Funimation has made a pretty surprising announcement that’s tied to something a bit outside of existing plans in that they’re going to be handling the home video release of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans for Sunrise. The distributor will be bringing out the first season in two parts as well as a season one limited edition release later this year while season two will land in 2018. The limited edition contains an exclusive “HG 1/144 scale gundam barbatos and smoothbore gun gunpla exit” that will be exclusive tot his release in that it looks like not even Japan is getting it. Pricing and details will be coming later.
The folks at Nozomi responded to the possibility of this meaning other series are up for grabs by noting:
Sunrise had other plans for the title. We continue to have a relationship with Sunrise and will have Gundam titles to announce in the future
— Nozomi Entertainment (@NozomiEnt) July 2, 2017
So, we’ll take this as the odd one-off that it is for now.
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 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.
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, and David Vincent as Naze Turbine.
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.
