Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesJapanese: 伝説巨神イデオン 発動篇 English: The Ideon: Be Invoked More titles InformationType: Movie Episodes: 1 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Jul 10, 1982 Producers: None found, add some Licensors: Maiden Japan Studios: Sunrise Source: Original Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi Themes: Mecha, Space Duration: 1 hr. 38 min. Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity StatisticsScore: 7.901 (scored by 4,229 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #8202 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #6373 Members: 11,125 Favorites: 211 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Apr 27, 2010 MS06FZ Recommended It is difficult to write a review of The Ideon: Be Invoked without also writing about A Contact. It's not recommended you watch this film without having seen either the full series or the first movie. However, if you have the context needed from having watched the preceding events, Be Invoked is a truly excellent ending to the show. The essential idea behind The Ideon is that it subverts the idea of super robots being man's servants against an alien menace by giving the titular robot a form of mind of its own, and removing the element of human control. The events of Be Invoked pick up ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 24, 2016 Quiddity131 Recommended The Ideon: Be Invoked is the thrilling conclusion to the Space Runaway Ideon franchise. In my eyes this is one of the best anime movies of all time and still is today, almost 35 years after its release. A little bit of background is necessary coming into this movie. Space Runaway Ideon was a television series that aired from 1980 to 1981. Originally intended to last a full year, the show got cancelled after 39 episodes. The show’s director and much of the crew had been involved with the show Mobile Suit Gundam, which had suffered a similar fate, but had been provided with a ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 22, 2015 TwoSevenTwo Recommended "Be Invoked" is absolutely fantastic, but it doesn't stand on its own (unless you just like pretty animation and gruesome deaths). If you want to care at all about any of the characters or understand any of what's going on, you'll either have to watch "A Contact" or the TV show first, neither of which quite match the standards of Be Invoked. If you watch "A Contact", you'll get a compressed version and miss much of the characterization. If you watch the TV series, you're in for a long haul of 39 episodes, some of which are just garbage, but the last ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 30, 2009 yaosaku Recommended The Ideon: Be Invoked it's the second and last movie of a compilation of the series Space Runaway Ideon created by the infamous Yoshiyuki (Kill'em all) Tomino. Story 10/10 the story is very appealing and well developed at least in this second movie, there's a lot of tragedy, a lot of killing, all of them caused because the two enemy factions are unable to understand each other and they make their small diferences bigger then their really are. At the end of it all the hatred, the pride, the desire for vengeance and the willing to live, merge in one of the most epic ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 10, 2020 brandotendie Recommended The Ideon: Be Invoked ran so End of Evangelion could fly. i haven't been THIS slackjawed at anything anime since my first watch of End of Evangelion several years ago. absolutely masterful. the best payoff i've gotten from the groundwork of a preceding TV show tie-in since motherfucking Fire Walk with Me. it's THAT amazing. the sheer amount of emotions this film puts you through as it boils to a mind-melting fever point is overWHELMING. the previous 39 (well, 38 really if we have to discount the final episode) episodes completely lull us into believing in the in-world plot armor; everyone on board the Solo Ship and the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 12, 2023 SuperJohnDoe Recommended It was all worth it. The awful first half, the nonsensical battles, the bizarre nature of the Ideon, neither side willing to negotiate after failed attempts to do so... The movie rendeemd all of the TV show's faults and goes far beyond its original scope. It's hard to believe this was originaly intended to be a bunch of episodes as the flow of the entire film is quite smooth. The score definitely helps in this case; we go from typical campy and upbeat songs you'd expect from an old-school anime to a proper orchesrta adding their colourful and rich sound to the events that unfold. All of ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 10, 2022 Spirit_Chaser Recommended There will be spoilers as there is no other way I can do this. When I first watched Ideon with the series, I sat in awe of the marvel of the Ideon itself. A giant sentient being with unlimited power. Still, there was always something that didn't feel right from the start. It's the lyrics to the opening. As much as I felt grateful for it saving the cast time and time again, something didn't feel right. Something felt eerie, or even disturbing, about the Ideon. Soon enough, it's shown that this is a monster, and no one from Captain Bes's ship wanted it anymore soon ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 20, 2018 ggultra2764 Recommended Ideon: Be Invoked serves as an alternate retelling to the final several episodes of the TV anime when it was abruptly cancelled the year prior before Sunrise could wrap up the anime's plot. The film serves to wrap up events in the escalating conflict between the human crew of the Ideon and the alien Buff Clan. Be Invoked starts where the TV anime left off in depicting Karala's confrontation with her father before the Ideon's power surges upward in response to the hostility between both factions. From then on, the film doesn't let up in showing how these hostilities result in an all-out final conflict between ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 31, 2022 rooster_ Recommended Nowadays Ideon may come off as a heavy-handed allegory for nuclear warfare and the apparent inevitability of human conflict, but Be Invoked--a feature film that provides the original series with a final arc and ending, instead of the rushed final episodes prompted by the show's cancellation--continues to be one of the most emotionally devastating and spiritually aspirational anime. The fact that Ideon began as a transparently toyetic mecha franchise, which is still reflected in many of its designs, doesn't detract from how seriously the story takes itself, its characters, and its message. The violence pulls no punches, even when children are involved, and this is ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 15, 2022 MazinGaius Recommended Genuinely the greatest movie I have ever seen in my entire life. Never in my entire albeit short time have I ever been left so mesmerized by a piece of media. The way Be Invoked manages to take the stress-inducing, paranoid experience of the TV series and take it to a whole new level is jaw-dropping. Ideon is not as well-known outside of japan, but within the mecha mythos, it's arguably one of the most revered properties not only within the genre, but amidst all of anime, serving as clear inspiration for later visionaries (Hideaki Anno directly cites Ideon as one of the main inspirations ... Read more Open Gift Report |
