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retroanimechris · 2 months ago
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Drew some Ideon
イデオン バッフ・クラン
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motionjames · 1 year ago
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guide for new gundam fans
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spacebattleshippotemkin · 3 months ago
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Ideon. Normal Robot. Nothing to worry about.
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k-punch · 6 months ago
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ZZ Gundam VS Ideon thumbnail
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kasperl-ruprecht · 11 months ago
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3starjammies · 29 days ago
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The Ideon: Be Invoked (1982)
Directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino
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bagea · 6 months ago
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the will of ide, god of death, destroyer of worlds (overwhelming power)
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sundanceritz · 7 months ago
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Space Runaway Ideon (1980)
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laylafgore · 1 year ago
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Sisters
(another Ideon fanart to distract myself from my creative crisis tehehe)
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doyouknowthisanime · 8 months ago
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Do You Know This Anime? (Poll #500!)
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randomnumbers751650 · 4 months ago
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So, I finished watching Ideon a few days ago and one thing that I thought to be really unique is how Ideon is a theodicy or has elements of a theodicy. Just to let you know, a theodicy is a question on the problem of evil: if God can and wants to prevent evil, and if God is good, then why does evil exist? It should be noted that a theodicy doesn’t necessarily require that God exists or not (I know actual economists and political scientists who unironically call their disciplines theodicies), because questions on the origin of evil are things that are with humanity since immemorial times. Also spoilers for a 40 year old show.
In Ideon, as they learn more and more about the power of the Ide, the Giant reveals itself more and more of a god. In fact, it is called a god in mid-season episodes, but they stop that after a while, probably the writers thinking it might be too much on the nose. But still, the characters are constantly debating why Ide allows that, if Ide is testing them, if Ide is good or evil, since it is orchestrating the meteor falls. A curious thing is that we have Ide’s perspective just once, with Bes’s dream – it wants to survive – and the rest of the discussions is what humans believe to Ide’s will to be, like as if they were some sort of amateur theologians.
In the end, they conclude Ide is trying to kill them because it deemed them unworthy of salvation due to their inability of stopping the cycle of war, but, again, this is their interpretation. And, in the end, Ideon is finally destroyed…but it was already established it had infinite energy, so it is kinda certain that it just allowed itself to be defeated.
Ideon is a story of how war is hell, using a super robot in a real robot story. It portrays conflict escalation, hypocrisy of ideals of honor in an environment that gives power to petty people, capable of selling their comrades for a promotion, or committing war crimes without any tactical advantage – it’s kinda obvious the Buff Clan is based on Imperial Japan, while humans seem to be inspired from Star Trek’s idea of federation – and, above all, the process of dehumanization: it starts with a sense of technological pride, impulse by miscommunication, which constantly evolves into incapacity of recognizing the other as anything but insects, and overall mutual hatred. It ended with parents disowning their child, a father trying to kill his daughter for a frivolous reason such as “blood purity” and what essentially was an attempt to make a human sacrifice to Ide (with Sheryl). No wonder, Ide decides that enough is enough, its patience wouldn’t last forever. The series goes out of its way to show that humans and buffs brought that to themselves.
Personally, I don’t think Ide is evil. I feel it genuinely wanted for humans and buffs to live in peace. The way it cares for children isn’t just because it’s an amalgamation of children from the previous civilizations, but because it genuinely likes them and see them as symbols of hope (or else it wouldn’t protect and support the adults as well) or innocence (when it protected the giant worm children). I could tell when Sheryl attempted to sacrifice Lou to make Ide work, it was beyond pissed off, to the point of destroying their homeworlds and colonies. This is why I don’t buy Ide was setting up a trap to kill both species, it could’ve done any time. It still preserved the ones in space, using the last of hope that they could solve their differences, but its hope drained with every advance, so if it wanted to destroy them, it wanted to make clear that if it was destroying them, it wanted to make them understand why before doing it.
In spite of that, Ide still loved life, including the lives of humans and buffs until the end. When all of them die in the final moments of the movie, they all reunite and, upon seeing the greatness of the universe, they can see how petty and a waste of time their squabbles and wars were. So, Ide had Messiah to guide them to a new planet, to restart the cycle again, hoping this time they would learn the lesson. In spite of Tomino showing a bleak pessimism throughout the series, I feel the end is optimistic.
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rga531 · 5 months ago
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My favorite part of Ideon is when there's this giant robot who's god in metallic form and they use these chairs you can find in the discount section of Walmart to pilot it.
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peterrrei · 1 year ago
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as youngsters say, motherrrr
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obscureanimeoftheday · 11 months ago
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Obscure Anime of The Day:
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Densetsu Kyojin Ideon
Aired: 1980-1981
Genres: Action, Drama, Mecha, Military, SciFi, Violence
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kasperl-ruprecht · 7 months ago
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werewolf-gimmick-2 · 2 months ago
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Reminder when you are being mean to me this is who you are being mean to
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