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Ikki Tenryou is a young boy who loves [[Medarot]]s but does not have the allowance to buy his own. Through a series of coincidences, Ikki stumbles upon a [[Rare Medal|rare]] [[Kabuto Medal]] and purchases an obsolete [[Metabee (KBT-1)|KBT]] set. Ikki's Metabee proves to be surprisingly strong but also much unlike most medarots in personality, being rude, disobedient and with a huge chip on his shoulders. Together with Ikki's childhood friend [[Arika Amazake|Arika]] and her medarot partner [[Sailor-Multi|Brass]], Ikki and Metabee go on a variety of adventures as they help various people and tangle with the RoboRobo Gang, | Ikki Tenryou is a young boy who loves [[Medarot]]s but does not have the allowance to buy his own. Through a series of coincidences, Ikki stumbles upon a [[Rare Medal|rare]] [[Kabuto Medal]] and purchases an obsolete [[Metabee (KBT-1)|KBT]] set. Ikki's Metabee proves to be surprisingly strong but also much unlike most medarots in personality, being rude, disobedient and with a huge chip on his shoulders. Together with Ikki's childhood friend [[Arika Amazake|Arika]] and her medarot partner [[Sailor-Multi|Brass]], Ikki and Metabee go on a variety of adventures as they help various people and tangle with the RoboRobo Gang, who at first appear to merely petty [[Medal]] thieves. | ||
After hearing rumors of a "Legendary Medafighter", they befriend the caring-if-quirky [[Karin Junmai|Karin]] and meet [[Kouji Karakuchi|Kouji]], a serious and arrogant Medaroter who grows into Ikki's friendly rival. The pair also acquaint themselves with [[Rokusho (character)|Rokusho]], a wise and honorable wandering medarot whose master is thought to have perished in a fire many years prior. Metabee | Ikki and his new friend meet a variety of colourful characters as they get dragged into hijinks or attempt to climp up in the national rankings to qualify for the upcoming World Robottle Championship. After hearing rumors of a "Legendary Medafighter", they befriend the caring-if-quirky [[Karin Junmai|Karin]] and meet [[Kouji Karakuchi|Kouji]], a serious and arrogant Medaroter who grows into Ikki's friendly rival. The pair also acquaint themselves with [[Rokusho (character)|Rokusho]], a wise and honorable wandering medarot whose master is thought to have perished in a fire many years prior. Metabee becomes the target of the Phantom Retort, a master thief (and actually Ikki's friendly mart cashier [[Hikaru Agata]] in disguise) who has a keen interest in Metabee's rare medal. | ||
The duo comes under the notice of master | The duo comes under the notice of master medarot researcher [[Dr. Medarot]] and Ikki is invited to become his "apprentice". It is learned that Metabee has the ability to perform the [[Medaforce]], a powerful attack thought to only be usable by Rare medals. After foiling a scheme by the RoboRobo leader [[Dr. Hebereke]] to harness the energy of Metabee's medal and cause a rebellion in medarots equipped with the mass-produced Kabuto medal, Ikki is told he climbed to the #3 national ranking at the last minute, qualifying him for a spot on the World Robottle Championship's Japanese team. | ||
Before the championship begins, a controversial new rule is introduced which allows the victor of a heat to claim the | Before the championship begins, a controversial new rule is introduced which allows the victor of a heat to claim the medals of the losers, a rule that the current world champion [[Victor]] doesn't hesitate to take advantage of. Eventually, the Japanese team win their heats and come to blow with Victor's Kenya team. Metabee and Victor's [[Warbonnet]] execute their Medaforce attack simultaneously, plunging every Medabots witnessing the match in a dreamlike-state. Throughout Metabee's ensuing dream, it is revealed that the Medabots and their Medals are the remnants of an ancient alien civilization that wiped itself out in a war long ago. The RoboRobo leader was one of the few survivor of the civilization and used Victor and the RoboRobo as his pawns, engineering the tournament to remind Medarots of their origins and have them overthrow humanity. However, the plan is ruined when Ikki manges to enter Metabee's dream and snaps him out of it, restoring all of the medarots to their original condition. | ||
With his plan ruined and his henchmen having deserted him, Dr. Hebereke activates his final trump card, a giant medarot called [[Primity Baby]]. Dr. Medarot has Metabee and the other medarots pilot a giant Metabee mecha he had stashed | With his plan ruined and his henchmen having deserted him, Dr. Hebereke activates his final trump card, a giant medarot called [[Primity Baby]]. Dr. Medarot has Metabee and the other medarots pilot a giant Metabee mecha he had stashed for an eventuality just like this. When the mecha's attack have little ffect, Metabee ejects the other medarots and sacrifice himself by launching the mecha at Primity Baby and detonating it. Soon after, [[Alien|alien]]s land with Rokusho's old master [[Dr. Gengoro Fushihara]], taking Dr. Hebereke with them and giving Ikki a ressurected Metabee. | ||
With all seemingly being well, Ikki invites Victor to reprise their match. | With all seemingly being well, Ikki invites Victor to reprise their interupted match. | ||
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The series has been the subject of critical acclaim, with praise directed toward the quality of its animation, storytelling and humour. Various retrospectives have focused on the pedigree of the production staff, pointing out that many of the series staff went on to have illustrious career in the anime industry. | The series has been the subject of critical acclaim, with praise directed toward the quality of its animation, storytelling and humour. Various retrospectives have focused on the pedigree of the production staff, pointing out that many of the series staff went on to have illustrious career in the anime industry. | ||
In [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929133412/http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F01-10-2002%2F0001645447&EDATE= a press release] by Nelvana, Medabots was stated to be Fox Kid's "#1 new-season program for fall 2001". | |||
= | Staff involved in the creation of the source material praise the anime's adaptation of their work. In a [https://tamashiiweb.com/t_kokkaku/39/?wovn=en 2010 interview], [[Horuma Rin]] said he was impressed by the thoughtful and fluid way the anime series translated his designs to animation, singling out [[Peppercat]]'s portrayal. [[Medarot 2]] writer [[Kana Hirano]] likewise spoke highly of the series, calling it a masterpiece on [[Hirano Kana's Medarot 2 Production Notes|her account of Medarot 2's development]]. In a [https://twitter.com/HiranoKanaS/status/1722866213242675698 2023 twitter post], she added that seeing the characters she named brough to life by the anime series was highly motivating during the "death march" of [[Medarot 3]] and [[Medarot 4]]'s development. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== |