope as it turns out that the two are actually catching up on their study of Orb's mobile suit development.
• Signature Scene: The fight between the Red Frame and the CGUE DEEP Arms in the animated PV, to the point where the Tactical Recon BuCUE head is always packaged with kits that include the Red Frame's Flight Unit.
• Toy Ship: Prayer and Kazahana.