“300 years post-war, Mars teens rebel using ancient Gundam Barbatos against Earth's oppressive Gjallarhorn forces.”
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
機動戦士ガンダム 鉄血のオルフェンズ
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300 years post-war, Mars teens rebel using ancient Gundam Barbatos against Earth's oppressive Gjallarhorn forces.
300 years after the Calamity War's end. The powers which ruled the Earth Sphere have been overthrown, giving way to new rulers of a new world, exhausted of battle. Meanwhile, far away on Mars, the sparks which threaten to ignite a new war have been struck... Our protagonist Mikazuki Augus, a member of the private security firm Chryse Guard Security (CGS), takes on a mission as bodyguard of Kudelia Aina Bernstein, a young girl who agitates for Chryse's independence from Earth. However, when the elite Gjallarhorn unit, charged with suppressing revolutionaries, raids CGS, its higher-ups deliberately use Mikazuki and the other boys as a decoy to cover their own retreat. Orga Itsuka, leader of the boys' squad, takes this abandonment by the adults as motivation to launch a full-fledged coup d'état. With orders from Orga to hold back Gjallarhorn, Mikazuki sorties in Calamity War-era scrap that CGS had been using as a generator—the Gundam Barbatos... (Source: Gundam.info)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 13 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 44m approx
- Published Oct 2015 – Oct 2016
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M36446 catalog