Space Runaway Ideon
| Space Runaway Ideon | |
Blu-ray box art of the movie adaptation of the series: A Contact and Be Invoked | |
| 伝説巨神イデオン (Densetsu Kyojin Ideon) | |
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| Genre | Drama, Mecha, space opera |
| Created by | Hajime Yatate Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
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| Music by | Koichi Sugiyama |
| Studio | Nippon Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Tokyo Channel 12 |
| Original run | May 8, 1980 – January 30, 1981 |
| Episodes | 39 |
| Anime film | |
| The Ideon: A Contact | |
| Directed by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Produced by | Toru Hasegawa |
| Written by | Kenichi Matsuzaki Sukehiro Tomita Yuji Watanabe Hiroyasu Yamaura |
| Music by | Koichi Sugiyama |
| Studio | Sunrise Sanrio |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | July 10, 1982 |
| Runtime | 85 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| The Ideon: Be Invoked | |
| Directed by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Produced by | Toru Hasegawa |
| Written by | Hiroyasu Yamaura Kenichi Matsuzaki Sukehiro Tomita Yūji Watanabe |
| Music by | Koichi Sugiyama |
| Studio | Sunrise Sanrio |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | July 10, 1982 |
| Runtime | 100 minutes |
Space Runaway Ideon (伝説巨神イデオン, Densetsu Kyojin Ideon; lit. Legendary Giant Ideon, also The Ideon) is a 1980 anime television series produced by Sunrise, created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, produced immediately following his signature work, Mobile Suit Gundam. It first premiered on TV Tokyo from 1980 to 1981, followed by two feature films in 1982, and was later broadcast in Japan by the satellite TV network Animax from September 2006.
Its mechanical designs were created by Yuichi Higuchi at Studio Submarine. The television series credited only the design studio, while Higuchi received full credit for the subsequent films. The characters were designed by Tomonori Kogawa. The series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for the second half of 1980.