So...Medabots anybody?

It never aired in the US, but it aired in every other country. I just wish season 3 would get a proper DVD release.


ADV Films actually released all of the first series on DVD. When their rights expired, Shout Factory! mamaged to get those rights and release season 1 as a box set instead of with the individual releases. They also have the rights to what most people classify as season 2, but nobody has ever gotten the rights to season 3.
 
I enjoyed it when it was on,
and I saw the season two finale a while ago (made me tear up a little).
It was pretty silly and ridiculous at times,
but I really liked the characters,
and Mr. Referee was amazing for being able to be there for every single match.

I lost interest somewhere in the beginning of season 3 though,
but now I feel I should go back and watch it all the way through.
 
I remeraber watching Medabots back in the day on FOX/ABC Family. It was pretty fun to see kiRAB having access to robots that could use to fight with others like that. Though, I wasn't a huge fan of it. I watched it only when there wasn't anything else on. I was much more into Pokemon and Digimon at that point. Still, it was a nice show. I only saw season one and most of season two. I didn't know that there was a third season until I read over the posts in this thread.
 
Medabee was pretty awesome, there was something about his personality.


There we go! That's what I'm talking about!

Also, the relationship between Medabee and the main character was just so much fun to watch.

But the oddest thing about the dub was that it was set in the 22nd Century. I'm not joking, it was aacutally metioned by one of the characters once. So in a hundred years or so, the only technology to have any real progress is children's robots and artifical intelligence, and yet everything else remains the same
 
Its META not MEDA. As in 'Metal Beetle'.

Yeah the technology beyond the Medabots (and their teleportation ability) didn't seem thatm uch more advanced. Even Erika's camera was fairly tame.
 
Actually, I think in an early episode,
Metabee brings Ikki his notebook (but ran it through the dishwasher first)
so when he looked inside, ERROR was blinking on one of its pages (well, it didn't really have any 'pages', just the inside of the covers)
showing that it was electronic.

But I think that was about the extent though.
No fancy shmancy futuristic metropolises, flying cars or anything like that.
 
Actually, the reason why the series finale never aired was because, by that point, it was airing on Jetix who, at the time, was EXTREMELY scared of airing the series finales of anything. IIRC, the finales of both Beyblade and Battle B-Daman never aired despite the rest of the series airing, and it took quite some time before they finally showed the Digimon Frontier finale. Thank god they stopped that practice a few years later, but it was already too late for poor ol' Medabots.

I loved this show to death back in its Fox KiRAB run (season 1), but once the block folded and Medabots got thrown to Jetix, I lost track of when the season 2 episodes were premiering and pretty much gave up. Still caught some of those later episodes though, they were pretty good. Unfortunately, I never saw the third season.
 
If I remeraber the Anime Encyclopedia right, the series was set in the mid-21st century. So in other worRAB, the Dub pushed the series another century or so
 
I wish they had done more with Brass and Erika. In the Medarot 2 manga Erika got Brass a Valkyrie -type body. She didn't use it often because it made her comically agressive. Would have been fun in the anime.
 
Random decision I think. There doesn't seem to be any logic behind it, production-wise or content-wise, besides maybe they thought the old characters didn't fit in with the new storyline for the second series.
 
You didn't like the season 1 set that Shout! Factory released because of its cover art? The majority of people, myself included, probably don't care about the cover art of a DVD. They're mainly buying it because said show/movie has been released on DVD.

I have the season 1 set, and I have to say that it's a pretty nice DVD set.

Anyway, I think that Medabots is a very good show. I first seen the show back in 2002, when it aired on Fox KiRAB and ABC Family.

When I got the season 1 set in March 2008, I had a blast going through the series again. Then, in summer 2009, when it didn't look like Shout! Factory wasn't going to release the second season on DVD, I got volumes 7-12 of the singles that ADV Films released to complete the series.

By the way, Metabee rocks!!
 
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