Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Cover of the first Blu-ray volume, with an illustration of the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos.
GenreMecha, military science fiction
Created by
Written byMari Okada
Directed byTatsuyuki Nagai
Music byMasaru Yokoyama
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes50 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers
  • Masakazu Ogawa
  • Toshihiro Maeda
Production companies
Original release
NetworkJNN (MBS, TBS)
ReleaseOctober 4, 2015 (2015-10-04) –
April 2, 2017 (2017-04-02)
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Further information
Anime television series
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Special Edition
Directed byTatsuyuki Nagai
Written byMari Okada
Music byMasaru Yokoyama
StudioSunrise
Original networkMBS, Tokyo MX, BS11
Original run April 5, 2022 July 5, 2022
Episodes9
Manga
Written byKazuma Isobe
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineGundam Ace
Original runOctober 26, 2015October 26, 2018
Volumes7
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Steel Moon
Written byHajime Kamoshida
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineGundam Ace
Original runJune 2016March 2018
Volumes4
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム 鉄血のオルフェンズ, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Tekketsu no Orufenzu), also known as Gundam IBO and G-Tekketsu (Gの鉄血), is a 2015 Japanese television mecha anime series and the fourteenth mainline entry in Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise, succeeding Gundam Reconguista in G. The series is directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and written by Mari Okada, a team which previously collaborated on Toradora! and Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. It aired in Japan on MBS and other JNN stations from October 4, 2015, to March 27, 2016, making this the first Gundam series to return to a Sunday late afternoon time slot since Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. A second season premiered the following year on October 2, 2016.

Iron-Blooded Orphans follows the exploits of a group of juvenile soldiers who establish their own security company after rebelling against the adults who betrayed them on a futuristic, terraformed Mars. The series deals with several real-life problems such as war, slavery, child soldiers, poverty, neo-colonialism, and corruption. The catchphrase of the series is "The sustenance of life is on the battlefield." (いのちの糧は、戦場にある。, Inochi no kate wa, senjō ni aru.)