Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness.
(http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。漫画家・平田真貴子の原作による大正時代を舞台にしたレトロタッチの大河メロドラマをOVA化(全4巻)。 20歳の誕生日を迎えた羽生子。侯爵の娘である子は華やかな誕生パーティを開くが、貧しい環境で育ったメイドの内田沙羅もまた今日が20歳の誕生日だった。古い因習を嫌う子は沙羅を友人として扱うが、沙羅自身は身分の差を意識してしまう一方、子の婚約者・西園寺清洲にほのかな恋心をよせる。このパーティの後、チンピラにからまれる子と清洲だが、そんな二人を青葉組の組員にして鷹の異名を持つヤクザの伊東タカオが救った。これを機に自由奔放な愛に目覚めた子は鷹を激しく追う一方、清洲を沙羅に半ば押し付けてしまう。だがこれが原因で沙羅は羽生家を去ることとなるが、自分自身が孤児であった鷹はそんな彼女の力になろうとする……。。