Crunchyroll has added a fun new dub to their service this week with the first episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded from its first season. The streaming service will bring out the first five episodes on February 28th, 2017 at 10:00pm ET with batches of five new episodes every Tuesday until it’s caught up for both premium and free members. Availability is pretty good overall as it’s open to members in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa.
The series is directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai based on story composition by Mari Okada. Michinori Chiba is handling the character design adaptation of Yuu Itou’s work.
The English cast includes Cherami Leigh as Kudelia Aina Bernstein, Johnny Yong Bosch as Orga Itsuka, Kyle McCarley as Mikazuki Augus, Amanda C. Miller as Ride Mass, Bryce Papenbrook as Eugene Sevenstark, Carrie Keranen as Carta Issue, Cassandra Morris as Atra Mixtra, Christine Marie Cabanos as Almiria Bauduin, Cristina Vee as Lafter Frankand, David Vincent as Naze Turbine, Dorothy Fahn as Merribit Stapleton, Doug Erholtz as Akihiro Altland, Erica Lindbeck as Azee Gurumin, Erik Scott Kimerer as Biscuit Griffon, George C. Cole as McMurdo Barriston and Griffin Burns as Yamagi Gilmerton.
The Japanese cast includes Kengo Kawanishi as Mikazuki Augus, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Orga Itsuka, Natsuki Hanae as Biscuit Griffon, Yuichiro Umehara as Eugene Seven Stark, Yasuaki Takumi as Akihiro Artland, Taishi Murata as Norba Shino, Kōhei Amasaki as Takaki Uno, Sōma Saitō as Yamagi Gilmerton, Mutsumi Tamura as Ride Mass, Yuka Terasaki as Kudelia Aina Bernstein, Hisako Kanemoto as Atra Mixta, Takahiro Sakurai as McGillis Fareed and Masaya Matsukaze as Gaelio Bauduin.
Plot concept: 300 years after the end of a great war between Earth and Mars called Yakusaisen (Calamity War), the Earth, losing the ruling authority during the war, structured a new world with a ruling system. A new war on Mars is starting while the Earth is in temporary peace.
The main character Mikazuki Augus, from Chryse Guard Security (CGS), was on a mission to protect Cuderia Aina Bernstein, who wants Chryse, Mars’ city, to be independent from Earth’s ruling. However, a group named Gjallarhorn started a rebellion, attacked CGS and Cuderia, and the adults in CGS decided to use the boys in the team as decoy to evacuate. Orga Itsuka, the leader of the boys, decided to use that as a chance to launch a coup d’état because the adults have been treating them badly for a long time. Mikazuki, with Orga’s request to defeat Gjallargorn, uses Gundam Barbatos, a major mobile suit that CGS used during Yakusaisen to fight.
