Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Cover of the first Blu-ray volume, with an illustration of the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos.
機動戦士ガンダム 鉄血のオルフェンズ (Kidō Senshi Gandamu Tekketsu no Orufenzu)
Genre	Drama, Mecha, Military science fiction
Anime television series
Directed by	Tatsuyuki Nagai
Written by	Mari Okada
Music by	Masaru Yokoyama
Studio	Sunrise
Licensed by	NA Sunrise
Original network	JNN (MBS)
English network	US Adult Swim (Toonami)
Original run	October 4, 2015 – present
Episodes	48 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by	Kazuma Isobe
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Gundam Ace
Original run	October 2015 – present
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Steel Moon
Written by	Hajime Kamoshida
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Gundam Ace
Original run	June 2016 – present
Volumes	1

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム 鉄血のオルフェンズ, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Tekketsu no Orufenzu^?), also referred to as G-Tekketsu (Gの鉄血), is a 2015 Japanese mecha anime series and the fourteenth installment in Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise. It is directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and written by Mari Okada, a team which previously collaborated on Toradora! and Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. It aired in Japan on MBS and other JNN stations from October 4, 2015 to March 27, 2016. making this the first Gundam series to return to a Sunday late afternoon time slot since Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. A second season premiered on October 2, 2016. The series follows the exploits of a group of juvenile soldiers who establish their own security company after rebelling against the adults who betrayed them on a futuristic, terraformed Mars.

Iron-Blooded Orphans deals with several real-life problems such as war, slavery, child soldiers, poverty, corruption and neo-colonialism. The series's catchphrase is "The sustenance of life is on the battlefield." (いのちの糧は、戦場にある。, Inochi no kate wa, senjō ni aru.)