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Damn these books hold up
Sep. 1st, 2025 11:50 amSo... I just found out my library has all the Animorphs audiobooks and I've been binging through them on this long weekend while I get boring chores and house setting up stuff done.
I remember being super into these books as a kid. I remember very little else about them besides the basic premise of kids with animal powers fighting aliens and that there were spin-off books that take place entirely on alien planets. Idk. My memories from childhood in general are extremely spotty so it's not unusual for me to forget basically everything about what was my favorite series at some point.
Anyway, re-visiting them is such a fascinating experience. In a way it's like reading them for the first time due to the fact that I have forgotten so much that it feels "fresh"... but at the same time there is so much in the way they handle their subject matter that I can feel was deeply formative in what sort of things I like in media, and even how I relate to IRL animals and consider their experiences. Like holy shit, I really have unearthed a piece of myself here.
Also they don't fall prey to the usual problem that comes from revisiting children's action/adventure stories as an adult where you go "why are these kids left to handle this shit all by themselves, why is this never addressed" like, this is addressed, it IS fucked up and that's part of the whole point!! I mean, oof, like any story of this sort it's definitely an aspect that feels more painful to read as an adult but it just feels like another way to appreciate the story.
I remember being super into these books as a kid. I remember very little else about them besides the basic premise of kids with animal powers fighting aliens and that there were spin-off books that take place entirely on alien planets. Idk. My memories from childhood in general are extremely spotty so it's not unusual for me to forget basically everything about what was my favorite series at some point.
Anyway, re-visiting them is such a fascinating experience. In a way it's like reading them for the first time due to the fact that I have forgotten so much that it feels "fresh"... but at the same time there is so much in the way they handle their subject matter that I can feel was deeply formative in what sort of things I like in media, and even how I relate to IRL animals and consider their experiences. Like holy shit, I really have unearthed a piece of myself here.
Also they don't fall prey to the usual problem that comes from revisiting children's action/adventure stories as an adult where you go "why are these kids left to handle this shit all by themselves, why is this never addressed" like, this is addressed, it IS fucked up and that's part of the whole point!! I mean, oof, like any story of this sort it's definitely an aspect that feels more painful to read as an adult but it just feels like another way to appreciate the story.
