What the hell is up with this character writing?! It’s ambiguous and seemingly undefined is what, like much of the series. Cosmo, the lead will either be a hot blooded idiot who’s sole driving motivation is “Damn, Buff Clan” and then the next episode he’s waxing philosophical with Bes on how they all wish they could just get along. Kasha for example may be depicted in one episode as the most immature and moody brat you will ever possibly see in an anime, but then later on she is for some reason among the most compassionate characters in the show (like when she is trying to comfort Sheryl after Gije’s death). Rather, once the Ide factor kicks in to the series, character logic and behaviour is thrown out the window. #Space runaway ideon nihon review series#Unfortunately the series never really takes the whole Ide plotline this far, and this is pretty much speculation by me instead on what might have been. One could argue, that this itself is a depiction of humanities constant battle with it’s own ambiguous nature and that coming out at a period when the Cold War was reaching a climax, that Ideon was debating whether humanity would have the resolve to reconcile it’s differences across cultures that are really of the same race like the Buff Clan and Earthlings, or whether they were destined to destroy each other by an inexplicable lust for violence. In one episode it will be protecting the Solo Ship and won’t allow them to kill certain Buff Clan members by robbing the Ide of a power supply (The Ide actually supplies the Ideon with much of it’s power) and is depicted as merciful, while in other episodes it will be depicted as this evil malevalant force that won’t allow the Solo Ship members a moments piece and will blow up entire planets with impunity for seemingly no reason. The Ide itself seems to flip flop between all of these desires, such that it’s true nature never becomes apparent. This nature though as we obviously know is ambiguous in itself, as the characters frequently debate whether the Ide is trying to protect them, or draw them towards the Buff Clan, and if the latter, whether it is towards the mutual destruction of both races, or their eventual reconciliation. The Ide as far as I can understand it is there to act as a symbolic representation of the collective nature of humanity, which believe it or not it literally is. This would continue across the whole series and you would imagine the message should be pretty self evident, but perhaps in a misguided attempt to an extra layer to the plot, Tomino made the decision to add the Ide plotline to the story, which depending on luck, either seems to add a layer of mystery to an episodes or arcs storyline, or make it all but incomprehensible. Things get off to a rocky start between the two cultures, and this is where the series main theme appears to come into play, that being, a lack of trust and understanding between two otherwise similar cultures that causes them to fight and kill each other in a building and seemingly neverending cycle of hatred. Soon enough like many Tomino series the colonists find themselves under attack by the Buff Clan, an alien race who’s legend of the Ide, a hero who would smite evil and lead their civilization to glory, has led them to Solo or Logo Dau as they call it in an attempt to seize the Ideon. Space Runaway Ideon starts off humble enough with a crew of human colonists on the planet Solo unearthing an ancient relic of the “6th Civilization” in the form of a battleship that is dubbed the Solo Ship by it’s crew, and 3 mobile vehicles that eventually combine into a giant mobile mecha called the Ideon. Join me as I tell the story of my adventure with the Solo Ship crew in trying to figure out just what the hell the overall message of the series was supposed to be. As I finally finished the series tonight, I found that this would be the least of the series problems with ambiguity that would ultimately lead to it being far less well received by me then it could have been. Is it Space Runaway Ideon or Densetsu Kyojin Ideon. Space Runaway Ideon, a series so ambiguous that it can’t even decide what it’s supposed to be called. Gije’s Question Would Eventually Become The Key Point On What I Took Away From The Series
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