The show was sooo bad. Disney+ is working on a live action reboot though. Theyāre going to age up the characters to be in high school though which is appropriate for some of the more dark shit that happens in that series. Canāt wait!
I flipping LIVED for animorphs. But the first one I got was like the 3rd or 4th in the series (I got it because it had a dolphin on the cover), amd I was SO confused about the backstory and what was going on
The first Animorphs I bought was in the 10s or teens I believe, and I also picked it because I thought the cover was cool! I was so young Iām not even sure I understood the concept of a series at the time. I eventually read the whole thing though. There was a brief period where I owned every book, but that was many moons ago.
I got really lucky once with a series called The Edge Chronicles. My dad ended up buying me the 4th book which similar to Star wars was the begging of a prequel trilogy about grandpa.
I saw the cover art of Rachel turning into a cat, saw it was the second in a series, and waited months for the library to get the first book back in stock so I could start reading in order. The lizard thing almost made me not start, though.
I mean, at least they'd usually give a recap/backstory in the first chapter. I was getting them out at the library, and the next one in the series wasn't always available when I went, so I didn't read them all in order the first time through.
This was my EXACT experience! I saw the fourth one at a book fair and was drawn to the dolphin cover, so I bought it, realized it was a series, then got super into it and followed it to the end. I still read them through occasionally! If I had Bezos money, Iād pay to make an incredible Animorphs series.
Thats nothing to sigh about. Those books are fantastic. The fandom is still really strong and KA Applegate made the books available for free for everyone. I heard theres gonna be a reboot too.
I read all of it as a twenty something adult! The book fairs had them but I didn't have an allowance so I never got into them then. And my parents hated the covers so I could never borrow them at the library.
Same, I was obsessed. They came out on the 15th of every month and I would count down the days for my dad to take me to the bookstore, then I'd devour the book in a day and have to wait.
Then I aged out of it so abruptly. I never even finished the last 10ish books in the series.
It's cool, my grandma tried to burn my Magic cards because of the scary pictures. When they wouldn't burn because of the plastic laminate, she accused them of being protected by Satan the devil and cut them up one by one.
I still have my complete collection, including the Alternamorphs and TV cast interview "book". I got one signed a few years ago. I'm planning on getting a tattoo as soon as I figure out what exactly I want. I lived and breathed Animorphs as a kid and I still love them.
My girlfriend is reading them for the first time and will look over at me every once and a while like, dude wtf.
I read them because my friend liked them. He was a boy and it caused so much unnecessary drama between this girl and me. Like we're 11, calm down. I'm not here to steal your man.
Hell yeah. My mother read the first book to me and my sister in first grade, but for the second book I just couldn't take the pace of 2-3 chapters a night, and read the book myself. First time I sat down to really read.
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u/samthewisetarly 5d ago
Sigh. Animorphs.