Funimation previously brought out their Iron-Blooded Orphans series within the Gundam franchise on home video and with some collected installments coming up alongside the second part they’re doing some fun new promotion. The latest is that they’ve brought out the second opening theme song with “Survivor” by BLUE ENCOUNT for streaming, which definitely helps to set the tone going into the show.
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 a 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 of 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.
