AniWorthPikaia!
Introduction
The story begins in the future when Earth itself is no longer inhabitable by living creatures. Humans began their interstellar migration with space colonies. Vince and Hana work as researchers in the Cambrian Project. Together with the creature Pikaia, they seek the Lost Code, the key to restoring Earth, and aim to return to Cambrian-era Earth.
(Source: ANN)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.79/10 · 298
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| 5/10 | 59 |
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| 10/10 | 35 |
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Audience reviews
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Timz0r
Pikaia! is an interessing educational anime, aimed for kids mostly, but it's quite entertaining to say the least for adults aswell that are interessed in prehistoric life. Pretty much each episode is very short to say the least. It begins with a recap what happend last episode and it ends with some over Japanese dubbed footage from prof. Andrew Parker from the London Natural History Museum explaining a bit more about some trivia what you have seen in the episode.
Story: 6/10 (Fine)
The story begins in the future when Earth itself is no longer inhabitable and the human race now lives in space, but a couple scientists that coined 'The Cambria Project' are trying to investigate the mid Cambrian biota to eventually find some clues how to restore Earth, so they send off two kids named Vince a…
Read at the sourceFlueckli
Targeted at kids this educational anime does a fairly good job. There is always a thin line in educational anime between being interesting and becoming boring, but in Pikaia they were able to balance out the entertainment and educational parts.
The story is pretty interesting, it often felt like being a fusion of futuristic elements, but also the past of Cambrian era. Mostly the pacing of the show was rater slow, except for their little but important adventure missions.
There was usually at first a block with the actual pikaia episode (short recap & current episode) and after that the educational explanation block, in which they referred to the episode, the history/background behind it, but also to today's technology and research. In pikaia they were able to pique the interest from the…
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