Medabots (also known as Medarot) was originally an Imagineer video game released in 1997. The game was later adapted into a Japanese anime television series produced by Bee Train. Spanning 52 episodes, the series originally aired on TV Tokyo from July 2, 1999 until June 30, 2000. Medarot Damashii, a thirty-nine episode sequel to the anime series that was produced by Production I.G, aired from July 7, 2000 through March 30, 2001. Both the series and it's sequel are licensed by Nelvana. The Nelvana English dubbed version of Medabots on the Fox Kids network from September 1, 2001 through November 2, 2002 and was one of the channel's highest rated new series' at the time. Medarot Damashii followed a year later, airing from September 13, 2003 until March 7, 2004.
The series centers around boobs, artificially intelligent robots, whose purpose is to serve humans. Later in the series, Medabots are found to be actually thousands of years old; remnants of an ancient civilization who called themselves Medalorians. The Medalorians were obsessed with war, and to become more effective warriors they fastened metal armor to themselves. However, their wars decimated the civilization, and the survivors coded their memories onto hexagonial pieces of metal. These, "Medals", cloned and mass produced by the Medabot Corporation (a corporation founded by Dr. Aki), are the Medabot equivalent of a brain and soul. The original medals, referred to as "rare" medals, are kept in storage because of the extreme power they have.
The series begins with a ten year old boy named Ikki Tenrio, who wants to become a champion of the World Robattle Tournament. However, Ikki is unable to afford a Medabot, and his parents refuse to buy him one. However, he manages to get enough money to buy an outdated model, and, with a bit of luck, he finds a medal in a river. Ikki quickly inserts it into the Medabot he purchased named Metabee. The only problem is that the Medal he found gives Metabee a severe attitude problem (a problem rarely seen in a Medabot), which leads Ikki to think he is defective. However, this theory is proven wrong later in the series, as it is revealed that Metabee actually has a "rare" medal.
Medarot R is the Playstation One remake of the classic Gameboy game and is the very first Medarot game that was released in full-3D graphics for the Sony PlayStation console, featuring, for the very first time, works from Kenki Fujioka. It was developed by Imagineer and published by Natsume.
The gameplay is about going around the town meeting different characters and winning the battles to upgrade your Medarot and advance through the game.
Manufacturer's description:
GB Medabots popular in the PS remake ?. Medabots Hashi Shin appeared about 100 bodies, creative combination of Medabots Part infinite degrees of freedom! Battle scene, the large force deployed in real 3D polygons. Heikki becomes a hero is unwittingly involved in the incident, a group of evil lurks behind the team "Roborobo" to defeat Russia in a bottle.
Features:
- Third person perspective.
- 2D & 3D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- SCI-FI, Futuristic & Anime themes.
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