#SPACE RUNAWAY IDEON ONLINE SERIES#

Directed by the famous Yoshiyuki Tomino following his previous, seminal work Mobile Suit Gundam, the series aired in 1980 and was followed up with a film continuation in 1982. Should there be enough interest, the Rewatch would begin on May 8th and conclude on June 20th.What is Space Runaway Ideon?Space Runaway Ideon is a sci-fi space opera featuring mecha with an inmence legacy throughout japanese media following its release. This Rewatch would cover all of the original series’ thirty-nine episodes, the compilation film The Ideon: A Contact, and the conclusion to the narrative The Ideon: Be Invoked. Today I am here to gauge interest in a Rewatch for Space Runaway Ideon in order to celebrate the series’ fortieth anniversary next month. Ideon poses as the first ‘hybrid robot’ anime, containing the sensibilities of both real robot and super robot shows, with these feeling like purposeful narrative and stylistic decisions, instead of bearing the hallmarks of compromise and half-measure that would characterize a transitory work caught in between the two.

Beyond the anime industry, Ideon has also been an inspiration for the likes of Gōichi Suda, Tetsuya Takahashi, and Hideki Kamiya.The series also contains many first instances of narrative concepts in the medium. Ideon is considered a creative influence by people like Akuyuki Shimbo, Hideaki Anno, Tsutomi Mizushima, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Shinichiro Watanabe, Harutoshi Fukui, Kazuhiro Furuhashi, and Hideaki Anno, all notable industry talent who is active in some capacity and might have been responsible for some of your favorite anime. Although the crew often latches onto various hopes and optimism, as the death toll of the crew rises and the devastation surrounding them increases, the crew of the Solo Ship slowly begin to despair.The series follows the story of a group of inhabitants from a human colony on a faraway planet, which comes under attack from an alien race that seeks the power of the ancient construct that humans have unearthed from beneath the planet’s surface.Why watch Ideon?Ideon is a media franchise with an influence and impact so broad that it is difficult to overstate, inspiring elements in series that would reappear throughout the decades and inform even some incredibly popular and enduring anime and inspire a lot of industry talent. The Ideon is piloted by several Solo Ship crew members, but the main pilot is Cosmo Yuki.Īs the crew of the Solo Ship fight and survive further, the true power of the Ideon begins to slowly be revealed with terrifying results. The survivors travel from planet to planet, constantly pursued by the Buff Clan who desire the Ideon for themselves along with the mysterious energy source behind them, known only as the 'Ide'. An air raid siren is sounded and the survivors, using the Ideon for protection, board the spaceship found with the Ideon (known as the 'Solo Ship') and flee. Bes Jordan, leader of the sparse military force stationed with the colonists orders that the Ideon tanks be armed with missiles, but while that's happening the cities on Solo are obliterated by the Buff Clan soldiers.

This is a short respite, though, as another force is sent down soon after. Cosmo Yuki, the afro-wearing protagonist of the series, climbs aboard one of the three tanks and, when it initially forms the Ideon, fends off the first assault, repelling Gije's men. Assuming the 'aliens' (Earthling colonists) have attacked Karala, the Buff Clan begins to attack. She is pursued closely by comrades sent by Gije, but they lose sight of her. Karala, the daughter of the Buff Clan's military commander flies down to the planet against orders to investigate (her commanding officer, Gije, is reluctant with her, due to her standing and the fact that he once was a soldier under her father). Suddenly, a humanoid alien civilization known as the Buff Clan comes across Solo. For six months they had diligently restored the machines but failed to get the giant tanks to move. On the planet Solo in the Andromeda Galaxy, a group of archaeologists had come across the mysterious remains of the Ideon-three large armored trucks with the ability to transform into a godlike mecha. Space Runaway Ideon begins in 2300, far enough in the future that mankind has begun colonizing other planets. 'Legendary Giant Ideon', also 'The Ideon') is a 1980 anime television series produced by Sunrise, created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino Space Runaway Ideon (伝説巨神イデオン, Densetsu Kyojin Ideon, lit.

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