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List of Medabots episodes

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This is a list of episodes for the Medabots anime series and its sequel, Medabots Spirits (Medarot Damashii in Japan), which are based on the video game franchise of the same name. Overall, the television series was broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo from July 2, 1999 to March 30, 2001. The original fifty-two episode series was animated by Bee Train and was broadcast from July 2, 1999 to June 30, 2000. Spirits/Damashii was co-produced by Production I.G and Trans Arts and ran for thirty-nine episodes broadcast from July 7, 2000 to March 30, 2001.

Both series were originally licensed and localized into English by Nelvana; the first series was divided into two seasons for its U.S. broadcast and the episodes aired in a different order. The first U.S. season, consisting of 26 episodes, originally aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company's Fox Kids block from September 1, 2001 to April 27, 2002. Future episodes would premiere on ABC Family, which had already been airing reruns since March 4, 2002.[1] The second U.S. season originally aired on ABC Family from July 1 to November 2, 2002, while Damashii first aired on the network from September 13, 2003 to May 8, 2004. Later episodes and reruns were aired as part of the Jetix block and Toon Disney's Jetix in November 2004.

The Japanese version has received a VHS and DVD release for the first series, while Damashii has only received a VHS release. On January 29, 2010, a Region 2 boxset release known as MEDAROT DVD BOX 1 was released containing the first thirty episodes,[2] with a second boxset on February 19 finishing with the last twenty-two episodes.[3] Two boxsets for Medarot Damashii were released on December 30, 2010.[4][5] This was Damashii's first DVD release.

From 2002 to 2003, ADV Films released twelve volumes of both the first and second seasons. In 2007, Shout! Factory released the first season of the English version on Region 1 DVD.[6] There were plans to release the second season on DVD, but was canceled. Both series are currently licensed by Discotek Media.[7]

Episode list

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Medabots

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Episodes 1-39

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Title Ep. # (Prod.) Ep. # (U.S.) Original Airdate English Airdate
"Stung by a Metabee" 1 1 July 2, 1999 September 1, 2001
"Return of the Screws" 2 2 July 9, 1999 September 1, 2001
"Running Scared" 3 3 July 16, 1999 September 8, 2001
"The Legendary Medafighter" 4 4 July 23, 1999 September 15, 2001
"The Old Man and the Sea Monster" 5 5 July 30, 1999 September 22, 2001
"Spaceship Superstars" 6 27 August 6, 1999 July 1, 2002
"The Gimme Ghost" 7 6 August 13, 1999 September 29, 2001
"No Body Home" 8 32 August 20, 1999 July 12, 2002
"Cyandog Bites Back" 9 7 August 27, 1999 October 6, 2001
"For Better for Worse, Part 1" 10 8 September 3, 1999 October 13, 2001
"For Better for Worse, Part 2" 11 9 September 10, 1999 October 20, 2001
"Mystery Medabot" 12 10 September 17, 1999 October 27, 2001
"For Love or Robattle" 13 28 September 24, 1999 July 2, 2002
"Welcome to Ninja World" 14 33 October 1, 1999 July 19, 2002
"Eat, Drink, Man, Medabot" 15 34 October 8, 1999 July 26, 2002
"There's Something About Miss Mimosa" 16 35 October 15, 1999 August 2, 2002
"Phantom Renegade: Unmasked" 17 11 October 22, 1999 November 10, 2001
"Ban All Medabots" 18 12 October 29, 1999 November 17, 2001
"The Birds and the Metabees" 19 36 November 5, 1999 August 9, 2002
"Meet Your Meda-Maker" 20 13 November 12, 1999 November 24, 2001
"The Spy Who Robattled Me" 21 14 November 19, 1999 December 1, 2001
"Skyward, Yo!" 22 37 November 26, 1999 August 16, 2002
"I Dream of Hushi" 23 15 December 3, 1999 December 8, 2001
"Dance with the Mantis" 24 29 December 10, 1999 July 3, 2002
"Metabee Vs Rokusho" 25 16 December 17, 1999 February 9, 2002
"Use the Medaforce" (a.k.a. "Discovery of Medaforce") 26 17 December 24, 1999 February 16, 2002
"Fifteen Minutes of Shame" 27 18 January 7, 2000 February 23, 2002
"Love at First Bite" 28 38 January 14, 2000 August 23, 2002
"Once Frostbitten, Twice Shy" 29 30 January 21, 2000 July 4, 2002
"Heavy Medal" 30 39 January 28, 2000 August 30, 2002
"Enter Rintaro" 31 19 February 4, 2000 March 2, 2002
"The Ace from Outer Space" 32 20 February 11, 2000 March 9, 2002
"Bridge Over Troubled Squidguts" (a.k.a. "Robattle Bridge") 33 31 February 18, 2000 July 5, 2002
"Me and My Shadow Sword" 34 21 February 25, 2000 March 30, 2002
"Dude, Where's My Ma?" 35 22 March 3, 2000 April 6, 2002
"X-treme Measures" 36 23 March 10, 2000 April 13, 2002
"The Road to Ruins" (a.k.a. "Raiders of the Lost Medabot") 37 24 March 17, 2000 April 20, 2002
"Beetle Mania" 38 25 March 24, 2000 April 27, 2002
"The Mother of All Robattles" 39 26 March 31, 2000 April 27, 2002

