伝説巨神イデオン, lit. "Legendary Giant God Ideon", also "The Ideon", known in English as Space Runaway Ideon, is a 1980 super robot anime television series produced by Sunrise company.
The Ideon TV series was created and directed by Tomino Yoshiyuki, and was the series he produced immediately following his most famous 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 Ookawara Kunio (Ideon) and Higuchi Yuichi from Studio Submarine for the TV series, with additional designs by Higuchi Yuuichi for the animated movies. The characters were designed by Kogawa Tomonori.
