Why did Medabots never gain popularity in the West? I checked Japan Twitter and it seems pretty healthy there
>>270628319It's cool as heck. I like it's niche status because the fanbase is chill.
i wish medabots and zoids did take off, I still pick up kit sets for both. i think most remember it as a morning show before school
>>270628319It was popular for a time. It just didn't last over here.
There's a new popular medarot mobile game(yes gacha shit) but it's pretty neat and does tons of collaborations so you see Digimon/megaman themed medabots and stuff.
>Don't know Every early zoomer knows medabots
>>270628319Nah I remember it had some fans while it was running on disney.
That sequel, Medabots Spirits helped to kill the hype. Original anime was unironically kino
Blazermate is the hottest medabot
>>270628319it scored a lucrative cheez tv spot downunder, which is about as mainstream as you can getand then it ended and something else took its spot
it did get some eyes on it recently, just not for 'good' reasons but for the creators political takes lmao
>>270628765QRD ?
>>270628792old boomer that retweets and posts anti-trans stuff from prageru
Anyone remember a free browser 3d game for this? Can't recall the name
>>270628973nvm found, i could not find a single youtube linkhttps://www.twitch.tv/videos/16831885
>>270629085>one of the most p2w gachas Yeah, typically the case for the Japanese versions. When gacha arrives in the west they are toned down heavily due to regulations, so here's hoping IF it comes.
>>270628319Some spic fucked everything up so it can't get out of Japan par the few media that did early on
>>270629085from what I know medabots has hard gender roles and u can't use most parts with the other gender so not surprising? some neutral parts do exist though
>>270628319The creator only did so much medabots stuff to work with in the first place, all you see in the anime/manga is all he did. Afterwards new artists designed the bots, he's taken a more backseat approach now
>>2706283192nd season so bad nobody wanted to touch the franchise again.
>>270628643Medabots doesnt have much porn, but the little it has, GODDAMN
>>270628704Didn't it also air on ABC? I swear I remember watching Medabots and Sailor Moon on ABC at, like, 6 in the morning back in the day.
>>270628319>it seems pretty healthy there>no new game or anime in years>majority is just collabs and gotcha shitEven Zoids is more popular nowadays
How do they explain kids running around with robots that shoot flamethrowers and shit
>>270632127Kids were tough as shit back then
>>270632127it's like selling kids guns. i always wondered if the medabots military uses medabots to kill one another
>>270632127isn't it a plot point that only Medabots with rare (aka black market) medals can commit crimes and attack people and shit
>>270632425Vaguely recall something along those lines, all I remember is rare medals give medabots access to the medaforce
>>270628319Are we still stuck in IP trademark hell?
>>270628877>>270629085Dude sounds based
i had a crush on the bully girl with the smokey voice when i was a kid.
>>270628319I don't know if it was the cause or effect of Medabot's lack of presence in the west but the fact that practically none of the games released outside of Japan feels like a huge part. As far as the average burger is concerned, Medabots was just a decent early 2000s anime that disappeared into the ether after it ended
>>270628319Loved the show, but they only aired a couple eps AFAIR. Great dub.
>>270633507
>>270628319Bad localization of the games. And a shitty sequel anime killed its momentum. It was also competing with Pokemon, Digimon, and shortly after Yugioh, which kept it from catching on.
>>270628319As far as burgerland goes, the death of the Fox Kids block was kinda the first nail in the coffin, so to speak.
>>270628319I remember it being well liked over here after season 1, but then there was no follow up until season 2 which nobody cared for.
>>270628319Westerners got the anime and maybe one or two of the videogames. Japan has, like, a dozen videogames in the setting at least. So it was just a one-and-done thing for Westerners.
>>270633507Surprised to see there was only one fanfic shipping her and the protagonist, and that one sadly never finished.
What about Bakugan?
>>270628319I remember watching the entire show on youtube and even on a channel called "E-kids", I saw an advertisement on it with my native language.Pretty based show.
>>270639158I liked the wii and ds game with Leonidas.
>>270628319It does have its own pretty decent fanbase, but that fanbase exists mostly for the anime so naturally the fact that the anime ended 20 years ago kinda dampens the discussion about it. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people didn't even know Medarot had video games let alone started as a video game franchise.
>>270629085become 100% pedo troon
>>27062831922nd CENTURY
>>270629085>grossmanevery time
>>270628319I know Japan releases new medabots but for what? I don't think it has an anime or manga running
>>270628319I remember the first season being popular, the problem was the second season and then it never recovered from that
>>270645018games, medarot games did very well in Japan. medarot R(pokemon colosseum) and medarot S(gacha slop) did and are doing very well
>>270633913She is sex
Medabump!
It's hard to find a poorly designed medabot unless they are mixed parted, the OG's are clean and even the newer stuff is decent
>>270649262My only issue is that the design concepts are cooler than the finished products. The shapes are always reduced to simple geometries to make them more suitable for cheap mass produced toys.
