Densetsu Kyojin Ideon

First of all, i usually don't make reviews, but i will make a exception just because i loved this anime and its movies by all my heart, and will be a quick review. and please forgive me, i'm NOT good at writing reviews nor good at expressing my thoughts in English because my English isn't that muchl.. Ok, now, Ideon isn't a typical anime which anybody can watch or enjoy, it's an anime that can be watched by hardcore mecha anime, classic anime fans, and or Tomino's fans. Ideon's story was unique, one of kind gets interesting as the series progresses to a degree you became on your edgeof your chair wanting more and more. Ideon's sometimes considered to be the prototype of the modern dark and twisted science fiction anime such as Evangelion, Akira and others. and been an inspiration for many directors and anime such as the just-mentioned and well-known Evangelion. It's draggy though, very slow paced which can be unpreferable to many. The titular mecha, the Ideon a massive giant robot resurrected when he felt that the people is killing each other again and now he must stop it. Later revealed to the characters that Ideon is more than a robot. i loved the idea of both factions thinking of each other as "Aliens" while both are human beings just fell into misunderstanding which lead them to their doom later. that also can be a good "Anti-Racism" message. the Love story between two characters from different sides, both loved each other despite the hate of everyone around them, One lost the trust of some people, and other lost her entire family and homeland for her love. there are also many twists and surprises for everyone in the series, things i love most in anime. And something i should not forget, how the series alone showed how filthy and corrupted the humankind can be amazed me, it's sadly true, mankind just lives to kill each other and rule each other.... 9/10 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Characters' Development: one of strongest elements of Ideon is that it has great development for each one. the interaction between characters, the trust and betrayals, the fear and revenge and the hatred. it's like a bloody theater It's nice to see that all the characters acting realistically, unlike the typical super robot anime everyone worried, cautions, nerves, depressed,jealously, etc... In a typical super robot anime, the main heroes all acting hot-blooded and ready to kick some bots ass because they have a powerful robot, it isn't the same in Ideon, which all the characters keep suspicious and in fear of it. 8/10 sound: there are some good and lovely pieces, but the problem here is the transition between BGMs sometimes get noisy and annoying. for example, a BGM played and eruptly changing the tone to entirely different tone and mood, that happened so much unfortunately =/ 6/10 Animations: Nah, i don't care much about animation, i'm fine with any, as an old anime fan that grew up with many 70's anime i consider Ideon's animations is one of the best in its time. what grabbed my attention more is the art of the galaxies and planets, the art shows how the scary the "ruined planets" can be, some arts was scary, giving a good image of a ruined world. 8/10 Final Words: I Enjoyed the series so much, there are many messages to humankind in Ideon, the series was good to show solutions to end wars and hatred from people towards each other. almost a perfect depiction of mankind.. I can't really recommend Ideon to anyone, only those mecha-maniacs like me can enjoy it, unlike most modern anime which famed by its fan-service and naughty girls Ideon has no fan-service if anyone seeking.... still a great show in overall, has good action and good characters set.. 8/10

This is Tomino's masterpiece. I don't mean that in the sense that this is a perfect anime by any means. But it is trying so much. All of his ideas are laid out plainly here and wrapped up in a very final way by the movie afterward. I would say Tomino spent the rest of his career chasing after the ideas and themes laid out over the course of this series. There is more of this in Zeta Gundam than 0079. You can see a lot of different aspects of things in this series very plainly being expounded upon in Zeta, ZZ and Victory Gundamgoing forward. For starters, I don't believe you are supposed to like any of these characters exactly. Not on a personal level. Unlike a lot of Gundam where the main cast is kind of just supposed to be "the good guys", these are a bunch of petty people who don't have any reason to like each other, stuck in this messed up situation where they can do nothing but flee for their lives. I ended up liking them, but for reasons that have to do with how they are portrayed as events continue to unfold. The giant robot that is The Ideon's mystery slowly being unveiled over the course of the series while actually becoming sort of horrifying as the characters realize they have no control over what comes next. And as far as Tomino themes go, this is it. The inevitability of mankind to fight over cultural differences and circumstance no matter how similar they actually are. The connectedness of us all and can we ever truly understand each other? Do we have to understand each other to love each other? The overall tone of this show is bleak but I don't believe it ever crosses into pure nihilism. This is a work that is asking the question and positing what we do in the face of the unknown, and total annihilation. I would never in my life believe Tomino thought he had the answer, that is like the one solid silver lining in his politics for me that cuts through the cynicism and a few other rather problematic things he believes. It's why I think this show is so interesting if you are willing to really dig into it. And then just as a structure, I think it's just good sci fi. Yeah it falls into a bit of a formula but that's okay when what's there is being presented well. This is a very specific kind of show from a very specific era of anime and I think that is only a positive. I would not think to dismiss it for being so. Ideon also has some really good sound design. I am no expert in the field of course, but I really dug the soundtrack. I can sing that Ideon Theme song by heart because I watched it every single episode. Some things to keep in mind if you watch this, you sort of have to let go of your seriousness to enjoy something like this if that makes sense. This is a show that takes itself super seriously when it wants to but is also still very much a Tomino show and is extremely goofy when it's not being serious. It is also a Super Robot show way more than a Real Robot show. A lot of theme overlap but the big super robot is gonna be the big super robot. Be Invoked is essential to watch when you are finished the TV Series. Don't watch Contact. Anyone who tells you to watch Contact is full of it, it cuts out everything good about the series and barely makes sense. Now if you want to talk about space battles, and mecha combat, Ideon's got that too. There are some really ridiculous and interesting designs for the Buff clan's robots and I always enjoyed seeing what they had next to throw before the might of the Ideon. There are scenes from inside of cockpits in Ideon that put most of Gundam and other mecha to shame. Just for the sheer tension and the sense of helplessness that you would have in some situations. I give this a 10 in story because it is such a wonderfully interesting mess and is lowkey responsible for inspiring lots of things that came after it. It is really going for it and because I enjoyed it so so much as someone who has been moving through mecha anime for the last year. This really felt like a high point.

