All the episodes and movie are on youtube and even subtitled. So if you have some time on your hands, I def recommend checking this out. So it kind of makes this old series and especially Be Invoked somewhat of a legend. And as much as I would love to see them re-boot it and modernize the designs and so forth like they have done with Yamato 2199 and Gundam the Origin, I just can't see that happening. Its had a great deal of influence on modern anime. Designers really tested the waters on all sorts of crazy designs back then, and while I wasn't a fan of them when I was younger, I appreciate their character today. I love cool looking robots, but I also love weird ones, and Ideon has plenty of those. Even a moment when the Ideon cuts an entire planet in half. Of course, lots of drama and back-stabbing along the way. With the goofy robots and character designs (which feel more 70s than 80s), you initially may not feel its something to take serious, but its got a pretty interesting story where on one side the humans have this massive, ancient robot they don't understand, and an alien race which believes their survival is dependent on destroying it, leading up to a fast-paced ending where everyone loses. He literally kills off everyone by the end of Be Invoked, which some pretty shocking deaths (a pregnant woman being shot in the head, a young girl getting decapitated). Tomino is famous for killing off a lot of his characters, and Ideon is no exception. A Contact pretty much sums up the 39 episodes in one film, and A Contact is essentially the conclusion of the story. Eventually he was able to produce two follow-up films, A Contact, and Be Invoked. Like Gundam, it wasn't terribly popular during its TV run and was cancelled early. Have any of you watched this 1980s anime series? Many of you are probably familiar with Gundam, and the guy who wrote and directed it, Yoshiyuki Tomino, did Ideon immediately after.
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