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Recap / Mechamato S1 E6 "Social Media Ninja"

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On a quiet road, a driver stops at a red traffic light, looks all around, declares that the coast is clear... so he can pick his nose. A robot sneaks up on him and traps him in a time-loop, forcing him to pick his nose over and over again. Amato and his friends are just leaving school for the day and wonder where MechaBot is. They're displeased to find him confiding with Bula and Bili, the residential bully duo, especially when Amato activates his "Truth Mode" to make him spill that he gave them tips on bullying his friends. At Mr. Gobi's store, the robot attacks his ladder, causing him to fall down, which also gets looped.

Pian tells his bodyguard to go home, as he is off to Amato's house and that he'll return before sunset. Amato says they didn't plan to hang out, and Pian says his parents are out for the day, to which Amato replies that he's welcome at his place anytime. They follow Mara to get some groceries, find Mr. Gobi's predicament, and pull him out of the trap. As Mara treats Mr. Gobi's head injury, MechaBot recognises the shurikens to be Ninjamera's. Rubika explains that Ninjamera specialises in stealth and trapping his victims in loops, and he also uploads videos to embarrass them. They see those recorded loops online, including one of Mrs. Bibah just outside the store.

As his friends pull her out of the trap, Amato tracks Ninjamera and chases him with the MechaJet. Amato only figures to mechanize just before Ninjamera's rope catches his arm, and he forms into Mechamato in mid-air before impact. Ninjamera loops him landing in the trash, and is long gone once his friends finally find him. Meanwhile, Deep reads a comic book in the playground to bypass his mother's rule against reading it at home. Bula seizes it, saying he should be studying instead. Bili launches Deep into the mud by weighing down the other end of the see-saw.

When the bullies leave, Ninjamera loops the action of Deep landing in the mud. Bula and Bili trip and fall into a trash can that rolls down an alleyway, and Ninjamera loops that too. Back at Amato's garage, Mara notes the location and time of each video on a map to figure out Ninjamera's route. At the location they expect him to be next, Pian reluctantly acts like a duck around a fountain to lure Ninjamera. Amato convinces Pian to get in the fountain with a mechanized tyre for a floatie. MechaBot circles the fountain to drop Pian in the water, and Ninjamera emerges.

Amato gets MechaBot to mechanize with him, accidentally bringing the tyre along, but it proves useful in bouncing off Ninjamera's attacks. MechaBot gets tired of dodging and slaps Amato in the face. As they bicker and hit themselves, Ninjamera takes the opportunity to shoot a time loop ray. Mechamato yells for Mara to throw the garage's mirror at him to reflect the attack, and Ninjamera can only flee the other way for a brief time before his own ray lands on him, making him run back and forth. Thus another bad robot is captured. Later that evening, Deep finds his comic book on the way home, as well as Bula and Bili, still stuck in a trash can, and replies to Bula's call for help by saying he'll help himself in taking back his comic book.


This episode provides examples of:

  • Bait-and-Switch: A man stops at a red light and looks around to make sure no one's watching, making it seem as if he's going to run the light, but instead he picks his nose.
  • Batman Gambit: As Mechamato, Amato and MechaBot pretend to bicker to trick Ninjamera into taking the opportunity to use his Time Loop Trap ray on them. Right before he shoots it, Mechamato signals Mara to throw him the mirror needed to reflect Ninjamera's attack right back at him.
  • Belly Mouth: As Mechamato's armor, MechaBot's face lies on the torso's front. In episode 6, because Amato got a rubber tyre stuck above his waist when he transformed, MechaBot's mouth appears on the tyre, much to Amato and Ninjamera's disbelief.
  • Chirping Crickets: When Amato accidentally mechanizes into Mechabelly, Ninjamera is dumbfounded enough to stop attacking momentarily, crickets chirping in the lull.
  • Diagonal Cut: Ninjamera uses a sword to slash at Mechamato, who ducks. The fountain behind Mechamato gets cut through, and after a few seconds its top half falls off.
  • Dramatic High Perching: Ninjamera watches Bula and Bili walking away from Deep from his perch on the point of the playground roof, the strap on his head blowing in a breeze for good measure.
  • Dual Wielding: Ninjamera carries a pair of katanas and sometimes wields them simultaneously.
  • Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: Ninjamera strikes people when they're doing something embarassing or he causes a misfortune to befall upon them. After trapping them in a back-and-forth Time Loop Trap, he records the victims' embarassing spectacle to post it online, in videos quite alike to "boomerang" videos.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: As Bula and Bili pick on Deep, the former brings up that Deep's academic performance is poor, so he should be reading schoolbooks instead of comics. Deep tearfully replies that to be the truth.
  • Kevlard: A variant. An accidentally mechanized tyre around Amato's torso forms a sort of belly around Mechamato. Said tyre belly can bounce off Ninjamera charging at him and deflect his nunchucks back in his face.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Bula and Bili get trapped in a recorded time loop when they fall by an alleyway and into the trash. This happens shortly after they pick on Deep and make him land in the mud, which actually made Ninjamera's job of trapping Deep in a time loop easier. Ninjamera uploads all his victims' humiliation online regardless.
  • Mirrors Reflect Everything: Mara tosses a mirror towards Mechamato for them to reflect Ninjamera's Time Loop Trap ray to hit the bad robot instead.
  • Near-Miss Groin Attack: When Ninjamera first attacks Amato, his sword lands right between Amato's legs, inches from his crotch. Amato gets a Twitchy Eye at the close call.
  • Time Loop Trap: A variation. Ninjamera has the ability of trapping others in a back-and-forth loop, making them experience an embarassing moment over and over until someone else pulls them out of the trap.
  • What You Are in the Dark: Played for laughs. A lone driver says to himself that the coast is clear before he picks his nose. Unfortunately, Ninjamera exploits this to trap him in a time trap which has him pick his nose over and over against his will.

 
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MechaBot can mechanise with Amato's backpack to turn it into a jetpack called the Mecha Jet.

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