#tekketsu no orphans

[wordsandrobots]

Thought I might as well try posing the Schwalbe Graze too, as I'm here.

#gundam #gunpla #graze frame #schwalbe graze #gundam ibo #tekketsu no orphans #fanart #my art #wip #blender

[lilenui]

Some thoughts on Yamagi in the epilogue of Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans.

Yamagi didn't get much in terms of the epilogue: a single still shot flashing on screen unceremoniously and being mentioned in a conversation. We get no insight into his feelings, but we can gather a few hints from said image.

I was unable to 100% confirm that Yamagi's new look was designed by the series' original character designer Itou Yu. From her comments I only got that she loved it and thought it's impressive how much of Yamagi's feelings were conveyed in a single still image. Which inspired me to try and look a bit deeper into it. It's possible that the instructions came directly from director Nagai, who, according to the series' composer, was pretty hands-on with Shino and Yamagi's relationship (including inviting an animator whose speciality is hands animation for the hand hold in ep 7, or personally overlooking all of their scenes). If there was supposed to be a deeper meaning to the epilogue Yamagi then Nagai would be the one behind it, because shinoyama is /his/ thing.

I know my shinoyama by heart, throughout the entire series Yamagi's left eye is ONLY ever visible in his scenes with Shino, or in scenes pertaining to Shino in some fashion (ex. Yamagi reacting to Shino brawling with Eugene in OP #1*). It was a conscious decision to show Yamagi from his left side, where *only* his left eye is visible, as he's looking at the blue skye above him. Just as he did right after the escape from the tunnel. He was also thinking of Shino in that scene, as suggested by the closeup on the bandages in his hand. I think that the suggestion is here as well by focusing on the eye which only Shino ever got to see clearly. The angle of his head, looking up and slightly back (direct symbolism of looking in the past), all of it just speaks to me that Yamagi's love for Shino is still present, he’s still thinking about him in this very moment. In my own personal delusion I like to think Yamagi showing his entire face to the world is also how he's trying to communicate with Shino: "Wherever you are, if you're watching over me like you promised (the ryusei letter), even for a briefest moment, you can see all of me clearly."

Next are Yamagi's pink overalls. I do not believe this is a standard issue uniform available to anyone else. I think this uniform was custom made for Yamagi exclusively. For a while I even held a belief he dyed the material himself. The color is an obvious yet subtle callback to Shino's signature magenta color scheme. There's more to it though, because according supplemental materials Shino doesn't just put that color on anything, but the objects he considers closest to him, his own. Why did Yamagi then decide to put the color on *himself* and not, say, his tools? To me personally Yamagi draping himself in the color Shino used to mark his closest belongings can only speak of his devotion, almost as if he wanted to communicate that he wants to belong to Shino, that he belongs with him. And why wouldn't he still want to be with Shino? Yamagi loved Shino more than life itself, if his words to Eugene in episode 46 are to be taken at their value. That kind of love wouldn't just go away just because the other person weren't there anymore (hell, IBO ended seven years ago and /I'm/ not over Shino.)

These are my general thoughts. The presence of Shino in Yamagi's heart is mant to be seen and felt, and his confident posture signifies that he carries that love with pride. The ryuseigo insignia speaks for itself, if there's any doubt left. It couldn't have been anyone else but Yamagi to suggest it to Yukinojo.

I wish sunrise would release an ova or a cd drama removing any and all plausible deniability left from Shino's intentions regarding Yamagi in episode 45. It's been years, and if we have to continue living in a world without Shino, it would be more bearable if we at least had that.

*This trend continued into the special OP for the abridged version of the series, which aired on TV in '22, wherein Shino dramatically pulls Yamagi close as the latter started to float away just as the boys were about to eat lunch together atop the Ryuseigo II:

#gundam ibo #yamagi gilmerton #norba shino #tekketsu no orphans #shinoyama #I've been misty-eyed over these boys for days now

[yomigaere]

My low-effort contribution to the IBO fandom, several years late.

The message in it still stands, though.

#gundam iron blooded orphans #iron blooded orphans #mobile suit gundam iron blooded orphans #tekketsu no orphans #g tekketsu #... is that all the tags people are likely to use for this series? #gundam #meme #wow cool robot #am i going to regret this post?

[marspalms]

Atra: Why are Mikazuki and Orga sitting with their backs to each other?

Biscuit: They had a fight.

Atra: Then why are they holding hands?

Biscuit: They get sad when they fight.

#mikazuki augus #orga itsuka #orgamika #orumika #biscuit griffon #atra mixta #gundam ibo #tekketsu no orphans #gundam iron blooded orphans #ibo incorrect quotes

[dazaleu]

decided to start Iron Blooded Orphans since that was seemed to be suggested the most...

3 episodes in and i see what ya’ll were talking about when it came to Mikazuki..

