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“Genki enters Monster Rancher game world, joins Holly and monsters to win Legend Cup and free her father.”
Monster Rancher (2000)
モンスターファーム～伝説[レジェンド]への道～
6.77
5,966 rank · 20,337 viewers · 19 favorites
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
Isekai
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Synopsis
Genki enters Monster Rancher game world, joins Holly and monsters to win Legend Cup and free her father.
Genki is a boy who loves playing video games. One day he's zapped into the world of Monster Rancher and meets the girl Holly and the monsters Mochi, Suezo, Golem, Tiger and Hare. Continuing from where the original story left off, Genki and friends journey to conquer the legend cup in hopes of freeing Holly's father from the mystery disc. (Source: AniDB)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
5.0
/10
What 3 viewers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 3
σ 1.63
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.63 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.0
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No
Score over time
↑ 0.00
Running avg · Oct 2012 → Aug 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Journey to the Legend Cup surpasses the first series by embracing its sports/tournament anime nature and drawing heavily from the source material games, delivering an emotional start and...”
- 5 “Tiger of the Wind’s spiritual wolf-like presence and Alan’s bittersweet episode-4 arc briefly spark emotion, but the series is an unimaginative, sluggish mash-up of Digimon, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Goh,...”
- 3 “Monster Rancher occasionally delivers genuinely decent emotional moments that provide brief respites from the overwhelming mediocrity. However, the generic Pokémon-copycat story, an unbearably...”
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Medium · 33%
Long · 67%
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A Tv Production · Spring 2000
TMS Entertainment.- Format 25 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 00m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2000 – Sep 2000 Spring 2000
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-6898 catalog
Licensed by
- ADV Films Licensor
- Discotek Media Licensor