Episodes 40-52

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Title Ep. # Original Airdate English Airdate
"Let the Meda-Games Begin" 40 April 7, 2000 September 14, 2002
"Pixies and Pirates" 41 April 14, 2000 September 15, 2002
"The French Deception" 42 April 21, 2000 September 21, 2002
"Space Medaballerina X" 43 April 28, 2000 September 22, 2002
"Swede and Sour" 44 May 5, 2000 September 28, 2002
"Future's Past" 45 May 12, 2000 September 28, 2002
"The Medaforce Within" 46 May 19, 2000 October 5, 2002
"A Date with Destiny" 47 May 26, 2000 October 6, 2002
"Calm Before the Storm" 48 June 2, 2000 October 12, 2002
"Taking the Victor Out of Victory" 49 June 9, 2000 October 19, 2002
"Altered States" 50 June 16, 2000 October 20, 2002
"Waking to a Dream" 51 June 23, 2000 October 26, 2002
"Metabee's Last Stand" 52 June 30, 2000 November 2, 2002

'Medabots Spirits

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Title Ep. # Ep. # (Total) Original Airdate English Airdate
"Kilobot Rising" 1 53 July 7, 2000 September 13, 2003
"Fighting Temptation" 2 54 July 14, 2000 September 14, 2003
"What the World Needs Now" (a.k.a. "Who is the Mystery Medafighter") 3 55 July 21, 2000 September 20, 2003
"Delivery Boy" 4 56 July 28, 2000 September 21, 2003
"Scoop of the Century" 5 57 August 4, 2000 September 27, 2003
"Robbed Zombies" 6 58 August 11, 2000 September 28, 2003
"Lights, Camera... Robattle!" 7 59 August 18, 2000 October 4, 2003
"Dark Alliance, Part 1" 8 60 August 25, 2000 October 11, 2003
"Dark Alliance, Part 2" 9 61 September 1, 2000 October 18, 2003
"Redrun-Away" 10 62 September 8, 2000 October 25, 2003
"Erika's Secret Garden" 11 63 September 15, 2000 October 26, 2003
"Metabee's Out of Body Exp" 12 64 September 22, 2000 November 1, 2003
"The Bee Rescues the Honey" 13 65 September 29, 2000 November 8, 2003
"A Night In The Medabot Junkyard" 14 66 October 6, 2000 November 15, 2003
"Once A Medafighter, Part 1" 15 67 October 13, 2000 November 22, 2003
"Once A Medafighter, Part 2" 16 68 October 20, 2000 December 6, 2003
"Title Flight" 17 69 October 27, 2000 December 13, 2003
"The Agony of the Cheat" 18 70 November 3, 2000 December 20, 2003
"It's the Medafighter Way" 19 71 November 10, 2000 December 21, 2003
"Fall from Grace, Part 1" 20 72 November 17, 2000 December 27, 2003
"Fall from Grace, Part 2" 21 73 November 24, 2000 December 28, 2003
"Mystery Medafighter Unmasked?" 22 74 December 1, 2000 January 3, 2004
"The Truth About Charlie" 23 75 December 8, 2000 January 4, 2004
"Roks Reborn" 24 76 December 15, 2000 January 10, 2004
"I, Kilobot" 25 77 December 22, 2000 January 11, 2004
"Thanks for the Memories" 26 78 December 29, 2000 January 17, 2004
"How Spyke Got His Style Back" 27 79 January 5, 2001 January 18, 2004
"The Medabot Straight Line Marathon" 28 80 January 12, 2001 January 24, 2004
"Kung Fu For Thought" 29 81 January 19, 2001 January 25, 2004
"Erika to the Rescue" 30 82 January 26, 2001 May 2004
"Rough on a Hot Tin Cat" 31 83 February 2, 2001 February 14, 2004
"Meda-Forced" 32 84 February 9, 2001 February 15, 2004
"Poor Miss Nae" 33 85 February 16, 2001 February 21, 2004
"Mystery Medafighter... Revealed!" 34 86 February 23, 2001 February 22, 2004
"Winner Take All" (a.k.a. "Medabots Are Friends") 35 87 March 2, 2001 February 28, 2004
"Transfusion Confusion" 36 88 March 9, 2001 February 29, 2004
"Gryphon Doom" (a.k.a. "Forbidden Evil Medal") 37 89 March 16, 2001 March 6, 2004
"Final Goodbyes" 38 90 March 23, 2001 March 7, 2004
"Into The Fire" 39 91 March 30, 2001 May 8, 2004

