#monol

[littleeyesofpallas]

MONOLITH[モノリス] it's legit just the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I love that even the data portrait is a recreation of that shot from the movie.

JURASS-WALL[ジュラスウォール] Jurassic Wall

LAND-OBELISK[ランドオベリスク]

BLUE-SPONGE[ブルースポンジ]

ROMPER-WALL[ロンパーウォール] Like the clothing, Rompers? like a Romper Room?

SOBORO-BENTO[ソボロベント] from soboro[そぼろ] minced meat or fish that is seasoned and fried and bento[弁当] a Japanese styled boxed lunch.

ICE-CANDY[アイスキャンディ] Japanese phrase for what we'd call a popsicle or an ice-pop.

STYROFOAM[スタイルフォーム]

WILD-BLOCK[ワイルドブロック]

BAROQUES[バロックス] a play on Baroque, the ornate architectural style, and Blocks. Alternatively could be Italian rather than French and meant to be read as BAROCCOS. Either way the Japanese R/L bit is lost in romanization.

ASUFAARU[アスファール] it does seem awful close to ASPHAULT[アスファルト] which is what the English localization called it, but there's a clear occult theme here that doesn't line up.

WAKAKUSA-KENZAI[ワカクサケンザイ] wakakusa[若草]: "green grass/fresh grass" and I think kenzai[建材]: "building material"?

KURO-SHIRO[クロシロ] from kuro[黒]: "black" and shiro[白]: "white"

AOZORA[アオゾラ] from aozora[青空]: "blue sky"

and of course we come back to RAKUGAKI-MONO[ラクガキモノ] from rakugaki[落書き]: "scribble/graffiti/doodle" and Monolith

HOSHIZORA[ホシゾラ] from hoshizora[星空]: "starry sky"

DOMINOS[ドミノス]

FIREWALL[ファイアウォール] I know this one's not a specific breed, it's just the errantry boss monster, but I figured it was worth throwing in here.

AKASHIC[アカシック] from the Akashic Records of Theosophic religious lore. Supposedly a psychic otherworldly record of all events of the universe past present and future.

MOCHILITH[モチリス] MOCHI MONOLITH

BANRI[バンリ] I have no idea what this is supposed to be

STAINED-WALL[ステンドウォール] like Stained Glass

TRANCE-WALL[トランスウォール]

BLUE-WIND[ブルーウィンド]

AMA-NO-IWATO[アマノイワト] from ama-no-iwato[天岩戸] the cave the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu hid herself after being disrespected by her brother, Susanoo.

NAGEKI[ナゲキ] from nageki[嘆き]: "grief/lamentation" possibly a bizarrely poor taste reference to the wailing wall in Jerusalem, as nageki-no-kabe[嘆きの壁] is the Japanese name for it?

CHOCO-WALL[チョコウォール] Choloclate Wall

CHOCO-PARFAIT[チョコパフェ] Chocolate Parfait

MAD-WALL[マッドウォール]

UIROU[ウイロウ] from Uirou[外郎] a kind of Japanese sweet rice jelly

CASTELLA[カステラ] the popular Japanese style of "western style" cake

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[littleeyesofpallas]

I know they were only meant to be loose doodles, but i think i'm getting worse at these... anyway here's gali/monol

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[meatferal]

Back on my monster rancher hyperfixation

[extremesmarts]

[death-by-killer-screen]

today i thought a lot about monol

when i was 15 and onward, my most prominent perception of him was that he was very, very stoic and not easy to move emotionally; this was because he reacted very little to other characters yelling at him/an explosion going off practically right next to him

now that i've grown a brain i've begun to think--how much of that is from a natural tendency to be reserved, and how much of it is from the fact it's simply difficult for him to express himself through any sort of body language? he is a rectangle.

he is already very very odd. he doesn't move like the ones in the actual monster rancher games do. he doesn't make faces. he doesn't point with tendrils. the only semblance of him even showing any kind of flexibility was during the aforementioned explosion. i feel like a lot of that is simply from his nature. but still. at the same time i think a lot of the things he feels never rise to the surface because they can't.

this is a character that appeared in 3-ish episodes of the anime. Perchance.

[batbutton]

[ancient-era]

Monster Rancher 2 Capsule Rubber Mascot

モンスターファーム2 カプセルラバーマスコット

Scribble (Monol/???)

ラクガキモノ (モノリス/???)

[thirsty-as-hecc]

2/5 posts featuring Tigers from Monster Rancher

The virgin anime TerrorDog vs the Chad MR2 TerrorDog Don't get me wrong, I really love the Monster Rancher anime but some things are impossible to ignore for my obsessive brain. I take my anime dogs very seriously B| (still love that anime Tiger/Monol and feel that he deserved better tho!!!)