Both very human sides of the war claim to come from Earth, but, unlike Gundam nominally being semi-near future, Ideon represents such a distant point in time for humanity that both sides are far removed from what we would recognize as regular earth culture.
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As the series goes on, every battle the Ideon enters starts to find new ways to keep the tension going, with the Buff Clan devising new strategies to topple what is a seemingly invincible giant. You really wouldn't see this kind of sinister underpinning to the workings of a giant robot until Evangelion, which itself took heavy inspiration from IdeonĪlso, while the Ideon is a nearly insurmountable force in the setting, it is not invincible. As the Ideon's mysteries get progressively unraveled, the various people connected to it slowly come to realize that it's something much more horrifying than just a simple giant robot, adding a considerable element of cosmic horror. Its pilots (multiple, as this thing requires multiple crews in its different component vehicles to even function properly) constantly learn new abilities that are revealed to be even more and more dangerous, even to themselves. The energies that power it are virtually unpredictable throughout most of the series. It defends the people of the Solo Ship, but it is not their protector. While most shows would just be content to either have the giant robot be either a simple machine without will or a helpful friend, the Ideon is something much more unique for the time. Despite juggling such an expansive cast, Ideon does an incredible job building out its world and characters. While he initially seems like he's Tomino throwing his hands up at critics of Amuro from Gundam (who would likely go on to whine about Shinji in Eva) with how eager Cosmo is to pilot his giant robot, the curtains start to slowly get peeled back showing that Cosmo undergoes some very real trauma from his experience as a pilot and also has the potential for being a downright bad person at times, being a dramatically more complicated character in the long run.
Even Cosmo himself bucks a lot of trends.
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Equally important to Cosmo is Bes Jordan (who seems like he's the show's Bright Noah before it becomes apparent that he's effectively the co-lead among others) the commanding officer aboard the Solo Ship, Karala, the Buff Clan rebel who joins up with the crew of the Solo Ship, Sheryl, the scientist who helped to discover the Ideon in the first place, and even Gije, the Buff Clan ace who seems like the closest thing the show has to a Char (though he is so much more), all of whom play critical roles in the show (with the finale of the show and the entire impetus of the movie actually being based more around the actions of Bes and Karala). While you could pin down Cosmo Yuki as the closest thing to the show's main character, being the character who is most prominently featured in the opening and fills the traditional role of the young boy pilot, the entire cast of. While the intro of the show seems hopeful and poppy as any other mecha anime of the time, you can get a real sense of the underlying themes in the show, which become even more apparent at the end of each episode with the show's ending.ĭue to the nature of how, Ideon has a very expansive cast of characters. While some last more than others, in the end, nobody is really spared from this harsh reality.
While other animes of the time (and even since) treated character deaths as a major deal, Ideon makes it clear that death can come for any character at any time. While you would easily confuse the setup and overall trajectory of the show with 1982's Macross (which actually shared some crew and helped to cement the Itano Circus barrage of missiles that started with Ideon), these shows couldn't be any different. What starts as a hopeful encounter between two distinct pockets of humanity from far flung reaches of the universe quickly devolves into a desperate chase throughout the universe. If you thought Gundam was dark in its outlook, Ideon is downright bleak in the end.
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