Anidorks: An Animorphs Podcast!!

Marco flirts with everyone at school and meets a totally unremarkable boy named David.   Should T’shrondra be our new Animorph instead of David? Will Erek King only show up for mission briefs from now on or will we eventually get another Chee book? Has Rachel not learned anything about bursting through windows after her close call in Book 16? Does "the dark triad" refer to a theory of pe...

Longtime listener and mailbag mainstay CJ discusses us to wrap Book 19! We discuss Cassie as a controversial character in the fandom, whether you can get nothlited as a skrit and then regain your morph powers as a na, and what we can expect in the coming years as we venture out of the Golden Era of Animorphs books into the spooky-scary era of ghostwritten books.  Support the show Support us on Pat...

Cassie makes the ultimate sacrifice. Then she comes back.  Who is Cassie proving something to in this book: to herself, to the other Animorphs, to the Yeerks? Why wouldn't the Yeerks just re-infest Karen once Aftran frees her? Are Controllers a kind of flesh mech? Does Jake spend the time between each book just journaling about his fellow Animorphs? Red or blue?! Support the show Support us o...

Cassie gets Yeerked. Aftran delivers an ultimatum.  Whose plan was the Yeerking of the Unibank President: the methodical Visser 1, the theatrical Visser 3, or the zany but mysterious Visser 2? Does having Visser One as his mother mean that Marco is a nepo baby? And even if he is, wouldn't he be a wonderful Sub-Visser? Just think of the uniforms he could implement with the Yeerk budget! Have w...

Cassie and Karen argue about ethics until a leopard attacks. Marco saves the day.  How does Cassie explain all of her torn morphing leotards to her parents given how often she is ripping off strips of material in order to help others? What the hell are we supposed to do with Karen’s truly unhinged line that “slavery is a human concept” and how would that line read to a child? Did Karen's Yeer...

Enter: leopard!!! Cassie thinks about clubbing a child.  Just where did Yeerks find all of this ambition? Are lazer pointers to cats what dracon beams are to leopards? Is Cassie truly considering killing Karen? What would Marco or Rachel do if they were in Cassie’s situation? Does Eddy do anything between recording sessions except imagine episode titles? Support the show Support us on Patreon: htt...

Cassie quits the Animorphs. The rest of the gang stages an unsuccessful intervention. Karen tries to pet a bear.  Did the other Animorphs overreact to Cassie's big news? Is this the most violent main series book we've read yet, even if most of the violence is imagined? How are the Animorphs not getting alien flesh stuck in their teeth all the time? Should Cassie really be sitting on the...

Animorphs Survivor 3 Kids Vs. Grow-ups (I'm not writing Grownies) comes to an exciting end! Will Cassie make it to the merge? Will the mighty tyrant Gump burn all his bridges? I don't know! Quit asking me and listen to the episode!! Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com Hey! For real thou...

This week on Survivor!! Ummm... something clever hmmmm Yeah yeah Eddy would write something clever here... like: On Anidorks Survivor Season 3 it's Kids vs. Adults. Will the kids optimism and penchant for death give them the edge or will Minivan Chapman mow them all down? Find out on this weeks episode of... Survivor! Yeah yeah. Eddy will like that. Support the show Support us on Patreon: htt...

A double mailbag ep! We finally release the MegaMorphs #2 mailbag episode (all the way back from May!) along with a more recent email.  Also— who the hell is this David everyone keeps talking about and why does he have a trilogy? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com Hey! For real though: Leave us...

Or, The Unbearable Anda-Liteness of Being  Esplin is spared. Dak and Aldrea have each other— for now.  Why do Aldrea and Dak seem unable to imagine being together as different species? Is Hork-Bajir Chronicles just Grease? Is every coincidence in this series always also a possible Ellimist intervention? How does Dak feel about the fact that Aldrea's Hork-Bajir form is just his friend Delf? An...

Esplin gets a promotion. Dak and Aldrea uncover Alloran's plan.  Why is the world building in this book more satisfying than in the main series books? Why is the Arn's plan to foil the Yeerk attempts at Arn infestation to basically turn themselves into fainting goats? How does Visser 3 compare to Power Rangers’ Ivan Ooze? What the hell do you mean that Z-space shifted? Support the show S...

Dak and Aldrea build an army of monsters, then Hork-Bajir. Quatzhinnikon reveals all in his PowerPoint. Esplin knocks over a tree phone to build a big pool.   Is this scene of the Hork-Bajir squashing the Yeerks the most upsetting act of violence described in the series yet? If Aldrea is the Rachel of this book, does that make Dak more of a Tobias or a Cassie? Why does Quatzhinnikon seem so eager...

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...

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? Wh...

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 st...

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 anyt...

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 adul...

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 A...

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 s...

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 thems...

*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...

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, wh...

The Animorphs chomp on some Leerans and are weirded out when they suddenly can read each other’s minds. For once the kids solve their problems through actually just talking about their feelings.  When is it appropriate to touch someone’s face without asking? Will we ever meet an Andalite who isn’t a jock? Why haven’t the Animorphs questioned whether the Ellimist is interfering in this book yet? An...

Ax finds himself more torn than ever between his allegiance to the Animorphs and to his own people. A traitor is revealed aboard the Ascalin and the kids are forced to seek out possibly the most tragic Andalite of all.  What might be the translation for the Andalite curse “yaolin”? Why are the Yeerks so determined to take the only landmass on a planet inhabited by a species that lives underwater?...