8/4/2023 0 Comments Space runaway ideon deathIn the end, it’s a question of whether Cosmo and the others will destroy planet Buff or if the Buff Clan will wipe out the Earthlings aboard the Ideon. The inner workings of Ide are suddenly bombarded with an influx of two new life forms’ cultures, thought-processes, and desires. In order to make contact with the new intelligent lifeforms a few centuries down the road, and activate their presumed will, there needed to be something - Ideon or Solo Ship - for either the Earthlings or Buff Clan to find.īut there is one big problem that occurs. Tomino: Since the 6th civilization was destroyed for Ide, all that remained of them was the mechs they created. At present, only the support mechs are available, and their screens only resemble the Ide symbol. Ideon and Solo Ship aren’t finished products, so it’s possible they questioned what would happen if either held such power. Tomino: I’m not sure the humans - the 6th civilization - would view it like that. So it wasn’t an accident, but the 6th civilization’s desire to be destroyed by Ideon? When Ideon started up using the thoughts of the 6th civilization - that energy “Ide” - it’s like it had a will of its own. However, when they did that, their bodies simultaneously perished. They hypothesized that if they gathered up their collective wills, they would be able to utilize it as an energy source and low-and-behold it worked. The 6th civilization, that created Ideon and the Solo Ship, was looking to make a machine that could harness the power of Ide inside of it. Parallel to this, Ideon will refuse to respond, causing the docked parts to break off. At a specific moment, Ide will start to work as an actual energy source. Right now those support mechs are nothing but a nuisance. Wouldn’t the support mechs be in the way in that case? Tomino: That’s what you think, right? But that’s wrong. What?! It hasn’t? I thought it harnessed the emotional energy and released all of its power! Tomino: It hasn’t touched its true power. As of this interview, Ideon is left in its giant transformed mode after assumingly using its true power to take on the Earth mechs. (Editor: Wait, he isn’t talking about Newtypes, right?) If I had to put the idea in a sentence, I’d say “The collection of intelligent beings’ knowledge.” Ide acts as a way for viewers to more or less connect a name to an idea. Tomino: It’s a name, that’s all there is to it. It’s Mazinger Z’s power source and the base for Aphrodite A’s body, or am I wrong? My Toei knowledge is lacking. Tomino: Ide has stirred up quite a lot of criticism, but it’s like Japanium from Mazinger Z. We proceeded through production under the assumption that there wasn’t a real connection. They aren’t necessarily talking about our same galaxy. It’s the same when the Buff Clan refers to the galaxy. Tomino: In my mind, Ideon just takes place somewhere amongst the stars. Ideon is a planetary story, but unlike previous generations, the new SF trend is to have the setting in such-and-such galaxy at so-and-so planet. When Karala talks about their home she isn’t explicitly saying the Earth we live on, but a continental-based planet. Lifeforms from a water environment would call their home planet something like Aqua, so those from a land environment would most likely name it Earth. The intelligent beings would have absolutely called their own planet Earth. Although, it might have been better if we didn’t name it after a real galaxy. Taking that story into space, we arrived at space immigrants in the Andromeda Galaxy. It’s all very dream-like and not based on science at all. On the surface, it looks like a story of power relations, war, and the struggle between two races, but it lingers back to the same question - why is Ideon there? It’s a story of humans - intelligent beings - that wanted to take the power of reincarnation into their own hands. It doesn’t fuss with all the tiny details. What were you aiming for with Ideon’s story? That’s because the magazines decided to promote it left and right for us. WordPress, unfortunately, crops images oddly so the full version can be found here! This interview took place and was published after the run of the original Space Runaway Ideon TV series and prior to the release of the movies The Ideon: A Contact and The Ideon: Be Invoked (they were a double feature.) Spoilers for the original series and Zambot 3 are present, so be careful!įeature image for this article is fanart by Yamada Yuuji (twitter: & pixiv). The original interview can be found in the 1982 March special release of Animec.
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