Medabots was Weird (Still Exists in Japan) | Billiam 

I, too, enjoyed Medabots when it came out. I don't really remember why I stopped watching it, but I think it's like Billiam said that the show got tossed around a lot. I simply couldn't find it otherwise I probably would have watched it after season 1.

@@lavenderflowersfall280 you can watch it on youtube. But type in 'Japanese order'

@@SAsaiyajin thanx for the hint

@@pvshka you're welcome,. I was watching last Tuesday and I am at the tournament now. Dragonball Super Broly movie got me watching this because the 'simpler' animation style it has reminded me a lot of Medabots in some way😅.

4kidstv had so many issues they ruined anime for many...one piece let’s take that cigarette from the cook here have a lollipop

Rnar well all these shows had their dark moments but uhh yeah. One of these shows is definitely not like the others.

You’re right, no one cares about Card Captor.

You noticed that too huh lol

He's a fake poser for youtube views or he'd have known DN was never a Saturday morning cartoon

exactly! i was like, i watched Saturday morning cartoons on kids WB and foxBox all the way till they got rid of all their anime shows. never once did i see death note on there.

Fire & Blood

*Badass instrumental version of the main theme*

Ikr his entrances are O.G

I gonna try emulate medabots ax rokusho, medarot ds, shingata medarot and medarot 8 expect medarot s and medabots 9

It was so much harder, I never beat it

You mean the 3 vs 3? Where you walk to thr middle to attack? Yeah that was fite

I think I still have my GBA Rokusho version

@Matt Cantagallo its quite easy until you came across that FREAKING FINAL BOSS!! LIKE WHAT THE HECK?! limited movement?! not to mention they get to move much faster than the normally fast movement configuration ensuring them to charge medaforce 2 turns ahead of you. also they can destroy even tankish leg part in 1 turn (bare in mind the part have a minimum 100 hp). Freaking damage them like butter. If they ever gang up on you (like by chance targetting one medabot in your team)in first turn say goodbye to that bot. no matter how maxed up the hp of your parts, if they did it they can smoke your bot immediately its a freakishly imbalance battle if i ever saw one

@@Ccs1989 I managed to, but remember how hard that last fight was... like Jesus Christ I had to be lucky cuz I sure wasn’t smart

Specifically, he just wasn't allowed in the stadium. There was a scene of the stadium guy not letting him in and he calls the fight from outside it. He's not the official referee, he's just...Mr. Referee

My 36 year old brother still constantly shouts "the phantom renegade has just split his pants!" (phantom renegade rears his ugly rear). Good times.

I recall falling down laughing at this anime, everything was so damn goofy. Cast of characters was one of the most likeable ever… also recall playing one of the core GB games and the whole exchanging arms thing being quite fun. Maybe I should play the ecchi game then?

You are a brave man and I salute you, both for giving us this information and for immortalizing your love of the series by naming for cat after an awesome medabot.

Ha. I named my cat "Stardust" after "Stardust Dragon" from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

Aaaahh i love Peppercat :)

Her medal remains strong

You mean 18 meow.... I see myself out

There's a game called megabyte punch that has a similar premise. I remember liking it a lot but it's been a while since I last played so I don't know if it holds up

Skylanders but done right?

Medabots P2E game coming soon to iOS & Google Play stores

Lego kind of already did that God awful galidor show and toys

This idea would be better applied to Gunpla especially since Gundam has gained a bit of popularity in the US in recent years

Was it a serious question or was he being sarcastic?

@@StudioInkblot I couldn't tell at the time.

Now I want an anime that is just Yugioh but they play Magic. With the same vibe and insanity as Yugioh.

itrs such bs i want this

@bryan diaz varela im going and staying very soon

ccggenius12 I love your profile pic. Gene Starwind!

Ikr i hope something bad happends to them

Commercial Patriotism

that....that's actually a little too accurate

Yeah weird

He was fun on the bun!!

Dude he rocks.

