Monster Rancher- Catch a Tiger by the Tail (DVD)
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Monster Rancher- Catch a Tiger by the Tail (DVD)

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Catch A Tiger By The Tail continues the Monster Rancher saga in which the young boy Genki seeks to find mystery discs scattered around an alternate dimension in hopes of finding the Phoenix inside one of them. Since we’re still very early in the series, the story is busy introducing characters, and that’s really what this disc is all about. As things start out, Genki and his friends run into an amazingly meanspirited monster trainer called Allan. Rather than respecting his monster (a giant worm), he abuses it, taunts it, and make it perform evil deeds for no discernable reason. To make things worse, as Genki searches for a mystery disc, Moo (the great evil being he wants to stop) has sent some baddies after him. Allan decides to help out the baddies, but his mistreatment of his worm might backfire on him.Eventually, Genki and friends find themselves in a desert region where a rather infamous group of monsters live, having freed themselves from human owners. Although all these creatures look like giant wolves, they’re called ’tigers’ for some reason. In any case, their leader is the feared ’Tiger of the Wind’, a powerful monster who distrusts humans. He eventually learns, though, he’ll have to team up with Genki if he wants to see the evil of Moo destroyed. When more of Moo’s dinosaur troops come to harass Tiger of the Wind, the choice is made even more clear. Later on, they all find themselves without any money, so they decide to compete in a local monster battle. If they win, they’ll have a lot of money to fund their quest, and Tiger volunteers for the job. Unfortunately, he loses to the rather unscrupulous con-artist known as Hare, a giant rabbit with a talent for being extremely dishonest. Eventually, Tiger, Genki, Suezo, Golem, and the rest will have to deal with this character once and for all, or lose their money for good.Like many cartoons based on comics or video games, the early episodes are spent introducing the main characters who are most closely identified with the source material. In this case, now that Tiger and Hare have showed up, all of the ’name’ creatures from the game are accounted for, which means the story can go in more developed directions. Although definitely a kids cartoon, Monster Rancher still has some widely enjoyable aspects, mainly that it never slows down. The story is always kept fresh, exciting, and on topic, without getting either amazingly preachy or boring. The writers seem to want most of the episodes to have some sort of moral, but it isn’t annoyingly obvious. It’s just something to watch while eating popcorn and drinking soda, that kind of thing; for that, it works perfectly.




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