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Not gonna lie, Animorphs was a big part of my childhood growing up. I still think the alien lore and details are pretty damn impressive for YA books, and that they hold up well today. The insight of what it would be like to morph and have to battle the natural, often overwhelming instincts other animals have was a really neat touch that the series easily could have brushed aside, and instead make a focal point of how morphing works. The books usually don't shy away of details of the kids getting their animal bodies sliced open and bleeding out during battles, and get into everything from the main character committing genocide against another species to end the war, to torturing and starving out enemies and allies alike to try and save them. Basically, it could get pretty mature for a YA series.

"Ax" was actually my gamertag/player name choice for a variety of games for a long time in honor of the character actually. Some in the local Smash community here still refer to me as "Ax" (I don't really use that handle anymore, though).

I kinda watched the TV show when it was on, but I've always thought that Netflix or something should take a stab at making a mature series out of the books. With a decent budget for VFX and SPFX, it would serve as a pretty interesting Sci-Fi show that could easily flirt more with adult than YA audiences. I've kinda had it in my mind to write a script for maybe a full season script for a concept for fun (although I alreayd have a backlog of shit I told myself I would write, namely an Arkham Horror series that I've already started).

Otherwise, I guess they had this weird subplot in a connected spinoff or soemthing where Elminister or Ellister

Ellimist. He actually pops up through the books on and off throughout, and yeah, he's basically Grandmaster. There's a follow up book that explains how he becomes a god-like being and how he ends up becoming connected, and how what happens in the Animorphs is basically a cosmic game between himself and Crayak (and equally evil god-like being).

I mean, finding out in separate book at the conclusion of the whole series that he's basically manipulated everything is kinda an asspull, but since it doesn't affect anything other than a retro sense if "It was the god-like alien all along!", I guess no harm, no foul.

Kinda related: I got around to playing "To the Moon" recently, and there's a bit in the game where you have to answer a completely out of left field Animorphs trivia to proceed through the game. You can find out the answer in-game, but I knew the answer right away, and it was one of those rare, nerdy, "this-is-something-just-for-me" moments.
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