Or a young goku in benders body, Gotta remember that medaforce

You forgot they would release the digimon vital bracelet DiM card which includes the medabots with their own unique evolution line

I still remember some of it, one scene that come to mind right now is ep with the takoyaki they make some huge drama about how big the meat part should be XD

I remember learning about the show through randomly finding the 1st DVD with the first 4-5 episodes, it was still the time of early internet so I couldn’t really go beyond those episodes, I specifically remember an episode where Ikky (or how ever you spell that kids name) and the girl with their bots go to this super huge prep school to find some Legendary battler That has never lost that apparently goes there! Everyone at the school knows about them but somehow doesn’t know who they are!? It was weird and ended with the bully kid of that episode’s girlfriend and her Nurse looking Bot being the Legendary battler because she never lost a match because she doesn’t fight. I remember laughing at that. I really want this series to come back now.

I remember watching the show as a kid, then tracking down both versions of AX for the Advance. Still have both cartridges.

YOOOO ZOIDS WERE THE SHIT! I had a 1’ tall dude who could walk and roar with some AA batteries in it. So cool

I remember it being a thing as soon as I saw the name in the title, but I only ever watched bits and pieces of it because we didn't have any satellite channel that aired it. It did get played over the air but where I grew up was way far from the broadcasting stations so I never watched anything other than the satellite

Same and same. It'll always have a space in my heart

actually theirs a few fan translations in the works, not sure the progress of them but the ds/3ds game has like an hour of english content

@@angrypuckmen3501 Really? Where could I find that translation project?

The RPG GBA game was dope. Using megaforce for the first time was epic.....unless your megaforce was something stupid like a heal

@@Virdice Yeah, but usually your first megaforce was Metabee/Rokusho's so full destructive power with the first one!

Here's a video on it. I had thousands of these. There are metal ones too.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c5wFJtQvPpo.html

Dude I forgot about these!

No I don’t want to see your pog collection

Please the best "pogs" where the ones based on "Mucha Lucha"

DRAKE glad I caught you! Can you please talk about the marvel zombies vs army of darkness official crossover? Nobody seems to know it exists even though it's supposed to be what started the marvel zombies outbreak.

I have the game cube game he mentioned. It's very frusteraiting and difficult to play.

Huh, didn't know you watched Billiam. Cool.

Wow didnt know you were a fan too

Hey Drake

MEDABOTS -more medabots! More power! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-alOdQsdPCkg.html

Agreed. Medabots is a classic

Agreed! Even with the tacky voices, Dutch medabots actually managed to win me over a couple episodes in, mostly because of how the series handles its humour. I'm a big fan still.

I'm glad it even aired in the Netherlands when I was a kid. I only remember watching episodes without following the story. (Just random episodes on random days) I rewatched this a few years ago, and I still like it.

Can confirm it was treated way better in the Netherlands

that medabots chant reminds me of daytona usa

It is easier to just pirate and translate the whole thing 😅

Wat you mean

Denis Akiyama, the voice actor for Mr Referee in the English dub, sadly passed away in 2018

@@Cosmo_raptor thank you

Uhm Where can I watch it?

*Hey it's the pizaman! Give me all your breadsticks their mine!*

hot

Send me Jack Frost stuff Johne

JohneAwesome really be asking the real questions 🤣🤣🤣🤣

JohneAwesome You know what this means? Time to do a Let’s Play of the GBA rpg to show how good Medabots was!

Same dude, when I'm older I'll try making one!

Romes Republic Think of the show Battebots, but with Medabots, it’s the closes thing we have to real live robot battle, maybe give it a decade or two, then we can really have an actual Medabot battle for real.

In 22nd Century

Wait what???

@@leannewho664 Did you not pay attention to the video?

But that was only for Girls Mission The main series is still a safe RPG

Were those the ones that had a metal skeleton? I remember having a few of those.

You mean gunpla

Yes

I would always dream of a game like this for Medabots and Digimon Tamers.

Infinity was mah jam dude

The mainline games' playstyle worked the best for me. Planning ahead and watching the Medabot(s) I customized fight it out relay-style was cool.

Lol we can blame Shaw Cable

I remember renting the NGC game and playing it almost every other Saturday growing up, man that was somethin

I did; it was a pretty fun game.

