The uniforms look like disco suits and the Buff Clan’s space suits are not reasonably functional but must have been cool by the standards of the mid 70s to early 80s. The only way I can describe the character designs in one phrase is “Disco Mania Shake Your Booty!” Of course Cosmo, having the biggest afro in animation even beating Disco Stu from The Simpsons and Black Dynamite is clear indication of that.
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But I felt that this series was very Shakespearian in comparison to Gundam.
I won’t get into those details due to spoilers but I am sure people who have seen both this series and Aura Battler Dunbine know what I mean. Elementally in terms to its atmosphere, I say this series shares more in common with another lesson known classic work by Tomino, Aura Battler Dunbine as opposed to Gundam. Ideon at the top of my head has no moments of comedy. Ideon is one of the original series that Tomino went to the extreme 7 years before Zeta Gundam, the series that has a reputation amongst the Gundam fanbase for being dark. Even though the original Gundam has intense moments, it also had some laughs. In context to the space exploration, this series takes it to a deeper level compared to Gundam since it is across the universe as opposed to the surrounding earth sphere. But I say due to their more extreme approaches, earth tends to slightly have the moral high ground from time to time though the big wigs on the political side of things will do some questionable actions to even their own people.Ĭomparisons to Gundam will be natural. It is very interesting to note that they view the people of earth as “aliens” and they rightfully have that view. The Buff Clan are very interesting villains and they have a samurai culture. Some of it is due to bureaucracy, some of it is due to fatigue, and some of it is also because of a conflict of morals. The series presents not just the conflicts between the Buff Clan and Earth, but the internal conflicts as well, which could accurately reflect what happens in war. The characters on both sides of the conflict all get their own distinct development both individually and in their relationships with other characters. Even if that character isn’t featured in an episode, the show provides enough impression that the character that may not be featured is still out there doing something productive. All characters main or not on both sides of the conflict have an active role and yet the story continues to move in the pace respectable to the length of the series. All the characters within the crew all have some sort of contribution to the story. Yes, Cosmo is the main pilot but I feel the focus of the other characters is too all over the place and yet balanced to really say who is (just like in Game of Thrones).
The thing about this series is I don’t feel there is at all any definitive sole main character. Space Runaway Ideon TrailerĬontains Spoilers Space Runaway Ideon Review And if you know Tomino (and Martin), there will be plenty of tragedy and death.Īnd a little before Go-Lion (the series that would be westernized as Voltron) did the whole gimmick where the mech is really a god, Ideon was one of the first to do something along these lines. It not only deals with the conflict between the Solo Crew and the Buff Clan, it deals with a lot of internal conflicts within the group as well. It is told from multiple viewpoints to the point that there is really no central/main character. Try to imagine something like Game of Thrones but in outer space with some mechs. What's so appealing about this piece of work. In addition, this was also the series that partially inspired Evangelion, so Evangelion fans might want to give this a shot.
I say people who truly love Tomino and understand him are going to enjoy this series. The atmosphere is always intense and you never know what is going to happen. However, many of Tomino’s dark story telling qualities that he is known for during the 1980s is largely present here. The conflict within the Gundam franchise has mostly been between humans, the war this time is between mankind and an alien (though human like) race. While Gundam was mostly within earth and the space colonies were within the earth sphere and based upon actual physics such as the O’Neill theory colony cylinders, Ideon takes a more mythological approach to its story and is more widely intergalactic. Though it is also a mech anime that takes place in space in the future, it does have some notable differences. This is one of Tomino’s projects coming off Mobile Suit Gundam. Space Runaway Ideon Fan Art What is Space Runaway Ideon Like? This Anime is for people like what?
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