Grotto Beasts (TV series)

Overview
Grotto Beasts was a cartoon series that aired on American television stations during the summer of 1996. It was widely beloved by fans, and it is unclear why the series never got a second season. In 1997, a limited run of Grotto Beasts trading cards got released. Though the first season was slated to be 12 episodes long, the final episode was never released, though some storyboards have been found, indicating that is was going to be the dramatic climax of the season's storyline. As of today, the show's Hindi translation Gupha se Raakshas ("Monsters from the Cave") still airs on TV in certain parts of India.

In March 2020, the "maniacal corpo" online Twitch.tv streamer and so-called "19K Andy" Jerma985 purchased the entire Grotto Beasts franchise company in an acquisition costing him roughly $350,000, saying "Yeah, no, this is cool. This is cool, I-I'll own it." What Jerma is planning to do with the company is unclear at the moment, but it is rumored that he's planning on printing new trading cards and selling them for an insane price to his chat members, thus making up for his massive multi-billion dollar debt.

Plot
The first season of Grotto Beasts began with the main characters, the Grotto Gang, taming their first Grotto Beasts. The main character, Otto, tames a Dustbunny, and his friends, Rob, Schlotto, and Dinky, tame a Blademaus, a Toadstool, and a Sweet Tooth respectively. Once they've tamed their Grotto Beasts, the wizard Grot Esquire announces his plans to take over the world and capture all the Grotto Beasts, and the Grotto Gang set out to stop him.

The next few episode are spent traveling across the lands to find Esquire's base, with the Grotto Gang becoming stronger and taming more Grotto Beasts as they go. In episode 6, Schlotto reveals that he's decided to join Grot Esquire, and Schlotto becomes the show's secondary villain.