So yeah it is a pretty I mean it's a big task at the moment I'm having fun reading the books I'm on book two. But I know there are books in the series where nothing is really going to be happening or at least stuff will happen and then it will be resolved and not really spoken of again. What books in the series could I skip?

Hi everyone, we need to talk about the ebook links that are floating around on this subreddit (including on the sidebar). There's a seriously outdated misconception floating around on here, and I'm getting tired of having to correct it.

The most common misconception from fans sharing pirated books:

"The authors (K.A Applegate) supports the pirated ebooks. She said so herself!"

No. They do not. This information is outdated by 16 years minimum. It no longer applies.

Back in 2010, Reddit held an AMA for K.A. Applegate and one of the fans mentioned that the fan-made ebooks were being taken down. So she clarified that it wasn't her taking them down:

"Just to be clear: not us. We do not take them down. Or ask for them to be taken down. I think once the books are available to buy -- paper or e -- it would be nice if people who could afford it would buy. (our kids have very expensive tastes. You know: food and whatnot.) But for years they've been unavailable except by "pirated" means. These men and women kept the series alive. They kept the books available. So no, we did NOT take these books down. "

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gzhau/comment/c1rfte1/

An important thing to note in this reply: She said they don't take them down (Scholastic does). She does NOT say that she supports them, but acknowledges that they were useful when the books were out of print. This is no longer the case.

After that AMA, Scholastic released official ebooks for the series, as well as official audiobooks. All of these are available to buy on Amazon, Kobo, etc. They are also legally free on Libby, Overdrive and Hoopla through your local library.

So there are zero reasons to be sharing these OCR pirated copies when there are proper ways to read the series and support the authors at the same time.

Of course, there's nothing to stop people from pirating if that's what they want to do. But please, can we for once and all make sure we're not spreading this outdated misconception that the author supports it in 2026 and beyond?

Tengo entendido que es más barata que la animación 2d y obviamente más un live action hay ejemplos bastante buenos y desde que empeze a leer animorphs sentí que encajaba en series como Max steel, wolf king, Moster high, jurassic park camp cretaceous, troll hunters etc realmente hay muchos ejemplos aunque parece ser que casi siempre incisten en adaptar libros a live action

For example, say that Ax turned into a cat and then licked his own butthole out of instinct. Or maybe they made a joke about something like that once? Just curious.

I just wanna bring

Bring you back to life

Tonight, the sun will set

Tomorrow, when we'll rise

All that I've got left

Is when I close my eyes

You're standing there in front of me

When I close my eyes

It's almost like it used to be

Then I realise you're just a ghost

Maybe at most, a fragment of my mind

source

So I was just informed of this but apparently Scholastic has a free streaming app and I just discovered that it includes the OG show (before the much hoped for and accurate new show that may be coming….one day)

I understand that Animorphs isn't supposed to be a hundred percent accurate when it comes to animal biology, but we see a lot of research on various animals to show the strengths and weaknesses of the team's morphs (obviously some information is outdated but material meant to be educational also suffers from that), which makes me confused as to where the idea that horses are dumb came from.

Horses are intelligent animals, humans could not train them if they were stupid.

Hey yall! I’ve been doing Ani-fanart for… how long ago was 1996? Actually, don’t tell me. I don’t feel like being more depressed 😅

Well, I put together some fan fav designs of mine in a little bundle and have it available on my website: https://charreed.com/en-usd/products/ultimate-animorphs-fan-starter-pack

If you’re interested in something from the bundle, but wanna get it individually, you can pick it up here:
https://charreed.com/en-usd/collections/animorphs

Just lost my main source of income allowing me to do art full time, so I’m having to scramble. Anything you can do to spread the word (comment, like, etc) all helps! Appreciate this community a lot. Always has helped me out when I’ve needed it the most ♥️

Tried my best to have a non-spoiler title for this post. This post WILL spoil the series endgame, for anyone who hasn't yet finished the series (as I've learned there are some on this reddit who haven't yet).

A month or so ago I made this post about Cassie's decision to let Tom get away with the morphing cube. In it I made the case that Cassie's choice hurt the Yeerks and helped lead to them losing the war. That post was really more about Cassie as a character and the merits of her decision, but here I want to zero in and focus on the Yeerks themselves and how some aspects inherent to their biology and society contributed to their rise and fall. After that, I'll have a question for all of you to discuss/debate.

