Should you watch Heart and Yummie?
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Heart and Yummie
Anime · 2010
Heart is a tyrannosaurus who is found and raised by 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.
The sides of Heart and Yummie
- A tyrannosaurus raised by a plant-eating mother
- A baby ankylosaurus who thinks he is his father
- A meat eater named Heart
Heart and Yummie is good for you if…
- you want a gentle dinosaur story to watch with children.
- you can be moved by a dinosaur torn between his nature and his love.
- you like a T. rex raising a baby ankylosaurus as his own.
Heart and Yummie is bad for you if…
- you don't watch animated films.
- you roll your eyes at a sweet lesson about nature and nurture.
About: parenthood · identity · nature and nurture
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