Monster rancher

Monster Rancher - TV Soundtrack
Monster Rancher's music album
Publication ; (s)	March 2, 2001
Label (s)	BMG / Ariola
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	14th
running time	44:22 min.

Monster farm
Original title	モンスターファーム
transcription	Monsutā Fāmu
genre	Adventure , fantasy , comedy , shons , drama
Computer / video game
Studio	Tecmo Koei
Publisher	Tecmo Koei
Erstveröffent- lichung	July 24, 1997
platform	PlayStation , PlayStation 2 , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Nintendo DS , PC ( Windows )
genre	Raising Sim
Subject	Adventure, drama
Anime television series
title	Monster rancher
Original title	モンスターファーム〜円盤石の秘密〜モンスターファーム〜〜説説への道〜
transcription	Monsutā Fāmu - Enbanseki no Himitsu Monsutā Fāmu - Densetsu e no Michi
Country of production	Japan Japan
original language	Japanese
Year (s)	1999-2000
Studio	TMS Entertainment
length	24 minutes
Episodes	73 in 2 seasons
Director	Hiroyuki Yano
music	Seiji Suzuki, BMF
First broadcast	April 17, 1999 to September 30, 2000 on TBS
German-language first broadcast	January 17 to November 14, 2001 on RTL II
synchronization

Monster Rancher ( Japanese モンスターファーム , Monsutā Fāmu for English Monster Farm ) is a series of Japanese video games from the Tecmo company . It was adapted as a 73-part anime series.

Games

In the game, the player takes on the role of a monster holder who raises them and lets them fight against each other in tournaments. The owner has to take care of the monster, train it and keep it healthy. Monsters can be loyal or less loyal, depending on the way they were raised. Their fighting strength also depends on it. The game belongs to the Raising Sims genre .

Main series:

Monster Farm (Japan: July 24, 1997, USA: November 30, 1997 as Monster Rancher ) for PlayStation
Monster Farm 2 (Japan: February 25, 1999, USA: September 4, 1999 as Monster Rancher 2 , EU: October 20, 2000 as Monster Rancher ) for PlayStation
Monster Farm [sic!] (Japan: March 22, 2001, USA: September 24, 2001 as Monster Rancher 3 ) for PlayStation 2
Monster Farm 4 (Japan: August 14, 2003, USA: November 13, 2003 as Monster Rancher 4 ) for PlayStation 2
Monster Farm 5: Circus Caravan ( モンスターファーム 5 サーカスキャラバン ; Japan: December 8, 2005, USA: April 13, 2006 as Monster Rancher EVO ) for PlayStation 2

Offshoot:

Monster Farm Battle Card GB (Japan: December 24, 1999, USA: December 23, 1999 as Monster Rancher Battle Card GB ) for Game Boy Color
Monster Farm Battle Card (Japan: March 23, 2000, US: July 31, 2000 as Monster Rancher Battle Card: Episode II ) for PlayStation
Monster Rancher Hop-A-Bout (USA: December 10, 2000, Japan: March 22, 2001 as Monster Farm Jump ( モンスターファームジャンプ )) for PlayStation
Monster Farm Advance ( モンスターファームアドバンス ; Japan: December 7, 2001, USA: December 28, 2001 as Monster Rancher Advance )
Monster Farm Advance 2 (Japan: October 25, 2002, US: November 18, 2002 as Monster Rancher Advance 2 )
Kaite Shabette Hajimeyō! Monster Farm DS ( かいてしゃべってはじめよう! モンスターファーム DS ; Japan: July 12, 2007) for Nintendo DS
Monster Farm DS 2: Yomigaeru! Master Breeder Densetsu ( モンスターファーム DS2 甦る! マスターブリーダー伝説! ; Japan: August 7, 2008, USA: August 3, 2010 as Monster Rancher DS )
Monster Farm Online ( モンスターファームオンライン ; Japan: December 21, 2007 - November 3, 2008 (server shutdown)) for Windows
Monster Farm Lagoon ( モンスターファームラグーン ; Japan: January 7, 2010 - August 31, 2010 (server shutdown)) for Windows

In addition, a variant of Tecmo's game Solomon's Key ( Solomon no Kagi ) with monster rancher figures for the Game Boy Color was released on September 25, 2000 and in October 2000 in the USA under the title Monster Rancher Explorer .

