Medabots

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source: wikipedia_enMedabots, known in Japan as Medarot (メダロット, Medarotto), is a Japanese role-playing video game franchise created by Rin Horuma (Horumarin) and currently owned by Imagineer. The main series of RPGs focus on collecting and battling with the titular robots. The bulk of the games releases have been on Nintendo platforms, including the Game Boy, GameCube, and the DS, and 3DS handhelds. The series was adapted into a Japanese anime television series spanning two adaptations. The first was animated by Bee Train while the second, Medarot Damashii, was animated by Production I.G. The television series originally aired on TV Tokyo from July 2, 1999, to March 30, 2001. Both series were 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 from 2001 to 2004. A manga series, written by Rin Horuma, was also produced. It was serialized in the children's magazine Comic BomBom in Japan and then published into collected volumes by Kodansha. The manga based on the first game, Medarot, was never translated into English, but the manga based on the sequel, Medarot 2, was licensed for an English language release in Nor

source: wikipedia_ja『メダロット』とは、1997年にイマジニアから発売されたゲームソフト『メダロット』を始めとする、コンピュータゲーム、漫画、アニメのシリーズの総称である。いずれの作品でも、「メダル」と呼ばれる物体によって機動する1メートル弱のロボット「メダロット」を戦わせる競技「ロボトル」が流行している世界を舞台として物語が描かれる。ゲーム作品ではスタッフとして、ほぼ全ての作品に原作者のほるまりんがキャラクターデザイン、メダロットデザインなどでかかわっている（『メダロット7』以降はメダロットデザインのみ）。