#Space runaway ideon tomino death full#
The anti-war message may be unsubtle, but there is a feeling of how even the significant players like the Gundam team are just a part of a larger concern and the daring and charismatic recurring antagonist, Char Aznable is in turn just a minor, though equally significant, character on the Zeon side.Ī series I passed by back in the busy year of 2008, as another cute girls at school series like Hidamari Sketch or Sketchbook Full Colours but which turned out to have rather more energy and enthusiasm about what it's doing.
Then, finally, we return to space for a series of skirmishes, culminating in an escalating final battle where pretty much everything gets destroyed but the power of Zeon is broken and all seems well (until the next series).Įven after 30 years, and with an indifferent American dub, the series holds up as more than just a piece of history. ) thence to Ireland (where we meet a traditional red-headed Irish girl, with the traditional Irish name of Miharu), then across the Atlantic to a Federation base in South America, having circumnavigated the globe rather than going direct. Like the following year's Space Runaway Ideon, this has an element of a treadmill, where each episode the enemy - here the L2-based Principality of Zeon - uprates its mobile suits each episode and our guys with their carrier and mobile suits continue to level up to meet them.Īfter ten episodes of this, the action moves ground-side, with a long meander from south-east Asia, through to the Black Sea (with a number of side trips - "we need to reprovision with salt" our hero has an angst attack and has wandered off with the Gundam. Now add brutal robot combat, the usual Tomino level of named character futile deaths, mixed with toy commercials.
I remember when the future looked like Gundam - O'Neill colonies throughout the Earth-Moon system, but no internet.
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