The wanton cruelty displayed by Buff Clan in its destructive attacks on Solo's civilians is rather casually presented. She realizes that the power of Id may indeed reside on Solo and may even be powering the giant robot, Ideon, and the massive ancient space ship buried in a cave that is used by the people of Solo to evacuate the planet and head towards Earth.
Only Lady Karara, an officer from the Buff Clan fleet who investigates the people of Solo on her own, makes an earnest attempt to communicate with the people of Solo and is soon taken prisoner.
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They attack Solo with virtually no provocation, setting the stage for a series of battles which last almost till the end of the film. The invaders, who call themselves Buff Clan, are looking for an energy source called the Id. Most of the dramatics are carried out by an assortment of interesting women characters, including Sheryl Formosa, one of the lead officers of the human colony on the planet Solo, which comes under attack from another human outpost in space, a much older civilization most likely also descended from Earth travelers. He doesn't really get to do much here other than pilot the Ideon. The lead male character, young Cosmo, distinguished by the red "afro" hairstyle he sports, is an older, less conflicted character than Gundam's Amuro Ray. Still, as a fan of 1980s anime, I enjoyed watching the transforming mecha, the massive space ships, and constant flurry of explosive battles in space. In IDEON, a lot of context is removed and it's clear that huge chunks of plot are missing.
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The movie suffers from having to condense so much into 85 minutes, unlike the Gundam movies which had well over six hours of running time in total to play with. "Ideon" is basically just another giant robot shoot-em-up in space, although done with great skill and design. There are so many similarities between the two series that it's easy to dismiss this as a watered-down rehash of "Gundam," which offered more complexity, more attention to character development and more of a challenging narrative. Like "Gundam," "Ideon" was created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and deals with a giant robotic fighting vehicle piloted by young people to defend their society from human attackers from another planet. It follows the model established by "Mobile Suit Gundam" (1979) which turned its 43 episodes into three movies, each over two hours. It includes some footage newly created just for the movie to help smooth over transitions between story arcs. THE IDEON: A CONTACT (1982) is a compilation movie condensing events from the first 32 episodes of the 39-episode Japanese animated TV series, "Space Runaway Ideon" (1980).
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