Television series

The 73-part anime series Monster Rancher is about the eleven-year-old elementary school student Genki Sakura, who comes from the real world to the video game world via the monster rancher video games and there, together with his friends, fights against the evil monster Moo, who wants to destroy the world . There he learns a lot of new things, has to face battles and prove what true friendship means. He shows courage and strength of character.

content

world

The world of the Monster Rancher was once a highly developed civilization whose science was particularly advanced in the field of genetic engineering . As a result, she was able to redesign animals and store their genetic information in stone slabs, the secret stones. With the help of such secret stones, these animals can be recreated in special shrines.

A war broke out in this world in which animals were developed into biological weapons. Civilizations wiped each other out and technology was lost. Centuries later, the technologies were rediscovered, as were the mystery stones and shrines. This creates the monsters again and creates a popular sport, monster breeding. The monster breeders raise the monsters and they compete in tournaments and competitions.

Important items

The Miracle Stone: Holly got the Miracle Stone from her father before the act. Holly always wears it around her neck. Moo can steal it for a short time, but Holly gets her property back. The miracle stone is very old and was used by the ancients. It glows red and then shows locations where there are secret stones, the phoenix or moss real bodies. But it also lit up when the group met Tiger, Haki and Suezō. In episode 38, the miracle stone healed the wounded Golem, Mochi, Tiger, Haki and Suezō through its power. In the 40th episode ( The Secret of the Miracle Stone ) the friends learned that "Miracle" is the name of a country where the ancients had lived. Moo created this land. “Miracle” was also the land in which monsters were created through genetic manipulation, which were then kept in secret stones. In the 47th episode, the Miracle Stone melted. In the 50th episode, a white Suezō named Proritoka, together with the Mochi Moost, won a glass trophy at the "Monster Cup Tournament" in which a miracle stone was included. In episode 72, Moost gave Holly the miracle stone.
The secret stone: All deceased monsters turn into mystery stones. Malicious monsters too, but their secret stone grows on a plant. In such cases, we also speak of lost monsters . Tiger and Suezō were brought back to life from the mystery stones. The phoenix was also caught in a secret stone. In order to free lost monsters from their secret stones, they have to be brought to a shrine. There they are placed on a glass plate in the middle of the room. After the saying “appear!” The lost monster reappears.
Holly's dagger: Holly was given a dagger in the flying fortress by Moo in episode 14 ( Holly's rescue ) while he had kidnapped her. With this dagger she was supposed to kill Moo, which she didn't do. The dagger was studded with jewels. In episode 32, a con named Niton showed up. He lied to the friends, and stole the dagger. After an attack by the evil troops, Niton returned the dagger to the owner, but without the jewels. In episode 38, Holly wanted to kill the last hour's warrior with this dagger, but he can regenerate. In the 40th episode, Holly learned that the dagger came from the ancient land of "Miracles".
The mark of the wicked: The sign of the bad guys, also the badge of the bad guys or the coat of arms of the bad guys , is a symbol of the evil monsters. Every monster that was transformed by Moo wore this structure. A total of eleven monsters lost their badges over the course of the series. On the one hand Granity in the 47th episode, because a tear flowed on the sign of the bad guys and she was thus freed from evil, and on the other hand Wild in episode 55, because Haki broke the coat of arms. The badge of the wicked is exactly the same as that of the ancients. In addition, one of the three Tombstone brothers broke the Pinkyam crest in episode 61 and the crests of the four converters. After the fight against the evil spirit, Durahan, Gobi, Mew and Poison also lost the mark of the evil troops.

Characters

main characters

Genki Sakura ( 佐倉ゲンキ , Sakura Genki ): Genki Sakura is eleven years old and lived in the human world. One day when he put a CD in his Playstation, he was drawn into the "monster rancher world". At first he couldn't explain it, but later he enjoyed it a lot. Genki is helpful and adventurous. He loved the challenge and was only too happy to fight the evil forces of Moo. He was determined and had kind words to say to Pixie too. He was sucked back into the human world after the merger of Moo and the Phoenix. In episode 49 he came back to the monster rancher world .

Holly ( ホリィ , Horī ): Holly is 14 years old and the only female main character. When she was a baby, she lost her mother. A short time later she also lost her father and had never seen him since. After making friends with Genki, she went in search of him. However, she later had to find out that the spirit of Moo had lodged in her father's body. She did everything she could to free her father and make Moo disappear forever. Holly was the mediator and mostly against fighting. Throughout history she lived to be 15 years old. In the end she was able to successfully free her father from the secret stone. However, he had lost his memory and could not remember his daughter.

