Medabots

Medabots
File:Medabotsspirit.jpg The main characters of "Medabots Spirit": Metabee, Exor, Roks, Ikki, Nae, Erika, Kam, Zuru and Ginkai
Genre	Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Shōnen, Mecha
Anime
Directed by	Tensai Okamura
Studio	Bee Train, Nihon Ad Systems

Medabots, frequently misspelled as Metabots, and known in Japan as Medarot (メダロット), is a video game published by Natsume, about battling robots. The manga, later serialized in Comic BomBom, is written by Rin Horuma (Horumarin). The TV series was produced by Bee Train

The manga was published in English in North America by Viz Communications. The artwork was flipped to the left-to-right reading style. In Singapore it is published in English by Chuang Yi.

The anime series, distributed in the Americas by Canadian company Nelvana Limited, once aired on Fox Kids, where, during its U.S. debut in autumn 2001, it was the highest-rated among its new shows. [1] It was later seen on its spin-off block, Jetix.

Released in America around the same time as Pokémon, it was frequently assumed to be a simple parody of that form of anime, since merchandise for the series was much less extensive and dubbed tongue-in-cheek (however, some of the more darker notes in the story, such as the "Ten days of darkness" were kept in, and Ikki gets hurt quite frequently during the series' more serious parts). Notably, several important characters noticeably retained their original Japanese names or pronunciations (such as Ikki).

Plot

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for him in fear of it having it stolen by thieves, but he is able to scrape together a small amount of money to buy an outdated model, called a KBT.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, his dog Salty finds a medal, which is essentially the Medabot equivalent of a soul, in the park. 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 a rogue Medabot Rokusho, who has a dark past (similar to Shadow of the Sonic the Hedgehog series). He is an important character in the flashbacks, since the anime takes place in two different time periods (and in the second season, and the third). Template:Spoilers 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 ago 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 Metabee). 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 Kenia 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 with 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 genious take out his last card: a gigant 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.

Second season: The Kilobot season / Medabots Damashii

The second season is not related in any way to the first, but it hints that Ikki is the second best medafighter in the world and Metabee is able to use the Medaforce. This time, the enemies are more serious and the trauma is more understandable.

Kam Kamazaki, a young boy of twelve years, had designed one of the most dangerous medabots in the entire story: Kilobots. These medabots had no feelings and can break the rules in order to win a fight. In the first episode, Ikki loses a Robattle against one when it cheats and reloads. But he soon meets Nae, a Medabot mechanic, who gives new medaparts to Metabee in order to defeat the kilobot. While the series passes, we meet new characters: Ginkai, the "bad" boy who in the future episodes becomes good; Zuru, who is the mystery medafighter and fights to destroy Kilobots, because they've torn apart his family life; Nae, the granddaughter of doctor Aki and mechanic; Tak, a young medafighter; and Kam, the main villain with a tragic life. However, though we gain new charactes, we also lose quite a few. Koji, Karin, Henry (and all his secret identities), Rokusho, and the Rubber Robo gang in its entirety.

Main characters

Ikki (el gato) Tenryou

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Ikki Tenryo

Ikki Tenryou (天領イッキ Tenryōu Ikki), a Riverview Junior High School student, is a lively and easygoing boy, although a bit timid. In fact, his Medabot Metabee is his complete opposite, and used to be able to wrap Ikki around his little finger. However after several Robattles, a strong bond grows between them. Ikki, being so shy, has trouble around girls and has no idea how to handle them, and his best friend Erika still has Ikki under her little finger. Though Ikki is not a full-fledged Medafighter, he gradually matures through the Robattles he engages in. His dream is to win the World Robattle Tournament.

Metabee

Metabee (whose name is a portmanteau of Metal Beetle) is a Medabot belonging to Ikki Tenryo. Metabee is an old outdated Hercules Beetle type (or KBT-11220 type) Medabot. He possesses the rare Kabuto type medal that allows him to use the Medaforce. Metabee is known to be quite aggressive and stubborn, and often messes up due to his hotheaded hyperactivity. He is often disobedient to his owner Ikki Tenryou, but he shares a close bond with him, and so Ikki trusts him deeply. Metabee is fundamentally a shooting Medabot, specialising in revolver tactics. Attack abilities include:

• Two fast paced laser cannons embedded his left arm.
• One slower, but more powerful laser cannon embedded on his right arm.
• His special attack is Seeker missiles; they are standard heat seeker missiles and are launched from the two horns on his head. This is generally a finisher move.
• He has also shown throughout many series and episodes to have outstanding physical strength, knocking out Medabots including Cleobattler, Mistyghost and others with a single punch to the face.

