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For six months, they have diligently restored the machines, but have failed to get the giant tanks to move. They also come across a large spaceship known as the Solo Ship. On the planet Solo in the Andromeda Galaxy, a group of archaeologists have come across the mysterious remains of the Ideon-three large armored tanks with the ability to combine into a godlike mecha. Space Runaway Ideon begins in 2300, far enough in the future that mankind has begun colonizing other planets.

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Unpleasant as the Clan are, their situation-trapped on a rollercoaster of military necessities which they helped start-is not unfamiliar.Screenshot of an Ideon eyecatch Television Series (prior to the ending) That said I can spare a little fellow-feeling for the Buff Clan, despite rather than because of anything Ideon itself does. They aren’t guilty for resisting tyranny, as horrible as their war was. Maybe the ending of Space Runaway Ideon is just-compare Zeta Gundam, in which the finale’s distribution of deaths and vegetative states feels unjust for, after all, the AEUG are good guys. It’s not even especially sad, once you think about it: yes, we’ve had enough of these too-human humans. That makes the famous kill-’em-all ending sensible. Instead, the verdict seems to be that we’re all bastards who deserve limited sympathy at best, and the only solution is to kill everyone. But I’d like to use it as a starting point, because it made me think: I’m not convinced that the show needs or wants us to sympathise with the Buff Clan. Mike’s post is a very reasonable response to the first eighteen episodes. If anything, Ideon‘s means to a sympathetic villain is “make the good guys seem more like turds.” awesome power, along with a dearth of insight into their real motivations, makes a much less sympathetic villain. I was much happier to go along with this sort of thing in Be Invoked than I was when watching, say, Victory Gundam.

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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.