Suezo ( スエゾー , Suezō ): Suezo is a little yellow clumsy guy and kept falling into all sorts of faux pas. Although he mastered not many attacks, Suezo could in the course of the action teleportation exercise that seemed useful for all friends. He was always responsible if you wanted to know the path to go. Golem tossed Suezo in the air and said that he would catch him again. However, this happened very rarely. He was part of the spirit of Phoenix and united with the other four to resurrect the Phoenix. In the final episode, all five monsters reunited to form the phoenix to defeat General Durahan.

Mochi ( モッチー , Motchī ): Mochi is a tiny baby armadillo and was only recently revived from a Mystery Stone. He very quickly built a great friendship with Genki that never broke. Both always stuck together and formed a perfect team. He was part of the spirit of Phoenix and united with the other four to resurrect the Phoenix. In episode 49, Holly found the first Secret Stone. She revived Mochi and they both went in search of the remaining ones. However, Mochi had forgotten all his attacks and had to learn them again. After much practice, Mochi was able to use his attacks again. In the final episode, all five monsters reunited to form the phoenix to defeat General Durahan.

Golem ( ゴーレム , Gōremu ): Golem loved sand, stones and flowers more than anything and couldn't do much with water, cold and ice. He was the protector in the group and took care of Holly most of the time. Over time, Golem befriended Battle Colossus, Pixie's best friend. Golem overcame his fear of the water anyway. Even so, he often behaved clumsily and got into trouble as a result. He was animal and plant friendly. He was part of the spirit of Phoenix and united with the other four to resurrect the Phoenix. In the final episode, all five monsters reunited to form the phoenix to defeat General Durahan.

Tiger ( ライガー , Raigā ): Tiger (in Japanese Liger ) used to live happily outdoors with his alleged younger brother Wolfszahn. One day, Moo kidnapped Tiger's alleged brother and turned him into a vicious monster. Since then, Tiger has never seen his alleged brother again. After he came to terms with the loss, he became the boss of the "tiger gang" that stole food, robbed shops and ambushed people. When the group was about to go to their place one day, Moo's troops had devastated everything and killed all of Tiger's friends. Only Tiger survived and was kindly received by Genki and Holly. Both got along better and better, which was also due to the fact that they constantly respond to each other. Tiger said to Haki in almost every episode, "I'll eat you!" He was part of the spirit of the Phoenix and united with the other four to resurrect the Phoenix. Holly felt that in episode 51 there must be tiger in a secret stone at the Monster Cups . After he was freed, Tiger also forgot all of his attacks. At first he found it very difficult to learn his forgotten attacks, but was gradually able to use his attacks again. Tiger saw his alleged brother Wolfszahn again in episode 66. In the final episode, all five monsters reunited to form the phoenix to defeat General Durahan.

Haki ( ハム , Hamu ): Haki is a greedy, clever rabbit who does everything in his power to get gold. After a competition with Tiger, which Haki won, he tried to cheat his later friends out of the gold. However, Haki decided to join the friends after all. Haki always had good ideas and knew the answers to the most impossible questions. To Tiger's sentence “I'll eat you!” Haki always replied with “Then try it!” He was part of the spirit of Phoenix and united with the other four to resurrect the Phoenix. After he found his friends again, a time passed. Then he met Fairy and Wild, his two best childhood friends, again. In the final episode, all five monsters reunited to form the phoenix to defeat General Durahan.