Erika

Erika (Arika Amazake)

Known as Arika Amazake (甘酒アリカ Amazake Arika) in Japan

Erika is a childhood friend of Ikki who also attends Riverview junior Highschool. She is a strong-minded girl who is always bossing Ikki around. However, she also has a sweet feminine side and a soft spot for Ikki. Erika is also the reporter for the school's newspaper and will do anything for a scoop and is always looking for a story. Because of this, she tends to follow Ikki and Metabee around time to time because of their ability to find trouble. Her medabot Brass is her camera girl.

Brass

Brass (or Sailor-Multi) is a Medabot belonging to Erika. Brass is a Sailor type (or SLR-191218 type) Medabot, who possesses an ordinary beetle type medal. Her personality is that of a young, polite school girl. Brass spends most of her time helping out in Erika's journalist career, acting as the camera girl, and so she rarely fights; however, when she does robattle, she is a tough opponent. Brass is fundamentally a slow shooting Medabot, however has an extremely accurate targeting system built into her optics. Attack abilities include:

• two laser cannons,

Koji Karakuchi

(辛口コウジ Karakuchi Kōji)

Rosewood Private School student Koji is the mollycoddled and rather snooty son of an extremely rich family. Something of an ace medafighter, Koji and his medabot Sumilidon are legendary for never losing a robattle. Koji and Ikki are rivals, but manage to co-exist together because of their crush on Karin. Koji always trains hard with his medabot Sumilidon trying to master the technique known as the Shadow Sword, taught to them by Space Medafighter X. He thinks of himself as Karin's boyfriend.

Sumilidon

Sumilidon is a Medabot belonging to Koji. Sumilidon is an up-to-date Saber-Tooth Tiger type (or SGT-19207 type) Medabot, and possesses a Kuwagata (stag beetle) type medal. Sumilidon is a serious medabot who never steps out of line and he has a trusting relationship with Koji. Sumilidon and Koji often train, trying to master the Shadow Sword and the Medaforce (despite the fact that Sumilidon does not have a rare medal.) Sumilidon is fundamentally a hand-to-hand fighting Medabot, but he specialises in sword attacks. Attack abilities include:

• extremely high speed
• a flexor sword mounted on his right arm
• the 'Shadow Sword' ability
• heat dispersal
• a hammer fist attack from his left arm

Kintaro

Kintaro is a loud-mouthed, fast-paced Medafighter who expresses a serious passion for Robattles. When he first appears, his Medabot Kantaroth is mistaken for Metabee when causing trouble in Robattles.

Kantaroth

Kintaro's Medabot, many believe him to be Metabee when he first appears. He is also a Hercules Beetle type, and appears identical to Metabee, only more streamlined since he is a later model. He has the same cannons and Seeker Missile attack that Metabee does. When he talks, he was a rather stoner personality to him.

Samantha, Sloan and Spyke (the Screws)

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Samantha

Spyke

Sloan

The Screws are a no-good gang from Riverview Junior High School. Their leader is Samantha, a strong-willed girl, who surprisingly likes feminine things such as ballet and wishes for romance, despite her tendency to bully everyone around her.

As for the boys, Sloan is a lazy, laid back boy, acting as the muscle for Sam when needed. Spyke is the wimp of the group who never wins his matches, but strives to please Samantha in any way he can, though he usually fails. This has resulted in him being fired from the group a few times. Both Sloan and Spyke refer to her as 'Boss'. In some way or another, the Screws always end up being pitted against Ikki's gang. This started when Ikki first defeated the Screws in Robattle with Metabee. Ever since, Samantha has been too stubborn to admit defeat. However when the situation needs it they may lend each other a helping hand.

Samantha's Medabot is the agile and electrically armed Peppercat, a red CAT type. Sloan's is the heavily armed and armored but slow, yellow turtle-type Totalizer. Spyke has, at first Cyandog, a Medabot who always loses because Spyke has a medal that's incompatible with his body (a Monkey medal made for hand-to-hand combat in a Canine body made for shooting), which he later upgrades to the more modern Krosserdog body, but keeps the medal. During the World Robattle Championships, they all had to rotate as Space Medafighter X when Phantom Renegade went out on missions during the competition.

The Rubberobo Gang

The 'bad guys'. Their objective is to get their hands on rare medals. Their gang has many members, but the one's after Ikki include Seaslug the leader, Squidguts the muscle, Gillgirl the looks and Shrimplips the brains. They fit more as the comic relief of the series, being adorned in black, rubber suits with a golden antenna on top of their heads. At first, Seaslug is the leader of the group, but as the series progresses, it turns out the whole gang (which could be compared to an army for sheer size) takes their orders from a small man called Dr. Meta-Evil.