>>270628319>Why did Medabots never gain popularity in the West? It was a toy anime everybody knew of at the time of digimon+pokemon. It had no content after that so everybody forgot it.
>>270629040Holy shit I remember this, it was online as well and you could mix and match any part
>>270643847And it's Prager fucking U too
>>270651353>no contentIt had over 9 games that were never localized and even a collection on the Switch. It had content.
>>270628319ppl should emulate the GBA games if they enjoy the old pokemon games, they are awesome
>>270651510>>in the West>that were never localized reading comprehension 101
>>270652309Medabot R also has a fan translation with emulation, that ones solid. Most medabot games have fan translations now.
>>270628877MedaBased
Medabots wasn't on the same level of Pokemon but it was fairly popular during the first season. The games were released way too late after the initial hype of the series had ended, and I think the Spirits season was airing when they came out. Which that season sucks and it was airing on ABCFamily so next to no one was watching it anyway. Also I want to say Natsume didn't give the GBA game a large print run either. I wish we had gotten later games.
>>270628319You can't fuck metal but bestiality is a thing.
>>270633507>>270633913>>270648031My brothers...
>>270628877WTF I love Medarots 100 times now!
>>270633313Far as I know, the fucking european mutt lost it's right finally.
>>270655379I have a question for you anons who were in elementary school when Pokemon came out.When I was a kid everyone around my age watched Pokemon, Digimon, Beyblade, Medabots, Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Masters, Zoids, and Monster Rancher.No one I knew had some retarded take like only Pokemon is good and everything else is a ripoff or sucks, but the Internet tells me that hating everything that was not Pokemon was the norm.So anons were people your age as a child tribalistic about Pokemon?
>>270656348No. All this brand war is waged by fatfuck manchilds.
>>270628319It had to compete with Yigioh, Pokémon, and Bayblade. It also aired when western animation was actually good, so it really didn't stand a chance. It was the same with Zatch Bell.
>>270657237It's more like...>people could play Yu Gi Oh with their friends>same as Pokemon>same as Beyblade>but nothing for Medarots
>>270656348When I was a kid there were some Digimon vs Pokemon wars on the playground but most kids generally liked both.
>>270656348No. I remember after tennis camp we often put Medabots on the TV in the lobby when we were waiting for our parents to pick is up. The time slot was perfect for us. Pokemon definitely was more popular than Digimon though.
>>270656348nope. although there was a general consensus on my schoolground that crush gear turbo wasn't as good as beyblade, nobody really gave a shitthat kind of tribalism only emerges when you get into online spaces were media fans act like sports fans, which I can only imagine was born from star trek fans arguing about if OG or TNG is betterthough now you've reminded me of this one craig kid that swore up and down that the pokemon world used to be normal but then one day all the normal animals disappeared and pokemon came down from space
>>270649262>the newer stuff is decentNewer stuff? This is the newest I've seen
>>270628381>medabots and zoids
>>270657686medarot S has a lot of the newer medarots, I think that is from medarot X which is a virtual pet collab thing
>>270628643if only they had wombs
>>270657281Medabots had a weird battle board game style game.I had it and so did some of my friends but we just played with the figures instead of actually playing the game.It had an arena and point values for parts
>>270658560Any pics of that?
>>270658429>not collaborating with your robot wife to design and build a unique next-gen model togetherit's like you don't even understand the eroticism of steel that moves
>>270639158Hijacked by Canadians.
>>270657947crush gear and medabot collab would work, both obscure as hell
Sorry but a Medabee that isn't black as fuck isn't Medabee.
>>270658114One of the OG's of medarots recently returned and pumped out some newer stuff.
>>270628319The market had a tsunami of anime jumping to the USA and Canada during the same time and a lot of advertising was done for Pokemon, YuGiOh, Beyblade.. etc.
>>270628319Me and a bunch of friends from school loved it back when we were kids. My mom even made me a custom Medabots birthday cake with custom decorations she made herself using images from online and including a figure she crafted of Metabee to go on the cake. She went all out and I never even knew she possibly knew what Medabots was at the time or that she had paid any attention to my interests.
>>270656348No we weren't tribalistic back then. You watched what you liked but no one was actively going out of their way to shit on a show that they didn't like or watch. And honestly every show had SOMETHING cool about it so it wasn't like there was anything that was universally regarded as shit.
>>270659308is that a fucking shaman king medabot?
>>270659824The late 90 and early 2000 were ripe for those kind of series, a little sad that only yugioh and pokemon seem to be the only survivors with all the rest just being fads of the moment at best, but I guess is to be expected with merchandise for kids driven franchises
>>270660424Digimon is doing...ok I guess. Its still getting games, anime, and merch. Weather or not its good or not.
