After watching Devilman Crybaby, Stranger Things and a few other series on Netflix, I realize that the binging platform of Netflix would be such a good format for Animorphs. Like they could weave in a ton of the books, include the main arcs through each season, without cutting out most of the juicy violence and gore and morphing sequences. There is more than enough content for a good handful of seasons, and I think people as of now are more willing to dip their feet in the waters of weird aliens and sci-fi genres, and lets not forget that the aesthetic of 80s and 90s has been coming into focus lately.
I just.. R e a l l y want an Animorphs reboot guys
“’I am very pleased with the atmospheric conditions we are experiencing today. The lack of clouds have allowed the sun to show through, thus making electrical lighting unnecessary. Uh-NESS-a-sarry. Uh-NESS-ussery. Also, the lack of precipitation has kept my artificial skin from becoming uncomfortably damp, which -’
‘Ax?’ I interrupted.
‘Yes, Marco?’
‘Stop that. Please.’
‘Come on, Marco,’ Tobias said. ‘He’s just practicing his small talk. We spent hours on it last night.’
‘Thank you again, Marco,’ Ax said, ‘for inviting me to this primitive yet interesting ceremony.’
‘My pleasure, Ax-man. Do not go near the buffet table.’
‘How do you define “near”?’
‘Ax, I’m telling you: No food.’”
– Book #35: The Proposal (Marco), pg. 144 (by K.A. Applegate)
Hork-Bajir or Andalite? Morphing for personal use or being a hero? Yeerk sympathizer or hater? Unrequited love or war-torn breakup? Stuck as a Taxxon or die in battle? Helmacron or Iskoort? Pemalite crystal or Helmacron shrinking ray? Violent Chee or loving Howler? Leera or Hork-Bajir homeplanet?
‘I asked you kids what you’re doing in that stall,’ the cigar man said, more sharply this time.
‘Um…grooming our horse?’ I offered.
Rachel’s eyebrows shot up. ‘Our horse? Oh, yeah, that’s exactly what we’re doing. Grooming our horse.’ She reached over and stroked Ax’s back.
‘Small for a horse,’ the second man said skeptically. ‘What are you feeding that poor swaybacked nag?’
‘Horse food,’ Marco said.
‘Horse food?’
‘Yeah. Um…you know, horse food. Boy, you should see how many cans this guy can eat. Man, all day long I’m opening cans of horse food and filling his dish.’
The two men stared. The cigar man moved his cigar to the other side of his mouth.
‘Hah-hah-hah!’ I practically screamed. ‘He’s such a kidder! Of course we’re not feeding our horse food from cans. We’re feeding him alfalfa and hay. Like you’d feed any horse. My friend is such a joker! Total joke machine!’
‘Plus he’s a moron,’ Rachel added.
‘Your horse is blue,’ the second man observed. ‘Never seen a blue horse.’
‘Never seen kids wearing feathers on their faces, either,’ cigar said. ‘And I’ve seen a lot of things in my time.’
Jake was looking at me, waiting for me to come up with an answer. So was Rachel. So was Marco. Our ‘horse’ was blue. There was no denying that. And yes, we had white-and-gray feathers sticking out of the sleeves and collars of our morphing suits.
The weirdest/hardest/most wonderful thing about Animorphs is that there’s so much godawful horror and despair and tragedy and just motheroffuck these were thirteen-year-old BABIES at the start of the war haha remember when Jake loved playing video games and basketball and arguing with Marco over Spiderman vs Batman and then after the war three years later he’s like seventy years old and wishes he was dead but can’t give a fuck about anything including offing himself because he’s become a shell of a person and he can’t even legally drive yet
but ALSO, it is so. fucking. hysterically funny. It’s been twenty years and still to this day I will LOSE MY SHIT over the trash cans thing and BROWN GLOBULES and every bit of 90s-pop-culture-themed snarky banter and all of Tobias’s weird funny one-liners and snark and just just it is so funny, almost up to the end really, obviously it gets more serious as time goes on but let’s be real there were gruesome murders in book one and a main character attempted suicide in book three so it’s not like we really eased into the bad shit, and it was still so so so funny.
Anyway long story short this is a great series and I will love it until I am ancient and wizened.
What I try to get people to understand about Animorphs is while there are horrific things happening constantly, it’s never Grimdark. It’s very matter of fact about things. And very funny also.
(Probably the thing that most consistently makes me lose my shit laughing thinking about it even now is Marco yelling about Nicoderm patches to get out of class in #18. Like it’s quite funny on its own, but the moment it falls in… the way this series went up til that point it’s quite believable that Cassie might be a butterfly for the rest of her life, but then there is HOPE, and then there is that joke.)
What the fuck. I thought that was just a joke. Is this childrens book series actually like this?
On page 20 of book 1 the kindly mentor character gets eaten alive in front of the kids, who have never seen death before. He is telepathic and they feel him dying in their brains, but can’t make a sound or they’ll be discovered and killed.
A few books after that it gets serious and we see our first suicide attempts. It keeps going downhill for 64 books.
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