Introducing: the Arn! Esplin discovers his love for method acting. Aldrea asks to speak to the Arn's manager. 

Was Aldrea the first “unlikable” narrator for many young readers— or at least the first narrator who behaved in such unlikable ways? Is Dak really the first Hork-Bajir to make it through the blue mists of the Arn's Zone, or are the Arn just pushing the others into planet's fiery core? How is the interspecies relationship between Tobias and Rachel similar and different to the relationship between Aldrea and Dak? What does it mean for Ax that he has a full support system during his Andante deprogramming while Aldrea has only Dan? 

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Aldrea loses everything. Dak Hamee faces an impossible choice. Esplin experiences some back trouble. 

Why does Seerow get all of the blame for what happened with the Yeerks? What does the Andalite response to what happened on the Hork-Bajir planet tell us about how the Andalites will respond to the Yeerk invasion of Earth? Why didn’t Seerow encrypt his messages back to the Andalite home planet? Who among us hasn’t plunged into Father Deep?

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Enter: Esplin!!! Aldrea becomes ChaDude— err, Chadoo. Dak goes tree-sliding. Chris introduces us to the transfixing sounds of the Speaking Tree. 

Does Esplin want to get with an Andalite, or does he want to be an Andalite? How do Yeerks manage to form an organized queue in the Yeerk pool among all of their cavorting colleagues? Why don’t the Andalites touch their own Untouched Wilds before they start screwing up other planets?  

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Wer're finally talking about Hork-Bajir Chronicles! Aldrea the Andalite meets Dak the Hork-Bajir. Tobias takes the day off. Seerow screws everything up. 

Sure, this book has valley depths concealed by a strange, blue fog, but is there anything more mysterious in this novel than Aldrea's mother being born without a name? Why has no one told us about cloud artists before now? Is there anything more gross than how the Andalites talk about intelligence? And how did Miranda and Chris just realize that they went through the whole of Megamorphs #2 without referencing Land Before Time even once?! 

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The kids wade in the ocean, watching the world end. Then they go home to watch TV. 

Does KA Applegate know where this series is going or is she making it up as she goes? Why do Ax and Tobias both always seem to possess mysterious knowledge to which the other Animorphs (and the readers) don't have access? Ax always about the broader universe, while Tobias seems to gained a cynical, almost adult wisdom through becoming a Nothlit. How bad does Chris want to see two T-Rexes make out? And seriously-- the kids don't get to keep their cool dinosaur morphs?! 

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The Animorphs encounter the Mercora, a lovable, crablike people attempting to build a home on Earth, and immediately become conscripted into someone else's war.  

What does the introduction of the Mercora tell us about the series' stance on nonviolence? Is Cassie doomed to be hardened to violence and harming others over the course of this series? Is Tobias inevitably going to become an Alloran type, willing to sacrifice the well-being of the few for the needs of the many? Are the Mercora more or less huggable than the Taxxons?

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The Animorphs continue their dinosaur journey!! We meet a an alien race of ant-like beings, the Nesk. Dino-Tobias hunts human Rachel. Jake morphs into a T-Rex while inside the throat of a T-Rex. 

Why does KA Applegate hate ants so much? Could the Nesk have possibly learned English that quickly? Did eating T-Rex meat upset Jake’s tummy? The Nesk fly pyramidal spacecrafts-- are those pyramids with sharp corners or smooth corners? And how did Miranda possibly manage to edit around all of Eddy's technical difficulties this episode?

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The Animorphs get nuked back in time to the Age of Dinosaurs. Rachel and Tobias get eaten. Cassie rolls a nat 20 on a survival check.

How will Tobias deal with being attracted to humans in the body of a hawk? Are CheesePuffs good? Who taught Eddy about vore? What's with that volcano? Is there anything to the fact multiple characters in this book are rescued by external manifestations of themselves? 

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*Heads up!! We will be off next Wed, April 30th and plan to begin releasing MegaMorphs 2 (not Book 19!) on Wed, May 7th.*

The AniCool Kids went together to see an immersive theater performance and now they can’t stop imagining what an Animorphs immersive theater experience might be like. Escape from the Yeerk Pool? A simulation of a morph gone wrong? A day in the life of Eileen the Dolphin Trainer??

We read your emails about Books 16 and 17 and discuss: What if Fenestre is just taking little bites here and there of preserved Yeerks rather than gobbling the whole thing in one bit? Which character has changed the most by this point? Chris says Cassie, Eddy says Ax, and Miranda is torn between the two— or maybe Tobias? Do Andalites ever morph into their crushes? 

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Book 18 concludes with the reveal of the City of Worms (!!!) and a journey to a Bright Hole. Ax laughs. 

Do rebellious Andalites ever run away to join the Andalites circus? Should we explore the human instinct to slap a mosquito as a solution to waking coma patients? What is Andalite art like? What are the implications of how Z-space is deployed in this book? If the Andalites have Z-space tech, why the hell are they taking so long? And in the alternate timeline where the Andalites successfully land on earth, how do they handle interacting with humans?

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