Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King DKidz Adventure

Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King DKidz Adventure
古代王者 恐竜キング Dキッズ・アドベンチャー
(Kodai Ōja Kyōryū Kingu D Kizzu Adobenchā)
Genre Adventure
Anime television series
Directed by Katsuyoshi Yatabe
Written by Yasushi Hirano (平野 靖士)
Music by Yuuko Fukushima (福島 祐子)
Studio Sunrise
Network All-Nippon News Network
Original run 4 February 2007 – 31 August 2008
Episodes 79

Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King DKidz Adventure (古代王者 恐竜キング Dキッズ・アドベンチャー Kodai Ōja Kyōryū Kingu D Kizzu Adobenchā) is a children's anime series that attempts to remain true to the format of dueling and fighting super-powered dinosaurs. The anime is aimed and targeted mostly towards young children and primary elementary-school aged kids using traditional and CG animation.[1] It is produced by Sunrise and began airing on TV Asahi on February 4, 2007. It is released on DVD in Japan by BEAM or Happinet, the same Japanese video company that released another Japanese anime, Digimon Savers, on DVD.

4Kids Entertainment has licensed the anime and it was distributed on DVD by Shout! Factory in the US with the DVDs showing only the North American edited TV version and no uncut DVDs. Two DVDs are currently available, under the names Downtown Showdown and The Adventure Begins. The anime was launched under the name Dinosaur King on September 8, 2007, on 4Kids TV. In September 2008, it began airing on The CW4Kids, and is shown on Canada's YTV since September 8, 2008. As of November 2008, it is set to air in Mexico, South Africa, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Eastern Europe with the dubs adapted from 4Kids. The last English episode, 47, aired on The CW4Kids on March 28, 2009. Even though the original series had 49 episodes, it is unknown if the last two episodes would be shown, or be exclusively released on DVD. Even Italy will receive the adaptation from 4Kids and set it for young children in Italy aged 6–11. The anime will air on UK network CITV every weekday from March 2, 2009. 4Licensing Corporation (current name for 4kids entertainment) owns the rights to the anime.

The English script follows the Japanese script closely, although occasionally a joke will have its meaning changed due to profanity and other material considered inappropriate outside Japan. While the D-Team's country of origin is not explicitly specified, 4Kids has left in elements that identify it as being somewhere in Japan, as in the original: location, Japanese cuisine, and text remain, for the most part, unchanged. 4Kids paints out signs and text on signs, however Chinese characters are kept and in the episode renamed "Beast or Famine" due to the setting of Chinatown. Despite this, characters all use Sega's official English names. An original soundtrack has been created, although 4Kids occasionally uses some of the original Japanese music. What is rather unusual is that 4Kids leaves most of the silence alone and will sometimes add silence to scenes that originally had music playing. The show is also cropped from widescreen to fullscreen, although 4Kids has uploaded some of the episodes to their site in widescreen. The opening title sequence is brand new in the English dub, consisting of scenes, shots and chips taken from the original Japanese opening title sequence, the original Japanese ending credits sequence and various American English dub episodes. The ending credits sequence in the English dub is also brand new, consisting of the same scenes used in the English dub opening title sequence along with credits.

As with other 4Kids localizations, the show has been edited to allow for North American sensibilities and to allow it to be screened for an audience demographic to receive a TV-Y7-FV rating. Edits include the airbrushing or removal of scenes containing violence or even coughing or exhalation of smoke, edits to lessen the emotional impact of scenes, and the censoring of nudity.[2] Examples include the airbrushing of Ursula's fan service, removal of nudity, and a potty scene.[3] A scene in the original shows Max owning a Dreamcast;[4] however, this is cut out in the dub, most likely due to copyrights.

Story

Max Taylor is the son of paleontologist Dr. Spike Taylor. After falling out of bed early one morning and witnessing a meteor fall from the sky, Max sets out with his friends, Rex Owen and Zoe Drake into a forest where the meteor had crashed. They find a lightning, wind and grass stone. They also find a card with a picture of a Triceratops on it. Chomp is accidentally activated when Max rubs the card on the stone. The D-Team meet their new enemies in the Alpha Gang when they come to catch more dinosaurs.Rex activated a Carnotaurus card which was named Ace and Zoe activated a Parasaurolophus which was named Paris. The D-Team and Alpha Gang often clash for possession of dinosaurs that are activated, when their cards are activated. In the finale, the Alpha Gang's Seth turns on his comrades with his Black Tyrannosaurus, which is ultimately defeated. Seth attempts to bring Chomp back to the past, which fails, and Seth is sent into the past alone. The D-Team surrender their dinosaurs to Rex's original parents, with many tears.

In the second series, the Alpha Gang and the Ancients return. While the parents are talking, they are kidnapped by Gavro, a member of the Spectral Space Pirates. This causes the Alpha Gang and D-Team to join forces against the Space Pirates in their plot to obtain the Cosmos Stones. Seth later returns as an ally to the Spectoral Space Pirates. Spectre, the leader of the Space Pirates, provides the dinosaur cards. In episode 75, Seth seems to become a traitor as he appeals to the D-Team for help, saying that they forced him to help them. However, it was really a trick to get the two Cosmos Stones in D-Team's control, despite the fact that he attacks and defeats his comrades two episodes later. In the end, although the Spectoral Space Pirates manage to catch all seven Cosmos Stones, Seth and the Pterosaur defeat the Black Pterosaur. Rex, his parents, and the Alpha Gang leave as the Spectoral Space Pirates are floating around in a pod.

DVD releases

Shout! Factory released the first two seasons, The Adventure Begins and Downtown Showdown, in 2008. They released the third installment, Volcanic Panic, in June 2009.

In Australia Magna Home Entertainment have released the following DVDs containing episodes from Season One:

Media

A videogame based on the series was released as Dinosaur King.

References

  1. ↑ Ball, Ryan (2008-11-25). "4Kids Expands Dinosaur King Reign". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
  2. ↑ episode 15
  3. ↑ episode 3
  4. ↑ episode 6

External links

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