MegaMan NT Warrior (anime series) (2024)

This is about the overview of the anime series. For the first season of the anime series, see MegaMan NT Warrior. For the manga series of the same name, see MegaMan NT Warrior (manga series).

MegaMan NT Warrior, known as Rockman EXE (ロックマンエグゼ Rokkuman Eguze) in Japan, is a Japanese animated series based on the Mega Man Battle Network series. It is produced by the animation studio Xebec.

The series was originally broadcasted in Japan on TV Tokyo in March 2002. In the middle of 2003, the series localized by Viz Media and was originally premiered on Kids' WB in the United States.

The series consist of five following seasons: EXE, Axess, Stream, Beast and Beast+. Only the two first season were localized in North America while the rest of the three seasons are remained unlocalized outside of Japan and other east Asian countries.

Overview[]

MegaMan NT Warrior is the second TV series based on the Mega Man franchise after the 1994 Mega Man animated series by Ruby-Spear, which is based on the classic Mega Man series.

Story[]

Main Article: List of MegaMan NT Warrior episodes

The series is about a young boy named Lan Hikari, his NetNavi MegaMan and their friends goes on an adventure to stop criminal organization such as World Three, Grave and Nebula from causing havocs among the real world and the cyberworld.

First Season (EXE)[]

The series' first season loosely adapts many story elements from the first three games of the Mega Man Battle Network series with original story elements added into the series.

At the beginning of the series, Lan Hikari and MegaMan stopped the first three members of World Three and their resepective NetNavis from causing havocs around DenTech City. Then, Lan and MegaMan stopped Mr. Higsby and NumberMan from committing their action at DenTech Academy, later the latter duos redeemed themselves and opens a chip shop. Later,, Lan and MegaMan stopped Yahoot and MagicMan from hypnotizing people in DenTech City to act like animals.

In the N1 Grand Prix story arc, Lan and his friends participate at the N1 Grand Prix event. At the end of the N1 Grand Prix story arc, after Chaud Blaze and ProtoMan won the finals, PharaohMan showed up and deletes MegaMan, much to Lan's grief. However afterwards, MegaMan returned from his deletion defeats PharaohMan with the help of ProtoMan.

At a trip to Netopia as his World Tour Prize, Lan meets Raoul and later stops Mayor Daryl from succeeding his plans. MegaMan defeats SnakeMan in a Survival Seven game held by his operator Mrs. Millionaire at Brand City. Lan challenges and defeats Count Zap at Kingland. In the final day of his World Tour Prize, Lan stops the quartets of World Three from their scheme at Namaste.

After returning to Netopia from their World Tour Prize, Lan and MegaMan defeats many members of Grave from AirMan to FreezeMan, and later MegaMan defeats the Grave VirusBeast. During the Grave arc, MegaMan also defeats other villainous Navis such as MoltanicMan and PlanetMan. In the season finale, MegaMan and his friends defeats the Life Virus that occurred during Dr. Hikari's Dimensional Area experiment.

Second Season (Axess)[]

This season borrows numerous elements from Mega Man Battle Network 3, 4 and also Network Transmission. In addition, the season introduces a type of transformation called Cross Fusion and other related concepts (e.g. Dimensional Area), which the concept is exclusive to the anime series.

At the beginning of the season, Lan and MegaMan worked together to defeat many Darkloids including SavageMan, BubbleMan, FlashMan, BowlMan, VineMan, BurnerMan, DesertMan, VideoMan and so on. During the adventures of defeating the Darkloids, MegaMan has earned many Double Souls such as Roll Soul, Torch Soul, Guts Soul, Metal Soul and Proto Soul.

In the near middle of the season, Chaud used the Dark Chip for ProtoMan during a battle against ShadeMan, thus turning him into Dark ProtoMan as a result. At the near end of the season, Dark ProtoMan has went back to being ProtoMan.

In the season finale, with using towers as Dimensional Converters from around the world and thus the Earth has been covered in a global dimensional area, Regal cross fused into C.F. LaserMan and mercilessly deletes ShadeMan during a battle with him. At the end of the finale episode, Regal was ultimately defeated by C.F. MegaMan with the help of his friends.

Unlocalized Information
The following material in this section is NOT localized or dubbed outside of Japan or other Asian countries and therefore uses original name or terms.

Third Season (Stream)[]

This season mainly adapts the story elements from Rockman EXE 3, 4, and 5.

At the beginning of the season, Netto Hikari, Rockman and their allies must fight Neo WWW and Asteroid Navis. In the middle of the season, Regal makes a return from Axess as the major antagonist, he and his fellow Darkloids attempts to collect all Crests of Duo from the Cross Fusion members in order to gain access to Duo's Comet.

Also, a movie titled Rockman EXE: Hikari to Yami no Program takes place between episode 22 and 29.

