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)
Genre	Drama,[1] Mecha,[2] space opera[3]
Created by	Hajime Yatate Yoshiyuki Tomino
Anime television series
Directed by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Produced by	Hiroshi Ishikawa (TV Tokyo) Tadashi Matsushima (Tokyu Agency) Toru Hasegawa (Sunrise)
Written by	Arata Koga Hiroyasu Yamaura [jp] Kenichi Matsuzaki [jp] Sukehiro Tomita Yuuji Watanabe
Music by	Koichi Sugiyama
Studio	Nippon Sunrise
Licensed by	NA: Maiden Japan
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
Music by	Koichi Sugiyama
Studio	Sunrise Sanrio
Licensed by	NA: Maiden Japan
Released	July 10, 1982
Runtime	85 minutes
Anime film
The Ideon: Be Invoked
Directed by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Written by	Hiroyasu Yamaura Kenichi Matsuzaki Sukehiro Tomita Yūji Watanabe
Music by	Koichi Sugiyama
Studio	Sunrise Sanrio
Licensed by	NA: Maiden Japan
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.^[4]