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 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 over ten titles, only the (remake of the) second of which was localized, and an anime 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 nowhere near enough allowance from his 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 for 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 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 dubs.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, with the fights between the Medabots being 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 kind of popular anime reviewer? I don't agree with this guy on many 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 fortunately available for free (with ads) on RetroCrush, which you can find here.
While an account is required, you do not need to pay for a subscription or provide a payment method!You can also currently buy the Blu Rays on MediaOCD! The English dub of Seasons 1 and 2 can be found here and here respectively. You can also buy the full original Japanese language series with English subtitles hereThanks for reading this and giving Medabots a chance!

• ... No 3rd season

No

Short Answer: ... Yes, but you really don't need to 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 due to the large change in staff.Fortunately, since the plot perfectly wraps up at the second season finale, there is no need to watch beyond the second season.If you don't believe me, you can go ahead and watch it, but don't say I didn't warn you.

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