Anime Age (2002)

GaiaVS07 Productions/J Paul Studios/Toho Animation's Movie-Spoof of 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios' 2002 Computer-Animated Comedy CGI Adventure Film *Ice Age*.

In present days, Earth is a wondrous, natural world filled with great danger, not the least of which is the beginning of the Anime Age. To avoid a really bad frostbite, the planet's majestic characters animes - and a few small, slothful ones - begin migrating south . The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: an soul reaper, a black panther, a hero boy and a wolf, known as Weed.

## Plot:

A herd of Japanese characters animes are migrating south in order to escape the forthcoming anime age. Izuku "Deku" Midoriya (Sid), a clumsy hero boy, is left behind by his family and decides to move on by himself, but is attacked by a pair of akatsukis after accidentally ruining their meal and making them angry. Deku is soon rescued by Renji Abarai (Manny), a bitter red-haired soul reaper heading north, who fights the akatsukis off and continues on his path. Deku joins Renji, not wanting to be alone and unprotected. Inuyasha is annoyed by Deku's outgoing demeanor and wishes to migrate on his own, but Deku nonetheless continues to follow Inuyasha. Mean while, Yhwach (Soto), the leader of a feline litter, wants revenge on a human tribe for killing half of his pack by eating the chief's infant son, Baby Beel (Roshan), alive. Yhwach leads a raid on the human camp, during which Beel's mother flees with his son. Cornered by Yhwach's lieutenant, Bagheera (Diego), she leaps down the waterfall with Beel. As punishment for his failure to retrieve the baby, Bagheera is sent to find and retrieve him while the rest of the pack waits for him at a mountain known as Half-Peak. If he fails, he will be killed in Beel's place.

Later, Renji and Deku encounter the mother struggling out of the lake, dying from her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to entrust Beel to Inuyasha before she dies and disappears into the water. After much persuasion by Deku, they decide to return the baby, but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Bagheera, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. The four travel on, with Bagheera secretly leading them to Half-Peak where his litter is waiting to ambush them.

After encountering several misadventures on their way, the group reaches a cave with several cave paintings. There, Deku and Bagheera learn about Renji's past and his previous interactions with the human hunters, in which they slaughtered his family, consisting of his mate and child, leaving Inuyasha a depressed loner. Later, the group almost reaches their destination, Half-Peak, only to encounter a forming river of lava. Renji and Deku, along with Beel, make it across safely, but Bagheera ends up hanging on a cliff, about to fall into the lava. Renji saves him, narrowly missing certain death by falling into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night, and Beel takes his first walking steps towards Bagheera, who starts to have a change of heart about his mission.

The next day, the herd approaches the ambush, causing Bagheera, now full of respect for Renji for saving his life, to change his mind and confess to Renji and Deku about the ambush. As the pair turn hostile towards him, Bagheera pleads for their trust and tries to foil the attack. The herd battles Yhwach's litter, but despite their efforts, Yhwach and his associates manage to corner Renji. As Yhwach closes in for the kill on Renji, Bagheera jumps in the way and is injured as a result. Bagheera then knocks a distracted Yhwach into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall onto Yhwach, impaling and instantly killing him. Horrified, the rest of the pack retreat. Renji and Deku mourn for Bagheera's injury, which they believe is fatal, and continue their journey without him. The two manage to successfully return Beel to his tribe, and to their surprise, a recovered Bagheera manages to rejoin them in time to see Beel leave. The trio then begin to head south to warmer climates together.

## Cast:

* Manny - Renji Abarai (Bleach)
* Sid - Izuku Midoriya (My Hero Academia)
* Diego - Bagheera (The Jungle Book: Shonen Mowgli)
* Scrat - Weed (Ginga Denetsu Weed)
* Roshan - Baby Beel (Beelzebub)
* Soto - Yhwach (BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War)
* Zeke - Cassius/Toto (Kimba the White Lion)
* Oscar - Zamba (Kimba the White Lion)
* Lenny - Joe (The New Adventures of Kimba the White Lion)
* Dab - Tabaqui (The Jungle Book: Shonen Mowgli)
* The Dodos - Hyenas (Kimba the White Lion and The Jungle Book: Shonen Mowgli/Simba the King Lion; 1995)
* Carl and Frank - Deidara and Sasori (Naruto Shippuden)

## Other Cast:

* Runar - Oga Tatsumi (Beelzebub)
* Nadia - Hilda (Beelzebub)

## Characters Gallery:

Inuyasha as MannyIzuku Midoriya as SidKimba/Leo (Adult) as DiegoWeed as ScratBaby Beel as RoshanClaw/Bubu as SotoCassius/Toto as ZekeZamba as OscarJoe as LennyTabaqui as Dab
## See Also:

### Film series:

* Anime Age: The Meltdown (2006)
* Anime Age: Dawn of the Creatures (2009)
* Anime Age: Continental Drift (2012)
* Anime Age: Collision Course (2016)
* The Anime Age Adventures of Sasuke Wild (2022)

### Shorts:

* Weed Short: Gone Nutty (2003)
* Weed Short: No Time for Bone Crystals
* Surviving Deku
* Weed Short: No Time for Bone Crystals 4D
* Weed's Continental Crack Up
* Anime Age: An Half-Demon Christmas
* Anime Age: The Great Egg-scaped
* Cosmic Weed-tastrophe