>>270661098Has there been anything since that web novel or whatever?No anime currently, no new v-pets to my knowledge, no new vidya, and I think the card is dead (in the west) too
>>270639158Bakugan came out right around the time I stop giving a damn about kid toy commercial anime and didn't know anyone my age who played or watched it which was early teens. Not only that but didn't really see the potential at the time when I first saw it mostly because there were other shows just like it in the past that were a dime a dozen and weren't that big. Basically anything that wasn't pokemon, yugioh, digimon, monster rancher, Beyblade never really took off, at least in the west.I remember there was Dual Masters, Beat-a-mon(not really sure what the real name was), Mon Colloy Knights, etc. so there was a bunch of monster/card collecting series that never made it big so Bakugan to me just seemed like another one that wouldn't last long. Looking back I kind of wish I played the games to these series just to see what they were like.
>>270659308crossovers are the final nail in the coffin of any series
>>270661675My problem with Bakugan is I could never parse the rules from the show.Even Yu-Gi-Oh made more sense
>>270661724More than half of these children toy commercials anime made no fucking sense. Maybe that's the appeal, make it so complicated that kids make up their own rules.
>>270661608I don't know what web novel you're referring to but digimon just had an anime back in 2021 that ended last year and a recent movie relating to 02. Plus Digimon has never been a series to release an anime every year, there's always been breaks.
>>270628643Cute!! (Migu?)
Who's your favorite medabot?
>>270659879MoeThe Medarot style is being mecha moe
>>270628319Popularity but also some NFT asshole claiming the rights to the Medabots copyright/trademark.
>>270628319>I checked Japan Twitter and it seems pretty healthy thereNo it's not. The only thing half-keeping the thing alive is a mediocre gacha.Even in Japan it is a very niche franchise.It sure as hell not completely dead like everywhere but I'd be hard pressed to call it healthy.
>>270664486Beelzelga for cool and Churlybear for fun.
>>270655711Wait, really? Somebody give a qrd, I need to learn about it in all it's glories
>>270661710medarots has been all crossovers for a decade+ now
>>270664486arc-beetle is the baddest mofo, any medabot that has access to the medaforce is cool
>>270666191>access to medaforceIsn't that quite a few?
Mecha in general has been on the decline in nipland, and a toy based franchise like this isnt doing well at all.
>>270668575from the games only rare medals with relations to the origin medals can access the medaforce, but then you have medabots like Sumilidon who have a common medal but can access the medaforce but that's probably cause he was a fan favourite
>>270628381In Asia(Philippines) Zoids run Freaking prime time 5:00 Pm that shit is so popular in mid 2000 although the kits even the fake one is to expensive for the Kids at that time.
>>270628319Natsume being a bunch of spineless fuckheads.
Post Peppercat already
>>270669579
medarot phone game when
>>270628319It's ridiculous how much soul this Anime had
Something I never appreciated about Medabots when I watched it as a kid was how phenomenally well animated it was. The action sequences in it are beautifully smooth. >>270628381Medabots and Zoids were my favourite "anime made to shill toys/games etc. to kids" shows. I still rewatch Zoids New Century Zero every now and then.>>270664486Warbandit.
>>270658429How do artists know how to make cute robots?They don't even have a mouth but they still look cute
>>270675413I bet they already have it, just not translated.
>>270656348Not really, we just watched everything and roleplayed around.
>>270660168I feel like most moms know what you are into but don't want to be appear aware about it so they don't have to listen to you talk about it constantly
>>270656348Not really. There was a hot minute where the corporations were trying to force a Pokemon vs Digimon rivalry though.
>>270656348What I remember is that once Pokemania died out ( kindergarten), in my school the interest for similar media tended to rotate. At some point was all about YU GI Ho, then Bey Blade, then some other toy and so on. But it was not something aggressive or anything. It's mainly because for third worlders the tribalism comes from sports.
>>270633913La jefa sabía lo atractiva que era.
>>270685032My favorite robot of color.
>>270628319If by "checking Japan Twitter" you mean checking the preexisting fanbase then yeah.But it didn't do that well in japan either.
>>270628643Is there as site with all the gacha medarot artwork?
This picture is already at least 5 years old
>>270686649For a subpar franchise that has lived in the shadows, sure has lasted
>>270660168Based mom.
>>270661608A webtoon to shill the card game + a webnovel spinoff. And some webmanga made by people who won a fan manga contest a while ago.I wouldn't expect another anime until after DB Daima finishes.
Ikki's mom and Victor chapter ruined the show.
>>270656348I don't remember any retarded tribalism when I was a kid. We just all liked what we liked and had our preferences. The fan/console war faggotry was exclusively an online thing while growing up.
>>270675413you can play medarot s through fucky means, heres hoping it gets a western release now that that asshole in europe lost the trademark battle
>the gacha added anime RokushoNice
>>270664486This guy.
