The official Twitter account for the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans television anime teased on Thursday that there is a new development and asked fans to wait for news of a "continuation." The account also posted an illustration.

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 debuted the second season in October.

Writer Hajime Kamoshida and artists Dango and Hirosuke Terama's Mobile Suit Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans Gekkō spinoff manga, as well as Uroaki Sabishi 's Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack Beltorchika's Children manga, ended in Kadokawa 's Gundam Ace magazine on March 26.