Rokusho

Rokusho is a mysterious Medabot. An old stag beetle-type (or KWG-11237) Medabot who possesses the kuwagata (stag-beetle) type medal. Almost always wearing a dirty old cloak, Rokusho appears to have no master, and he sporadically appears throughout the series, first appearing in episode ten when saving a small puppy from a river in a rainstorm. When Metabee asks for Rokusho's name, he simply replies 'My name is of no importance.' He later explains that it is the only thing that he still owns. He spends a lot of the series searching for his lost Medafighter. He offers words of wisdom and help to Ikki and Metabee in Robattles, however dislikes the idea of Robattling for fun. His main goal is to protect rare medals such as his own, and all forms of life. Long ago Rokusho did have a master whose name was Dr. Hushi (節原教授). However, he disappeared in a fire, whom we later find out was caused by the Rubber Robos ordered by Dr. Meta-Evil. Rokusho was called Youhaku (Nickel-silver) by Dr. Hushi. Later on in the series, Rokusho reunites with his friend Baton, the robot Parrot pet of Dr. Hushi. Baton is given false memories by Dr. Meta-Evil to make Rokusho go bezerk by learning that Dr. Aki killed Dr. Hushi. However, it's actually Dr. Meta-Evil who put out the order to the Rubber Robos to have Dr. Hushi killed. Dr Hushi's body was never recovered from the fire. When searching through the remains though, Rokusho discovered a secret exit that leads away from their cottage.

Rokusho also possesses a rare medal and can perform the Medaforce with his Chanbara sword. Rokusho is a very solemn Medabot, but is usually polite with others. He refuses to Robattle unless it is to defend someone or something, and is the only Medabot who goes by this way of life. He is also guided by a strong code of honor. Rokusho is a Medabot who specialises in sword techniques. Attack abilities include:

• A Chanbara sword on his right arm.
• Extremely high speed.
• Hammer Fist on left arm.

Misc:

• In the Kilobots season, Rokusho doesn't appear at all, but instead there is an almost twin-like character named Roks.
• His colouring in the manga and anime are different.
• Rokusho translates to Hexateuch, meaning ‘the first six books of the Old Testament.’ Whether this has any relevance is unknown.
• Rokusho could be written 緑青 in Chinese characters, which translates to copper(II) carbonate.

Phantom Renegade/Space Medafighter X/Hikaru Agata

(あがたヒカル Agata Hikaru)

Space Medafighter X/ Phantom Renegade is the hero who almost always manages to come through to save the day (though he has a habit of falling out and off of places and injuring himself in the process). He dons a white/golden mask with a classic smiley face on it to hide an identity, and wears a tuxedo with cape and top hat as Phantom Renegade (white mask) and a leather-esque full body outfit with a red scarf as Space Medafighter X (gold Mask). Beneath this mask lies the white mask of Phantom Renegade in case the gold mask breaks. He owns the Medabot Arcbeetle. The captain of Team USA, Joe, recognized Space Medafighter X as Hikaru Agata, Japan's former #1 Medafighter who caused the "Ten Days of Darkness." eight years ago. It's a dead giveaway that his real identity is Ikki's friend, Henry. This character alone was quite complex. He seems to have almost superhuman abilities like speed, disappearing and dodging attacks with ease, jumping huge distances and performing several acrobatic stunts that often involve taking down a medabot with his own hands.

Eight years ago when Henry was Hikaru Agata, he owned the KBT body known as Metabee and fought on the Japan team in the World Robattle Cup. Although alleged to have caused the "Ten Days of Darkness", he is the one who actually ended it, by killing his best friend and Medabot, the original Metabee.

Karin Junlei

(純米カリン Junrei Karin)

Karin is the niece of Dr. Aki and she is a very cute girl. Although she is in a rich family, she finds time to help people. Koji and Ikki constantly fight for her attention in the series. She owns the Medabot Neutranurse. She is also Koji's classmate and is admired by many at her school.

Sub Characters

Henry

A dimwitted teenager working in a convenience store, Henry is the one who sold Metabee to Ikki. Ten years ago Henry was the World Robattle Tournament star. It is a common misconception that Metabee's medal was once Henry's but it turns out that Arcbeetle's medal is actually the original, but without his memories of being the first Metabee. This part of the story was left out of the English dub. Curiously, Henry's name-tag says "Hikaru" written in katakana, a hint of his true identity.

In the original Japanese version, he is always known as Hikaru Agata.

Dr. Meta-Evil

Dr. Meta-Evil is the nemesis of Dr. Aki and tries to collect Rare Medals. He and Aki were once pupils of Dr. Hushi. He had a cat named Michael, who was in fact, the last Medalorian with memories. Though evil, he tried to restore the ancient Madebot civlization by conquering humans. He had Medabot in his place while he schemed. After he failed in his last try to conquer the world, he went into outer space with Dr. Hushi and his alien-friend. They will return to earth in the year 3000 A.D.

