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{{Infobox episode
|season = 3
|number = 7
|airdate = 09/19/2001
|previous = [[Episode 54: Tiger and the Mandy Cup Challenge]]
|next = [[Episode 56: Lost at Sea: Disappearance of the Mystery Disc]]
|image =Episode55 main.png
|title = Disappearing Hare Line
|Japanese title = 誰がために鐘は鳴る<br/>The Bell that tolls for Someone}}
'''''Disappearing Hare Line''''' is the seventh episode of '''Season 3''' and the fifty-fifth overall episode of the [[:Category:Anime Series|Monster Rancher anime series]]. It aired in Japan on May 20, 2001.

==Synopsis==
The gang becomes increasingly curious about Hare's baggage but Hare refuses to show them. But then when a small Spot Dino steals his baggage the gang gives chase and finds that the Spot Dino is an orphan living under the care of Fairy Hare, one of Hare's long lost friends.

==Full Recap==
Mum Mew has a bad hair day. She reports to Durahan she sent out a baddie to retrieve the disk.

Spot steals Hare's bag, which leads him to an old friend, Fairy Hare. Hare reminisces of the past when him, fairy hare, and Wild Hare would steal back all the things the Baddies would steal.

The gang sees Fairy Hare is out of food for the young children and monsters. They hatch a plan to obtain more food. In the process Wild Hare bumps into them. The whole hare gang is reunited.

Wild Hare tells them there is food in the baddie warehouse. The 3 hares sneak out at night to take the goods. The hare gang becomes ensnared in the Black Weeds traps. Genki's gang rushes over. Holly trades the mystery disk for the 3 hares. As the trade is made Hare rushes over to snatch the disk back, but in the process Wild Hare holds Fairy Hare hostage, revealing his baddie crest.

Hare and Fairy Hare convince Wild Hare to turn from his bad ways. Genki gets the disk back from the baddies. Hare says farewell to his friends. And the gang moves on.

==Featured Characters==
*[[The Searchers]]
*[[Fairy Hare (Anime)]]
*[[Wild Hare (Anime)]]
*[[Spot Dino]]
*[[Hare Hounds (Anime)]]
*[[Dino Troops]]
*[[Rockies]]
*[[Mustards (Anime)]]
*[[Scaled Hares (Anime)]]
*[[Worms (Anime)]]
*[[Jell Troops]]
*[[Zuum Troops]]
*[[Salamander Troops]]
*[[Black Weed Troops]]
*[[Gobi (Anime)]]
*[[Mum Mew (Anime)]]
*[[Poison (Anime)]]
*[[General Durahan]]

==Featured Monsters==
*[[Suezo]]
*[[Mocchi]]
*[[Golem]]
*[[Hare]]
*[[Tiger]]
*[[Fairy Hare]]
*[[Wild Hare]]
*[[Spot]]
*[[Hare Hound]]
*[[Dino]]
*[[Rocky]]
*[[Mustard]]
*[[Scaled Hare]]
*[[Worm]]
*[[Jell]]
*[[Zuum]]
*[[Salamander]]
*[[Black Plant]]
*[[Gobi]]
*[[Mum Mew]]
*[[Poison]]
*[[Durahan]]

==Trivia==
[[File:Monsterrancher55changeindub.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*The first shot of Poison hugging Durahan is replaced with a shot from another episode. The subsequent shots are kept in the dub, however.
*The content of Hare's bag is revealed for the first time in this episode. It consists of a hairbrush, toothbrush, abacus, several gold coins (implied to be spare coins from Mandy Cup's reward that Hare secretly stashed), and Fairy Hare's scarf.

==Watch on YouTube==
[https://youtu.be/sVNoFwAFdcM]
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