User:RC-0722/Medabots
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| メダロット (Medarot) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Comedy, Science fiction, Mecha |
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| Director | Tensai Okamura |
| Studio | Bee Train, Nihon Ad Systems |
| Network |  TV Tokyo NTV7 Fox Kids, Jetix Tele 5 Rai Fox Kids, Jetix, 4 Signal Combinder(SC4) Canal Panda, RTP1, RTP2 YTV Red TV Ecuador, RTS |
| Original run | 2001 – 2002 |
| Episodes | 91 (list of episodes) |
Medabots (often misspelled Metabots and known in Japan as Medarot ) is a Japanese anime show produced by Bee Train and Production I.G, and a manga produced by Viz Communications.[1] The show, which was originally released on Fox Kids on September 1, 2001, ranked highest among the network's newest shows.[2] On January 15, 2008, Shout! Factory released the first season of Medabots onto a four disc DVD box set. Shout! Factory has also stated that season two will be released in the future, but they have no official plans for season 3.[3]
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[edit] Plot
- See also: List of Medabots episodes and List of Medabots and types
The series stars a boy named Ikki Tenryou, who wants to become a champion of the World Robattle Tournament. At first, Ikki is not able to afford a top-of-the-line Medabot and his parents refuse to buy one for him in fear of it having it stolen by thieves, but he is able to scrape together a small amount of money to buy an outdated model, called a KBT. With a bit of luck, he finds a medal, which is essentially the Medabot equivalent of a soul, in an ally. Ikki quickly inserts it into the KBT he purchased. This Medabot becomes his partner in the Robattles he fights. The only problem is that the Medal they found is actually a 'rare' Medal, stolen and then accidentally dropped by the Phantom Renegade. 'Rare' Medals are powerful ancient artifacts that were discovered by scientists and paleontologists. However, this is brought up later in the series.
The 'rare' Medal that Ikki gives his KBT has a severe attitude problem, an attribute never seen in Medabots, who are usually very loyal. Throughout the series however Ikki and his Medabot, Metabee learn to work together the two share an unbreakable bond that helps them rise in the Robattling World.
Also important in the series is Rokusho, a rogue Medabot with a dark past. He is an important character in the flashbacks, since the anime takes place in two different time periods (The first and second season being one time period, the third season being another).
Another important aspect is the story of Henry, who sold Ikki his medabot from the 24 hour Hopmart. We find out that he is, quite obviously, Phantom Renegade. The series has a running joke of Henry slipping up and practically telling the gang he is The Phantom, and Ikki and the gang still never figuring it out. We are then introduced to Space Medafighter X, # 1 in Japan, who is later revealed to be Phantom Renegade. Later, during the World Finals, he never actually shows up to the fights, instead sending substitutes and working behind the scenes. Later still, when Patra and Joe from Team America in the Robattle tournament tell Ikki about the 10 days of darkness caused (apparently) by Hikaru Agata, Space Medafighter X shows up and is recognised as Hikaru. It's shown afterward that Hikaru never actually did anything wrong and was the one who stopped the 10 days of darkness by killing his medabot, the original Metabee.
Rare Medals and Medabots were actually created thousands of years ago, as seen in an episode when Ikki finds cave drawings of Medabots. Eons ago, the beings that we now know as Medabots were the rulers of the Earth. But they were obsessed with battle and war - to evolve and fight, they modified their bodies into robotic, metal, armored forms. But their war decimated both their race and the world, and so the survivors encoded their minds into small metallic hexagons - Medals - so that when the world was returned to life, they might live again, too. But when this race was returned to life, they were no longer what they had been - now they were Medabots. However, in the modern day of the Medabots series, Medabots and Medals are franchised and distributed by the Medabot Corporation, run by Dr. Aki. The Founder of everything Medabot-related. The 'rare' medals, as mentioned earlier, were a secret kept by the Medabot Corporation, only because very little was known about them. However, a Medabot with a 'rare' medal would be able to call upon an attack called the 'Medaforce'. In the manga, the 'Medaforce' is a form of medal mind control. As Dr. Aki explains in the third graphic novel of Medabots it is 'one medal oppressing another'. The other Medabots ends up destroying itself from the attack. In the cartoon however, it's a way of increasing the power of the Medabot's special skill. Metabee's missiles are super charged, whilst Rokusho's Chanbara sword is as well.
The "Ten Days of Darkness" occurred eight years before the events in the series during the World Robattle Cup when Henry fought as Hikaru Agata with the original Metabee (the medal, however, was different. His Medabot ArcBeetle's medal is the medal of the original Kantaroth). Doctor Meta-Evil is determined to return the world under the rulership of Medabots. It is this racial memory that his resonance device has used the power of the rare medals to unlock - all the Medabots remember what they once were, and what they could be again: masters of the world. This is why they rampaged during the Ten Days of Darkness, which were only stopped when Hikaru Agata was forced to kill his Medabot, the first Metabee, by destroying his rare medal and cutting off the meda-energy.
At the end of the season, it is revealed that Victor (star Medafighter for Kenya and Warbandit's owner) was helping Dr. Meta-evil to get medals during the tournament. Metabee and Warbandit continue fighting during the finale, even when their partners lost and their bodies damaged. When their medaforces collide, Meta-evil starts his plan using Metabee and Warbandit's medals. Both are still trapped in the past of their civilization inside of their minds. After Ikki gets Metabee to wake up from the dream, the other medabots, free now, help Metabee to fight against Meta-evil's army. Warbandit sacrificed his body to save Victor's life.
When all believed that Meta-evil was defeated, the evil genius take out his last card: a gigantic Babyblu. Even with the help of his friends and of the other medabots, Metabee (inside of a larger version of himself) only destroys the shield of energy of Babyblu. He sacrifices himself to destroy Babyblu. That's when aliens arrive-- rumored to be the ones who originally created the Medabot race-- to bring Metabee back to life. We also discover that Professor Hushi is with the aliens-- and goes off with them again after Metabee is safe.
[edit] The Third season: Medabots Damashii
The third season apeared to change the plot, but hints that Ikki is the second best medafighter in the world. In this final season, Karen, Koji, Rintaro, Henry and the Rubberobo gang in it's entirety do not appear.
Kam Kamazaki, a twelve year old boy, had designed a new type of medabots called Kilobots. These medabots have no feelings and can break the rules in order to win a fight. In the first episode, Ikki loses a Robattle to a kilobot when it cheats and reloads. But he soon meets Nae, a Medabot mechanic and granddaughter of Dr. Aki, who gives new medaparts to Metabee in order to defeat the kilobot. As the series progresses, the audience meets new characters, such as Ginkai, the villain who in the future episodes becomes good;.
