A 50-meter stone bird wakes up and flies away. Your weekend plans just got weird.
Season 1 • Episode 24
LatestA young boy named Taiga travels around the world with his archeologist father, Dr. Daino. They visit the continent of South America to investigate an ancient ruins discovered by treasure hunters. There they find a stone statue of a gigantic bird which stands more than 50 meters tall. To their surprise, the stone bird wakes up and flies away from the very spot it remain motionless. It turns out that the stone bird is called "Oobats" and when obtains a relic called the "Ooparts Egg", it will become a dangerous weapon which could destroy the whole universe. Taiga must hunt down the bird to prevent world wide disaster.
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn mechanical animation that modern CGI would murder.
Production
Miyazaki's DNA all over this—he storyboarded the original Future Boy Conan.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a spiritual sequel to Hayao Miyazaki's 1978 Future Boy Conan, carrying forward his obsession with flying machines and ecological collapse. Nippon Animation kept the spirit alive while Miyazaki went full Ghibli.
The 'Ooparts' concept refers to Out-of-Place Artifacts—real pseudoscience about ancient objects too advanced for their era. The show treats this fringe theory as documented fact because 90s anime had zero chill.
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