>>270659308The biribiri one is cute.
catapult medabot
>>270664486
>>270628319Tamashii killed it Enjoy your mobile gacha
>>270692927Can I at least get some more robot porn?
>>270692153That form is from the Navi tatical rpg right? Is the game really that bad as people say?
>>270628416felt like beyblade was only popular for like 3 months and medabots never really took off.
The designs are kinda boring
>>270686649My heroes...
>>270693728Beyblade lasted quit awhile if I remember right. Didn't the first series with Kai have like 2-3 seasons? Then the toyline just never stopped, you would still see Beyblades in toy stores.
Alba is pretty cute>>270690076Thats a pretty cool digimon medabot they got there, the megaman one looks a little too basic tho
>>270677527>He was 27brb killing myself
>>270628973Medabots 3D, you had to install a different plugin and hope your parents didn't find out. At lvl 2 your medal unlocked the Medaforce, but the grind was tedious.
>>270628319It did gain popularity, but then the second season of the anime came out and killed it.
>>270686240Search "medarot meowcorp all designer"
>>270633913Seriously, Koji, disregard Karen, embrace Kikuhime.
>>270664486Rokusho.Always Rokusho.I even had a dream that he chose me to be his partner.And that one whose partner was that man who was the standing Champion of the Medabot tournament. He was from Kenya.His Medabot was named Warbandit or some shit.
Here's a thought;>Medabots and Orbital Frames.
>>270652309this, only a handful of medabot games were localized and the gba ones were amongst the besthttps://youtu.be/o5z8hT8yJ0E
>>270628319It was primarily known for its anime while the games that did get exported over got middling reviews and sales. When Sprits killed the Medabots anime, it also killed its US relevancy.
>>270696347im talking about when it first debuted in america which was the context of my post. not about beyblade in general obviously it was a lot bigger elsewhere. it was a fad at my school to everyone playing it then suddenly no one in a short time.
>>270658972honestly I'm surprised they never tried rebooting crush gear as a show about actual battle races, like make the things big enough that the characters are actually driving them the toys would still sell
With kids nowadays not being that into toys anymore and more adult hobbiest being more into nostalgia than anything, and seeing how niche this was in both US and japan, does even a quality, well writing reboot could save it?
>>270704897the only thing I could see saving it is a good online game done like gundam build fighters that takes a few cues from rocket league, and bribing a bunch of vtubers to play it
are we ever getting a new game that's not gachashit? the last ones where Medarot 9 (2015) and Medarot Girls Mission (2016), both on the 3DS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xpvmdaaGKA
>>270705312I hate to say it but the prospects look low.
>>270628319I remember being sort popular
>>270628319Is the gacha mobile game still alive?
>>270708933its very active. latest event is Mobile Battleship Nadesico
>>270708933Somehow, yes. Most gacha die before their 1st anniversary but this one has lasted more than 4 years.
>>270709908Impressive. Guess Japan is still thirsty for more Medarots
>>270633507>>270633913>>270683270>>270697383
>>270710519I dont know, the franchise is clearly struggling and sci fi/mecha is not as popular as before
>>270628319first series was great. spirits was shit.Also. they stopped releasing medabots games
Warbandit was something else
If we ever got another anime, what would it be about? An adaptation/reimagining of an existing game? A new continuity? A direct sequel where Ikki's son gets his own medarot? SoL?
>>270713212The choreography for these fight scenes was so good. It feels like we can't get stuff of that level anymore.
>>270714732Sexo
The girls are cute
>>270709902Ruri Ruri!
>>270713212>>270716527medabots fights could have some great animation
>>270628319They didn't advertise the games worth a shit.
>>270713036The games werent selling, even putting a bunch of cute girls didnt really help
>>270628319I don't get why they made the best friend girl get a sudden crush on that guy on tournament that got sick.
>>270716550Imagine if they were designed today, total sluts, probably pokemon tier
>>270702796I assume it must have been pretty big, the toy line came strong from what I remember. I don't remember any toy line from Metabot however.
>>270713638Doesn't Metabots have several different manga? They could adapt those. The metabots themselves will most likely be CGI though.
>>270718151I am glad they started making more female combat medabots
pls gib Kikuhime wife...........
>>270717456kek
>>270720211Not much help seeing the state of the franchise
>>270720211I read that as coombait. The brainrot is real.
>>270700930Rokusho taught me that there's nothing cooler than a mech in a tattered cloak
>>270723223Turns out cool characters can rock the mexican look
>>270723223 you remember megatron in the bay movies? Coolest he's ever been when using that fucked up cloak.
>>270723404Yeah that was a good lookI'm remembering when Scavenger first showed up in Transformers Armada too
>>270723223>unit 02 intro
Trying to compete against Pokemon is an uphill battle. It also had a really shitty sequel series from what I've heard.
