>animorphs animated series
>violence faithful to the books
>serious tone
>aged up to high school
Would you watch it?
For those who don't know, Animorphs was a kid's series of books in the 90s about a group of middle-schoolers who catch wind of a secret alien invasion by Yeerks (slugs that get into your brain and take over) as a proxy battleground in their war with the Andalites (shapeshifting blue centaurs with knife tails). The kids are given the power to shapeshift into any kind of animal they have gotten a sample of for one hour - anything more and they'll be stuck that way for good. Rather than be in a happy-go-lucky series about cute animals doing cute things, this is a gritty guerilla war story full of espionage, betrayal, questionable battlefield morality, PTSD and more gorey violence than you'd expect in a kids' series that was never attacked by scrutinous parents.
Who do you cast in the following roles?
>Jake, 2nd from left, confident jock thrust into a leadership role, but his older brother Tom is already a Yeerk Controller
>Marco, middle, comic relief and would-be casanova whose antics hide fear, anxiety, and a head for strategy
>Cassie, far left, the Cute One and the most knowledgeable about animals and the most idealistic (this is a problem)
>Rachel, 2nd from right, the Hot One, who is starting to enjoy the fighting a little too much
>Tobias, who is trapped in the body of a hawk but seems to prefer it to his abusive home life
>Aximili, far right, a young Andalite hiding out on earth; his older brother gave the kids the morphing powers before being killed rather gruesomely in the first book by....
>Visser Three, an ambitious high-ranking Yeerk military officer, commander of the Earth invasion force and main villain. His host is an Andalite, so he has the same powers as the kids, on top of all his resources
>violence faithful to the books
>serious tone
>aged up to high school
Would you watch it?
For those who don't know, Animorphs was a kid's series of books in the 90s about a group of middle-schoolers who catch wind of a secret alien invasion by Yeerks (slugs that get into your brain and take over) as a proxy battleground in their war with the Andalites (shapeshifting blue centaurs with knife tails). The kids are given the power to shapeshift into any kind of animal they have gotten a sample of for one hour - anything more and they'll be stuck that way for good. Rather than be in a happy-go-lucky series about cute animals doing cute things, this is a gritty guerilla war story full of espionage, betrayal, questionable battlefield morality, PTSD and more gorey violence than you'd expect in a kids' series that was never attacked by scrutinous parents.
Who do you cast in the following roles?
>Jake, 2nd from left, confident jock thrust into a leadership role, but his older brother Tom is already a Yeerk Controller
>Marco, middle, comic relief and would-be casanova whose antics hide fear, anxiety, and a head for strategy
>Cassie, far left, the Cute One and the most knowledgeable about animals and the most idealistic (this is a problem)
>Rachel, 2nd from right, the Hot One, who is starting to enjoy the fighting a little too much
>Tobias, who is trapped in the body of a hawk but seems to prefer it to his abusive home life
>Aximili, far right, a young Andalite hiding out on earth; his older brother gave the kids the morphing powers before being killed rather gruesomely in the first book by....
>Visser Three, an ambitious high-ranking Yeerk military officer, commander of the Earth invasion force and main villain. His host is an Andalite, so he has the same powers as the kids, on top of all his resources