#gundam #iron blooded orphans #mikazuki augus #kidou senshi gundam #tekketsu no orphans

[nerdherd4]

Number's and capacity in IBO

It's always interested me That you'll have times in the Gundam franchise when we will get stats about mobile suits and ships like how many were produced and deplored or how big a mobile suit compliment a ship can handle for people who like having exact numbers however, at least I find that some of this information is kind of lacking in IBO of course part of that is down to my inability to read or translate Japanese so the information I seek could be out there I just can't read it. Like for other Gundam shows, there are art books for the IBO anime that give sketch art and layouts of buildings and vehicles which some of I think have been translated onto the wiki pages the rest I can have fun extrapolating about based on what I know.

Mobile suits

I think it’s been established that mobile suits in IBO while usable are expensive to maintain partly for development and maintenance costs then compound that with the fact that Gjallarhorn is the only one allowed to produce Ahab reactors to power them. I went back and noticed that other than organizations with a lot of capital like Gjallarhorn, Teiwaz, or the Zan clan you can't have them in big numbers, and even for those big groups resources can be limited, a few examples I could think of are the noble families of Gjallarhorn just keeping their family Gundam in the vault 'cause they don't have the money to maintain and use it, it ‘s also been said that the EB-05s Schwalbe Graze had a high operational and development cost and Teiwaz was only able to produce 44 STH-05 Hyakuren even with the cost saving of just salvaging reactors from the debris field, granted both the Schwalbe Graze and Hyakuren are well-performing machines. In the case of both organizations it seems like they were able to also mass produce more dumbed-down versions of their more sophisticated suits like the  STH-16 Shiden or the EB-06 Graze or the really dumb-down AEB-06L Hloekk Graze for everyone else seems like the only other option was to salvage leftover suits from the calamity war mostly Rodi and Hexa frames while maybe easier to find seem to still require upkeep.

Ships

In terms of ships it doesn't seem like we get a lot of exacts they give the number of mobile suit catapults but other than that all I could find in terms of mobile suit capacity was the skipjack-class being able to carry 10 suits but that's when the sketch and designs come in they give more detail, looks at the hangers for Halfbeak-class ships I can't really say for sure looking at the sketches and going back and looking at the show I'd say maybe six that get hung on those clamps you see there.

there is also the half beak-class owned by Jasley Donomikols which opposed to the gjallarhorn models having the hanger at the bottom of the ship it appears that the front of the ship has been along geared to accommodate all the mobile suits but really we only get a look at the launch Bay so I don't really know, however Jasley did say that they outnumbered Tekkadan so I'm going to guess high teens low twenties.

when it comes to armored assault ships like the TIR-0009 Hammerhead or the NOA-0093 Isaribi The number of suits seems subjective in the sketch below you can see three mobile suits lined up maybe you can fit a fourth in there.

The thing is I also remembered something and went back to watch the sixth episode of the urdr hunt game and when Wistario and his crew pick up the Ahab waves of the Rakou Pirate ship they detect one armored assault ship and six mobile suits so my guess is 4 to 6.

Trying to guess the number of mobile suits on the NOA-0132 Hotarubi was a little trickier 'cause even with being a Teiwaz subsidiary I was under the impression that Tekkadan wasn't that rich to afford a whole bunch of suits at once don't think they had a full stock before they broke with Teiwaz so I'm just guessing on the number of hangers and mobile suit bays which based on the concept art there are eight hangers on each side with at least six mobile suit bays in each that make for a total of forty-eight possible mobile suits.

I know at the end of the day this is just nitpicking but like I said for people who like exact numbers like me to get a better scale of the world for more detailed storytelling information like this is appreciated.

#gundam iron-blooded orphans #gundam ibo #g tekketsu #tekketsu no orphans #iron blooded orphans #nitpick

[meikyuunolovers]

Just remembered how Takaki is canonly taller than Aston by almost a head

#gundam #iron blooded orphans #tekketsu no orphans #gundam ibo #takaki uno #aston altland

[diurnaldaysart]

Bestial

#gundam barbatos #gundam iron blooded orphans #g tekketsu #mobile suit gundam #barbatos gundam #gundam #iron blooded orphans #鉄血のオルフェンズ #barbatos lupus rex

[rdmaaron]

#stolen from twitter #which had stolen from Facebook #gundam #g witch #mobile suit gundam #the witch from mercury #mobile suit gundam the witch from mercury #suletta mercury #gundam the witch from mercury #g-witch #ibo #iron blooded orphans #mikazuki augus #g tekketsu

[lilenui]

The boys doing a little <3

#norba shino #yamagi gilmerton #gundam ibo #tekketsu no orphans #shinoyama #Shino's face with those large disney-princess eyes is the bane of my existence #I'll always mess it up no matter how many times I try #lilenui art

[kydoesthings1]

happy late pride. mcgillis says lgbtq rights

#this was funnier in my head #anyways i really think them getting married could realistically fix everything and save everyone. in this essay i will #mcgae #makugae #mcgillis fareed #gaelio bauduin #mobile suit gundam: iron blooded orphans #gundam iron blooded orphans #iron blooded orphans #gundam ibo #g-tekketsu #kytriesart

[marspalms]

Eugene: That’s one of my biggest fears. Like, if I ever woke up as a donut...

Shino: You would eat yourself?

Eugene: I wouldn’t even question it.