Home video releases

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DVD Region 1 (North America)

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The following was released as Nelvana held the license, all dub only in its order. Medabots was first released in North America by ADV Films as 12 separate volumes from 2002 to 2003 covering the first two seasons. The first three volumes were later re-released in 2005 under ADV Kidz via their Essential Anime Collection. Later, Shout! Factory released a 4-disc DVD box set in 2008 covering the first season.

ADV Films DVD Singles
Volume Date Episodes
Volume 1 - Transport Metabee! April 30, 2002 1-5
Volume 2 - Medabots, Robattle! June 25, 2002 6-9
Volume 3 - Time to Robattle! August 6, 2002 10-13
Volume 4 - Medabot Wars September 17, 2002 14-17
Volume 5 - Use the Medaforce! October 29, 2002 18-21
Volume 6 - The Face of Dr. Meta-Evil December 10, 2002 22-26
Volume 7 - Back in the Robattle Again January 21, 2003 27-31
Volume 8 - Love and Medabots March 4, 2003 32-35
Volume 9 - A Taste of Medabots May 6, 2003 36-39
Volume 10 - World-Class Medabots July 1, 2003 40-43
Volume 11 - Medabots to the Tournament! September 2, 2003 44-47
Volume 12 - Medabots Forever! November 4, 2003 48-52
Shout! Factory DVD Box Set
Season Date Episodes
The Complete First Season January 15, 2008 1-26

Blu-ray Region A (North America)

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The license was transferred to Discotek Media, a company known for rescuing other anime from other distributors. All of the following are SD Blu-rays that are meant to play the show in Standard Definition on a Blu-ray Disc, albeit the decreased amount of discs meaning convenience for collectors, thus it would be lower in price than the DVD release. They released all three seasons of the dub version (in the order Nelvana presented) from 2019 to 2021 with optional English SDH subtitles, and then release the sub version (in its order) later in the future.

On June 11, 2020, Justin Sevakis said Discotek Media were unable to find the masters for the English version of Medabots Spirits which has prevented the anime from being released on home video in North America.[8] Discotek Media has asked fans to help find the masters, and on September 14, 2020, they have found suitable masters, meaning Medabots Spirits would get its first-ever North American physical release on May 25, 2021.

Discotek Media SD Blu-ray Collections
Season Date Episodes
The Complete First Season (Dubbed) December 24, 2019 1-26
The Complete Second Season (Dubbed) July 28, 2020 27-52
The Complete Third Season (Dubbed) May 25, 2021 53-91
The Original Japanese Language First Series (Subbed) June 27, 2023 1-52
The Original Japanese Language Second Series (Subbed) March 26, 2024 53-91


References

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  1. ^ "ABC Family March 2002 Schedule" (PDF). ABC Family. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-09-17. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  2. ^ "MEDAROT DVD BOX 1 (5-Volume Set)". Amazon Japan. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  3. ^ "MEDAROT DVD BOX 2 (4-Volume Set)". Amazon Japan. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  4. ^ "MEDAROT SOULS DVD BOX 1". Amazon Japan. 30 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  5. ^ "MEDAROT SOULS DVD BOX 2". Amazon Japan. 27 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  6. ^ "Shout! Factory expands family program" (Press release). Video Business. 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
  7. ^ @discotekmedia (July 28, 2019). "We're releasing a dub-only SD-BD collection of Medabots season 1; dubbed, with closed captions. We are planning on releasing more Medabots seasons in the future, and a little further down the road, the original Japanese version: Medarot!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. ^ "Discotek Turns to Community for Help Locating Mon Kolle Knights, Medabots English Dub Masters".