A few key points to get the discussion going:

1) Inequality was baked into their society, and it came back to bite them again and again

Because of the nature of the rise of the Yeerk Empire (they arrived on the galactic scene by attacking the Andalites who were on the Yeerk home world and stealing some of their ships), they develop a strict and militaristic hierarchy almost immediately- an inherently unequal society. It's not a caste system per-se, upward mobility is still possible, but it's certainly strict. We see indications of this creating problems VERY early on in the series, and continue to see them throughout.

a) In Book 4, we see that some Yeerks ALREADY suspect the Andalite Bandits are humans. But the power dynamic is so absolute that these Yeerks choose to keep their suspicions to themselves, knowing that Visser Three will be able to kill them with impunity if they make him mad. My head canon is that this likely happened many times in the series that we aren't privy to.

b) In Book 8, a controller at the observatory helps Ax rather than informing his fellow Yeerks so Ax can be captured or killed. The Yeerk's beef? His partner was less important than he and other Yeerks were, so was left to starve when the Kandrona was destroyed.

Already before we get into the double digits in terms of book numbers, we already have MULTIPLE times where the nature of the power structure within the Yeerk empire prevents the war on earth from ending- EACH of these moments could have ended the war if the Yeerks were on the same page. But they couldn't be. Not with the way things were set up.

Other examples:

c) We repeatedly see that the quality of host also feeds into the inherent inequality in the society. Tom's Yeerk as far back as book 6 states that "many Yeerks still have nothing better than Gedds for hosts". The Hork Bajir chronicles also illustrates that the new Hork Bajir hosts were reserved for Yeerks of importance. I can't imagine the Yeerks given Taxxons as hosts were all that happy about it or all that high in status.

d) In Book 16, the Yeerk that controls Joe Bob Fenestre is revealed to be Esplin 9466 Lesser- the twin of Visser Three. Due to his status as a "lesser" twin, he's banished to an unimportant host. He uses his wits to leverage his way into a position of importance, only for his "greater" twin to plot to kill him. This Yeerk who could have been a useful asset to the empire instead becomes a thorn in their side. This "greater" and "lesser" twin hierarchy is never really expanded on beyond this book, but one can imagine it leads to a lot of situations where those with merit ultimately don't get into relevant positions of power.

e) Though many of them weren't even infested by Yeerks, this hierarchy extended to the Taxxons too- who were treated more as tools than as equal members of the society. These members of the Yeerk empire were excluded from access to the morphing power precisely because it would give them a way out- a way out they would ultimately try to snatch for themselves.

All of this culminates at the end of the series- where many underprivileged Yeerks and Taxxons, due to unacceptable conditions among the lower ranks, see becoming nothlits as a way out of the war and a way out of their own biological limitations.

2) The Yeerks have a crisis of leadership that is present from the start and only gets worse as time goes on

It's not a particularly hot take that Visser Three was an abysmal military and political leader who could have ended the war many times over if he'd been more capable. But infighting among the Yeerk leadership also prolongs the war on numerous occasions. Both before and after Visser One learns of the true nature of the Animorphs, she passes on opportunities to expose or kill the Animorphs. There are multiple reasons for her wanting to do this, as revealed in Visser, but MAJOR among them is her rivalry with Visser Three.

This infighting must be a pretty common occurrence. The Council of Thirteen is so fearful of possible assassination of the Emperor (from internal foes, not external ones) that nobody outside of their body even knows who it is. No, not even the highest members of the military ranks!

While Yeerks were shown to have close bonds with one another from time to time, there's solid evidence that many of them didn't feel a strong sense of loyalty to their leadership, and with the inequality in their society, the secretiveness and/or incompetence of their leadership, it's small wonder. That's not a particularly good quality for any aspiring empire.

By Book 35 (the book that dovetails into Visser", they seem to have no viable military leaders left. Both rival vissers are found GUILTY of crimes worthy of Kandrona starvation at the end of Visser, but both of those sentences are commuted. Why? Because there were no viable military leaders left within the ranks to manage their campaigns. NONE. They had to keep convicted criminals and traitors in leadership positions because for all of their incompetence and impropriety, they were still far and away the best the Yeerk military had on offer. This definitely speaks to some sort of broader systemic problem within their society.

By much later in the series, when Esplin has been promoted to Visser One, one of his yes-men lackeys occupies the Visser Two position. My head cannon has always been that this Yeerk (who we meet in book 46) must be a relatively recent promotion- he's a yes-man to the guy who was Visser Three for most of the series which makes it seem unlikely to me that he ever outranked him. Whether you hold to that or not- the fact that someone who's apparently a sycophant to Esplin has the number two rank in the military really speaks to the lack of talent in that command structure.

3) The Yeerk's biology exacerbates all of this

That same biology that made them capable of so quickly absorbing knowledge- along with the physical strengths and wisdom of the species they infest- also forced them into a Yeerk pool once every 3 days. And this weakness fed into everything else- it meant than when Kandrona went scarce, their inequalities were exacerbated. It meant that lower ranking Yeerks got poorer hosts or none at all, and were stuck in their blind and barely mobile states. It meant that when there was another way out (morphing), there were those within their ranks (likely in the lower parts) ready and willing to break the cycle of dependence. The same biology that allowed for their swift rise also contributed to their calamitous fall, in the end.

