Watch Medabots

Why you should watch the Medabots anime, produced by NAS and TV Tokyo and animated by Bee Train, as well as some easy ways to Watch Medabots.

• First, What is It?

What Is Medabots?

Medabots, known as Medarot (メダロット) in Japan, is a video game franchise that jumped on the Pokemon bandwagon like many others, starting with it's first game in 1997. The mainline series contains more than ten titles—only the (remake of the) second of which was localized—and a cartoon was released based on this title in 1999, with an English dub airing in 2001.The show's story follows 10 year-old aspiring Robattler Ikki Tenryou. He's strapped for cash, with no where near enough of an allowance from mom to buy an expensive Medabot for himself.
That is, until he finds a rare Medal of the Kabuto variety in the river one day, the soul of a Medabot which both powers it and determines its unique personality. The boy is able to scrape up enough cash for the remaining frame and body parts needed to finish assembling his Medabot, thanks to the mysteriously knowledgeable but generous store clerk from the nearby shop, and gets himself on his way to becoming the World Robattle Champion.
Little does Ikki know that his new Medabot, named Metabee, has as unique and stubborn of a personality as he does.In simple terms: it's a Gotta Catch 'Em All show where the kids fight eachother with toddler-sized robots armed with weapons!

• Okay, so Why Medabots?

It's A Genuinely Good Show

It's a sorely underrated television series of the saturated Pokemon era that went under the radar.The plot and characters are well-written, funny, and fun to follow, which is consistent between the original Japanese and English dub.The show is also major eye candy. The entire production team is star-studded with amazing animation talents, making the overall visual quality of the show superb, and the fights between the Medabots especially top-notch! Notable names include Tensai Okamura, Masahiro Andou, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Yoh Yoshinari, Toshiyuki Inoue, Masaaki Yuasa, Yukata Nakamura, and more.It's also a succinct series of 52 twenty-minute episodes, so it's a short but no-less fufilling commitment, compared to Pokemon, Digimon, and the like.

• I need more convincing

Maybe you'll listen to someone else?

If you won't listen to me, maybe you'll listen to this kinda popular anime reviewer? I don't agree with this guy on a good number of things, but this video is pretty on the mark.

• Okay, how do I watch it?

You can watch it right now!!!

The entire English dub for Medabots is no longer available on YouTube, but both seasons are still free to watch, no sign-up required, on RetroCrush here.You can also buy the Blu Rays on Amazon! Season 1 is here and Season 2 is here!Thanks for reading this and giving Medabots a chance!

• ... No 3rd season

No

Short Answer: Yes, but you really shouldn't watch it.Long Answer: The quality of the show unfortunately plummeted starting with the 3rd season, after the show transitioned from Bee Train to Production I.G., with a drastic change in animation and writing quality with the large change in staff.Fortunately, since the plot perfectly wraps up at the second season finale, there is luckily no need to watch anything beyond the second season.If you don't believe me, you can go ahead and try watching it, but don't say I didn't warn you.

• Back to where we were
• ... Wait, Who's this guy?