Beast Keeper

“*"Be the Best... ...Keep the Beast."*”
―Official tagline

***Beast Keeper*** (Alt. ***Beastkeeper***) is an Italian animated fantasy series that consists a season and 52 episodes with distribution by Mondo TV along with Ponpoko Productions, Starbright and Kappa Edizioni plus it was animated by the anime company, Nada Anime.

## Plot

Keep is a boy with no memory of his past and of unknown origin, but he is in possession of an ancient and magical artifact called a Spin Shell, which gives him the power to control the Beasts. Beasts are legendary creatures hidden in every corner of the world, and Keep can harness their power and actually fuse with them.

The young Jay, Alice, Mac and Argon (Toto) accompany him in a great adventure searching for his true identity, little by little a mystery deeply rooted in a remote past, an era when the courageous and various Keepers saved the world from the invasion of the Underground Creatures.
During their great adventure, the five young heroes will obtain new Spin Shells and learn about the Reapers, these evil and villainous obscure figures that are plotting for world domination in the shadows and using the Beasts’ power to their advantage. They solve puzzles, meet new companions and face difficult situations thanks to their friendship and cooperation.

## Characters

### Beast Keepers

**Keepers**: . Keepers are those who capture beast but use their abilities for good as part of the Society Of Reapers. They use logic instead of beastly instinct when using symbiose. When the Keepers use Symbios, their forms are more Humanoid than beast, almost armor like.

* Keep: Keep is a amnesic boy who can't remember his past, along with not remembering where he got a spin shell. He is a spirited wild boy but also caring and wise. His beast is Drew the dragon.

* Jay: A boy with a brave spirit and a trickster attitude. He has long blonde hair that covers one side of his eye. His beast is Aster the Hawk.

* Alice: The only girl in the group. She is the voice of reason, has pink hair and adores cute animals. She gets aggressive when being insulted by boys for being a girl. Her beast is Labuan the tiger.

* Mac: The brains of the team. He has knowledge of the Keepers and the Spin Shells. His beast is Thuan the turtle.

* Argon: The oldest of the group and the guardian of the kids. He wears a classic medieval outfit with a blue bron shoulder cape cloak. He is a true Keeper who is trained to know how to use the Spin Shells and how to control the Beast. Long before he was a Keeper, he was once a Reaper who controls his beast to be a zombie. From his experience for being a Reaper he left the organization and became one of the Beast Keepers. Recently while on his quest he came across Keep and his friends, the same time when Keep met Jay, Alice and Mac. Soon after being framed of doing some damages, Argon took the kids with him to stop the Reapers and along the way he teach the kids how to control the spin shells and control their beasts. He once was master of Drew The Dragon but lost him. Now his new beast is Howl the wolf.

* Toto: Alice's younger little brother. He is just a tagalong. Toto is a playful, reckless and energetic. He has green hair, wears a tanuki hat and a 06 t-shirt. He never gets his own Spin Shell or Beast.

* Alpha Beast Keeper: He is the first Beast Keeper and the discoverer of the Spin Shells. He was the one who fought against the giants by capturing their Beasts with the Spin Shells and use the Beasts turn against their former masters.

* Lara: A beast keeper who was a friend of Argon from the past who wears the same outfit as Argon. Her beast is a swan.

### Beast Reapers

**Reapers**: The Reapers are villainous organization that hunt down Beast to use their power to rule the world. They look for civilians that would be worthy of being part of the Reaper Organization. They let the power of the beast control them believing that it'll make them stronger. When they use Symbios, they take on horrific and monstrous anthropomorphic forms of their Beast. Other Reaper's Symbio forms, such as Count Stoker and Garrow, are more humanoid.

* Lord Warmer: The leader of the Reapers. A human robotic insectoid-like being with green skin and light gold colored armor plating with small blades on the helmet, shoulder pads, gauntlets and boots. Warmer use Symbios with Ditko for a short time just to show Count Stoker, Persico and Garrow that no Beast is weak, only the humans. He is recently the owner of Ditko The Spider.

* Count Stoker: The 2nd leader, or the 2nd in command, of the Reapers when Lord Warmer isn't around. He has his own agenda more separate than Lord Warmer's plans. Stoker has his own manor called Castle Stoker, where Piper is keeping Howl as captive. His beast is Ruthven the bat.

* Dr. Persico: A scientist who works for the Reapers. He is the one who has been making new Spin Shells that are replicas of ancient spin shells. His beast is a unnamed ameba.

* Garrow: A muscular Native American who is one of the strongest Reapers and high commander of the lower ranked Reapers. His beast is Fearack the cougar.

* Kiel: A pale Frankenstein Monster-like fisherman who owns Mako the shark. Since his last battle Kiel never unfuse with Mako, making him and Mako become one becoming a Creeper. Now as a Shark Creeper, with the ability to turn from Beast to Symbio, he attacks anyone who posses a spin shell or any Beast in any alternated form.

* Ross: A Reaper photographer who in the early episodes 4 through 10 spies on Argon and the kids. His beast is Grook the hyena.

* Lee: A Reaper who owns Ditko the spider.

* Perry: A Reaper with slight hawk-like facial appearance. Former member and former owner of Aster the hawk.

* Piper: A Reaper with a almost rat-like face appearance and wears a black furry jacket. His beast is Hamlin the rat.