Dr. Aki

He is Karin's uncle and also Nae's grandpa, and one of the most notable scientists in medabot technology- including the invention of the Medawatch. He realizes the danger of rare medals and employs Phantom Renegade to steal them to prevent them from falling in the wrong hands. Despite appearing to be quite an idiot, he's smarter than he looks. Even with his riches from discoveries, he tends to be cheap when it comes to others and indulges in puddings. At one time, Rokusho's friend Baton, Dr. Hushi's robot parrot, told Rokusho that Dr. Aki set fire to Dr. Hushi's lab and as a result Rokusho attempted to kill him. This information was later revealed to have been falsely programmed into Baton by Dr. Meta-Evil.

War Bandit

Warbandit is the Medabot belonging to Victor. Warbandit is a King Lion type (or KLN-111214) Medabot. He possesses the rare Kabuto type medal that allows him to use the Medaforce. Warbandit is a loyal medabot, who generally shows no emotion, but he does care for his owner Victor. Warbandit is the world champion of the Robattle tournament. Warbandit is fundamentally a shooting Medabot. His attack abilities include:

• Four fast paced laser cannons embedded in his left arm.
• Two slower, but more powerful laser cannon embedded in his right arm.

In the time of the Ten Days of Darkness, Warbandit involuntary attacked his medafighter Victor, and helped the other medabots to destroy Kenya. After that day, Victor did not trust in Warbandit and started to treat him just as a machine rather than a friend. Warbandit deeply regrets this and longs for Victor to be his friend again, and so obeys every order.

Characters of Medabots Spirit (Medarot Damashii):

Nae

She is kind, cute and generous. She is the granddaughter of Dr. Aki, although they do not look very much alike. Nae worked in the Corporation Medabot like a scientist, but she changes her employ for repay the medabots of the small children. She gave Ikki the new medaparts of Metabee. Also, she met Zuru when he was a small child and, by pure chance, found out about his work as the Mystery Medafighter. Her medabot is Honey.

Honey

A mermaid type medabot. She is like Nae: cute, kind and helpful. Honey also helps Nae with her job and delivering the repaired parts. She hasn’t had any weapons and she had been with Nae since she was a little girl.

Ginkai

Ginkai is a stubborn, glutton, honest, brave and has a gold heart. He becomes “friend” of Kam, after he had a fight with his medabot Beyonet, but refused to continue making a trap after Kam used Redrun to attack Metabee without mercy during a competition of robattles. After he lost his kilobot, he asked for an apology for his medabot now called Arc-Dash. With the help of the Mysterious Medafighter he won against Redrun. He had a friendship-rival with Ikki. Also, he had a small sister, called Sara.

Arc-dash

He is the medabot of Ginkai. He is quite like Metabee: stubborn, hot-tempered loyal and a good friend. His old body was gifted for the cousin of Ginkai. He has the ability to combine with Tyrebeetle. Attack abilities include:

• Two canons
• Prominence

History: He has a rare medal. His medal was a gift for Ginkai by the doctor Zora (father of Zuru) because he accidentally crushed his draws when he was a child. Also, he is in love with Peppercat. And Ginkai is in love with Samantha.

Tak

Tak is a small child, cute, smart and with the well-know doubts of the robobattles of his age. He often appears in the series, with Ikki like his mentor in the robobattles. One time he replaces his medabot after he looses a battle with a kilobot. Susie convinced him to use a kilobot, but Ginkai and Ikki return him in the right way. His medabot is Comang-dog.

Comang-dog

Comang-dog is dog type medabot with a tortoise medal. He is loyal to his medafighter and a good rentice. Comang-Dog “walks” with his tail because his legs are too short. He also has two laser canons.

Zuru Zora

He is a shy, quiet, smart and amiable boy. The stereotypical mild-mannered boy. Although he pretends to be poorly skilled in his Robattles, he's really the Mystery Medafighter: a cruel medafighter who destroys every kilobot he finds. The reason he does it is because his father, who works to create kilobots for Kam, was so obsessed about his work that he would end up neglecting Zuru and his mother. However, through the series he learns about the friendship and loyalty of a medafighter and his medabot Roks-- thanks to Ikki and Metabee. At first Zuru saw his Medabots, Roks and Tyrelbeetle as tools, but begins to consider Roks more like a friend than a machine. Near to the final episodes, he reveals his identity to Kam and his friends. (Only Nae knew it by pure accident.) When he is the Mysterious Medafighter, he uses Roks and Tyrelbeetle (who is Gorem 2). He uses a cape and a cap to hide his identity and also takes off his glasses.

