Densetsu Kyojin Ideon

Space Runaway Ideon ( jap. 伝説巨神イデオン , also known as Space Runaway Ideon ) is an anime - television series between 1980 and 1981, the studio Sunrise produced. The series was followed by two films, one as a summary of the series and the other as an alternative ending, as well as appearances of the characters in a manga and video game .

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In 2300 people began exploring the distant planet Solo. There you will find the mighty Mecha Ideon , which consists of three parts, which are themselves fighting machines, and an advanced spaceship. While exploring Solo, another race arrives at Solo, the Buff Clan. They are looking for Ideon and the ship and see the people of the earth as attackers. So they attack the cities of the people on Solo themselves and ultimately destroy them. However, some people can escape in the solo ship, including Cosmo Yūki, Kasha Imhof and Bes Jordan, who have learned to control the mecha. Karara from the Buff Clan, who is mistaken for a settler, also comes on board. Their identity is discovered, but they are allowed to live. Escaping from the Buff Clan, who keep attacking them, they eventually come back to Earth, where the final battle takes place.

Production and publication

The series was produced at Studio Sunrise under the direction of Yoshiyuki Tomino , who was also instrumental in the idea for the series . The scripts were written by Sukehiro Tomita, Jiyu Watanabe and Arata Koga. Tomonori Kogawa was responsible for the character design, who was also the animation director, while Mitsuki Nakamura was the artistic director. A total of 39 episodes of 25 minutes each were produced. The originally planned episodes 40 to 43 were not produced.

It was first broadcast on the Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo from May 8, 1980 to January 30, 1981.

Voice actor

role	Japanese voice ( seiyū )
Cosmo Yūki	Yoku Shioya
Kasha Imhof	Fuyumi Shiraishi
Bes Jordan	Hideyuki Tanaka
Karara	Keiko Toda
Doba Ajiba	Takkō Ishimori
Haruru Ajiba	Yōko Asagami

music

Kōichi Sugiyama composed the soundtrack for the series . The song Fukkatsu no Ideon ( 復活のイデオン ) used for the opening credits was sung by Isao Taira . The credits were underlaid with Cosmos ni Kimi to ( コスモスに君と , Kosumosu ni Kimi to ) by Keiko Toda .

Adaptations

On July 10, 1982, two films in the series came in Japanese cinemas, which were shown one after the other. The first, Densetsu Kyojin Ideon: Sesshoku-hen ( 伝説巨神イデオン接触篇 ), is a compilation of the television series. Densetsu Kyojin Ideon: Hatsudō-hen ( 伝説巨神イデオン発動篇 ), the second film, shows an alternative ending to the series. Tomino was assisted in directing the films by Toshifumi Takizawa.

In 1992 a crossover with the Gundam universe appeared in the form of the manga Kidō Senshi vs. Densetsu Kyojin: Gyakushū no Gigantis ( 機動戦士 VS 伝説巨神逆襲ののガガンティス ). Written and drawn by Yuichi Hasegawa , it was published by Bandai Visual . The main characters and the mecha from Ideon also appear in two games in the Super Robot Wars game series . These are Super Robot Wars F Final from 1995 and 3rd Super Robot Wars Alpha from 2005.

reception

In the Anime Encyclopedia , parallels are drawn between the concept of Ideon and the Gundam franchise, which was also invented by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise. Although Ideon relied more on extremely powerful and crazy weapons, Gundam was much more successful. The anime influenced the very successful series Neon Genesis Evangelion in the 1990s . Their character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto said there was a lot of talk in the concept phase about making a series like Ideon . The plot of Evangelion is constructed similarly and the organization NERV is inspired by the crew of the solo spaceship. Ideon also adopted the idea of robots that are controlled by children and sometimes get out of control .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Berkeley 2006, Stone Bridge Press. P. 602.

↑ Interview with character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto ( memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , first published in the luxury edition of the art book Der Mond , September 1999 @1@ 2

Web links

Entry at Anime News Network (English)
Densetsu Kyojin Ideon website (Japanese)

[animeenc-1] Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Berkeley 2006, Stone Bridge Press. P. 602.