While originally planned to have about 43 episodes, Space Runaway Ideon was cancelled at episode 39 due to low ratings. As a result the ending of the TV series was... not as great as it could've been. This was eventually fixed later with the release of the second Ideon movie Be Invoked a year after the original broadcast of the show had ended.
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Space Runaway Ideon (episode 39)
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