![]() Post filters Reset Filters Hide: Fanart Cosplay Clips Official Media Help What to Watch? All of the Above News Contests Spoilers NSFW Search for: Episode Discussions Discussion Rewatch Official Media News Video Fanart Cosplay Watch This Writing Writing Club Clip Satire Help Contest Miscellaneousįollow us on Twitter! AMAs AMA Archive » Name Megathreads Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Anime of the Week Casual Discussion Fridays Week in Review Meta ThreadĪnime info Airing Show Discussions Frequently Asked Anime Questions Rewatches Weekly Discussions Watch Order Guides Recommendations Where to Watch Subreddit wiki Wiki index FAQ Mods Comment Faces by Category AMAs Events Related Subreddits Related Websites Watch This! Archive Writing Club All pages Spoiler Tag Changes Tag your spoilers, it's easier than ever!Ī Quick-Start Guide to /r/anime Learn all about the subreddit and why CDF is our Roanapur. I also manage Mecha Damashii and do toy reviews over at .The Start of Spring 2023 Survey Results See what everyone's looking forward to this season!Ĭheck out the Spring 2023 user flair options! Visit to pick one for yourself. Space Runaway Ideon is now available on Blu-ray and can be purchased from Sentai Filmworks.ĭisclosure: Maiden Japan sent me a copy of this set for the purposes of this review.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. However, if you persevere the journey is worth it, even if it is heartbreaking. This is not an anime for everyone though and while it isn’t a gory show, it can be quite brutal and violent in places. Overall, Ideon is an anime I never thought that would ever be released outside of Japan, so to have the remastered Blu-ray release with not only the series and movies is genuinely fantastic. This release also lacks an English dub but the original Japanese audio is accompanied with some solid English subtitles. You also have a collection of promos included. This set includes the entire series as well as the movies Contact and the finale Be Invoked. ![]() That means, even though this is an anime from the early 80s, it looks and sounds pristine.Īdmittedly the animation is quite dated but the scope of this anime is such, that you don’t notice that when planets are being cut in half. ![]() So to have Ideon in its entirety on Blu-ray is something I think that is entirely necessary at this point and I definitely appreciate the fact we now have it more widely available outside of Japan, if only to understand its cultural impact.Īs for this Blu-ray, it is taken from the recently remastered version that was released in Japan a while back. This was a noteworthy manga, not least because of the fact it was penned by Yuichi Hasegawa who would later go on to write Crossbone Gundam a few years later. Then there is the Gundam manga crossover, Counterattack of Gigantis, where Amuro, Char and Judau try to stop a newly awakened Ideon from destroying everything yet again. Wiping out entire maps with the Ideon Gun was oddly gratifying but doing that too often resulted in the bad ending, where everyone dies horribly. With the Super Robot Wars series, Ideon as a unit was a terrifying prospect in Super Robot Wars F Final but it was in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 that captured the bittersweet aspect to its horrifying power. However, when it comes to games, Ideon’s impact is far-reaching. What's more, Koichi Sugiyama of Dragon Quest fame also composed the music in Ideon and his score, like in the Dragon Quest games, underpins the immensity of what is happening and also the awful tragedy of the various events that unfold.Īs for Ideon’s influence across anime and games, where do you begin really? It’s well known that Hideaki Anno was partly inspired by Ideon when it came to the creation of Neon Genesis Evangelion but its impact didn't stop there, as many other Gainax anime were influenced by Ideon as well. For me anyway, the Ideon still looks like the God of GMs and in a way, that seems fitting. Though, the Buff Clan ships and mecha are fascinatingly alien and actually juxtapose the Ideon quite nicely. However, the mecha designs definitely counter-balance this maturity with Yuichi Higuchi of Studio Submarine having penned the suitably chunky Ideon. The entirety of 'Space Runaway Ideon' is now available on Blu-ray. ![]()
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