It's viewed as robot pokemon clone and any pokemon clones are condemned.
>>270723751Sequel switched studios and the entire expanded cast was removed and never mentioned
>>270632425>rare (aka black market)At least in the anime version rare medals are remnants of an ancient race of beings that over time turned themselves into machines in pursuit of further strength for their unending wars and the rare medals are what remains of the ancient warriors, with the regular medals being man made copies of them for use in modern Medabots
>>270632234The Kenyan guy does have a background including some ethnic cleansing using Medabots
>>270713638the original gameboy games is what most of the mangas and games are actually based off, even the latest gacha game is a retelling of the 2nd medarots game
I think Medabots and Zoids are both series that could be revived easily as they don't really need to tell a specific kind of story or lore
>>270726456Zoids are at least still making new merchandise. They're putting out new kits and also just announced a swath of crossover kits
>>270726456But what kind of story should they need to revive? Something more mature aiming to the older and with money audience that would buy their kits? Kids again or teenagers?
Maybe the videogames were kind of bad and ruin any hype
>>270728564What type of games were there anyways? I never played on so no idea the genre they tend to work with
>>270728564the games were the best thing about medarots honestly. it's just the west never got the good ones, medarots 9 is hypedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FVmhuou7Ow>>270728631the ones we have play like pokemon and amongst the best medarot games and 2 others which are subparhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5z8hT8yJ0E&t=15626s
>>270661710I would think the same ... But technically medablts are supposed to be branded toys from the future, and it make sense that the toy company would to the licensing route as well.So it make sense
>>270728564The only truly fucking garbage one was the gamecube game
>>270728864>Pokemonlike combatNo wonder this died, it couldnt compete
>>270726456Zoids already tried coming back and it fell and burned hard. I actually don't know how Wild did in japan, I just know Wild went on without subs for awhile
Which studio should make a new show?I guess saying "trigger" would be cheating and some may say they are lame.
>>270729581
>>270729450I remember watching like 3 episodes of wild and thinking "yeah, this is way too kid friendly for my taste"
>>270729604
Something I remember reading about the anime, is that masked thief and local part timer at some store, was supposed to be the MC of the first ever game grown up, and the medal he gives to the MC of the anime being HIS metabee from the games that after some shit that happened and caused a lot of damage lost his memories of their adventure, so this was his way of allowing him a second life without the guilty of the disaster since it seemed that metabee was the cause of it.
>>270729769Yeah, kind of, I have heard that
>>270729648I remember watching 1 episode of Wild and thinking "his hair is weird"
>>270730139>His ponytail is actually part of his front hair that goes all the way backReally, who comes up with these designs? Kind of like that guy from one piece that his mustache is actually nose hair
how does a robot gets a Tan... and why does it wear a thong?
>>270729769Didn't he put his Metabee's medal on Arcbeetle?
>>270730269Because someone at whoever company that designs and produce these things, was really horny one day.
>>270730269You just know, that there must be some illegal mods in black markets
>>270730236Also it's an eyepatch
So the IP owners dont care about expanding the brand world wide again..I guess is fine if they cant afford it.
>>270730593is not like they didnt try, but I guess at this point it can just sit there being a minor money maker.
>>270628319hey i had the album
>>270730593i think the whole Imagineer battling for the medabots trademark in Europe spoiled them from pushing it worldwide, they won it recently atleast.
>>270729183Saying that it's Pokemonlike is pretty inaccurate, honestly
>>270628319Here in Chile it was somewhat popular. At least enough for some kids to see the anime and own some toys. Remember playing with medabots robattle figures with other kids at recess between 2001 and 2002. I didn’t have one but a rich kid had lots and let everyone play.
>>270730269I applaud the designer looking at a leafy seadragon and then deciding to turn that into a tanned beach goer
Why was the Ninja episode so fan-servicy? Few if any other episodes were like this. They put so much emphasis on Arika's physique compared to other episodes. I don't have the gif, but in the sequence in pic related, a random piece of wood bumps into Arika from below causing her butt to stick out in a suggestive manner for just a split second.
>>270732418and what about them been DJs with beer?
>>270628319I wouldn't really call it healthy in Japan but it's definitely alive. Seems like it's destined to always be sort of niche.
>>270733325I don't know what animal this is supposed to be
>>270733569I see a bunch of seagulls on her body
>>270733569Wife (mine)
>>270733665I want to give her a high five
>>270729450What the fuck?
>>270729450>>270729648The last series aired had the director from the original series but there's no sub I guess?
>>270730269A piercing too
>>270728864I liked AX back in the day, desu.
>>270729581KyoAni would be amusing since they got the anime's character designer for K-On. It'd be coming full circle in a way.
>>270724991Always made me think Spirits was supposed to be an AU because of how jarring the shift was.
