Medarot (anime)

Medarot (メダロット Medarotto), known as Medabots in the West, is the first anime in the Medarot franchise, animated by Bee Train Production and originally aired on TV Tokyo in July 2, 1999.

The anime is an adaptation of Medarot 2 (Although the first episodes aired before the game in the exact same month), more specifically the Kabuto version, and served primarily as advertising for the new game. Naturally, like all game adaptations of the time, it adapts the story only superficially rather than faithfully, with drastic changes to the plot.

Medarot anime was originally licensed and localized into English by Nelvana and were broadcast on YTV in Canada and Fox Kids and ABC Family in the United States in 2001. It served as a gateway to the franchise for Western audiences, although the anime was sold as a standalone product rather than an advertisement for the games, with other products like action figures and videogames being later sold with the marketing of being derived from the anime rather than the opposite, some of these products like Medarot G (Medabots AX) and Medarot 2 Core (Medabots for GBA) had changes with this intention.

The anime had a sequel called Medarot Damashii.

See also

• TV Tokyo page (Archived)

• Official Medabots Website (Archived)

• Nelvana page (Archived)

• IMDb page

• ADV Films page (Archived)