History Trivia / Medabots

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** The first anime series was released as a whole in DVD by Creator/ADVFilms, back in the day. Some years later, in 2008, Creator/ShoutFactory released the series again... though they only released the first half of the series (with a misleading [[CoversAlwaysLie cover]] of Saikachis/Metabee on the front). ''Spirits'', however...
*** It's now been confirmed that Creator/DiscotekMedia will rerelease the first season on SD Blu-Ray sets. Whether or not this means later series will be rereleased remains to be seen, but it's a start.

** The games' franchise as a whole didn't leave Japan until 2003, when the anime series became a hit on the west. Only 3 games got released: ''Medabots AX'' and ''Medabots'' (''Medarot 2 Core'') for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance and ''Medabots Infinity'' (''Medarot Brave'') for UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube. Any games following ''Medabots Infinity'' haven’t had the same pleasure to meet a western market again, especially since the franchise revival in 2010.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Imagineer allowed the "Medabots" video game trademark to lapse in the years following the internationally-released Game Boy Advance and [=GameCube=] games. Not only did an unrelated developer from Spain obtain the trademark, but they actually defeated Imagineer in court over the name, so no ''Medarot'' video games can be released outside of Japan as "Medabots". This, thankfully, does not apply to the anime.

* TalkingToHimself: Common in the English dub and partly in the original version, as well.
** Interesting to note that Brass and Samantha share the same dub actress in English, while they also share the same seiyuu in Japanese (adding to it, Masami Suzuki also did a ''third'' role in the series besides Brass and Kikuhime, and that was Ikki's mom, Chidori Tenryou).
** Creator/MasamiIwasaki as Sakekaasu (Seaslug) and Prof. Otokoyama (Coach Mountain).
** Surume (Gilgirl) and Saint Nurse (Neutranurse) are voiced by Noriko Namiki.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://medarot.meowcorp.us/wiki/Medapedia Medapedia]]

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** Karin and Rintaro's friendly relationship takes another light when you find out that Creator/MaayaSakamoto and Creator/ChiekoHiguchi went to sing together in an IdolSinger duet called "Whoops!!".
** Creator/ChiekoHiguchi (Rintaro) and Creator/TakayukiKondo (Kantaroth) would share another kind of familiar relationship than just mere partners, as Trucy Wright and Phoenix Wright in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', respectively. There's also Creator/EijiTakemoto (Warbandit) as Miles Edgeworth in the games (and Drama [=CDs=]). Creator/MasamiIwasaki would do Detective Gumshoe in the 2016 anime series.
** Many of the Japanese voice actors in the original anime cast would get into ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' (the anime was originally made by Creator/TransArts, who also did ''Medarot Damashii''): Creator/TakayukiKondo (Kantaroth), Creator/KenjiroTsuda (many extras), Creator/MasamiIwasaki (Sakekaasu), Satoshi Tsuruoka (Sumilidon), Creator/EijiTakemoto (Warbandit), Creator/RyoNaitou (Hikaru), Creator/ChiekoHiguchi (Rintaro), Shigenori Yamazaki (Iwanoi), and Akira Nakagawa (Patra Tawarama) would eventually be middle-school tennis players.[[note]]In that order: Seigaku's Oishi, and Inui; Hyoutei's Hiyoshi, and Kabaji; Rikkai's Yanagi; Jousei's Oota and Yohei (Naitou would eventually be casted as Shitenhouji's Konjiki); Seigaku 1st YR's, Horio, and Katou.[[/note]]

** The franchise started as a series of videogames in 1997, which later expanded to a manga series and an anime adaptation in 1999. However, it was the anime that made it first to get released out of Japan in earlier 2000s giving the popularity of similar {{Mon}} series such as ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' & ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''.
** ''[[VideoGame/MedabotsMetabeeAndRokusho Medabots: An RPG Adventure]]'', one of the few videogames that got [[NoExportForYou exported]], is named ''Medarot 2 Core'' in Japan, which is actually the remake of the 2nd game of the series franchise, released in 2001-2002.