Name a better gag than thisYou can't
>>270735293i really was bizar how most of the cast just disappeared
>>270732530Different director/team. I remember being the same who ended up in Gurren-Lagann>>270730304Yeah, Metabee it's one of the rare medals who came from the ancient alien race. Arcbeetle was the original partner from Henry/Hikaru, who was the MC from original 2 games. In the next games, a grown up Ikki assumes the role of clerk and Phantom Thief, too
>>270628319Japan regularly got Medabots games and we got maybe three ever and all around the same time.
>>270734510Apparently there are subs and someone even uploaded the BD's for the first Wild series. Jesus look at the release dates, went 2 years without dedicated subs.
>>270732297That can also easily be the first impression to many and that doesnt help, because they wont give it a try
>>270735106>Seahorse>And we all know what are seahorse famous for>But also female robotIs this a trap?
>>270735293Spirits was a mistake. It completely ended the hype for Medabots.
>>270723829>filenameHuh, really? Why did they censor it? I don't see anything inappropriate in that scene.
>>270736708>Kodomo romanceDamn that's my jam, is this one of the endings of the game?
>>270741881The bone breaking part is my guess.
>>270628319I loved the fucking parents>>270736708How come the game (sort) of teased romance between the two but the Anime did not?
>>270742248>Damn that's my jam, is this one of the endings of the game?i think so
would the fans like a skirmish board game, where the sculpts are made in a way where you can swap the character pieces?
>>270746882yes
>>270628319>Aired in the absolute shittiest timeslot on television for most children>"Why didn't it take off?
The franchise will only live in crossovers back
Do you forget that medabots are supposed to be really small? I some times do because the main characters are small as well.
where is the Echii spin off show?
>>270745335aww that's cute
>>270750834in the miniature thought that cap was an among us guy
>>270747626Thank goodness Karen was there or I actually wouldn't know this was Medabots
>>270750834She cute
>>270751480The female member of the rubberrobo gang is also there
>>270723471His truck form looked cooler than optimus's.
>>270745335This is the first time I am seeing Ikki's dad.I didn't know he had a dad until right now.
>>270754329He shows up quite often in the anime
>>270754329>>270754874he also helps save the day in the end
>>270735888What tudo fuck was his real endgame?>steals rare medals>abort this plan and becomes the rank 1 medatrainer or whatever>literaly refuses to elaboratea and leaves
>>270748063It will be a Mahjong manga
>>270756397He's the protagonist of the original video game.
older ikki
>>270756397IIRC, he just wanted to prevent another situation where medabot went crazy and attacked everything around them
>>27075806410 Days of Darkness.The dub while enjoyable does air things out of order, skips things, and never explains the plot and history in the final arc
>>270702796 beyblade was pretty big around 2010 or so. at least the seasons with ryuuga and ginga
>>270757767I'm alright with that design.
>>270718354There was a toyline for medabots. They were small figurines with removable arms and legs so you could mix and match. They each came with a card I believe which had vague stats. One summer everyone in my area was buying them.
>>270656348No, not really. My school had alot of asians, and yugioh was the hottest thing for like 3 years. The first one or two years that the yugioh anime was out had the majority of boys in my school playing. Beyblade was hot for a couple semesters or so before people got bored. Noone really played the pokemon card game (it just wasn't as intuitive or fun as yugioh as a card game), but alot of people played the video games and had pokemon battles. Digimon was less popular but some kids, like me, did watch the show. I don't remember anyone getting into medabots or zoids, but personally I liked the shows, especially zoids.
>>270729648Wild looked like it was done by the Fairy Tale 1st season anime team
>>270741777>Spirits flopped so bad, there hasn't been a Medabots anime sinceHow often does that happens to a franchise?
>>270763603quite frequently, a lot of franchises have died or gone into niche obscurity due one really bad entry.
>>270757767>>270761256older Arika
>>270764386Nice.
>>270656348The kids at my school were all normies that ignored the rules when playing Yu-Gi-Oh, and I was the only talking about new season of pokemon which apparently no one was watching.
>>270628319The only thing I remember about Medabots is the referee randomly showing up to officiate a battle.
Only the first anime was good. The second show had way worse animation, removed 90% of the cast, and had a bland story.
The narrator in the Japanese version was based.
>>270659308>>270660413Yeah, feels like a waste that it's just Yoh considering Shaman King had actual mecha.
>>270723223>there's nothing cooler than a mech in a tattered cloakI wonder why. It must be the contrast between machine and clothing or maybe it's something else we associate it with.
It wasn't on TV at times that kids could watch it. When I was kid it was on at 9:30AM on weekdays. Kids are in school by then. You could only see it on Holidays when you didn't have school.
>>270633913She’s pretty great. Easily my favourite character from the show.