* Anor: Owner of the beast Croak the frog. He has a slight appearance of a human frog with long white hair. He keeps making his appearance like like a Argon doppelganger in Croak's psychic illusion. In episode 24, he was turn into ashes from being destroyed by Keep in Multi-Symbio form.

* Wallace: He wears a black suit with a yellow shirt and always wears sunglasses. His beast is Zabu the fly. He quit the Reaper Organization after he was defeat by Keep in his first appearance.

* Randy: A blue haired man who bares same resemblance to Perry. His beast is Khan the snake.

* Kyle: A Reaper spy who infiltrated the Society Of Keepers.

* Reaper Diver: An unnamed diver that beared resemblance with Wallace was being attacked by Kiel The Shark Creeper, who Kiel was trying to get his spinshell. It is unknown if he survived or that he was killed by The Shark Creeper.

* Pratt: An elderly cowboy-like man with a white mustache and beard. He's the first one to catch Thuan the turtle and shortly a former owner of Thuan when she fought back for control and freedom in Symbios. After that event, he decided to leave the Reaper Organization.

### Supporting

* Alice and Toto's parents.
* Jay's parents
* Mac's parents.
* Alice and Toto's grandpa. He has knowledge about stories of the Beast Keepers from ancient times.
* Graham: A teenage boy that wear glasses and headphones who was always bullied by two other teenage boys and almost became part of the Reapers. Piper found Graham and recruited him, giving him a chance for power just so Graham can get revenge on anyone who bullied him. He was the former master of K Match the eel, given to him by Piper. Until Graham freed K Match and let him loose. After that the townsfolk cheer for him as a hero.
* Gloria: A girl who wanted to be famous and popular. When she came across Croak The Frog Beast, it gave her a psychic illusional world of her dreams. Anor and Croak were using Gloria to get Keep for him when he kept Alice as a hostage in a psychic trap.
* Gloria's parents: A mother and a father of Gloria who just want what's best for their daughter like studying and staying in school.
* Terry: A Teenage boy with black hair with green clothes who is a great carpenter and has a good relationship with Thuan the Turtle Beast.
* Terry's Village Elder: A kind elderly man.

### Beasts

Powerful supernatural creatures, each with their own powers. These creatures can be captured by using the Spin Shells to trap, heal and summon them. They have three different forms that can be controlled and altered from using the Spin Shells; **Basic**, their average animal form. **Pet**, a cute small baby-like chibi form. In pet form they are more cooperative and they don't remember anything when they fight and not knowing that they're beast. And lastly **Symbio**, a fusion of beast and its owner that become one humanoid animal. There are side effects of using Symbio. The beast can control the owner if the owner can't control the beast. If anyone that stays in Symbio too long they may be stuck in Symbio forever, never turn back to human. Those who are trape in Symbio Form are called The **Creepers**, the scientists from the Reaper Organization came up with the name. There is a **Fusion** ability where two Beast fuse together with or without the Master, but it's risky and extremely dangerous to use. The only beings that were fused are Grook and Ditko,
which was an accident caused by Lee when he captured Grook in Ditko's Spin Shell making them into a Hyena Spider Hybrid Monster. Similar to the fusion is the **Multi-Symbio** when Keep use symbio on both Drew and Howl to become a giant humanoid dragon wolf chimera.

* Drew: The dragon beast. Powers: Fire.
* Howl: The wolf beast.
* Aster: The hawk or falcon beast. Powers: Sight.
* Labuan: The tiger beast.
* Thuan: The turtle beast.
* Ruthven: The Bat beast.
* Grook: Hyena Beast. Powers: Fear Induction.
* Ditko: Spider Beast. Powers: Webshots.
* Mako: The shark beast. Powers: Bone breaking jaws.
* Fearack: The Cougar Beast.
* K Match: The eel beast. Powers: Electric Blast.
* Croak: The frog beast. Powers: Ability to talk and mental traps.
* Hamlin: The rat beast. Power: Self Replication.
* Zabu: The fly beast. Powers: Size Alteration; big size to small size.
* Khan: Snake Beast.
* Unnamed Boar Beast.
* Unnamed Ameba Beast.
* Unnamed Mandrill Beast.
* Unnamed Yak Beast.
* Unnamed Beetle Beast Illusion.

## Episodes

1.Keeper vs. Reaper

2.The Power of the Spin Shell

3.Hunted

4.Beastly Symbio

5.The Reaper Organization

6.Monster in the City

7.Friendly Fire

8.Outcasts

9.Friends and Enemies

10.Acquisition

11.The Beast Within

12.Reaper for Revenge

13.The Old Spin Shell

14.The Key

15.The Three Hooded

16.The Call of the Depths

17.Dreams of Gloria

18.The Enemy in the Mind

19.Bonds

20.The Attack of the Creeper

21.The Four Knights of Hayon

22.How to Become a Beast Keeper

23.On the Traces of Howl

24.The Castle of Stoker

25.Mortal Coils

26.Out of Control

## Trivia

* This series became famous after being bought by 4Kids Entertainment shortly after the loss of its contract with *Yu-Gi-Oh!*.

* This animated series is the first that animation bets were made ​​in a style that tries to mimic anime is expected to debut yet in 2012.