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Monster Rancher (anime)

Monster Rancher
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モンスターファーム
(Monsutā Fāmu)
Genre Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Anime television series
Directed by Hiroyuki Yano
Studio TMS Entertainment
Licensed by
Original network TBS
English network
Original run 17 April 199930 September 2001
Episodes 73 (List of episodes)
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Monster Rancher, known in Japan as Monster Farm (モンスターファーム Monsutā Fāmu?), is a 73-episode anime series based on Tecmo's Monster Rancher video game franchise.

It originally aired on Japanese television on TBS from April 17, 1999 to September 30, 2001. An English-language version by Bohbot Entertainment aired in North America on Fox Kids and YTV. In Japan, the program existed as two separate series; The Secret of the Stone Disk (円盤石の秘密 Enbanseki no Himitsu?) for episodes 1-48 and The Legendary Path (伝説への道 Densetsu e no Michi?) for episodes 49-73.

The story follows a boy named Genki Sakura, who is a key player of the Monster Rancher video games. After winning a tournament hosted by the game's creators, Genki wins a special CD that he can use to unlock a special monster in his game at home. However, upon using this disk in his game console, he finds himself transported to a world of monsters that, much like Genki's game, are given life by scanning special stone disks within temples. There, he meets a girl named Holly, who is seeking a stone disk containing a legendary Phoenix that will save the land from the tyranny of an evil ruler named Moo. Upon attempting to use the disk Genki had won to try and release the monster, they bring forth a different sort of monster, which Genki names Mocchi. Wanting to free the land from Moo's rule, Genki, Holly, Mocchi and their other monster companions go on a quest to find the stone disk that contains the Phoenix.


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