History Trivia / MonsterRancher

!!General Trivia
* TheWikiRule: [[http://monster-rancher.wikia.com/wiki/Monster_Rancher_Wiki The Monster Rancher Wiki]].

* ActorAllusion: Captain Black Dino is voiced by Creator/ScottMcNeil in the dub, who famously voiced another [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars dino in an earlier role]].

* TalkingToHimself: Besides Genki Sakura, Creator/SaffronHenderson also voices Pixie. The said characters had a conversation in episode 10.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Genki is playing his game on a Playstation 1 expy. In the dub, Genki taunts a robot by claiming "I heard your mother was the Y2K Bug!".

* DummiedOut: International releases of [=MR2=] censored Kato's Oil Fire and Oil Flame techniques. Still doesn't change the fact that NPC Katos can have them, though.

** The UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch ports of the first two ''Monster Rancher'' games are Japan-only.

** The UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port of the original ''Monster Rancher'' is Japan-only.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Hare's voice is the same one Samuel Vincent uses for [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Double D]].

* DuelingGames: ''Monster Rancher'' was formally accepted as one of Sony's counters to Nintendo's ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]]'', even going so far as to include Playstation references in the animated series. However, it stopped being a Playstation-exclusive series with the release of ''Monster Rancher Advance'' for Gameboy Advance.

** The first DS game was never released outside Japan.

!!General trivia

!!The games

** Monster Farm Online, the MMORPG. Even if you go through the trouble of signing up for a Japanese account, you can't play it because it blocks all foreign [=IPs=].
** ''Monster Farm POP'' 1, 2, and ''Monster Farm Travel'' were never released outside Japan.
** The Switch port of the original Monster Rancher is Japan-only.

!!The anime

* DuelingGames: ''Monster Rancher'' was formally accepted as one of Sony's counters to Nintendo's ''Pokémon'', even going so far as to include Playstation references in the animated series. However, it stopped being a Playstation-exclusive series with the release of ''Monster Rancher Advance'' for Gameboy Advance.

* DuelingGames: ''Monster Rancher'' was formally accepted as one of Sony's counters to Nintendo's ''{{Pokemon}}'', even going so far as to include Playstation references in the animated series. However, it stopped being a Playstation-exclusive rival with the release of ''Monster Rancher Advance'' for Gameboy Advance.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Monster Rancher Metropolis, a well-known site for ''[=MR2=]'' data, got several things wrong that snowballed into rumors only debunked in 2018.

* MissingEpisode: The episodes "Tiger's Battle with Destiny" and "The Battle with the Big Bad Four" only aired once, and were taken out of syndicated airings. Despite being important to the plot, they were never shown in syndication.
* NetworkToTheRescue: The syndicated BKN broadcasted the anime early weekday mornings, and only reran (repeatedly) the first season. Creator/FoxKids not only ran the first season on it's Saturday morning line-up, but also broadcasted the second season. Unfortunately, they only ran the second season in full once.
** ABC Family (at the time, ''Fox Family'') however did run the second season a few times. However, for some reason, they never aired "Tiger's Battle with Destiny" and "The Battle with the Big Bad Four".

** Monster Farm Online, the MMORPG. Even if you go through the trouble of singing up for a Japanese account, you can't play it because it blocks all foreign [=IPs=].

* SequelFirst: The original ''Monster Rancher'' never came out in PAL regions--instead, its sequel, ''Monster Rancher 2'', came out first with the number dropped. This caused certain aspects of the anime and the spinoff games to become cases of MarthDebutedInSmashBros--the Dino species were [=MR1=] only.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For years the only first season was released on VHS, and all the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}}s are out of print. Eventually averted when Hulu began to stream the entire anime. Later, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-05-02/discotek-media-adds-monster-rancher-tv-anime-series Discotek would rescue the series.]]

* DummiedOut: The North American release of ''2'' has a few particular monster species that had some of their techs locked out due to censoring reasons and/or bad porting of the Japanese version, with the only way to unlock them is through the use of a [=GameShark=]. The Kato species, for an example, had its affinity for sake changed to olive oil and its particular attacks based on it were removed, making it impossible to unlock them while sending it on an Errantry.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For years the only first season was released on VHS, and all the {{DVD}}s are out of print. Eventually averted when Hulu began to stream the entire anime. Later, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-05-02/discotek-media-adds-monster-rancher-tv-anime-series Discotek would rescue the series.]]