# Where to Watch Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

**This 2015 Gundam entry stands apart from the franchise's main continuity, so newcomers can begin without homework. Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video carry the show. Its focus stays close to exploited young fighters who turn on the system using them and try to build a future under their own command. The action has weight, but the draw is the pressure placed on their loyalty and ambition. Watch it if you want mecha with a harsher war drama sensibility and a complete story to follow.**

## Where to Watch

- [Amazon Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B076XDR9B7/)
- [Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/g-tekketsu)
- [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/mobile-suit-gundam-iron-blooded-orphans-614c73c1-3f0b-48e4-b7e0-077071df95d5)
- [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80150290)

Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video are the listed legal options for this season. The follow-up season continues the same story and brings it to its conclusion.

## Synopsis

On Mars, young workers serve as disposable muscle for a private security company. When their employers abandon them during an attack, the group revolts and takes control of its own fate. A young political client seeking Martian independence gives their new organization a dangerous mission, while an old Gundam recovered from an earlier war becomes their strongest weapon. The series follows their attempt to survive as an independent force in a society that has already assigned them little value. Battles matter, but so do the bonds formed by people who have no dependable home beyond one another.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** TV
- **Episodes:** 25
- **Premiered:** 2015
- **Studio:** Sunrise
- **Score:** 7.8

## Watch Order

Kidou Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans uses an independent setting, so begin with this 25-episode season. Continue directly into the follow-up season to finish the story.

- Kidou Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans 2nd Season (sequel)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urthr-Hunt (side\_story)

## If You Liked This

- **[86 Eighty-Six](https://hozuna.com/anime/86-eighty-six)**: Try 86 for another mecha story about young soldiers treated as expendable by the society demanding that they fight. Its anger at that system makes it a close match for this show's war drama.
- **[Vinland Saga](https://hozuna.com/anime/vinland-saga)**: This is a strong next choice if the violence, hard choices, and makeshift family held your attention. It trades mobile suits for Viking conflict while keeping an unsentimental view of survival.
- **[Megalo Box](https://hozuna.com/anime/megalo-box)**: Megalo Box also follows underdogs trying to force a path through a system built against them. Pick it for the same stubborn drive, expressed through fighting rather than mecha warfare.
- **[Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2](https://hozuna.com/anime/code-geass-lelouch-of-the-rebellion-r2)**: 
- **[86 Eighty-Six Part 2](https://hozuna.com/anime/86-eighty-six-part-2)**: 
- **[Gurren Lagann](https://hozuna.com/anime/gurren-lagann)**: 
- **[Code Geass](https://hozuna.com/anime/code-geass)**: 
- **[Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time](https://hozuna.com/anime/evangelion-3-0-1-0-thrice-upon-a-time)**: 

## FAQ

### Which services have Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans?

The listed services are Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video. Those are the legal viewing options named for this page.

### Should I watch another Gundam series before Iron-Blooded Orphans?

No prior Gundam viewing is required because this story takes place in an independent setting. Start with Kidou Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans and continue into its follow-up season.

### How long is Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans?

This TV season has 25 episodes, with each episode running 24 minutes. A follow-up season completes the larger story.

### Is Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans finished?

Yes, its airing status is finished. The season on this page leads into a follow-up season that concludes the story, so viewers are not starting an unfinished series.