Other important characters

Allan: Allan is a teenage boy. He treated his monster, a giant worm, not like a friend but like a slave. It wasn't until his worm died because he was set up by the Flora sisters that he understood what true friendship meant. After the death of his first worm, Holly and Genki gave Allan a baby worm to take care of. Allan returned in the 59th episode. The group learned that his worm was now very large. He also brought back to life his dead worm, which had turned into a mystery stone after the merging of Moo and the phoenix.
Wolf tooth: When the friends fought against Gali, the second of the nasty four, it turned out that Wolfszahn is the third of the nasty four . In a fight between the two alleged brothers, Tiger intentionally broke the badge of evil. Little did Tiger suspect that he would be sentenced to death. But Wolf's Tooth died before Tiger's eyes. He would like to turn back time, but it's too late for that now. In the 66th episode, Tiger met Wolfszahn again. He was freed from his secret stone by Nina. Tiger explained to Wolfszahn that they are not really brothers, but have just been abandoned in the same place. As it turned out later, it was only a white lie from Tiger to motivate Wolftooth to fight.
Pixie: Pixie was shaped like a bat and had red wings. At the beginning she was one of the nasty four . After several fights with her, Genki had managed to pull her on the good side and advise her against Moo. Although she didn't want to see it, she accepted the help of her friends. After a fight with Moo, Pixie died. Battle Colossus then decided to sacrifice his life and unite with Pixie so she could go on living.
Battle colossus: Battle Colossus was Pixie's best friend. Both always stuck together. He always protected "Pixie". When she was dying, he allowed himself to be united with her in order to give her life out of love. However, Granity, as it was called after the merger, missed Battle Colossus a lot.
Moo: Moo used to be Holly's father. When Holly was a young child, her father was banished from the village where they lived. Holly doesn't know the reason for this to this day. Holly's father then looked for the legendary phoenix and the miracle stone, which has special powers. When he found a "secret stone", the spirit of Moo suddenly flew into his body. Holly's father no longer had any control over himself and his behavior and destroyed all the villages, the monsters and the people.; Moo was developed through genetic manipulation of the ancients in the land of "Mirakel". Moss' spirit separated from his body and after a long time he was able to reunite with it. With combined forces, however, Genki and his friends managed to defeat Moo together with the legendary phoenix. However, Moo merged with the phoenix and the spirits of both disappeared without a trace. After his death, all bad monsters turned back into good ones, and all lost monsters were locked in mystery stones. Holly and Mochi found Moo's secret stone in episode 49. In episode 72, Holly's father was successfully freed from the secret stone. However, he has lost his memory and does not know who he is. Still, he started to remember it.
The phoenix: The phoenix, also called the ash bird , was created in the land of "miracles" of the ancients by genetic manipulation. He should defeat Moo. The researchers also developed “The Last Gate”. The body and mind of the phoenix were also separated from one another in the past. In the last episode, Golem, Haki, Tiger, Mochi and Suezō reunited to form the Phoenix to defeat Durahan. However, the friends had decided too much to save their enemies too. So Durahan, Poison, Mew and Gobi did not die and lost their badges.
General Durahan: General Durahan is just like Moo one of the bad guys and comes from the eastern continent because Moo asked for him. He controls the western continent. Both wanted to defeat the group at first, but Durahan was playing the wrong game so that he had tried to take down Moo in order to become ruler of the world himself. His partner was called Lilim. Durahan survived the fight and his body now consisted only of his head (see Dullahan ), which was attached to a machine. In order to have a normal body again, Durahan needed the miracle stone. At his side was the bat lady Poison after Lilim's death. In addition, Gobi and Mew were now available to him as subjects. Durahan, Poison, Gobi and Mew were attacked by the friends while the mystery stone in which the evil spirit of Moo was trapped was awakened. They merged into a new life with General Durahan. Inside the evil spirit, all four could still be saved. After the victory, he had his true body back.
Lilim: Lilim, however, dared to side with Moo and betrayed "Durahan". After a fight between the Floras, Durahan, Moo, the group and you, Durahan appeared to be defeated. But he managed to save himself and stabbed Lilim with his sword.
Granity: After the Battle Colossus united with Pixie, Granity woke up. At first she did not want to be true that the Battle Colossus had united with her to save her life. Granity started crying and one of her flowing tears hit the badge of evil. Then it disappeared and she fought with her friends against Moo and for the good. Granity was in the shape of a bat, just as she had before as a pixie. As a Granity, however, her wings were blue, not red.

publication

The series consists of two seasons and was directed by Hiroyuki Yano in the studio TMS Entertainment (which operated under the name Kyokuichi Tōkyō Movie in the first season ). The first season of Monster Farm - Enbanseki no Himitsu ( モンスターファーム〜円盤石の秘密〜 ) was broadcast on TBS from April 17, 1999 to March 25, 2000 and the second Monster Farm - Densetsu e no Michi ( モンスターへァ説〜〜へァ説ムムムへァ説ムムムァムムムァムムァムム道〜 ) from April 1 to September 30, 2000.

From January to November 2001, RTL II broadcast all episodes in the afternoon program Pokito around 3 p.m. All episodes aired on Fox Kids from January 2001 to June 2003. Monster Rancher was repeated on RTL II, Fox Kids and Premiere Start until 2004 . In 2005 the series ran for the last time on German television in the evening program on Tele 5 .

