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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt Anime's Trailer Reveals New Short Film
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The official website for the standalone anime release for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt Special Edition: Path of the Little Challenger (Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans: Urðr-Hunt), an animated spinoff from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans) television anime series, announced on Thursday that a new short film "Makuai no Kusabi" will screen alongside Urðr Hunt on October 31. The staff unveiled a trailer and visual:
The short film commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans series.
Kengo Kawanishi returns as Mikazuki Augus, and Yoshimasa Hosoya again voices Orga Itsuka.
Returning staff includes:
- Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
- Screenplay: Mari Okada
- Original Character Design: Yū Itō
- Character Design: Michinori Chiba
- Mechanical Design: Naohiro Washio, Kanetake Ebikawa
- Prop Design: Kenji Teraoka
- Chief Mechanical Animator: Hiroshi Arisawa
- Art Design: Nobuhito Sue
- Art Director: Ayu Kawamoto, Eiji Wakamatsu
- Color Design: Kazuko Kikuchi
- 3D Director: Yoshimasa Yamazaki
- Director of Photography: Haruhi Gotō
- Editor: Ayako Tan
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Music: Masaru Yokoyama
- Producer/Distributor: Bandai Namco Filmworks
Sunrise and Bandai Namco Entertainment announced the Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans: Urðr-Hunt spinoff in 2019, and it debuted within the Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans G app when it launched in November 2022. Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans G is an app that combines anime and game elements, and brings together the original anime and Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans: Urðr-Hunt.
The app ended service in January 2024. The last part of the 12th Urðr-Hunt episode debuted within the app in October 2023.
The television anime's first season premiered in 2015, and the second season premiered in 2016. Daisuki, Gundam.info, and Hulu streamed the first season as it aired, and Crunchyroll streamed both seasons, and also streamed an English dub. Toonami began airing the first season with an English dub in June 2016, and debuted the second season in October 2017.
Writer Hajime Kamoshida and artists Dango and Hirosuke Terama's Mobile Suit Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans Gekkō spinoff manga ended in Kadokawa's Gundam Ace magazine in March 2018.
Sources: Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt anime's website, Comic Natalie
Disclosure: Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. (Sunrise) is a non-controlling, minority shareholder in Anime News Network Inc.
