Animorphs (アニモーフ) was published and translated into Japanese for the first five books. Each book had a hand-drawn color cover different from any other publication, and six black-and-white sketched illustrations inside.
Covers and Spines
Book #1: The Invasion
Book #2: The Visitor
Book #3: The Encounter
Book #4:The Message
Book #5: The Predator
Spines for Books 1-3, showing silhouette of the morphed animal.
The Invasion Illustrations
The five humans watch as Elfangor's ship lands at the Abandoned Construction Site.
Jake in lizard morph watches as Principal Chapman descends the steps to the Yeerk Pool.
Jake and Marco accidentally end up at the tiger exhibit in The Gardens while trying to escape detection.
The Animorphs in battle morphs fight at the Yeerk Pool.
The Visitor Illustrations
Melissa and Rachel talk in the locker room before gymnastics class.
Rachel in shrew morph is almost stepped on in the grass outside Chapman's house.
Rachel morphed as Fluffer McKitty on a fence near Chapman's house, with Tobias keeping watch overhead.
Rachel morphed as Fluffer McKitty comforts Melissa Chapman, who feels her mother and father don't love her anymore.
Rachel morphed as Fluffer McKitty carried by Principal Chapman in a cat carrier, next to the real Fluffer McKitty.
The Encounter Illustrations
Tobias flying in his hawk form
Tobias and another hawk flying
Tobias keeping watch over the four Animorphs morphed as wolves in the forest.
Animorphs fishing for trout to morph in the lake near the location of the Truck ship, with Tobias keeping watch in a nearby tree.
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Tobias carrying and firing a Dracon beam.
The Message Illustrations
The Animorphs dodging the flashlights of Controllers from The Sharing, who have noticed their footprints on the beach where TV news reported the discovery of a fragment of what looks to the Animorphs like an Andalite ship.
Animorphs morphed as dolphins in the ocean. They attempt to swim to find the Andalite but must turn back due to sharks.
The Animorphs morphed as seagulls on a ship that is going to the location in the middle of the ocean where Cassie and Tobias believe an Andalite is located
The Animorphs, morphed as dolphins, come across the dome of the GalaxyTree dome ship where Ax lives as the only survivor.
The Predator Illustrations
Marco morphed as gorilla fighting punks in an alley.
Marco, morphed as a lobster to hide after Ax causes a scene in the mall, is picked up out of his tank to be cooked.
Tobias looks on as the Animorphs morph ants to infiltrate Chapman's house to steal a Z-Space transponder so Ax can go home.
The Animorphs, morphed in their battle morphs, use the Z-Space transponder to call a Bug fighter to be Ax's ride home, and prepare to fight the one Hork-Bajir and one Taxxon they expect to find inside.
Visser One, whose host body is Marco's mother Eva, is seen by Marco and the others while they are held captive aboard the Yeerk Pool ship.
The Animorphs, still partially morphed in battle morphs, escape the Pool ship using an escape pod.