![]() ![]() 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. 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. I was much happier to go along with this sort of thing in Be Invoked than I was when watching, say, Victory Gundam.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. But whatever its result for the crew, for me it was a great startlement in a film full of startling things. ![]() ![]() This works, in one way, and in another way it doesn’t. One of the more unhinged crewmembers tries to manipulate it by (stay with me here) standing on the outside of the ship with a toddler in her arms when it’s about to be hit by a comet. Like, I’m sure there are plenty of stories which technically involve bigger spaces-I suppose Gurren Lagann‘s final fight comes immediately to mind for my generation-but while that was certainly awesome, it didn’t give the same impression that the distances are vast, the superweapons utterly monstrous, the casualty list endless.īy Be Invoked the Solo Ship’s crew have scraped together a half-understanding of how the Ideon functions. I haven’t seen many other films with such a huge, huge, huge scale. That did not, however, matter, because I also found much of it spectacular and moving. This all culminates in Be Invoked, which I found a bit incoherent. When its ungainly red mass first hit my screen I didn’t expect the Ideon itself to become both an oddly cool sight and a puzzle. And doesn’t the Ideon just, well, stick out? It’s oversized within its own show, so big it has internal corridors and what look like its own point-defence weapons. But I was interested by the gradual revelation of what the Ideon is (scary) and what it can do (a lot). I didn’t rate Ideon that high, in the end. This show’s plot tires you as you watch it, or at least that was my experience and the experience of several others I know-though I do also know one person who more-or-less marathoned it, so hmm. I reckon it took me about three-and-a-half years to watch Space Runaway Ideon, from the first episode to Be Invoked. ![]()
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