Was addicted to that game! So much customization.

I loved 2 Core, but I never really liked AX as a kid. I haven't gone back to It, but who knows? It could have been great.

Shaw owns YTV so of course it made it easy for them to air it. They dubbed it so it way easier for them to work it into the schedule. US networks have to pay Shaw money to air it since Shaw was the one who dubbed it.

Cable and internet providers suck in Canada 😢

That's the best Nostalgia ever

Dude same!

I completely forgot about Medabots and had this experience too. What a trip

Same

Zoids was dope! Thanks for reminding me

Haha me and my roommate re-watch Zoids New Century Zero not too long ago, it was really a fun watch and I looked up Genesis after and wondered why that didnt come over but guess it wasn't too marketable NA wise or something

Zoids are still very very popular in Japan. If you go to their Toys’R’Us or any other toy shop, you’re guarantee to see Zoids, Kamen Rider, Gundum, Gridman and Super Sentai. Thing like Dragon Ball action figure are crazy hard to find especially if you’re not looking for the expensive S.H. Fuguart, model kits or statuettes.

Graham Kristensen omg fuck yea

@@TerdSmasher303 Zoids Chaotic Century was the shit. new century was also good

Now there's a Saturday morning cartoon I haven't thought of in years.

Is that the one with the "Spaghet-about-it" thing? hahahaha

Bruuuuuuuuh! Thank you so much I’ve been trying to remember this show for years!

Fighting food ons was a weird but good show. It was like if food wars met pokemon.

Let’s muddy the waters even more; Flint the Time Detective and The Magician

Not really forgotten, They just announced something for the anniversary and new kits got released. I got my metabee

@@KajiRider1997 well I stand corrected

@@BugsyFoga nvm this sucks. I was hoping something for the switch twitter.com/QooApp_EN/status/1068109719724859392 www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2018-11-13/medabots-franchise-launches-20th-anniversary-countdown/.139428

Judging from your picture you are not Japanese. So why do you not use the correct term for "anime"? In english it would be animation, as for the type of animation, it's a cartoon. Why do you not use the correct english wording? Why do you have to be racist about your ignorance? Japan got the word "anime" from the english word "animation". Yet you seem to define "anime" as any cartoon made by a Japanese anything. Get a dictionary, no not urban dictionary, a real one, with real words. ignorant racist

Did he do battle b daman?

God bless Mr. Referee

Erica: we do not need you right now. I will judge this

Metabots ready? Robattleeeeeee!!!

Nah, he was just an old passionate man.

Rokusho version was terribly RNG-heavy. Metabee also had the comfort of +4 Megalaser or whatever it was called (from the semi-final boss)

@@chainsawpl6189 RNG is what makes Rokusho's game so much more interesting than Metabee's. Metabee: Pro: Shooting has a higher accuracy and allows to see what you're going to hit before you get there. Con: by comparison, very weak right arm and sometimes missiles, likely to fail action if a faster melee unit takes out the target resulting in a wasted turn, Rokusho: Pro: Antenna can increase accuracy as much as you need, hammer literally destroys one medium health part with chain damage Con: can't see target, low hit accuracy on hammer if you don't use the antenna, I grew up playing Metabee on the gba, but I think Rokusho's game is much more fun (which I bought on the Wii U eshop.)

I enjoyed those games too. The only think I didn't like was that the random battles took up so much time.

I already finish it

@@Speculativedude If I remember, you had the option to reduce the timer and you got rubber medals from the rubberobo game that allowed you to escape whenever you needed it.

Liam-Ethan Wallis death note was never a Saturday morning cartoon. Lol

Vanderbilt Alex Singleton Really? I remember getting up every morning when I was little to watch that bubbly little show This was sarcasm, for those like me who have a hard time telling

@@liam-ethanwallis4924 death note was on YTV back then friday night 10pm EST

Feng Oh yeeeaaahhhhh, after hours stuff! Still doesn't really count though. There's a reason stuff like that was after hours.

@@liam-ethanwallis4924 never stopped me from watching shows like South Park when I was 10

Thank you Justin, very cool.