#norba shino #eugene sevenstark #gundam ibo #iron blooded orphans #tekketsu no orphans #ibo incorrect quotes

[seeyounexttime]

Terrible news! I've found the raws for the IBO manga volumes and I downloaded the last volume! the pics are a little pixelated but beggars can't be choosers you know? what's important is the fact that manga artist Kazuma Isobe chose violence and modified Orga's death scene so that he dies in Kudelia's arms

but wait! that's not all! there's also pages after they've brought Orga's body inside, and you get to see that Ride has the gun now

(everyone else's death in this last volume plays out the same, from Shino's to Mika's)

#gundam ibo #g tekketsu #gundam iron blooded orphans #iron blooded orphans #toonami #yes im tagging toonami in this #johnny and cherami woulda owned this scene #imagine the emotional devastation *-* #i might download the other volumes later #but for now join me in reliving the IBO Trauma (tm) #orga itsuka #kudelia aina bernstein

[harddoor]

#anime #screenshot #mobile suit gundam: iron-blooded orphans #機動戦士ガンダム 鉄血のオルフェンズ #iron-blooded orphans #g-tekketsu #gundam ibo #gの鉄血 #gundam #ガンダム #orga itsuka #オルガ・イツカ #mikazuki augus #三日月・オーガス #like a boss

[nerdherd4]

IBO fanfiction Idea dump

OK, so I've been formulating this for a while the basic premise being like Tekkadan a group of human debris mutiny against their pirate masters who through trickery and sheer luck were in a relatively good position. Having inherited their master's assets they then like tekkadan go on fighting not quite knowing what else to do with themselves and hoping that they can acquire enough to start over and to the fragile hope of some in the crew of not being completely sucked into the darkness of the underworld. So if you can already tell, unlike the main show, I was thinking of going deeper into what at least appeared to me to be the darker side of the post-disaster timeline 'cause we see constant mentions of human trafficking and other crimes, that being said this might just also come out the back of me watching edgy anime like black lagoon and cyberpunk edge runners, and while we see the abuse that the CGS was heaping on orga and company I can't help think that human debris under actual criminals would have had a lot worse like Aston and Derma who felt they had to bury themselves in order not to break, the main show does do a somewhat good job at showing the cost in humanity that some characters have had to pay. the thought I settled on is how the trauma they endured would shape their actions and outlook of the solar system, for example, the protagonists constantly being told and having beaten into them that they're nothing and no one will see them as more than that and to that end them trying to stick to the shadows as much as possible and be careful with who they interact with and trust. On the topic of people that they can trust in the main series, I found that there were a few notable individuals who attempted to keep Tekkadan grounded and in some ways preserve what humanity they had left like Atra Mixta and Merribit Stapleton my initial idea is that among the protagonists there would be doctors and technical engineers that the afore mention pirates kidnapped and or tricked into working for them and despite the harsh working conditions and threats the pirates they're the only ones who ever treated the boys with care, of course, that sense of care and worry would only grow as they watch them descend back into the underworld but can't fully bring themselves to stop them because of a mixture of guilt and fear since despite being kidnapped and or tricked they were still being paid by the pirates and therefore fear they would still be charged if they were caught as well as guilt for profiting off the boys suffering. Another element of the story I was thinking of adding was the addition of a group of girls born of gallarhorn officers who tried to expose slash point out the flaws and corruption of Gallarhorn but of course, got squashed for it, and in a desperate bid to keep their daughter safe unknowingly flung them into the harsh reaches of space where they are then saved from slavery themselves by the protagonists and join the crew and of course romantic hijinks will ensue as well as them joining the doctors and engineers in worrying about a loss in humanity. One sticking point of this story is whether I wanted it to occur before or during the main series since before would show that child soldiers rising up and people trying to get gallarhorn to change has happened before, or starting sometime just before the main series and I guess would show how everything was bound to come crashing down, that being said I am unsure whether through their actions the protagonists should unintentionally or accidentally change the course of the main series because yes I didn't completely like the ending but I didn't completely hate it either.

You can thank Words and/or Robots (aka The_Librarian on Ao3)  for this giant idea dump since his iron-blooded orphans post-Canon series wishing on space hardware really got my creative juices going.

#gundam ibo #tekketsu no orphans #g tekketsu #gundam iron blooded orphans #iron blooded orphans

[ellcrys]

That’s right. I want to see that place... How about you, Barbatos?

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Episode 19 | The Gravity of Wishes

#eeeyyyyyyy *kicks down the fandom door 7 years late and walks in with starbucks* #if there’s a creditless version of this scene somewhere then oh well lol bc i wasn’t gonna go look for it and spoil myself 😬😬😬 #ep12 made me cry and ep16 made me sob like a baby but this scene made me FEEL THINGS #anyways idk if there’s even a fandom anymore but i wanted this scene on my blog #if you fools spoil me i’m gonna eject myself into a black hole #gundam iron blooded orphans #gundam tekketsu no orphans #i didn’t know how to tag this show 7 years ago and i still don’t know how to tag it #gundam #gundamedit #iron blooded orphans #i spent my entire evening on this these are the decisions i make #gundam tekketsu #man that insert song tho #made the entire scene 😩 #mobile suit gundam #gundam ibo