Girls with horns don't control monsters, Those are a breed of monster. . . lol
Monster Rancher games and anime: You start out with tons of different Base breeds of Monsters.
The one with the red hair up there, is "Pixie". She is her breed's base monster.
You can combine two different monsters to get different types of a base breed monster. For example, A Pixie, breeded with a Tiger (( tiger is a base breed monster, it is actually a blue wolf)) Will get you a "Mint"
Mint is the first one with the wolf tail, the blue one.
Theres like 50 types of different pixies you can get, maybe more now, and one of the awsome things about Monster Rancher is theres like endless amounts of cool monsters to make lol
Monsters come from CDs, they are unlocked from Monster discs in the anime and game, but in the ps1 and ps2 games you put in any CD in the world and it will pop out a monster for you to train. And amazingly they are coordinated too somehow, like if you put in the Little MErmaid Soundtrack, it will give you an Undine (( Undine is a base monster, its a mermaid ))
Then when you have your Monster you train it, its really fun, have to feed it ect and you choose how you want to train it's stats. It learns abilitys and you battle it in tournaments (( against real people soon to come in the online MMO )).
in the MR games I was always a Pixie trainer, I had just about all of them and me and my friends and brothers would battle our monsters (( you can battle eachother using ps1 and 2 memory cards ))
My best was an "Allure", a Pixie Breeded With a Naga, I think I named it Akasha. Basically it kicked everyone and everything's ass and Dominated the game lol.
Oh your monsters usually live about 2-4 years, sometimes longer to 6 or even 7, (( its alot shorter game time to RL time ofcourse )) and you have to retire and freeze them to battle them, before they die, or else you lose them forever. lol
I had this one Monster , an "Angel" a really rare Pixie who looked like an angel, and she died in like less than 2 years. I was so fuicking pissed lol
edit: and oh eternus no I can't find any screenshots of the MR online, I looked everywhere, all there is , is some game art on the Japanese website.
But heres some screenies of past MR games,
PIxie from MR4 (( more cartoonish than the mr1 and 2 pixies, I hope the online one isn't this cartoonish )) this game came out in 2003 i believe
