#metabots

[weaselbug]

[killer-squirtle]

I made a realization of something, and now I can't unsee it. So now I must inflict it upon all of you.

Though I might have just stumbled upon DJW's childhood obsession with Metabots

[kosmicpowers]

I love series about catching/fighting/befriending little creatures. All of them. One of the best types of media dare I say.

Oh it's so easy to win me over.... get me a mildly interesting concept to base some little freaks around and I'm in.

[hemorrhage]

[calliopii]

evil and intimidating bee

[doubleddenden]

I think adults need those little valentines cards you hand out to your classmates in elementary school with candy attached more than anyone these days

Like man if I got one of these in this day and age, I feel like that would fix something in me. Dunno what but it would

[kosmicpowers]

Metabots sighs in frustration. Yokai Watch lies unconscious, half dead in the corner.

“Palworld’s just a rip off of Pokemon!” “Palworld is Plagerizing!” “Palworld creatures look too much like Pokemon!”

[the-feck-life-alchemist]

I think om gonna slowly move back to Tumblr and leave goth twitter hell fire, there's too much drama. So here's some stuff I normally post all in one convenient post

[alpaca-clouds]

The 1990s and the Monsters

Back when Digimon game to the west, everyone was very quick to decide that it was a rip-off of Pokémon. Every Digimon fan obviously knows that this is not true, given how close the origin of the franchises lay too each other in Japan. The first Pokémon game released in Japan in October 1996, the Digital Monster Tamagotchi release in Japan in June 1997, not even a full year later. In fact, we do know how Digimon started: By Bandai trying (and somewhat failing) to market Tamagotchi to boys. (Digimon was still a lot more popular with girls. lol Turns out girls love monsters, too.)

But here is the thing: Monster taming was a popular genre in Japanese media for decades at the time - and something about the second half of the 1990s made several companies go: "You know what we need right now? A monster training franchise!"

While Pokémon is by far the most famous of the franchises, and Digimon probably follows in second place -internationally - those two were by far not the only ones. As someone who grew up at the time, had access to the internet, and was very liberal in regards to downloading anime... Oh boy, there was a lot of monster stuff happening at the time.

Some of it was great. Most of it never came to the west. A lot of it never got a second, let alone a third season. And oh boy, I want to talk about it. Which is why I will do this during the next couple weeks, because... You know what? You deserve to know about all those monster shows that came out between like 1995 and 2005. It sure was a lot. And you might find something in there that you are going to absolutely adore.

And mind you, while YGO never was intended to fall into this, it ended up falling into it too. But YGO you all probably know, given that it is fairly popular in the west. Monster Rancher also came out in the west - though somehow barely anyone seems to remember it existing. I am not quite sure why.

But generally speaking, this particular time had a ton of stuff that was based around the idea of "kid teams up with (somewhat) sentient non-human creature(s) to do stuff". This stuff could be anything. Saving the world, fighting in some sort of tournament, or - quite often - hacking stuff. It was after all the millennium and computers were the new hot shit. The internet was finally starting to be more widely used ans such.

I think next to this, the Japanese idea of living "things" (an even more literal ghost in the machine) and also a variety of traditions - such as Onmyouji - were playing a role into why this particular idea was becoming so popular in Japan. Though I guess no one can doubt that some part of it also was that Pokémon came out in 1996, became popular, and everyone was trying to jump onto the bandwagon. While I will still maintain that this was not thetruth for all of it (Digimon and Monster Farm released as games too close to Pokémon to be inspired by it and as I noted: YGO was inspired by MTG, not Pokémon).

Still, as someone who grew up on those shows, I am fascinated by them - and especially by those that got forgotten by the wider audiences.

And yeah, I think the others never came out over here. So, yeah.

Over the next weeks I am going to talk about them.

[kittyler]

@kittyler is from vocaloid nekomura iroha but it kinda sounds like kitty litter lol

[bisexualbaker]

Okay, I'll add some of my earlier remembered anime titles:

These are, of course, just the ones I remember off the top of my head. There were plenty of others. I also included a few that were before the big anime boom of the late 90s/early 00s, though I'm sure there are more I don't know about.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

In an experiment reminiscent of the Transformers movie franchise, engineers at Princeton University have created a type of material that can expand, assume new shapes, move and follow electromagnetic commands like a remotely controlled robot even though it lacks any motor or internal gears. "You can transform between a material and a robot, and it is controllable with an external magnetic field," said researcher Glaucio Paulino, the Margareta Engman Augustine Professor of Engineering at Princeton. In an article published April 23 in the journal Nature, the researchers describe how they drew inspiration from the folding art of origami to create a structure that blurs the lines between robotics and materials. The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In this case, the researchers built their metamaterial using a combination of simple plastics and custom-made magnetic composites. Using a magnetic field, the researchers changed the metamaterial's structure, causing it to expand, move and deform in different directions, all remotely without touching the metamaterial.

Read more.

[flowermonse]

Chat this might be to the 2nd ever metabots animation meme to ever exist :000

If u know what metabots is I love u /p

[kosmicpowers]

Robot battling was a popular sport amongst young kids but some poor bitch named Ikki couldn't afford it so he got a cheap one, Metabee, who was rude at first but he's actually really powerful and rare so they become friends and fight together.

Does anyone remember metabots? I don’t really remember a plot, but kids had battle robots? Something about the main ones coin being rare?

[calliopii]

violently rattling him at first sight 😋

[the-dimensionals]

"Ruby, being a Phantom Thief? Well that's something to behold. She probably is like those mysterious masked men from series like Metabots or Sailor Moon, or Phantom from Maple world. Way too much bling to the point where ya think she's trying to compensate for something."