MegaMan NT Warrior

Destiny's Force · Apr 2, 2008

The series focuses on Lan Hikari and his NetNavi, MegaMan.EXE as they build their friendship while dealing with threats from various NetCrime organizations. Along with Lan are friends Maylu Sakurai, Dex Ogreon, Yai Ayano, Tory Froid, and their respective Navis: Roll, GutsMan, Glide, IceMan.

Although the series originally remains fairly close to the games in terms of storyline, it begins to diverge greatly partway into the series. For example, there is no evidence showing that Lan and MegaMan were twin brothers in the anime, unlike in the games where it is revealed near the end of the first Battle Network game.

NT Warrior is roughly split into two separate storylines. The first concerns the original World Three and Mr. Wily's plan on finding the Ultimate NetNavi, culminating in the N1 Grand Prix, a NetBattling tournament. At its conclusion, the Ultimate NetNavi PharaohMan awakens from his slumber and proceeds to claim the net as his own, deleting MegaMan in the process. PharaohMan would eventually be weakened by the two tournament finalists, ProtoMan and a newly-rebuilt MegaMan, leading to his capture by Wily. The second half of the season has the characters take on Grave, a NetMafia syndicate spearheaded by Wily that seeks to create a virus beast with the capability to destroy the net.

Lan's father, Yuichiro Hikari, curiously absent for most of EXE, completes his research on the Synchro Chip, a device that enables Operators and NetNavis to become one through the use of Cross Fusion. This development coincides with a plot by Nebula (led by the notorious Dr. Regal) and the Darkloids (headed by ShadeMan and later Laserman) to take over both the human and cyberworlds. It is at this point that events involving Navis become secondary to the action that takes place in the real world (rather than the cyberworld), which has led critics to label it a generic Henshin series. The storyline in Axess is considerably darker, and many EXE regulars make only sporadic appearances.

At the beginning of Axess, Lan manages to use the then-untested Synchro Chip to Cross Fuse with MegaMan and defeat the Darkloids that materialize in the real world with the aid of Dimensional Converters. Because of this, Lan is invited to become a NetSaver, an Official NetBattler charged with protecting the net. As a result of Cross Fusion, MegaMan loses his Style Change option, but instead gains the ability to use DoubleSoul with which allows him to combine his powers with other NetNavis. Much of the series is devoted in dealing with the problem of the addictive Dark Chips and the criminal syndicate, Nebula.
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Of course, the English Dubbed version gets screwed by episodes being aired out of order, edited together, or skipped entirely. Everyone outside of the U.S. got to see the entire series in its full glory. (Kinda like how everyone outside of Japan got screwed out of KH2:FM+)

Anyway, it was a decent series to watch, but didn't seem to get good ratings compared to other Kids WB! shows, so they decided to air all the way up to MegaMan NT Warrior Axess before calling it quits on the series. (If they decided to stay true to the original Japanese series, it probably would've gone as long as Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Program Advances, Style Changes, DoubleSouls and Cross Fusions, that's as far as the English series got. :cryinganime:

Sabby · Apr 2, 2008

I loved watching it XDD But they canceled it. It was really good, I miss it XD

Destiny's Force · Apr 2, 2008

Yeah, I miss it too. I remember before coming to this forum, I used to check for updates religiously to when the new episodes would be airing. It's a shame they took out the episode where Maylu goes into Cross Fusion with Roll. I was hoping they would dub it, but obviously they decided not to...:nono:

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