Heart is a tyrannosaurus who is found and raised bv a herbivore mother. After learning his true nature as a meat eater, he runs away from home and finds a baby ankylosaurus egg that hatches and thinks Heart is his father. After accidentally naming the baby Yummie - thinking he looked tasty - their love for one another tests the bounds of nature vs. nurture.
Directed by Masaya Fujimori
adoptive father
coming of age
dinosaur
based on children's book
anime
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.9 / 5
Cast
Kappei Yamaguchi
Heart (voice)
Seishirou Katou
Umasou (voice)
Tomoyo Harada
Mother (voice)
Tokuyoshi Kawashima
Light (voice)
Tetsuya Bessho
One-eyed Bacu (voice)
Rikako Aikawa
Heart (young) (voice)
Takuya Kirimoto
Gonza (voice)
Maria Kawamura
Licker (voice)
Crew
Osamu Murakami
Screenplay
Tamiya Terashima
Original Music Composer
Atsuko Nozaki
Key Animation
Toshihiko Nakajima
Sound Director
Shizuo Kurahashi
Sound Effects
Popular Reviews
10 reviews
James Michael SmithPRO
6.0★ · 12/04/25
Don’t even ask
Don’t even ask
Bailey
6.0★ · 10/27/25
Imagine if the T-Rex from Land Before Time did Naruto fighting and throw in a little Fox and the Hound and that’s this movie.
Imagine if the T-Rex from Land Before Time did Naruto fighting and throw in a little Fox and the Hound and that’s this movie.