Fourth Season (Beast)[]

This season mainly adapts numerous story elements from Rockman EXE 6.

Netto Hikari and Rockman must fight against Glaga, Falzer and their army of Zoanoroid Navis. Also, the duo must tackle small-time villains such as Captain Kurohige, his partner Chirol and their respective NetNavis (i.e. DiveMan and CircusMan).

Fifth Season (Beast+)[]

The fifth and final season of the series. It adapts story elements from Rockman EXE 6, Transmission and also Phantom of Network.

In the beginning of the season, Netto and Rockman have to fight against Professor with his Navi-like creation Zero Virus and also Zero One, Phantom Navis and small-time offenders such as Satoru Roppo (JudgeMan's operator). At the near end of the series, Netto and Rockman has to fight against the series' final villain, Cache.

END OF UNLOCALIZED MATERIAL

Main cast[]

Main Article: List of MegaMan NT Warrior characters

Main characters[]

Image	Character	Description
	MegaMan (Rockman)	A powerful and heroic NetNavi. Operated by a young boy named Lan Hikari. He, his operator and also their friends will gone on a journey to stop any malicious forces among the cyberworld and the real world.
	Lan Hikari (Netto Hikari)	A young boy who is the operator of MegaMan and a DenTech City Academy student.
	Maylu Sakurai (Meiru Sakurai)	Lan's best (human) friend and the operator of Roll. Despite her aggravation over Lan's antics, Maylu does have feelings for him.
	Roll	Maylu's NetNavi and one of MegaMan's friends.
	Chaud Blaze (Enzan Ijuin)	The operator of ProtoMan and the son of the BlazeQuest company owner Shuuseki Ijuin. Debuting in the first season of the anime series, Chaud was initially the rival of Lan Hikari, however, as the series progresses, Chaud become Lan's close friend.
	ProtoMan (Blues)	Chaud's NetNavi.

Recurring characters[]

Image	Character	Description
File:Mr. Higsby in MMNTW anime.png	Mr. Higsby (Yamitaro Higure)	An owner of the Chip Shop (Higure-Ya in Japan) and also a rare Battle Chip enthusiast. Higsby started off as the main antagonist in episode 4 of the series' first season until he redeemed himself after his defeated.
File:EXE Ep screenshot - Mr. Famous.png	Mr. Famous (Meijin)	A colleague of Yuichiro Hikari. He and Yuichiro assist Lan and his friends to fight criminal organization and other forces of evil with new technology.
	Raika	A young solider of Sharo's military and the operator of SearchMan. In his debut in the Axess season, Raika was started off as a minor until he became a recurring character in later seasons.
	SearchMan	Raika's solider-themed NetNavi who is a sharpshooter.
File:Maysa in MMNTW anime	Maysa (Masa)	A fisherman and salesman who expects Lan and his friends to their calcium. In his disguise as a NetAgent under the name Commander Beef, Maysa is a skilled Net Battler and NetNavi is SharkMan.

Antagonists[]

Image	Character	Description
	Mr. Wily (Doctor Wily)	The founder and leader of the original iteration of World Three. In the first season, Wily and his fellow members cause chaos to the society between the cyberworld and the real world as their main goal, although their goal is foiled by Lan, MegaMan and their friends. Once after World Three was defeated, Wily has become a neutral ally to Lan and the others.
	Members of World Three	The main members of World Three are Mr. Match, Count Zap, Maddy and Yahoot. They are the respective operators of TorchMan (temporarily HeatMan), ElecMan, WackoMan and MagicMan. They caused havocs around society until Lan and MegaMan stopped them for doing so. After WWW's defeat, the quartets are no longer villains and move on by working in their restaurant called #1 Curry.
	StoneMan and BlasterMan (BomberMan)	StoneMan and BlasterMan are Solo NetNavi duo who works with World Three. The duo participated at N1 Grand Prix but later lost and deleted by MegaMan and ProtoMan.
	Kid Grave	A mysterious humanoid robot created by Mr. Wily. He is the leader of Grave (Gospel in Japan). His organization consist of the following members: Arashi Kazefuki (AirMan's NetOp), ShadowMan, Dave (Quickman's NetOp), FreezeMan, Gauss Magnus (MagnetMan's NetOp), CutMan, Maddy (temporarily), and MoltanicMan. All the aforementioned members are defeated by Lan and MegaMan.
	Dr. Regal	The founder and leader of Nebula. He first appeared in the Axess season of the anime series and appeared again in the Stream season.

Broadcast history[]

In Japan, the series is aired on TV Tokyo whereas the series is originally aired on Kids' WB in North America.

Trivia[]

• Yai and Dex were initially main characters in the anime series until they reduced into guess characters in later seasons. However, the two became prominent again in Beast and Beast+ season.