Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt Anime Opens in Theaters in Japan on October 31 (Updated)
Bandai Namco Filmworks announced at its Gundam panel at San Diego Comic-Con International on Thursday that the standalone anime release for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt (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, will open theatrically in Japan in October, with a North American release planned. The panel also revealed the standalone anime release's title as Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt Special Edition: Path of the Little Challenger.Update: The film will open on October 31 in Japan. Source: Cinema TodaySunrise 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: Bandai Namco Filmworks' SDCC panel, Email correspondence