>>270766344It used to be on Saturdays too but it moved around so much its understandable why it never gain any traction
Remember in an asigment, I had to make a comic for school, and made a little comic of Metabee and Mario having to escape a dungeon
DUDE, I ROCK
>>270656348Digimon and Pokemon had a bit of a rivalry but it wasn't really that bad and people that pushed it were kind of looked down on. I don't know about other schools but by the time Digimon was airing we were all starting to get burnt out on the Pokemon anime and we all wished it would be more like Digimon. The cards and games were still popular but Ash losing the league made him a loser, and no one liked that Brock was gone. Pokemon has a lot of duds in the post-Electric Soldier episodes too due to that long gap between Koga and Blaine that a lot of us just tuned out of. Meanwhile Digimon had the kids at each others throats, death and violence, an actual plot that pushed itself forward each episode and we we all came in Monday really excited to talk about what was going on. Wizardmon's dying and Angewomon's debut was the talk of the playground that Monday. None of the other shows really co-existed. They were either different enough to not be compared, or came after other fads died. Like by the time Yu-Gi-Oh started Pokemon was at its lowest point.
>>270628319The west simply had better options than Japan when it came to media, at least until the mid to late 2010s.
>>270767333Fandom for kids toyetic anime is pretty much non-existent these days, yeah. Outside of legacy franchises, of course.
>>270628877tin pets only come in male and female, female tinpets are short in supply in the mangas due to a lack of demand compared to male bots having access to more exclusive parts
>>270767720Toy companies in the US often don't want to feed competition since Bandai handles so many of those Japanese lines. Bringing them over usually means Bandai is getting money. Disk Wars is a good example. It was dubbed by the official Marvel VAs but it wasn't released stateside because Hasbro has the Marvel toy rights and they didn't want to import a Bandai toyline. Tomy lines are often brought over by Hasbro though since the two companies are really close.
>>270767905What a crazy backwards world
We need to hurry up and make Metabots/Medators real. Tuck sex bots, I want my proxy battles.
>>270766941At least the show got a bunch of fan-art;.
>>270649262>unless they are mixed partedThat was a pretty big problem with the OG game IMO. The robots look cool when all the parts match, but look like shit when kitbashed. It's bad because it's supposed to be the whole point. They could at least have made the limbs take the color from the body or something.
>>270679042That clip is amazing. The simple artstyle makes it easier to draw fluid and dynamic motions.
>>270723829>that bored look at the beginning>>270716550I like the 180 neck turn at 0:17. Old anime tends to be playful.>>270729450This, on the other hand, is somehow immediately yawnworthy.
>>270717660It was all to set up the "they were aliens all along" reveal.
>>270766305Mechs look like knights, who frequently were cloaks in medieval times. Tattered cloaks immediately shows this is a well travelled, experienced knight.
Anybody play this?
>>270772419I don't really have time these days, but I want to
>>270728864>medarots 9Medarots 9 has an English patch if anyone is interested, easy to emulate. A lot of medarots games has fan translations about
>>270772419The only Medabots games I've played were the Metabee Version of that RPG for the GBA which I loved, and Medabots Infinity for Gamecube which I thought sucked.
>>270772419I have the Rokusho version downloaded on my 3DS, haven't fired it up yet though, so I have no idea if it's translated or not.
>>270772745Medarot 1 has an english patch. Metabee/Medabots: Rokusho has official English versions. Medarots 4,5 and navi have no translations. Medarots AX and infinity have official releases, but it's iffy. Medarot DS has a half complete English patch and from here all the way to 9 has no more translated versions besides medarot 9 which has a fairly decent english translation, not sure if 100% but a lot play with it. Medarots 3 just got translated a few days ago so there is a good western fans out there working on all these games https://github.com/Medabots/medarot3/releases
>>270772419I played it for a bit. I'll get back to it one day...
>>270728864>Only female medabots get blasted in the trailerHoly based
the manga is so much more brutal than the anime, medarots get shit decapitated
>>270776600I can't believe Metabee is fucking dead.
>>270691560>Rokusho with a body part that emulates the capeHOLY SHIT THAT'S SO COOL
>>270745335>genuinely feel like cryingWhy can't I have what they have bros
>>270776600this was nerfed in the anime when Robo-Emperor beat down both rokuska and metabee and literally erased Hikaru's medabot in the manga
>>270776600AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE
>>270776600M-M-Metabeebros?
>>270777062Arc Beetle fucking died?
>>270777539people die and shit in creators homura rin manga, I think 8 volumes exist from him. The the guy who followed up toned a lot of it down but added a lot of boobs
>>270776600>>270772419fun fact, chapter 2 of this manga is considered lost media. it's just fucking gone
>>270778070WAT
>>270778217>Chapter 2 was released on the monthly magazine Dengeki Maoh, the 2016 May Issue.the Monster Musume creator wrote it and then was asked to delete it by a medarot representative https://mangadex.org/title/e0832364-be9a-49c3-963b-0b14961d834a/medarot-girl-s-mission
>>270778402Did crabman make it too sexy or what?
