The Final Battle is the season finale of Season 3, the series finale and the seventy-third overall episode of the Monster Rancher anime series. It aired in Japan on September 30, 2000.
Synopsis[]
After rescuing Holly's father, the gang waits for him to awaken. Then, the Mystery Disk gets stolen by General Durahan, who becomes possessed by Moo. In the end, Durahan and his team help the gang destroy Moo forever.
Full Recap[]
After rescuing Holly's father, the gang waits for him to awaken. Genki encourages Holly that his memories will return. However, Tiger argued that the man remained amnesiac might for the best, which Holly sadly agreed considering recollections of her father's actions as Master Moo's host were no doubt too much for him. Other monsters agreed, but Genki said that was ridiculous, as neither father and daughter would be happy with this. Suezo then asked what they must do with Moo's disc given to its dangerous nature. Tiger suggested to smash it into pieces, which Genki shot down as that would set the prisoner within free like when Moo's evil soul possessed Holly's father yesrs back. If anything, sealing it away somehow might be a better idea.
Suddenly, Weed snatched both the disc and the stone from The Searchers' grasp. Joining Weed, General Durahan declared his intentions of using Moo's Mystery Disc and the Magic Stone in a bid to harness his former master's dark powers as his own. Genki warned them about the danger they about to unleash only for Poison, Weed, Mum Mew and Gobi launched all-out attacks to cover their escape. With no time to lose, the band made haste for the nearest shrine the Baddies headed to.
Poison, Weed, Mum Mew, and Gobi prepared to fuse Durahan with Moo's essence. Just then, the Searchers arrived, and Weed ordered Poison, MumMew and Gobi to deal with them. However, the Searchers launch their all-out attack, and throw the three toward Weed, and in process destroyed the Shrine Controller. This causes Durahan to shout, "NOOOOOO!!!!!", as he is seemingly overwhelmed by Moo's soul. The evil soul launches electricity to Durahan's minion, and fuses into a powerful, armor-clad, scarlet warrior called Ruby Knight. In his new form as Ruby Knight, Durahan seemed to regain control and attacked the Searchers, launching them out of the shrine.
Genki tells Holly to get her father away, but as she tries to doing so, her father goes to the battle, as he is attracted by Moo's presence within Duraban and finally sees the monster. Despite the gang's best efforts, all their attacks fail to make a dent in this new monster, and he appears invincible. As the Ruby Knight taunts them, Holly's father clutches his head and screams in pain, as he regains his memories. As he finally remembers everything, he embraces his daughter, after being separated for years. The Searchers, however, are unable to gain the upper hand, even with energy beams that manifests from their courage.
Holly's father remembers his tranformation into Moo.
Holly’s father then turns on Moo, realizing that Durahan’s teammates are suffering the same fate as he had before. Holly tries to persuade him to leave as Moo is too dangerous to deal with. He knows that Moo is powerful, but he vowed to destroy him, as he wants to redeem himself and prevent another chaos and terror engulf entire world once again. Unfortunately, Moo is too powerful and corners him. Moo encourages them to surrender with hatred, but Genki says that courage is more powerful than hatred. So Moo engulfs everyone in darkness.
Moo's Soul vs Phoenix's soul
They are brought inside the heart of the evil soul, and see that the evil soul, rather than being united with General Durahan, Poison, Weed, Mum Mew, and Gobi, is actually consuming them as Holly's father feared. Just then, he came up with an idea; as Moo’s power is on par with the Phoenix’s, they need the Phoenix’s soul to destroy Moo’s soul to overcome the darkness. Using their powers, the gang creates the Phoenix to fight Moo's soul - and both souls fights.
But Moo temporary gains the upper hand as it coils around Phoenix, until Phoenix frees itself along with Durahan and his team. Angered, Moo blasts them with a lightning, but Phoenix protects them. Durahan questions why phoenix protect them and the Searchers help them. Genki reveals that hatred is weaker than courage and whether they enemies of not is not matter. Mum Mew understands what Genki mean. Then Genki and everyone merges with Phoenix's soul, empowered it, and eventually destroyed Moo's soul with a powerful strike by crashing itself to Moo.
The brand new day
Eventually, everyone returns to the real world, and Poison rejoices as her Baddie crest is gone. While both Weed and Durahan are shocked and happy as they have their bodies restored thanks to Phoenix. While Phoenix's soul split once again into Mocchi, Tiger, Golem, Hare and Suezo, Holly has to help her father stand, exhausted as he used his power for the final battle. What was left from Moo flies to the skies and is destroyed into sparks of light that purify the remaining Baddies and restores lands that were once destroyed. All of the heroes see the sunrise, for a brand new day.
Aftermath[]
- Genki returns to the real world, but is now capable of traveling between both worlds at will through the CD Disk, with Mocchi also follows him to the real world, but only children can see him.
- Allan, the Worms, Jim, and Eared Mew continues to help out people.
- General Durahan, Mum Mew, Gobi, Poison, and Weed all devote themselves to help out the human and restore the world.
- Hare and Tiger pay a visit to Tama, Daton, and Datonare. Both still bicker with each other.
- Golem opens a restaurant in Holly's village, employing Pink Jam and the Jell Troop.
- Suezo opens a school in his village, teaching various monsters, with his sister Pink Eye and Gamba being among the students.
- Holly and her father continue their work of excavating Mystery Disks, with Genki and Mocchi occasionally stopping by to aid.
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Trivia[]
- In the Japanese version, General Durahan seems to be in control of the Ruby form until he starts taunting The Searchers. Then Master Moo takes over. In the English dub, Moo assumes control of the Ruby Knight right away.
- At the end of the Japanese version, Genki learns how to travel at will between Earth and Pangaea, as does Mocchi. For some unexplained reason, monsters that travel to Earth can only be seen by children, not adults. This scene was cut entirely from the English dub.
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