Swallow the Universe

Swallow the Universe

Swallow the Universe

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Swallow the Universe

2021

0h 12m

8.2(6 votes)

Animation

Fantasy

Overview

The grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria's deep jungle. His sudden presence creates anarchy in the fauna's primitive world, which was, until then, perfectly organized.

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