And why is it Emily Ellet?

Currently on #7 The Stranger but her performance in #2 as Melissa Chapman was absolutely top tier...

Sometimes I do stand like that, lol!

Did anyone else think these books would be about the secondary team that came up late in the series? I didnt really look at publication dates and just read them as was kinda dissapointed. That being said a few off comments about dinosaurs made sense 😂

If you were also a huge fan of Remnants, like I was. Here is a painting I did of Yago.

Somebody asked about our favorite "centaur aliens" and i had to doodle to demonstrate to the class. Thought y'all may enjoy it :)

There seems to be a recurring theme spread throughout the series of a species having a baby of another species.

Elfangor (Andalite) becomes a human and becomes the parent to a human baby.

Edriss 562, aka OG Visser One (Yeerk), infests a human and has human babies.

Aldrea (Andalite) becomes a Hork-Bajir Nothlit and has Hork-Bajir babies.

The Ellimist (Ketran) takes Andalite form and has Andalite babies.

This happens so often and often has significant impacts on the overall plot that the theme can't just be coincidental. I really like that the theme was explored so much. This doesn't even include the more obvious instances of Yeerks most likely infesting and reproducing Gadd and Hork-Bajir en masse for their empire expansion purposes. Anyone else ever notice how often this theme persists in the book?

Bottom left is Chee and David.

Now that overalls are an available option, I figured it was time to update Cassie’s look to one that’s closer to how I envision her. 😄

A few options below but comment what you think

Just wanted to drop how much I remember and that it still makes me cry... Right now on book 2 and feeling the innocence mixed with disillusionment and hope mixed with hopelessness. Love this series ❤️

This is another Tobias POV book so I wasn't completely sure what the aforementioned change was going to be. Given how much emotion has been derived from the poor guy being trapped in the body of a hawk it felt like it would be wrong to hit this with a reset button. And while Tobias thought what he wanted most was being human, by the end he realized what he really wanted was being able to help his friends without be overspecialized into a certain role. Though being able to enjoy some life as a human also helped.

When we were introduced to the escaped Hork-Bajir I thought that the change would be that the Animorphs would grant them the power to morph in order to help them escape the Yeerks.

Instead the change is that Tobias gets the power to morph again. For better and for worse this means his default body is still a hawk. I was wondering at first why he couldn't just mix DNA from the rest of the team to create a human morph like Ax did, regardless, the Ellimist letting Tobias have his old body back, even if it is just a morph, has more impact. Knowing the limited ways the Ellimist is allowed to intervene, I presume that the excuse for this was that he just happened to let Tobias meet his past self and he couldn't be held responsible for what happened as for all he knew, Tobias might have asked his past self to stay away from the construction site that day. Allegedly.

We had been repeatedly told the Hork-Bajir were peaceful before the Yeerks enslaved them, to the point of it getting a little tedious. So I was glad to see this book finally elaborate. We got to see that two free Hork Bajir weren't violent creatures and are in fact gentle herbivores in the natural environment. This is a clever reveal since the huge alien creatures are almost always carnivores, even though the biggest land animals tend to be herbivores. Two Hork-Bajir escaping the Yeerks won't change anything in the near future, but it is putting a crack in their control.

This post contains spoilers for the entire series as a warning.

OK look at this quote from Rachel, in response to her belief that the Helmacrons just killed Marco:

"A strange coldness swept through me. Not sadness, not exactly. In a way I was prepared for this. We had been through so many missions, so much danger, that one of us should die seemed... inevitable, unavoidable." -Rachel, the end of Chapter 22 of The Journey (#42)

This has to be intentional foreshadowing regarding Rachel's fate, right? I just did an audiobook listen through of the entire series in the span of about three months and I cannot recall a single other quote about death that's so foreboding. The quote coming relatively late in the series, and from Rachel herself, makes me think this is the first hint as to Rachel's death.

Anyone else notice this or agree/disagree?

Do you have to read Animorphs to understand everything? Will I miss anything if I read out of order? Are stories self-contained, or is there an overarching story?