Densetsu Kyojin Ideon is a highly underrated series. I don't think that people give it enough credit because of the clunky first few episodes and the famous Yoshiyuki Tomino-isms (side note: a prime example of his character interactions can been seen in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundamーwhich I love, but I can't deny that the characters are written like maniac depressive psychos). • I was initially turned off to this series because of how weird it was and how characters kept referring to themselves as samurai for a reason that I didn’t completely understand. I dropped it, but due to the iconicism and how it has beenreferenced by one of my favorite directors as one of his favorite show of all time (Hideaki Anno), I had to give it a chance. Plus, as you would expect with Anno's almost childlike love of Ideon, it contains massive parallels to his grand opus, Neon Genesis Evangelion. • Unlike many fans of Ideon, I don't JUST like the widely acclaimed second film: Be Invoked. I equally like the TV series. There are character development and subtleties that are missed if you don't watch the original show. • Gradually, the seams of the story seem apparent. The inevitability of war. Love that glues our souls to one another and yet rips them apart. Even if you surrender, you can't end conflict with others. Even if we're all the same, we're bound to betray each other. • The invincible giant mecha, The Ideon, even has a colossal twist at the end that sends the characters in disarray. Though the show is comic in a way that a series from the 1980s typically would be, the deaths in the show feel more deep and mature than most modern day shows. • An antithesis to Ideon's atmosphere is like an old Go Nagai TV adaptation or Lupin, except flooded with interlacing misanthropic undertones and unavoidable tragedy. The melancholic ending theme with all of the characters floating in space is something that will always compel me. • Space Runaway Ideon is like a nihilistic version of Space Battleship Yamato. It's a space opera that respects its characters and their complexities. There are heavy, iconic scenes and ideas stemming from this slab of pure passion. • It's beautiful and crushing in the same way of Texhnolyze, where there's no hope but there's painted fragments that seem to make life compelling. There's a Jungian kind of connection between all of us as a species that keeps us from completely drifting apart, and yet entropy is inevitable. • Ideon has something really special that I haven't seen in any other show. Much of the way the show looks is outdated and would do well for a remake, but the principles are not. If you don't mind something that is at its heart deeply fatalistic, then please give Ideon a try. I give it an 8/10.

Following his work on the famous Mobile Suit Gundam, director Yoshiyuki Tomino moved on to direct what is yet another one of his famous works in the mecha genre with Ideon, an entry in the super robot genre focused on humanity's clash with the alien Buff Clan by utilizing the titular mecha of the series. Personally for me, Ideon felt like a step down with what Gundam contributed in being one of the grandfathers of the "real robot" anime genre, though has some glimmers of potential. Whereas Gundam took the time to explore its world and offered enough fleshing out of both the Federation and Zeonfactions to show both had their morally grey areas, the same can't really be said for Ideon to a good extent. While a number of the human characters do get some fleshing out like Cosmo and Bes, nearly all members of the Buff Clan remain as two-dimensional characters in conflict with the human crew of the Ideon. Also, the series mostly focuses on the Ideon crew's conflict with the Buff Clan, with the latter continually spawning "mecha of the day" plots to attempt getting the Ideon in their possession and killing its human crew. Not helping matters is that it does take the series nearly a dozen episodes to start picking up steam with offering up some story development. And said story development does gradually start to deliver if you can survive past Ideon's earlier episodes. Later episodes of the series offer some interesting twists in the anime's story as the Ideon's crew start to learn more about the mecha's mysterious origins and question the very force that empowers it. Some solid character development is offered with the character of Karala, a Buff Clan member who defects from her race to join the human Ideon crew and develops a relationship with Bes. Also, the anime tosses in some twists to the "robot of the day" formula for later episodes when the Ideon crew also have to evade apprehension from human military forces who want to claim Ideon's power for themselves or assume the crew is in league with the Buff Clan. Still, this doesn't stop the formulaic plot setup and largely shallow members of the Buff Clan from rearing their heads throughout Ideon's run and the anime is also left abruptly unresolved during a major point in the anime's plot thanks to the series abruptly being cancelled during the time it aired. However, this issue would be resolved a year later with the release of Ideon's film sequel, Be Invoked. Visually, Ideon hasn't aged all that well. The character designs are a product of their time with the seemingly disco vibe that many characters sport with their appearance like Cosmo's afro and the Buff Clan's clothing looking like anything you may seen worn in retro sci-fi titles like The Jetsons and Flash Gordon. The animation quality can vary from looking terrible to decent during battle scenes, which are mostly not too spectacular to see for their choreography due to how slow and played out they are. Overall, I suppose my reception to Ideon is mixed. While touches of Tomino's story direction are on display in later episodes to make the series somewhat engaging, its flaws still stick out like a sore thumb compared to other mecha titles of the time period he directed like Gundam and Aura Battle Dunbine. Still as I hear Be Invoked is what is Ideon's most memorable use of Tomino's "Kill Em All" moniker, I suppose I'll be continuing my viewing of Ideon by checking out the film.

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