Bandai Namco Filmworks and Fathom Entertainment announced on Wednesday that they are bringing the Gundam Premiere Night event to 30 Canadian theaters from February 2-4. The event is a double feature screening for the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt Special Edition: Path of the Little Challenger (Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans: Urðr-Hunt) and 4K remastered Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition films.
The 10th anniversary short film Wedge of Interposition will also play following the Special Edition: Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt film. The films will screen with English subtitles.
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition will screen with an English dub on February 2-3 and with Japanese audio and English subtitles on February 4. The remastered edition includes additional animated scenes.
Screenings will also include bonus content, such as a special greeting from Wistario Afam's voice actress Rina Ikoma and interviews with localization producers.
The Gundam Premiere Night event opened in theaters in the U.S. with English subtitles on January 12-13, and continues on January 15.
The Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt Special Edition: Path of the Little Challenger film opened theatrically in Japan on October 31. A new short film, "Makuai no Kusabi," played alongside Urðr Hunt when it opened in theaters. The short film also commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphansseries.
The film earned 108,430,930 yen (about US$704,300) in its first three days.
Sunrise 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 debutedthe 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.
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