Roks

Although he looks like Rokusho, Roks' body is more advanced. Roks is almost like a kilobot: he rarely shows emotions and obeys even the cruelest orders of his medafighter blindly. Metabee once said that when he talked to Roks, it was if he was talking with a kilobot. But throughout the series, Roks' personality changes and he becomes a loyal medabot to his medafighter. Cruel order or otherwise. During the series, Roks feels pity for Blakbeetle (Kam's kilobot) for being treated like a slave. Roks possesses a rare medal, and with a lot of practice was able to invoke the Medaforce. At the end of the series, he saves Blakbeetle from the Gryphon kilobot instead of destroying her medal.

Kam Kamazaki

With almost 12 years old, this boy is a genius. But evil-genius. He had designed almost all the kilobots and the x-medals. Cruel, serious, sometimes sarcastic and cheater, he hasn’t have any friends expect followers. Kam paid the kilofighters for becoming his “friends” with free kiloparts. Kam is extremely cruel with his kilobots, not showing pity for “trash them” when a new and more powerful kilobot is created (even with Blakbeetle). Since he was a small child, Kam was always alone. His mother died when he was 4 years old and his father never gives him attention. These events eventually change him in the evil boy who is right now. Only Blackbeetle is TRULY loyal to him.

Blackbeetle

He had to fight against 99 kilobots to show that he was worthy to be Kam's personal kilobot. Unfortunately, he lost him right optic in the battle. He is similar to Kam in many ways; cruel, evil with an unnerving monotone voice. Yet despite this Blackbeetle does have good inside of him. Even if his loyalty is strong he cannot avoid feeling jealousy about the friendship and confidence that Metabee has with his Medafighter, Ikki. His Neo x-medal allowed his to have feelings and it was going to be used in Gryphon. In the last episode, him optic is repaired.

Gryphon

This kilobot is seen during the last episode of the series. A powerful, evil and fearful kilobot, he nearly destroyed Roks and the other medabots during his first test. Unluckily for him, Doctor Zora told his son how to defeat Gryphon, allowing Zuru to win the battle. During his second test - using the Blakbeetle medal- he easily destroyed a large number of Unitrix. But he got out of control and only managed to damage one Unitrix, who stopped him releasing the medal. After that, Blakbeetle escaped from the laboratory not wanting to become that monster again. She was chased by the other kilofighters and saved by Metabee and Arc- dash, even from an atack from Roks. Later, Kam attacked them with Gryphon. Blackbeetle surrendered and went with him. During the last episode Kam activated Gryphon using the medal of his kilobot. If Ikki and the others (Ginkai, Zuru) won a battle against the powerful kilobot, he will give them Blakbetle medal. The fight was cruel and very hard, with Tyrebeetle as the loser. When the three remained medabots reached the core of energy in the building, Gryphon shot it and caused a great explosion. Later, when Metabee and the others medabots helped Kam, who was injured, Gryphon saved them when the roof collapsed. Is unknown if the body of Gryphon was destroyed by the fire. Gryphon was designed somewhat unsymetrically, with a big head and small body, but possesses great destructive power.

Minor characters

The rockers

The rockers are a band of punks, who made young medafighters battle against them so they get their medaparts. There were the first opponents of Iki, who buy Metabee to save Erika from them. They appear again when Cyandog run away from Spyke. Metabee won against Cyandog ( if he lost he would return with Spyke), but the Rockers didn´t want to give back the medaclock. Metabee defeated them using the medaforce.

Natalie

Natalie is a one episode-girl with red hair and wears glasses. She's the daughter of a famous restaurant-owner who made squid small balls in her town. However, her father changed it for dry meat and people stopped coming. She met Octoclam and when she grew up she decided to travel around Japan to give back the prestige of her father's restaurant. She meets Ikki and Erika when arriving in Riverview. Everyone in town adores the food, however Ikki is the only person to say they're bad (Too salty or too big). Natalie falls in love with him. She later realizes that that Ikki is third in the rank of Japan's Medafighters. Natalie wants to go to the tournament as well to promote her squid balls. She Robattles against Ikki but loses.

Nathan

A star of soccer of the school of Iki. Samantha fell in love with him, but he was angry with her because she defeated his Stingray very easy. He later fight against her again and lost,but he asked for a rematch.

Ainsley

Ainsley was a widow who lived in an old house, far for the city, with her medabot Botafly. She protected an old tree (even she chained with it when some workers tried to cut it) She met Rokusho after he sleep in her tree. Later, Rokusho help her when some intruders who enter in her propety. Ainsley told him that the tree was capable of healing wounds of heart and that her husband had told her that. However during the night she was attacked by the ruberobo gang, who believed that under the tree was a rare medal. There they found a wooden box. But, Iki, Metabee and Rokusho stop them for stealing it.During a battle with Salamander, Rokusho couldn´t save the tree (it was burned) but he defeated the ruberobos. Inside of the box there was a photo of Ainsley with her husband. back of the photo a poem of love was wrote.

