AniWorthMonster Rancher (2000)
Introduction
Genki is a boy who loves playing video games. One day he's zapped into the world of Monster Rancher and meets the girl Holly and the monsters Mochi, Suezo, Golem, Tiger and Hare.
Continuing from where the original story left off, Genki and friends journey to conquer the legend cup in hopes of freeing Holly's father from the mystery disc.
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.78/10 · 9990
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Audience reviews
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spacenewtype
Perhaps contrary to the popular opinion, I enjoyed this more than the first series.
Journey to the Legend Cup is a little more like a sports/tournament anime than Mystery of the Disk Stone, and as such it able to draw a lot more from its source material games where training and raising your monster to fight in tournaments to be the best there ever was is one of the main goals. The premise revolves around saving the soul of Holly's father, the key to doing that being a piece of the Legend Cup's Trophy. To participate in the Legend Cup you need to have won several other regional tourneys. Genki gets to flex his Monster Rancher skills to turn Mocchi into a lean, mean, Mocchi-ho machine. It's like the games mixed with some character drama from the first series! Excellent.
The show had a gre…
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(covers both seasons)
Monster Rancher……Yes, I know the Japanese version of that is Monster Farm but today we are doing the English version that aired on the now-defunct (and fortunately) Fox Kids. Now it is based on a series of life simulation RPG videogames created by Tecmo (the company that brought you Ninja Gaiden & Dead or Alive) having over 14 games across different videogame platforms.
In the anime adaptation, it revolves around Genki, a 12-year-old middle school boy who really loves to play videogames and one day, he discover the Monster Rancher game and as he plays it, he is zapped into their universe where he meets the rest of the team: Holly, a 14-year-old girl on the quest along with their monster team, Mochi, Suezo, Golem, Tiger and Hare (No, I’m not calling them Tiger and B…
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This is so a rip off of Digimon! I remember when I was younger, I liked it but seriously… now that I have watched so many anime shows and found out just how badly ripped off the other shows are, I feel a little like crying. Now please don’t take this the wrong way, it is a good show to a point but it takes so long to get to where it’s getting good that most people would probably conk out of it. It’s good for what it is, a children’s show, nothing more and nothing less.
We start out with the main character, Genki who is pretty much Ash Ketchum in school. He is overactive, over annoying, and most of all, over stereotypical of these types of shows. He gets sucked into the video game (like Digimon) and has to help collect monster discs (like Pokemon) to unlock the power that is inside (like…
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