These DVDs came out simultaneously on March 12, 2001.

Monster Rancher 1: ( Let's start ; friends forever! ) [Episodes 1 + 2]
Monster Rancher 2: ( Captain Horn's marriage plans ; attack of the Zillas ) [Episodes 15 + 16]
Monster Rancher 3: ( The last of the nasty four ; The day of the monsters ) [Episodes 35 + 36]

For a detailed overview of all episodes with first air dates of "Monster Rancher" see

The series was also broadcast in North and Latin America and translated into French , Italian , Arabic and Tagalog , among others .

Music (japan)

The soundtrack for the series comes from Seiji Suzuki and BMF.

Five different opening credits were produced for the television series .

Kaze ga Soyogu Basho ( 風がそよぐ場所 ) by Miho Komatsu (episodes 1–28)
Picnic from Rumania Montevideo (episodes 29–37)
Close to Your Heart by Rina Aiuchi (episodes 38-48)
NAME of Takashi Utsunomiya (episode 49)
FLUSH by Takashi Utsunomiya (episodes 50-73)

Likewise, five titles were used for the credits of the series.

Flame of Love by Sweet Velvet (episodes 1–21)
Digital Musical Power ( デジタルミュージックパワー ) by Rumania Montevideo (episodes 22–36)
Wonderin 'Hands by 4D-JAM (episodes 37-48)
Tada Sugiyuku Tame ni ( ただ過ぎ行くために ) by Takashi Utsunomiya (episode 49)
Be Truth by Takashi Utsunomiya (episodes 50-73)

Music album (Germany)

Track list

Free as the wind (1:39)
Take my hand (1:24)
Far, Far, Away (3:41)
The Golem (4:03)
I want to be with you (3:30)
The City of Robos (3:10)
Tell me who you are (3:40)
You are all i want (3:37)
It's over (3:20)
I want it all (3:32)
Darkness (3:36)
1000 dreams (3:46)
The City of Robos (Robomix) (3:19)
The Golem (X-tended) (4:45)

In addition to the 14 songs in the series, the album also includes three stickers as a gimmick .

synchronization

Sorted according to the order of entry.

main characters

#	role	Consequences)	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
1	Genki Sakura	1-73	Chisa Yokoyama	Ditte Schupp
2	Holly	1-73	Mariko Koda	Sabine Bohlmann
3	Suezō	1-48, 50-73	Wataru Takagi	Tonio von der Meden
4th	Mochi	1-73	Yuri Shiratori	Nicola Grupe-Arnoldi
5	Golem	3-48, 50-73	Naoya Uchida	Kai Taschner
6th	tiger	5-48 51-73	Kazuki Yao	Frank Muth
7th	Haki	6-48 52-73	Nozomu Sasaki	Bernd Simon

Supporting characters

#	role	Consequences)	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
1	# 1 Holly's father (before the storyline; appeared in Holly's mind in episodes 1, 8, 13, 32, 37, 47, and 50) (Alive: episodes 72-73) # 2 Moo (episodes 1-35) # 3 Monstermoo (episodes 35-48)	1–2 5, 7 11–17 19, 21, 27 30–32 34–38 42, 44–49 68, 73	Jūrōta Kosugi	Thomas Albus
2	The converters	3, 8 20, 32		Gerhard Acktun
3	The 3 Flora Sisters	4th		Martina Duncker
4th	Allan's giant worm	4, 48, 59
5	General Durahan	37-45 50-73	Ken'yu Horiuchi	Oliver Grimm
6th	Lilim (mentioned in episode 52)	38-45, 65	Haruko Takahagi	Shandra Schadt
7th	The warrior of the last hour	38		Dirk Meyer

The nasty four

#	role	Consequences)	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
1	Pixie	7, 10-11 13-14 20, 28-37 47, 68	Kotono Mitsuishi	Claudia Lössl
2	Gali # 1 Gali # 2	7, 15, 17 20-21, 63	Kaneto Shiozawa Tsutomu Kashiwakura	Michael Habeck Peter Musäus
3	Wolf tooth	5, 7, 27 22-27 48, 66	Daiki Nakamura	Thomas Piper
4th	Naga	7-8 28-29 33-35, 63	Kazuya Kobayashi	Manfred Erdmann