Genshi Shounen Ryuu

Genshi Shounen Ryu or Ryu The Primitive Boy is a 22 episode series by Toei Animation, and it was directed by Akihi Masayuki.

This anime is set in a primitive world and it follows our main character Ryu. Ryu is a white boy born into a black tribe and is concidered the devil. He is to be sacrifised due to his skin color, but he gets picked up by a monkey who also raises him. The story follows Ryu who's on a journey to find his mother. On the way he meets many other people, such as Ran (the love interest), Don (Ran's little brother), and ... Taka (the antagonist). He also meets a man named Kiba who wants to kill the T-Rex who wiped out his tribe.

There's not really all that much to Genshi Shounen Ryu. It's a pretty straight forward story of a boy who wishes to be reunited with his mother. The show does however touch slightly upon topics such as what differentiates humans from animals and discrimination, but it's never prevelent enough to be concidered a main focus of the show.

Overall I thought Genshi Shounen Ryu was an average show. It had some moments I liked and some moments that I found quite funny, though that was mostly unintentional on the shows part. I will say though that for the first 3 episodes the show looked a lot better than I was expecting. Not too many stillframes and very little reused animation, but they definitely made up for that in the later episodes. However some poor writing at times and weird cuts that were just confusing or made no sense stopped me from enjoying this show more.