Medabots Was Actually Amazing.

0:00 we are living in the reboot era i mean let's face it video games and movie franchises are the key rebooters but even anime has been pulling from the past to capitalize on our love of all things 90s and early 2000s 2020s digimon reboot 2021's shaman king reboot cardcaptor sailor moon not to mention the sequel series like boruto and yashahime the sequel to inuyasha and shaman king flowers which is now in production but there's one series that in my mind fits within that same group of dawn of the millennium creature shows like digimon shaman king cardcaptors that hasn't yet got the reboot or sequel treatment and that's metabots as billiam so elegantly put it metabots was weird it was a unique spin on the monster tamer pet collecting genre that was taking over the world at the time with pokemon and monster rancher and digimon but not every one of those monster tamer shows was literally dealing with mons

0:46 like pokey and digi series cardcaptor sakura and shaman king for example definitely fit into the genre being two series with kids battling and forging connections with spirits complete with transformations power-ups the power of friendship and everything we loved circa 2000 metabots was like those it was another one of those fun spins on the monster tamer pet collecting genre with the kids in this world obsessing over ai-powered robots and the sport of road battling the kids in the show would mod their metabots to give them special stats and weapons metabots fulfilled that fantasy of having a kind of otherworldly friend really that timeless imaginary friend concept while still being based in a world that we could actually see existing these weren't fantasy beasts or ghosts this was a believable near future setting where the toy robots kids played with became so advanced that they've integrated into everyday life 20 real world years later

1:31 ai and robotics play an even larger role in our daily lives than they did in 2000 and so metabots is a show much like digimon that i think works better and better the more time passes and the more technology takes over our daily lives like think about the popularity of esports in our current time period road battling kind of predicted the phenomenon of esports tournaments teens and young adults who have dedicated themselves to honing their craft creating the greatest builds possible most efficient strategies taking to the stage to figure out who is number one imagine ikki and metabee training and doing recreational matches at local tournaments before taking on the big leagues and competing in an international role battle esports tournament in 2020 digimon adventure got the full reboot treatment and in 2021 shaman king had the same thing happen with a full-on reboot that took direct influence from the now complete manga series both of these reboots seem to

2:18 have done relatively well well enough that both of them were able to green light follow-up series digimon ended adventure 2020 and launched straight into a brand new original series digimon ghost game that is still airing and so far is great and shaman king recently announced that it will be adapting shaman king flowers a manga series that follows yo and anna's child hana and sees the cast of the original show all grown up so whether metabots wanted to do the full-on reboot like digimon and shaman king or go the sequel route you know have a successor series like yashahime metabots feel so right for our current time period and keep in mind metabots never really went away there were a ton of games that released in japan after the anime ended and as recently as last year metabots and digimon were collabing on multiple occasions first with this april fool's joke that made an omnimod variant based on meta b and rokusho fusing they called

3:04 it omen and it was honestly way too cool to just be an april fool's joke later they added a metabot's dim card for the vinyl bracelet series picture a fitbit but you raise and evolve digimon through exercise yeah they made a metabots version of that where you could raise your own metabot this is just me fan dreaming but how cool would it be if digimon and metabots stopped kind of flirting and made their relationship official you know make metabots an official part of the digimon universe or something like how in the last few years digimon had a spin-off called digimon universe aptmon you know what have we got digimon universe metabots could be one way to bring back the series a part of the reason i'm so eager for metabots to come back and to come back officially is because i fear that if they don't do it themselves someone else will and may kind of ruin the whole thing well what do i mean by that last year there was this super strange story where the metabot's trademark expired in europe and somebody who had no prior attachment to the ip claimed it in hopes of

3:50 releasing their own video game and even nft project using the metabot's name there was a whole dispute and it's very messy and very ugly but now the concern is not just that metabots as the brand and a name will fade into obscurity but that somebody else could actually take it and kind of muddy up the whole thing which is all the more reason for imagineer to stand up and say hey we made metabots and we're making it again i think about the anime series that were on tv in the early 2000s that have yet to be rebooted as well as what would and wouldn't fit in this day and age and there's no show i'd rather see rebooted or revisited than metabots i would hope the ongoing support the series has gotten in japan in terms of games and toys plus the international interest in the digimon and shaman king reboot projects would give imagineer some confidence that there is at least some interest in seeing this series brought back i know i've kind of been rambling but hey it's not just me who wants

4:36 metabots back i have a friend who's a big fan of metabots and in particular of meta b my name is uh joseph boticki but you can feel free to call me joe i used to host a show here uh in the province of ontario called the tvo kids crawl space where we aired like arthur and magic school bus and art attack and building that science guy a lot of other people know me from uh some of the animated shows that i've been lucky enough to voice over the years uh including rescue heroes there's a lot of people like uh let's face it you guys are probably all metabots guys so if you were uh somebody who grew up with uh with icky and uh and watching him roll battle and he got his cheap little uh uh beetle type uh metabot that was uh metabee and that is me iggy come on we gotta roll battle iggy let's go that is the right you see now that

5:22 people know a couple years ago i was hosting a charity gaming stream and i had the honor of having joe motiki the english voice actor for metabee join me and my crew on stream there we got to ask him all kinds of questions about his experience voicing mediby the lasting legacy of the show and the interest in a reboot or a sequel for metabots i wish that because now when pokemon when they had the pokemon go yeah i remember met about to go well you know it just seemed to make like so much sense like to go like uh go row battling to go like fine metaboxes look i always thought it'd be fun to especially when um transformers uh when they make transformers movies and i'm not saying metabots is on the level of transformers but just that the you could make a metabots like a action metabots pretty cheap like it wouldn't cost much like i mean when they they

6:09 made a really cheap knight rider reboot a couple of years ago and you're doing that like on a tv budget right and it was like you know so you could have made like a little metabots and have like rakusho and similidan and meta b and they're hanging out and doing other things you could do that on the cheap so i mean it's i'm surprised that somebody and with the the following that it does have i mean you could do that for the cheap and make a profit where do you think menobee would be now and what might he be doing you know what metabee like look he would need new parts so he would have had to have got some uh new metaparts um uh in terms of what he'd be doing i think he would be like the 40 year old football player who thinks they have one more season in them but they don't all right meta b would still be kicking iggy come on you know i can still roll

6:55 battle just let me take on the 2017 world road battle champion i can do it and icky who'd now be like 30 would be like look you've given me all you got but you don't have it anymore you're you look pretty busted you're pretty beat you can't do it and bettaby would be at the would be at those conventions go come on what does anybody want to come and get my autograph i still got it like i still got it and everybody wants to go full circle i know and then i know he's a what you're a kbt type get out of here i want the new jiu jitsu xj 2000 and like so that no he'd have enough pride not to go but he could have a good creed moment like where he's training yeah that's right yes

7:41 100 that's exactly right i know rokusha would be unk and he'd help him out one more time and eddie which is great creed was dope so yeah that's what metabee would still think he's got one more battle in it and i think that would be the story it'd be about his he has one real battle left in him and he's gonna try to make it his best but he'd be creaky because he was old to begin with with the reign of reboots and sequels i'm hoping that metabots is the next series from our childhoods to get revisited it's never been a better time and our technological culture is even more similar to the world of metabots than it was when the show first aired 20 years ago i think the world is ready for more metabots

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