But compared to Evangelion-which with its exacting character studies, iconic psychedelic imagery, and outré approach to shot and scene composition ensures its tale of looming apocalypse feels pressingly of the moment even a quarter of a century later-Ideon seems like it’s been dug up from some Precambrian stratum.
The tale of a group of space-faring colonizers forced to flee aimlessly across the galaxy after they earn the ire of militaristic aliens known as the Buff Clan, today it’s known almost exclusively outside Japan as one of the inspirations for Neon Genesis Evangelion. It would be easy to categorize his Space Runaway Ideon as an emblematic mess.
His storytelling style is “muddled and distracted,” his “sense of dramatic timing and emotional gravitas” is lacking, every element too often undermined by a reliance on mercurial characters whose attributes shift as the plot demands it and a wishy-washy transcendental metaphysics actively at odds with Tomino’s own graspings after a kind of hard-bitten, hard-boiled realism.
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Examining Space Runaway Ideon, another one of Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino’s many beautiful messes.Īnime News Network founder Justin Sevakis once dismissed Yoshiyuki Tomino-creator of the Gundam franchise, Space Runaway Ideon, and dozens of other series both influential and forgotten-as “one of anime’s naked emperors,” a storyteller with a style “muddled and distracted,” lacking for “dramatic timing and emotional gravitas.” If such a declaration sounds callous given Tomino’s distinction within the industry, it’s not necessarily unfair: by any metric modern or classic Tomino is something of a bumbler.
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