Save for that Kitty Kitten had a noticeable personality and she’s loving towards young children. Here are noticeable similarities presented in his/her post: Kitty Kitten and Rei Ayanami are both blue-haired lasses who are involved in some kind of love triangle between the main character (Cosmo, who’s also the son of a scientist) and Kasha Imhoff. I’ve been to a Spanish language board where a poster compared Ideon’s characters to their Evangelion counterparts. Space Runaway Ideon’s similarity to Evangelion can be boiled down to a number of scenes, themes and even the characters.
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But Space Runaway Ideon is one such anime that’s kind of similar to Evangelion (Hideaki Anno, who too made Evangelion when he was clinically depressed admitted that he and the rest of the production crew were influenced by Ideon when they made Evangelion) even if it’s kind of obscure, overlooked and seemed to have a more coherent storyline than Evangelion does despite that I only watched the movie “Be Invoked”. Mind you, in mecha toon history, this wasn’t the first time a pilot had to battle an enemy at sea and so is having ugly, monstrous alien enemies. It too had a reluctant boy protagonist who got into battle using a supernatural robot and had lost a parent to an unfortunate incident.
Raideen (Tomino’s first directed mecha toon) was also surprisingly one of the first anime to be aired on American TV, albeit and thankfully subtitled when it aired on Hawaiian television.
Mobile Suit Gundam also had a whiny boy pilot named Amuro Ray who too was the scion of a scientist and had a red clad antagonist named Char Aznable. Not to mention having lost a parent to some incident. Gunbuster features a protagonist who would be described as a female prototype for Shinji Ikari in some ways because of them are kind of insecure and moody at times, get bullied by other kids and look up to indigo-haired maternal figures. Nor is Evangelion the only one that had whiny, reluctant male protagonists or whiny protagonists in general who are obliged to pilot robots and having lost a parent. Somebody at a mecha blog remarked that there were other anime that featured reluctant mecha pilots that predated Evangelion. Evangelion wasn’t really neither the first nor is it a proper deconstruction of mecha anime. The funny thing about both productions is that they had a number of things Evafags take for granted. Mobile Suit Gundam didn’t have good ratings from the start but it did attract merchandising and licencing bids for its robot units that can be made into toys for children. Space Runaway Ideon was in some ways Mobile Suit Gundam done right initially. Sunrise also worked on a couple of 80s cartoons for American productions (which might be hard to believe for some people but Japanese animators working on American productions isn’t anything new or even sporadic*). But one of their first successes was a robot cartoon because there was money to be made from merchandising based on the robots and to some extent the protagonists who starred in that production. The studio behind the Gundam metaseries, Ideon and Raideen the Brave (Sunrise) were built on the foundations of animators formerly working for Tezuka’s Mushi Productions and the very first cartoon Sunrise made was a cartoon about talking fish (seriously). Prior to directing both Space Runaway Ideon and Mobile Suit Gundam, he also directed the enjoyable but somewhat cheesy Raideen the Brave.
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Space Runaway Ideon is an anime cartoon that’s directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino following the cancellation of his very well-known Mobile Suit Gundam series and when he had clinical depression.
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