Oceana

She is a mermaid type medabot, another one-episode cameo. After Ikkii and Erika find a stray Mermaid medal on the ground, they try to find the medabot that it belongs to. They try teleporting the body with Ikki's medawatch, but it doesn't work. Instead, they decide to place Oceana's medal in Brass' body until they can find it. They find out her name is Oceana and she is being held captive. Throughout the episode, Metabee falls head over heels for Oceana. She is sweet, shy, and an almost too-good-to-be-true damsel in distress.

Later on, near the end of the series, Oceana will appear again to cheer on Metabee in the final battle against Babyblu.

List of Medabots and type

Here is a list of Medabot with their type and specialty in Alphabetical Order:

• Acehorn - Unicorn type, Specialty: Healing
• Agadama - Raccoon type, Specialty: Hand-to-Hand Combat
• Air-Ptera - Pteradactyl type, Specialty: Bomb Attack
• Arcbeetle - Hercules Beetle type, Specialty: Shoots Fire Balls
• Arcbeetle Dash - Hercules Beetle type, Specialty: Beam Blaster
• Arc Dash - Hercules Beetle type, Specialty: Beam Blaster, Medaforce
• Aquamar - Marine type, Specialty: Aqua Attack
• Attack-Tyrano - Tyrannosaur type, Specialty: Laser
• Auroraqueen - ????
• Aviking - Viking type, Specialty: Tail Attack
• Babyblu - Baby type
• Banisher - Ban type, Specialty: Strong Appearance
• Bayonet - Hercules Beetle type, Specialty: Multi-Blast
• Belzelga - Devil type, Specialty: Punch
• Blackram - Devil type, Specialty: Bombarder (however, its specialty was only listed as this because the only character who used Blackram attached a special bombarder weapon to it)
• Botafly - Fly type, Specialty: Floating
• Brass (AKA Sailor-Multi) - Sailor type, Specialty: Shooting
• Churlybear - Bear type, Specialty: Gravity Beam
• Cleobattler - Egyptian Queen type, Specialty: Teams with T-Mummy
• Cordy - ????
• Cyandog - Dog type, Specialty: Shooting
• Drakonfly - Dragonfly type, Specialty: Shooting
• Dr. Bokchoy - Book type, Specialty: Textbook Punch
• Digmole - Mole type, Specialty: Digging
• Dracudon - Dracula type, Specialty: Biting Arms
• Face Lantern - Jack-O'-Lantern type
• Femjet - Plane type, Specialty: High Speed Flying
• Fireflash - Firefly type
• Flatstick - Batoidea type
• Fligflag - Frog type
• Floro - Flower type, Specialty: Vine Wrap
• Fossilkat - Witch type, Specialty: Wand, Zombie Tin-Pet Manipulation
• Foxuno - Fox type, Specialty: Sword
• Gentleheart - Golem type
• Giganko - Weapon type, Specialty: Powerful Missiles
• Giggly Jelly - Jellyfish type
• Gloomeg - Stone type, Specialty: Shoots Missiles
• Gobanko - Sohei called Benkei type, Specialty: Claw
• Gokudo - Sun Wukong type, Specialty: Stretch Punch
• Gorem - Clay Model type
• Goriongo - Gorilla type, Specialty: Diversion
• Haniwa - Earthenware doll type
• Hakado - Zhu Bajie type
• Honey- Assistant type, Specialty: Helper
• Hopstar - Rabbit type, Specialty: Hand Combat
• Icknite - Konouchi type, Specialty: Ninja Sword
• Jorat - Rat Type
• Kamafive - French type, Specialty: Fire Attack
• Kantaroth - Hercules Beetle type, Specialty: Shooting
• Kappalord - Kappa (water imp) type
• Kingpharaoh - Pharaoh type
• Kintaro - Kintaro type, Specialty: Hand-to-Hand Combat
• Komandog - Guard Dog type, Specialty: Traveling Attack
• Krosserdog - Dog type, Specialty: Shooting
• Kuraba - Crab type, Specialty: Punch
• Landbrachio - Brachiosaurus type
• Landmotor - Car type, Specialty: Crash Attack
• Magdosnake - Poisonous snake type
• Magiclown - Clown type
• Mammatusk - Mammoth type
• Mantaprey - Mantis type, Specialty: Hand-to-Hand Combat
• Mega-Emperor - Weapon type, Specialty: Powerful Missiles
• Megaphant - Elephant type, Specialty: Iron Ball
• Metabee - Hercules Beetle type, Specialty: Seeker Missiles, The Medaforce
• Mistyghost - Ghost type, Specialty: Multiple Projections
• Monoklar - Monacle type, Specialty: Shooting
• Multikolor - Chameleon type, Specialty: Camouflage
• Neutranurse - Nurse type, Specialty: Healing
• Nin-Ninja - Ninja type, Specialty: Ninja Sword
• Noctobat - Bat type
• Oceana - Mermaid type, Specialty: Healing
• Octoclam - Clam type
• Orkamar - Killer Whale type, Specialty: Shock Wave
• Paradiver - ????
• Peppercat - Cat type, Specialty: Electric Shock
• Phoenix - Phoenix type, Specialty: Fire Blast
• Pingen - Penguin type, Specialty: Not suited for battle
• Piraskull - Pirate type, Specialty: Teams with Pirastar
• Pirastar - Pirate type, Specialty: Teams with Piraskull
• Poison Copy - Scorpion type
• Pretty Prime - Cle-o-pat-ra type
• Rappy - Mascot type
• Rabudo - Rabbit type, Specialty: Time Control
• Redmatador - Cow type, Specialty: Saber
• Rhinorush - Rhino type, Specialty: Shooting
• Robo-Emperor - Weapon type, Specialty: Shoots Missiles
• Roks - Stag Beetle type, Specialty: High Speed and Sword
• Rokusho - Stag Beetle type, Specialty: Sword and Speed
• Rollerman - ????
• Sabotina - Cactus type, Specialty: Shooting
• Sailormate - Sailor type, Specialty: Shooting
• Saldron - Salamander type, Specialty: Fire Attack
• Samarai - Samurai type
• Seagaru - Dragon type, Specialty: Laser Beam
• Sharkkan - Shark type, Specialty: Torpedo
• Sir Gold - Sha Wujing type
• Snailoader - Snail type
• Snowbro - Snowball type, Specialty: Freeze Beam
• Spidar - Spider type, Specialty: Web Attack
• Spiralle - ????
• Spiritus - Tiger type
• Spitfire - Dragon type, Specialty: Punch
• Starpeda - Starfish type
• Stingaray - Crawfish type, Specialty: Homing laser
• Sumilidon - Saber-Tooth Tiger type, Specialty: Shadow Sword
• Sunwitch - Witch type
• T-Mummy - Mummy type, Specialty: Teams with Cleobattler
• Tankar - Battle Motor type, Specialty: Shooting
• Tentaclam - Octopus type, Specialty: Floating
• Totalizer - Tortoise type, Specialty: Laser Beam, Power Attack
• Turnmonkey - Monkey type
• Twinkle - Guide type
• Tyrelbeetle - Stag Beetle type, Specialty: Grappling Horns
• Warbandit - King Lion type, Specialty: Shooting
• Whitesword - Samurai in Shinsengumi type, Specialty: Sword
• Wigwamo - Indian type, Specialty: High Speed
• Wildfire - Weapon type, Specialty: Cannon
• Windsale - Sylph type

