With the 2015 run of the Mobile Suit Gunda: Iron-Blooded Orphans series wrapping up back in 2017 where each of the two produced a lot of Blu-ray releases, 2020 saw the release of the “Flagship Edition” set, whose packaging you can see below. But that isn’t the end of the story for this property. Sunrise has now revealed that they’re putting together a nine-part compilation TV special production of it in order to get it back on the air. It’s planned for a spring 2022 where it’ll connect to the release of the new game for it and the spin-off anime Uror Hunt.
And, naturally, we’ll see a home video release of this as well. I’d expect that there will be new pieces of bridging animation that’s common in these things and likely a new streaming pickup for it as well to entice fans back into the property.
The series is directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai based on the story composition by Mari Okada. Michinori Chiba is handling the character design adaptation of Yuu Itou’s work.
Check out our review of the first and second parts of the first half of the series.
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.
