fanonical:

really, to me, animorphs is an interesting example of a kid/teen book that could only work in a prose format - you start visually representing just how gnarly morphing is and the age rating climbs up to an 18, but in prose it can still be suitable

I think I agree with this

but, also, it’s funny because the alternative that my own brain assigns to “prose” is not “video” but “poetry,” so I started the paragraph fascinatedly wondering how transcribing Animorphs into verse would make it stop working as a kids’ book series

(side influence from the fact that I’m now reading the Thursday Next series, and just finished the book where we learn about how the jumping-into-books superpower works in poetry, which is that the bookjumper starts having much stronger-than-normal emotions and has to focus hard to keep from overreacting to everything)

(so, if that is the effect that Poetry Animorphs would get on the intensity of its gore scenes, then maybe the assertion does still hold true)