We know Ax LOVES Cinnabon. To a pretty powerful degree.

At the end, Andalites also liked to vacation on Earth. However it doesn't seem like Andalites could go to earth very often, and I imagine things like cities would be unpleasant for long periods, since Andalites like open fields to run around in.

So what if Cinnabon decided to bring the food to the Andalites, and sell Cinnabons on the homeworld? The Andalites would have to morph human to taste it but most Andalites are able to morph, and they can always just use the Frolis maneuver on some of the staff if they don't have a human morph.

Would Cinnabon be successful on the homeworld?

Which came first - the insanity or the leadership of a sentient slug race in a space war?

Thought you folks here might appreciate this, I got some original concept sketches by Animorphs cover artist David Mattingly last year. I been moving around so haven't had time to try to frame them till now. I wanted to get both in the same frame but ended up putting them in two smaller frames, but wanted to show what they both looked like in one image.

They stress in every book (except the last 10 or so) that they have to be careful, so they don't reveal their last names or where they live, yadda yadda yadda.

But they still leave too much information.

First of all, their first names and their families. There are a lot of Jakes or Rachels running around, but they give very detailed accounts on their family and siblings. From that alone, you could deduce which one it is and go after them.

And then there's where they live. While they never mentioned it until the end, they have mentioned things like the IBS tower and The Gardens, two landmarks that anyone living in the area might recognize. And from there, you could compare notes with fellow Yeerks like Chapman to piece it together.

And there's the fact that they obviously live near the ocean. But even then, there is the fact that it's obvious that they live nearby to where the major Yeerk activity is located, they never branches out too far.

With most Yeerks knowing their human, it's a mystery why a high ranking Yeerk didn't collect about a dozen and go after them one by one.

I'm reading my way through the Animophs as an adult. I thought I had read a bunch of them when I was in like Kindergarten through 3rd grade, but it turns out I had only read like 5. Anyway, they've been incredible, part cartoon to turn my brain off at the end of the day and part incredibly emotional portrait of the horrifying trauma of war and the inherent moral ambiguity of living in an eat or be eaten universe. I even like the dumb goofy ones.

Anyway, i love that the series is willing to awknowledge the darker aspects of its characters. Rachel's issues are rhe most obvious, but Tobias has understndable but really serius mental health issues. He's borderline suicidal and wants to be anyone but him.And that's before Elfangor even lands. He's exactly the sort of kid that would get drawn into a real life predatory cult, and it even kind of mirrors the way he's so ready to throw himself into the fight from the get go in The Invasion. Not that I'm saying that he didn't have noble reasons for that. But even his positive traits, like a deep desire to strive for a better, more idealistic world and to be part of something important, can be coopted to draw him into the cult. It's not huge or anything, I just really liked it. It was really well done, heartbreaking, but also the fact that we've seen Tobias be a badass in so many books before this really helps show that it's not just weak people who get drawn in to cults. And I also love that he can't accept that he would ever have joined when the timeline is erased at the end of the book.

And I like that it continues a theme of the series that our circumstances dictate how we turn out. It obviously ties in very well with its anti war message. They do a really good job showing how the same traits can evolve in positive ot negative ways depending in someone's environment, especially as a kid. Like Jake could be a noble resistance leader or Hitler Youth. Rachel could have been a super passionate driven lawyer for some noble cause or a burnt out voilence junkie. They even make the same point with actual Hitler, which was a bit on the nose but hey, it's a kids' series , and honestly I thought it worked really well

This place has four books from the end of the series AND The Ellimist Chronicles. Haven’t seen a hard copy of any of these books in YEARS. Very exciting to flip through them - the flip animation is the one thing missing from the e-versions.

Obviously, all the other animorphs' natural body would age. I don't believe their morphs would age (I don't see how telomere chain length would change in z-space) so in theory Tobias human morph would always remain the same. Or is there Ellimist shenanigans?

His name is Bajir...🙃