Kilobots

• Ambiguous 2 - Jewel Beetle type
• Blackbeetle - Hercules Beetle type
• Brownbison - Bison type
• Cutter - Sword type, Specialty: Whole Cutter Attack
• Desperado - Hammer type, Specialty: Full Body Blasters
• Exor - Saber-Tooth Tiger type, Specialty: Sin Sword
• Frontline - Soldier type
• Gryphon - Super Devil type
• Hanumonkey - Monkey type, Specialty: 3 to 1 Grapple
• Locknex - Submarine type, Specialty: Underwater Attack
• Redrun - Devil type, Specialty: Grappling Attack
• Sherwood - Robin Hood type, Specialty: Arrow Attack
• Skelbot - Skeleton type, Specialty: Mass Fire Attack
• Tankbank - Tank Type, Specialty: Salvo Attack
• Unitrx - King Lion type, Specialty: Power Bolts

Season 1

• 1. Stung By a Metabee
• 2. Return of the Screws
• 3. Running Scared
• 4. The Legendary Medafighter
• 5. The Old Man and The Sea Monster
• 6. The Gimme Ghost
• 7. Cyandog Bites Back
• 8. For Better For Worse - Part I
• 9. For Better For Worse - Part II
• 10. Mystery Medabot
• 11. Phantom Renegade Unmasked
• 12. Ban All Medabots
• 13. Meet Your Meda-Maker
• 14. The Spy Who Robattled Me
• 15. I Dream of Hushi
• 16. Metabee vs Rokusho
• 17. Use The Medaforce
• 18. Fifteen Minutes of Shame
• 19. Enter Rintaro
• 20. The Ace From Outer Space
• 21. Me and My Shadow Sword
• 22. Dude, Where's My Ma?
• 23. X-treme Measures
• 24. The Road to Ruins
• 25. Beetle Mania
• 26. The Mother of All Robattles

