Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1980

Having not watched the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam in this constrained sampling of anime through the years, I was still intent in taking in something Yoshiyuki Tomino had worked on. A Blu-Ray set I hadn’t opened until now was ready to hand; I hadn’t opened it because I had watched “fansubs” of Space Runaway Ideon some time ago, long enough ago that I compared its “dysfunctional survivors on the run” story to the then-recent “reboot” of Battlestar Galactica. I’d also sampled its first episode during my 2010 tour, but while I do have a few other anime series from 1980 available to be watched as I said I did want to stop in on a “Tomino series.”
( The Ideon rises )