Kyouryuu Wakusei

Aired: 1993 - 1994

An experimental TV anime broadcast within NHK Educational's children's program Tensai Terebi-kun from April 1993 to January 1994, blending live action, hand-drawn animation and early computer graphics. TV Senshi member Misa Yamaguchi enters a virtual-reality terminal that connects her to a far-future, Earth-like world where intelligent dinosaur-descended peoples live and wage a tangled interspecies war. Within the framework of children's programming, the series tackled serious science-fiction themes about the fate of evolved species, civilization versus nature and the ethics of war and coexistence.