Introduction
Dr. Taylor was on a paleontology mission with his son, Max in Africa. Rex, Max's best friend, joins along as well. When Max had stumbled across some magic stone slabs with images of dinosaurs, the boys and their friend Zoe were being called out by the dinosaurs for help. It seems that an evil organization called the "Alpha Gang," led by the nefarious Dr. Z, traveled back in time to hunt down the dinosaurs so that they could take over the world by using those dinosaurs. It is up to Max, Rex, and their friend Zoe to travel around the world, defeating Dr. Z and the Alpha Gang while hunting down the dinosaurs.
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Audience reviews
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steamingwiz
Absolute banger status anime. It has it all: the intricate plotline, deep and memorable characters, sad moments, funny moments, badass dinosaur fight scenes. The story follows Max, a troubled young man trying to fit in with society, just like we all are. On a fateful day he meets his steed, a triceratops named Chomp. Along with his 2 friends: Zoe and Rex, and their respective partners: Paris and Ace (A pararaurolophus and a carnotaurus), they set out on a journey to capture all of the dinosaurs that have been misplaced in modern time. This journey would not be an easy one, as they would be intercepted by the meandering evildoers known as the Alpha Gang. However, with the power of friendship anything is possible.
The story delves deeply into the internal struggles that each character face…
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Note: the show is intended for kids, my expectations weren't too high even considering that.
I wanted to watch this anime because I remember watching it as a little kid when I was obsessed with dinosaurs. However during watching the first episode I realized it would feel like a task instead of something I'd watch for enjoyment.
The plot is just a Pokémon rip off. Some kids who find ''real dinosaurs'' and need to defeat the bad guys. There's no real depth or opportunity to further develop the plot.
The idea of it is promising but it has been done so much better before.
Leaving that aside the dinosaurs are very poorly animated, the battles are boring and leave almost no room for variation.
If anyone reading this knows a good anime about dinosaurs please let me know because i need to fill t…
Read at the sourceHD7
Story: 6
The story is episodic. Each episode has its plot. Each episode follows the same blueprint; new dinosaur appears, go battle bad guys, defeat bad guys. The show gets repetitive very fast. One thing that frustrated me was that I didn't know how the battle system worked. What determines who wins a battle? It always felt like the D-team would use a move card and they would win. I would've enjoyed the show more if they had some sort of battle system.
Characters: 6
The characters are Max, Rex, and Zoe, they're pretty generic and nothing special. The main antagonist is the Alpha Gang which mainly consists of Dr. Z, Ursula, Ed, and Zander. The Alpha Gang reminds me a lot of Team Rocket from Pokemon. My favorite character is Max's dad Dr. Taylor. I just loved how goofy he is.
Art: 6
The a…
Read at the sourceShubham_m
This anime is underrated, it's a rare gem actually. This is the anime i loved since childhood, it is a mixture of fun, comedy, adventure, friendship, teamwork, knowledge and of course DINOSAURS!! All characters are fun and graphics of dinosaurs for such animation is amazing and unique. The concept of story are amazing that includes time travel, future, past, aliens, robots, card based battles. elements and much more. I also liked the fact that despite being an anime for kids it gives knowledge about various places of world, dinosaurs and historical events to some extent. I really recommend to watch both seasons of this masterpiece!
Read at the sourceMiniswag
I love this anime, I first watched this as a kid back in 2010 and I fell in love.
This anime is kind of long but the ending is very satisfying.
I however do recommend to only watch this if you like dinosaurs or "creature battle" type anime because well... this is a dinosaur anime.
Personally, I love dinosaurs which is why I adore this anime. I even have some DK trading cards and I am expanding my collection of DK stuff.
Overall in my opinion: Great anime, animations are great for 2008. Many different dinosaurs and... it is just so fun to watch.
Read at the sourceZanji
This came out in 07 and ended in 08, which is honestly surprising to me since I thought it was earlier, and for what it is and only seeing the English dub for it this wasn't bad. Being dubbed by 4kids would send people away usually, but actually sitting down and watching this really helped me to see that 4kids wasn't a BAD thing since it did bring a lot of anime to places where it isn't regularly around at that time and making good memories to look back on.
This series is one of the good ones to look back on because the dialogue is pretty good, you get to learn about dinosaurs that aren't brought up by other famous things, you get a reminder that this was a card game as well that fell under (like Chaotic), both uses of animation in it is good, and it has two seasons for you to sit throug…
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Kids love dinosaurs, every kid goes through a phase where they think dinosaurs are the coolest things ever and dream about becoming a paleontologist when they grow up. Usually this happens between six and seven years old and that's definitely who this anime was made for. I don't hate this anime, but unless you're a little kid I wouldn't recommend this anime to anyone. The reason I wanted to watch this anime was because I loved it as a kid, but I never finished it so I wanted to see how it ended.
All of the action in this anime is watching dinosaurs fight, which I know sounds great, but the animation for these dinosaurs is so bad that they look like they're made of plastic and aren't even hurting each other. Furthermore, a lot of the dinosaurs in the show look alike i.e. some I can only te…
Read at the sourceangelsreview
Welcome to Digimon… I mean Dinosaur King. For real though, We have three protagonists… two guys and one girl, who find special cards one day and when they rub the card on a stone, it activates. Does this not sound like the D-readers and cards in Digimon Tamers, especially the two guys and a girl concept? And then we have the bad guys, the Alpha Gang who seem to be a rip off of Team Rocket from Pokemon. During the time that this came out, it feels like most shows were trying to mimic Pokemon and Digimon though I think this might have been the first to put both into the mix.
The characters are pretty annoying, and seem only like spitting images of three main types of Digimon Tamers… the children. We have your standard goggle wearing (or in this case, horn visor that seems to light up for so…
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