MY GOD! Please bless us all!

Justin Y. You're back

Lord and Savior, Justin Y is here 😩👌

God, I love Digibro.

Seriously????

lol

Did you seriously take him serious?

thats the joke lol

Yes

Xerapher It was aimed towards teenagers. So~ yeah. It doesn’t tackle very heavy topics compared to other. If they didn’t show you the inner monologue, and explain each step of their thought process would’ve been quite different. ( I’m not taking credit away from it or anything. Just wish it went a bit darker/heavier >_

Because sadly, this is the future of success. No longer could you express your creativity. Instead, everyone are forced to jump on popular trends just to make more money. Just look at the countless isekai and idol animes are (Log Horizon and Zombieland Saga are good though).

Yaassss!!!!!

Zoids is still around in japan

@@TheWingknight101 so is Digimon and he made videos about them

*Z O I D S*

I vaguely remember Zero Century, I remember loving it back on Toonami.

@@dickers9012 shows the you got me there meme

Fox Faeez dude fuck ya

The RPG game was so good

I see no one has mentioned the second season

Anyone remember Medabot AX? I remember my cousin playing that game.

Fuck yeah!

I second this. Zoids is kinda going still aswell.

Man the only thing wrong with zoids is I didn't have cable.

I had some of the original Zoids toys, well before the anime made it too the states. Really before I even new that anime existed (just before the Macross was introduced to us as Robotech.

Ohhhh I should really go and watch it, metabots was my childhood

Zoids is not gone like at all......they're still a thing...

I wish they reissued the original stuff. I bought the new Liger from Wild and I felt it was too small for the price it was asking for. I personally got it displayed beside my PC since I'm a big Zoids fan.

It literally just got a new series and toyline.

I was playing Horizon zero dawn, and came across a machine that looks and acts like the lightning saix. I had to pause the game. Stand up. And look up the zoid. Brings back some fond memories....

@@lanoche i still have my fuzor models i have Energy Liger and Dark Spiner also have tiny version of Berserk Fury and Shadow Fox

Nero Tomoko you know who’s got the power ! You know who’s got to cast a spell

@@DarkVileScream I think I still have the Spell Book kicking around my house somewhere for the card game tie in they tried to make....

Nero Tomoko Thank you! That's the exact series that popped into my head at the sight of Medabee being a brat, reminded me of the Zach Bell episode where the one evil doll controls his human, unlike the rest who are controlled.

YESSSS NO ONE KNOWS WTF THAT IS

YES

Justin Y. Ocean man has been spotted

^ holy cow that's justin y Did you get ur silver play button yet mayng?

Justin Y. “Nah bro that’s his son Jota.”

Yare yare daze

I beg of you, God, please bless us all with good content!

Lol, every anime around that time had a tournament arc i swear.

My favorite characters were the chicken seller, with his motivational phrases and the guy from the Medabots store, who was the masked guy

Yep. You had Beyblade, Battle Bedamon, Pokemon, and of course Medabots.

Oh and also Yu gi oh, Zoids new century zero, and also I guess Bakugan.

You mean koji.

I've played the gamecube one, it was trash

played medabots metabee. All i can say is, fuck those race sections

@@MegaInsaneMC hahahahhh, yeah, definitely the worst aspect of the game.

Ryo Urawa omg yess, I never got to finish that show. At some point, all I saw were reruns and the progression stopped and idk how the show ended

Oh god yea that needs to be done

We need to push for this, Monster Rancher was dope

Hey what about The vision of Escaflowne. That anime was dark as hell and pretty mature for being shown on channels like YTV.

Was Monster Rancher related to Shinzo? The plot was so similar.

Well, fuck, Medabee having Goku's voice actor in my country suddenly makes a lot more sense.

@@MarfSantangelo brazil hum

@@MsEduguerra ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mv0iV8_fhcI.html

If I’m not mistaken Metabee got the first taste of the medaforce himself when he pissed off Rokusho and he unleashed it on him.

I've beat the GBA game. To win the medarace, best thing was to equip flying legs part and press A button like crazy