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

**Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans streams on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video — the widest availability in the franchise. It's the Gundam for people who think they don't like Gundam: a standalone, ground-level war drama about child soldiers seizing their own fate, no prior series required.**

## 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)

With Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video all carrying it, whatever you already subscribe to almost certainly works. This covers the first season; a second season completes Tekkadan's story.

## Synopsis

Three hundred years after a devastating war between Earth and Mars, Martian kids like Mikazuki Augus fight as disposable muscle for a private security company — human debris in a world that prices them below the machines they maintain. When their employer abandons them to die rather than protect a young politician pushing for Mars's independence, the boys revolt. Led by the ruthless, magnetic Orga Itsuka, they form their own company — Tekkadan — and Mikazuki takes the cockpit of a relic from the old war: the Gundam Barbatos. What follows is less a robot show than a gangland tragedy in space, about family built from nothing and the price of climbing out of the gutter.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** TV
- **Episodes:** 25
- **Premiered:** 2015
- **Studio:** sunrise inc.
- **Score:** 7.8

## Watch Order

A completely standalone Gundam timeline — start here with zero background. Watch this first season, then the second, which finishes 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)** — The definitive companion piece — child soldiers, expendable by design, fighting for people who erased them. 86 and Orphans are modern mecha's twin peaks.
- **[Vinland Saga](https://hozuna.com/anime/vinland-saga)** — The same unromantic honesty about violence and the found families it forges — Viking longships instead of mobile suits.
- **[Megalo Box](https://hozuna.com/anime/megalo-box)** — Underdogs punching upward against a rigged system, with grit to spare — Megalo Box runs on Tekkadan fuel.
- **[Frieren: Beyond Journey's End](https://hozuna.com/anime/frieren-beyond-journey-s-end)** — 
- **[Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood](https://hozuna.com/anime/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood)** — 
- **[Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc](https://hozuna.com/anime/chainsaw-man-reze-arc)** — 
- **[Re:Zero Season 4](https://hozuna.com/anime/re-zero-season-4)** — 
- **[Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2](https://hozuna.com/anime/attack-on-titan-season-3-part-2)** — 

## FAQ

### Where can I watch Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans?

It streams on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video.

### Do I need to watch other Gundam series first?

No — Iron-Blooded Orphans is set in its own independent timeline and assumes no franchise knowledge.

### How many episodes is Iron-Blooded Orphans?

The first season runs 25 episodes, and a second season concludes the story.