What's the most modern (and fully translated) Medarot game I can play?
>>2707811682 CoreSearch for the medal quest if you're interested in romancing Karin or Erika, shit's cryptic.
>>270776600That's how I imagine my ideal robobattles
>>270779845is this a girlbot?
>>270782449All bots are girlbots if you instal the proper add on
>>270781915Is it officially translated or by fans?
>>270778402how bizar
>>270782449... does it matter?
>>270782449Yes, her name is Anzudo Beetle
>>270628319I used to watch it all the time here in Italy. They even sold figurines. I miss it so much
>>270745335I dunno about the later games but the first 2 Medarot games have romance routes in them, the GBA RPG game is a remake of Medarot 2 so it has the same story and routes in it, Arika, Karin, or a romanceless ending. As far as I'm aware, Medarot 3 and 4, the direct sequels to 2 in terms of story, doesn't hint toward any romance between Ikki and anyone, so it seems like the romanceless ending is the "canon" one.So basically the anime is pretty much following the games.
>>270778402Shouldn't it still be findable in initial copies of that issue?
>>270787102https://youtu.be/wliMs2vIAFo?si=x8cBtqE4jyCsHOzuThe Italian dub of the first anime is the only western dub (english aside) to be based off the Japanese version as it was made prior to Canada acquiring the dubbing rights, that is why the title remains Medarot and no localized names
Medarot is a fucking horrible name and Medabots sounds way better
>>270788875It's how japanese abbreviate things, anon, first syllabes of the first word, first syllabes of the second, with slight variations to make them more atractive>the Pocket Monsters aren't Pokéters, they are Pokémon>the Digital Monsters aren't Digiters, they are Digimon>the Family Computer isn't the Famiter, it's the Famicom>the FamilyMart chicken isn't the famiken, it's the famichikiThey don't simply delete everything but the beginning of the first word and the end of the last one
>>270789332I wanna stuff famichiki in Erika's butthole and eat it directly from the source
>>270656348polemon was king at elementary.got made fun of for liking digimon and buying the cards.people said medabots looked bad.yugioh was middle school "wow im so much more mature then poke kids" and start of pokemon being lame and digi as even lamer.HS was shit like bebop fma gundam outlaw star elfen lied betterman you know REAL shows for SOFISTICATED 14 year olds.everyone loved beyblade because it was fun, even some normalfag kids.tbf anyone who liked anime was viciously bullied.
>>270778070How?
>>270656348I think the best way to describe it in my school was that everyone watched Pokemon and later DBZ but only the nerd kids (or kids who would grow up to be the nerd kids) watched the other stuff like Digimon, Monster Rancher, YGO!, Beyblade and Zoids. Not that many kids watched dubbed anime and this was the mid-late 90s/early 00s so no one was watching subbed anime. Even the Pokemon phase was quite short lived, it was DBZ that was the real big thing during my time in school in that it could unite any dude of roughly any age with a common interest. I remember I used to regularly talk to a cool kid a few years older than me about DBZ because he was a big fan and if it weren't for that we'd have nothing in common.That said Beyblade was a reasonably big fad for a year in school and the year after YGO! was an even bigger fad for a year, in final year of school it all sort of died out, I remember just as I was leaving secondary school seeing the youngest kids playing B-Daman or whatever it was called but I wasn't interested and no one in my year was either. After moving school that's when fansubbed anime downloading started and the yearly fads ended.
>>270777954That seems extra mean considering ArcBeetle's medal was already destroyed once and then repaired
>>270792002japanese cant even find it, physical copies only briefly existed. I think it may be because this >>270772419 game had a big emphasis on tearing girls clothes off and the manga probably did a lot more and they wanted to hide it http://gematsu.com/2016/02/medabots-girls-mission-clothes-tearing-hyper-finish-attack
>>270796066I guess they really wanted the coomer audience
>>270791063The 2000 werent kind for weebs, there is a reason 4chan was created during those days.
>>2707840632 Core and AX are the only officially translated games
>>270628319I didn't know /a/ liked medabots so much
>>270798364Me too, /v/ has threads about it much more than here
>>270795279ikki's mom in the anime was great
>>270798364>I didn't know /a/ liked medabots so muchi mean. season 1 is just a really fun watch
>>270798364I'm interested in the manga now, most of it looks translated so I'll stick it in the queue
>>270800674you could make a daily.
Medabots is probably the first anime I ever have a recolletion of from my toddler years (27 y/o now), I remember owning the golden and silver robots small toys and some bits of the anime, even before digimon or pokemon. It's odd how being something like 3 years old was enough to recognize and burn into the memory a show that I still think is pretty cool to this day and has this niche following of likewise people.
