Line #21 Anime/DaikyouryuNoJidai


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2	''Daikyouryu no Jidai'' ("Age of the Great Dinosaurs") is a rather obscure fantasy/adventure anime film distributed by Ishimori Productions and Toei Animation. Directed by Creator/ShotaroIshinomori and Hideki Takayama, it was released in 1979, and narrates the story of a trio of kids (Jun, Remi and her little brother Chobi) from modernized Japan who still treat nature with respect and conscience, unlike many other humans who pollute Earth and damage the planet a lot every day.
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4	One fateful night they are summoned by an unknown alien intelligence who tells them that mankind is losing its empathy, and, to teach them a lesson about life, death, and the fall of species, said alien intelligence transports the kids to Earth's past and leaves them right in the Mesozoic era, the time when dinosaurs were the supreme rulers of the Earth. Here, the trio has a series of adventures and misadventures, like befriending a baby ''Triceratops'', trying to escape from a dangerous ''[[TerrifyingTyrannosaur Tyrannosaurus rex]]'', witnessing the Cretaceous extinction and rise of the mammals, and discovering why it is important for humans to protect Earth before it's too late.
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6	As mentioned above, the film is very poorly-known, and only a few home releases are known. It can be watched for free online, but is usually found in a foreign language, like Spanish.
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9	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The ''Tyrannosaurus'' eventually gets speared to death by the Neanderthals, though this becomes sorrowful considering it's the LastOfItsKind.]]
10	* AllAnimalsAreDogs: The ''Triceratops'' hatchlings utter puppy-like squeals and coos.
11	* AnachronismStew: Despite being set in the Cretaceous, dinosaurs and other reptiles from the Triassic and Jurassic periods appear as well. The most jarring example is the cameo of the pelycosaurian synapsid ''Edaphosaurus'', which was already extinct by the time the earliest dinosaurs showed up. And then there's the Ice Age occurring right at the beginning of the Cenozoic era, rather than millions of years later in the Pleistocene.
12	* AquaticSauropods: Both of the film's sauropods, ''Brontosaurus'' and ''Brachiosaurus'', are only ever shown in water.
13	* ArtShift: The film starts with live-action scenes of modern Japan with anime-drawn pictures of dinosaurs constantly popping up, then switches to animation. At the end, there's a showcase of dino skeletons exposed in museums to symbolize their ultimate downfall.
14	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: A child example in Remi, who, like her brother and their friend, retains tidy hair and pristine clothing all throughout the movie despite the harshness of the prehistoric world.
15	* BigBad: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' that constantly harasses the group.
16	* DubNameChange: The ''Triceratops'' hatchling befriended by the kids is named "Zhu" in both the original and most dubbed releases, but the Mexican Spanish version changes his name to "Papapulis" and the English version calls him "Babypuss".
17	* DumbDinos: Averted, which is commendable as the anime was made recently after the Dinosaur Renaissance had set off. Zhu the ''Triceratops'' shows awareness of his surroundings [[spoiler:and deliberately sacrifices himself to keep the ''Tyrannosaurus'' away from the humans]]. Unfortunately for the protagonists, the main ''Tyrannosaurus'' villain also has signs of intelligence despite being a bloodthirsty predator, as it chases after the heroes out of vengeance for damaging its eye. The other dinos don't seem to be particularly dumb (they even, quite humorously, react painfully to a battle between two male ''Pachycephalosaurus'').
18	* EatsBabies: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' devours all but one of the baby ''Triceratops'' that the kids find.
19	* {{Expy}}: Remi bears a strong resemblance to Francoise Arnoul from ''Manga/Cyborg009''.
20	* EyeScream: Chobi throws a sharpened stick into the ''Tyrannosaurus'''s left eye, gouging it out. [[spoiler: At the end of the film, as the Neanderthals spear the ''T. rex'' to death, one of the spears strikes and destroys his only remaining eye.]]
21	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: This is a very graphic animated film, considering its target audience. The ''Tyrannosaurus'' gets gored repeatedly, and several other dinosaurs, including babies, fall to his appetite.
22	* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Jun, Remi and Chobi re-encounter [[spoiler:the Tyrannosaurus during the ice-age. It’s unclear if the extraterrestrials also brought him forward in time for a unspecified purpose or he has somehow been alive for 66 million years.]]
23	* GiantAnimalWorship: [[spoiler:The Neanderthals worship the ''Tyrannosaurus'' as a deity and make offerings of human sacrifices to it. It takes Chobi standing up to it to finally convince them to try fighting back against the ''T. rex''. It's not unlike Odo from the prehistoric chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive''.]]
24	* HeadButtingPachy: A pair of of ''Pachycephalosaurus'' are shown to be headbutting each other so hard that it not only gets the attention of other dinosaurs, but scares them too. [[spoiler:Not the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' though, he came for dinner.]]
25	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Zhu the ''Triceratops'' pushes the ''T. rex'' over a cliff, deliberately plummeting down with it, to keep him away from the humans.]]
26	* LastOfHisKind: The Tyrannosaurus is this by the end.
27	* MamaBear: The mother ''Triceratops'' fights the ''Tyrannosaurus'' for attacking her last remaining young. Sadly, she doesn't win.
28	* NonHumanSidekick: The baby ''Triceratops'', later named "Zhu", whom Chobi befriends, imprinting on them as his parents. His brothers and sisters did the same, but the ''Tyrannosaurus'' has other ideas...
29	* SocialOrnithopod: Among the sleeping dinosaurs are a mother ''Iguanodon'' with her young and a trio of ''Edmontosaurus'' (identified as ''Trachodon'') huddled together. Later, a pair of ''Corythosaurus'' and another trio of ''Edmontosaurus'' watch a fight between two ''Pachycephalosaurus''.
30	* SoleSurvivor: Zhu the ''Triceratops'' is the only survivor of his family after his siblings and their mother are killed by the ''Tyrannosaurus''.
31	* SnowySabertooths: A saber-toothed cat is among the prehistoric animals encounter by the children in the Ice Age. It chases after a Neanderthal, but is then crushed by a woolly mammoth.
32	* StockSoundEffects: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' has the classic Showa Godzilla and Gamera roars.
33	* SuperPersistentPredator: The ''T. rex'' shows up everywhere the trio go, [[spoiler:even somehow travelling through time all the way to the Stone Age]]. It's actually pursuing them to get revenge, as they had taken out its eye [[spoiler:and Zhu nearly killed it]].
34	* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: The film's main antagonist is a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', portrayed as the most dangerous of all dinosaurs.
35	* ToothyBird: Not a bird per se, but the ''Pteranodons'' are depicted with teeth.
36	* TwinkleInTheEye: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' does this frequently.
37	* WouldHurtAChild: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' [[EatsBabies eats]] all but one (Zhu) of the baby ''Triceratops'' that the kids meet.

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