#anyway I love having warriors and ninjago being my main fandoms because of how I can horrify people with their absurd length

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I read your bio and pinned post and raise you the question: how many series and special editions and such are there of warriors? I stopped reading years ago and (if my memory serves me correctly which it usually doesn't) stopped some time after Omen of the Stars.... I literally have no idea where to pick up if I wanted to read them again. so I'm going to ask you, a professional ;D

Oh boy here we go *large inhale*

There are 8 main arcs (plus one prequel arc that no one will blame you for skipping) with six books each, and the eighth one is over halfway through as of now.

That's already 46 books :D

We also have 16 super editions, 21 novellas, and 9 graphic novels/manga. On top of that, they're starting to make a graphic novel adaptation of at least the first main arc, and there's also been a handful of "field guides" made (nobody really cares about those aside from a couple good short stories in them)

So, my advice if you'd wanna read warrior cats again is honestly read what you only want to or think is interesting. There's so much material and a good chunk of it is almost never talked about in the fandom. Take some novellas for instance, people talk about Mapleshade's Vengeance all the fucking time, and on the other end I don't think anyone has actually ever read the Thunderstar or Shadowstar novellas. One of the main arcs, Dawn of the Clans, is a prequel arc that only about half of the fandom has read, and I personally never have read it at this point.

I've read the first four main arcs, half of the sixth one, about five super editions and novellas each, and half of the manga. I'm nowhere near to completing the series, but that's not really my goal, my goal has always really been just to know enough to interact with the fandom. Yeah, the fandom dragged me in cause I saw some multi animator projects and I wanted to know the context. Now I'm stuck here forever. (a little off topic but I'm also still trapped here because so many people have absolutely amazing warriors ocs and have made comics and animations with them (this is mainly about @/barrenclan, check it out if you'd love kitties experiencing horrors and murder cults))

So in regards to picking up the books again, a lot of it depends on what you mainly want to engage with. Bright Guardian Akira put out a really good video two years ago talking about some good orders to read them in if you want additional guidance! (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4z7WkUeyy0 )