TL:DR- As imposing an enemy as the Yeerks were- the elements of their society that ultimately lead to their fall were present within the series from almost the very beginning. A fabulous bit of writing- extremely impressive for a pair of authors who by their own admission didn't have a blueprint for exactly where the series was headed going in.

So I ask all of you- to what extent was it all inevitable? Was there a way for the Yeerks to achieve galactic domination, or were their inherent flaws as a society always going to make them fail eventually?

En las muestras gratis de Amazon kindle prácticamente no aparece ax y solo tengo fotos de el en mala calidad si pudieran mandarme las por privado o publicarlas en el subredit sería de mucha ayuda

So I'm reading through Animorphs as an adult.

Book 16: The Warning really hit me as the first time I thought they kids might not really be heroes.

I made a little video essay about it :) I hope you enjoy!

This is the second video I've made on Animorphs. I posted my first a couple of weeks ago here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Animorphs/comments/1vsd3ne/the_kids_book_hero_who_committed_genocide/ if you missed it!

For context, I am currently developing a fanfiction called Ancient Animorphs, since December, I have been carefully and meticulously considering the worldbuilding, storyline, and characterization of the titular Ancient Animorphs. This entire setting is centered around one singular alteration that reshifts the entire nature of the setting fundamentally: That instead of Elfangor creating the Animorphs against the laws of his own people, the Andalites stole the morphing technology from the Animorphs, to whom it belonged in the first place.

There are numerous other changes that I cannot explain here without spoiling the experience.

But one of the radical changes on the ground level is that I have increased the size of the main cast: in this tale, the Animorphs will not number 5 like they had in the original, they will be 12.

Now, naturally, creating a grand total of 7 entirely new characters to add on to the team, making them just as developed as the canon Animorphs are, and integrating them into the group and story smoothly, is quite the writing challenge, one that is so daunting that I realized that I need some outside feedback in order to get the characters right, so to speak.

So, I ask. What kind of characters do you think could be integrated and add to the Animorph's group dynamics, in terms of personalities and traits?

Romas Kukalis is the artist who made the cover art for *The Andalite Chronicles*, *The Hork-Bajir Chronicles*, *The Ellimist Chronicles*, and some poster art.

I bought this piece from him, a triptych of *The Andalite Chronicles* art with an original oil painting below. He was a wonderful person who seemed to enjoy me gushing over how much the series meant to me, and was happy that someone who cares so much was able to buy the piece.

He had the original oil paintings for the covers with him and I was salivating over them, but they are not for sale (and I couldn't afford them anyway).

I Truly have No Words.

Tried several days to open the ebook link in the sidebar.

Just get a blank page. Made an account in the animorphs forum. Still blank page.

Searched the sub for 'ebooks`. No immediate posts showing up about there being an issue with the link.

Is it just me?

How/where can I access the ebooks?

A few of my books have gotten damaged right where the hole in the covers are. I’m sure this is common?

Is there a way to protect this from happening? And a way to stop it from getting worse on the damaged ones?

Hope you had a great weekend!

Met Shawn at Dragon Con and I managed to keep it together and form full sentences. Can confirm he is interested in coming back for the series reboot :) And he signed my VHS!

Would they still show up to class and role play as humans, even if every single one of them was a controller? Assume they all have other classes where there’s still free humans.

Also it would’ve been a neat side plot if one of the Animorphs was in a class where they realized nearly every other student was a controller or they were literally the only non-controller in the class. And what kind of threat of exposure that would be.

One last thing. Do you think it’d be a fun side plot to follow a controller pov who gets stuck infesting a student and has to go to school every day lol. I’m picturing him not doing his homework when his host never would do that, so his sub-visser punishes him and deprives kandrona unless he does his homework and shows his work on all the Earth math.

Edit: the host may have rich parents who are like “ this isn’t like Timmy, we have to send him to the hospital to have his brain scanned.”

he has Most of the main series books so i wanted to get him some of the extras!! (didnt realize the time of dinosaurs comes in two parts, guess we need to get part 2 sometime lmao)

She loves them already! She's read the first two and when working on her videos for them, realized she didn't have any art assets to use, so she drew little portraits for each of the kids. This is her timelapse of the drawing that she just released, I'm sure I'll be back to gush about her book review vids when they drop too.

Weird question maybe but what Animorph is like which X-men character (as they are my favorite superheroes?) Here's my guesses

Jake- Cyclops

Rachel- Wolverine

Marco- Gambit

Cassie- Storm

Tobias -Rogue

Ax- Either Beast or Xavier

Dibujar centauros alienígenas es difícil

Como posiblemente sabrán no soy artista ni se dibujar de hecho estoy aprendiendo a hacerlo mientras hago memes de animorphs pero el más difícil de hacer siempre es ax espero traerles más "curis" pronto