Season 2

• 27. Spaceship Superstars
• 28. No Body Home
• 29. For Love or Robattle
• 30. Welcome to Ninja World
• 31. Eat, Drink, Man, Medabot
• 32. There's Something About Miss Mimosa
• 33. The Birds and The Metabees
• 34. Skyward, Yo!
• 35. Dance With The Mantis
• 36. Love At First Bite
• 37. Once Frostbitten, Twice Shy
• 38. Heavy Medal
• 39. Robattle Bridge
• 40. Let The Meda-Games Begin
• 41. Pixies and Pirates
• 42. The French Deception
• 43. Space Medaballerina X
• 44. Swede and Sour
• 45. Future's Past
• 46. The Medaforce Within
• 47. A Date with Destiny
• 48. Calm Before the Storm
• 49. Taking the Victor Out of Victory
• 50. Altered States
• 51. Waking to a Dream
• 52. Metabee's Last Stand

Season 3

Rokusho, Karin, Neutranurse, Koji, Sumilidon, Rintaro, and Mr. Referee don't appear at all in Season 3

In addion to this, the series changed hands from Bee Train to Production IG

• 53: Kilobot Rising
• 54: Fighting Temptation
• 55: What the World Needs Now [a.k.a. Who is the Mystery Medafighter?]
• 56: Delivery Boy
• 57: Scoop of the Century
• 58: Robbed Zombies
• 59: Lights, Camera... Robattle!
• 60: Dark Alliance (1)
• 61: Dark Alliance (2)
• 62: Redrun-Away
• 63: Erika's Secret Garden
• 64: Metabee's Out of Body Exp
• 65: The Bee's Rescue the Honey
• 66: A Night In The Medabot Junkyard
• 67: Once A Medafighter (1)
• 68: Once A Medafighter (2)
• 69: Title Flight
• 70: The Agony of the Cheat
• 71: It's the Medafighter Way
• 72: Fall from Grace (1)
• 73: Fall from Grace (2)
• 74: Mystery Medafighter Unmasked?
• 75: The Truth About Charlie
• 76: Rok's Reborn
• 77: I, Kilobot
• 78: Thanks for the Memories
• 79: How Spyke Got His Style Back
• 80: The Medabot Straight Line Marathon
• 81: Kung Fu For Thought
• 82: Erika to the Rescue
• 83: Rough on a Hot Tin Cat
• 84: Meda-Forced
• 85: Poor Miss Nae
• 86: Mystery Medafighter... Revealed!
• 87: Winner Take All [a.k.a. Medabots Are Friends](2)
• 88: Transfusion Confusion
• 89: Gryphon Doom [a.k.a. Forbidden Evil Medal](1)
• 90: Final Goodbyes(2)
• 91: Into the Fire [a.k.a. Shine! Spirit of Hope] (3)

Correct episode order

The English language version of Seasons 1 and 2 are in a wrong order. This is the correct order to watch them in.

• 1: Stung By a Metabee
• 2: Return of the Screws
• 3: Running Scared
• 4: The Legendary Medafighter
• 5: The Old Man and the Sea Monster
• 27: Spaceship Superstars
• 6: The Gimme Ghost
• 28: No Body Home
• 7: Cyandog Bites Back
• 8: For Better, For Worse (Part 1)
• 9: For Better, For Worse (Part 2)
• 10: Mystery Medabot
• 29: For Love or Robattle
• 30: Welcome to Ninja World
• 31: Eat, Drink, Man, Medabot
• 32: There's Something About Miss Mimosa
• 11: Phantom Renegade Unmasked
• 12: Ban All Medabots
• 33: The Birds and the Metabees
• 13: Meet Your Meda-Maker
• 14: The Spy Who Robattled Me
• 34: Skyward Yo!
• 15: I Dream of Hushi
• 35: Dance With the Mantis
• 16: Metabee vs Rokusho
• 17: Use the Medaforce
• 18: Fifteen Minutes Of Shame
• 36: Love At First Bite
• 37: Once Frostbitten, Twice Shy
• 38: Heavy Medal
• 19: Enter Rintaro
• 20: The Ace From Outer Space
• 39: Bridge Over Troubled Squidguts
• 21: Me and My Shadow Sword
• 22: Dude, Where's My Ma?
• 23: X-Treme Measures
• 24: The Road To Ruins
• 25: Beetle Mania
• 26: The Mother Of All Robattles
• 40: Let the Meda Games Begin!
• 41: Pixies & Pirates
• 42: The French Deception
• 43: Space Medaballerina X
• 44: Swede & Sour
• 45: Future's Past
• 46: The Medaforce Within
• 47: A Date With Destiny
• 48: Calm Before The Storm
• 49: Taking the Victor Out of Victory Pt 1
• 50: Altered States Pt 2
• 51: Waking To A Dream Pt 1
• 52: Metabee's Last Stand Pt 2

External links

• Medabots website
• Jetix Medabots website
• ADV's Medabots website
• Medabots at Anime Admirers
• Medabots ({{{type}}}) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia