Lights, Camera... Robattle! is the seventh episode of Medabots Spirit.
Content[]
Summary[]
Ikki and Metabee have been scheduled to appear on Electro Kid Jam, a popular children's show. Knowing this, Kam and Ginkai plan to use the TV broadcast to show off the strength of the Kilobots to everybody watching.
Plot[]
Ikki wins the Electro Kid Jam contest and gets to appear on live TV with the beautiful hostesses, Cinnamon and Sugar Girl. Of course, all of his friends want to be there too... Especially Samantha. However, Kam and Ginkai are planning something!
Ikki and Metabee waving to the audience.
It's the day when Ikki and Metabee appear on the broadcast. The two are standing (all goo goo eyed) over their hostesses when Ginkai interrupts the show to Robattle (no rules of course) with the Kilobot, Locknex. With the help from Kam and some dirty tricks, Locknex defeats Metabee on live TV. An angry Ikki challenges Ginkai to a rematch.
Later Erika becomes upset when she thinks Ikki is taking a chance challenging Ginkai just for the sake of his pride. Nae happens to overhear, and she agrees that it is his pride pushing Ikki.
Sometime later, Ikki sits wondering how he can win with Locknex being an aquatic-type Kilobot. As he and Metabee sit by the river skipping rocks, and idea comes to him. In the evening before the match, Ikki and Metabee practice at their school pool.
In the day of the rematch, Ikki and Metabee are up for the challenge. Cinnamon and Sugar Girl announce the battle and the rematch begins on live TV. The practice pays off! Metabee learned to skip across water, giving him the advantage he needed. Even with Kam trying his usual dirty tricks, with another Locknex being hidden in the pool, Metabee proves to be victorious.
Kam returns home frustrated, but he already has another Kilobot ready to be used, Unitrix. Will he ever stop bothering poor Ikki?
Trivia[]
Ginkai's Medawatch receiving a message from Kam.
- Ginkai's Locknex used the leg parts from Dashbutton, Seagaru and Patriorder.
- Kam's Locknex used what seems to be an off-model version of Starpeda's right arm.
- In this episode, the Medawatch is shown to be able to receive text messages.
- Although Metabee has ranged attacks, he never fired a projectile on this episode, focusing only on physical combat, to the point of learning how to skip on water to be able to get close to his opponent during the rematch.
Background[]
English dub changes[]
Totsugeki!! Kodomo Show logo.
The convenience store.
- The name of the TV program Ikki participates is "Electro Kid Jam" in the dub and "Totsugeki!! Kodomo Show" (突撃！！こどもショー Totsugeki!! Kodomo Shō, "Charge!! Kids Show") in the original.
- In the beginning, in the dub Cinnamon and Sugar Girl says that the boy with them is named Jake and was able to burp the alphabet. In the original, the hostesses say that they are having a summer vacation special, and the boy with them is a baseball player.
- Part of the scenes with Ikki and Metabee thinking about their appearance on the show, which appear after Kam talked with Ginkai and before the day Ikki appears on the program, had its position changed, being combined with the similar scenes before Kam talked with Ginkai. As such, the iris fading was removed.
- In the original, when Samantha tries to bypass the staff to appear on TV, on each time she tries to convince them by saying that she is a friend of Ikki or Ginkai. In the dub, in her first attempt Samantha says that she is Ikki's nurse and it was time to give his medicine, in the second attempt during the rematch, she says she is Ginkai's new secretary, and in the third attempt after the rematch, she says she is Metabee's new assistant.
- Some of the dialogues during the interview changed. For example, when Ikki and Metabee are complimenting each other, in the original their compliments gave more focus to Ikki being the brain and Metabee the brawl from the team, while in the dub about half of them are vague, and when the show's hostesses ask Ikki and Metabee if they have any advice for the audience aspiring to become Robattle champions like them, in the dub they say "stay focused, and remember to eat your vegetables" and "don't forget to tune up your Medabot 3-4 times a day", and the hostessess don't quite understand how that will help Medafighters, while in the original they say that the Medafighter and Medabot must be one in spirit (in other words, have teamwork), and share a strong bond of friendship and trust with each other, with the hostessess liking the advice.
- One scene showing the interview ending was sped up.
- An eyecatch was added when Ginkai appears to challenge Ikki, and the scene with him was shortened a bit. In the original, Ginkai adds that he considers trust and friendship useless, saying that all that is needed in a Robattle is power to destroy the opponent. In the dub this was summarized by Ginkai saying that he will "show what a real Robattle is like".
- After Ginkai appears, in the original the director tells the cameraman to show Ginkai, while in the dub he tries to complain with Ginkai's interruption, but Ginkai tells him to be quiet.
- One scene with the Screws was cut. Samantha thinks that if she challenged Ikki like Ginkai did, she would appear on TV, and wonders why she had not considered doing it before, and Sloan says that is a bad idea.
- A silent scene with Nae and Honey watching TV was cut.
- Metabee dodging one of Locknex's attacks was cut.
- The scene with the hostesses commenting that it was expected of the runner up from the world tournament was cut.
- Several scenes from the Robattle had small cuts to reduce their duration.
- The dub gives emphasis that Metabee will rust if he stays submerged in water too much. This was not mentioned on this episode in the original.
- An eyecatch was added after the Robattle between Ikki and Ginkai.
- In the original, Samantha is only helping Ginkai because she believes the stronger side is more likely to appear on TV. In the dub, this dialogue was replaced with Sloan and Spyke suggesting to play a prank on Ikki, some of their suggestions being tie his shoelaces together or do prank phone calls, but Samantha says that they will only spy Ikki. Either way, they misunderstand Ikki's strategy, and the info they give to Ginkai is a bit different between the two versions, such as Samantha mentioning in the original that Ikki's plan will not work due to the lack of rocks near the pool.
- Ikki going to a convenience store to buy new batteries for the laterns and silently meeting Erika inside was cut.
- An eyecatch was added before the day of the rematch.
- Ikki and Ginkai getting ready for the rematch was cut.
- Erika laughing of Samantha's third failed attempt to pass the staff was cut.
Characters[]
Note: All characters are listed in order of their first appearances in the episode. The time they appear is the time from the Japanese dub.
| Image | Name | Note |
|---|---|---|
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Cinnamon | The hostesses of Electro Kid Jam. |
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Sugar Girl | |
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Ikki Tenryou | |
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Metabee | |
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Erika Amazake | |
| Samantha | The Screws. | |
| Spyke | ||
| Sloan | ||
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Eddie | First full appearance. Previously only his voice was heard. |
|
Kam Kamazaki | |
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Ginkai | |
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Children (子供) |
Several kids watching Electro Kid Jam. The kids cheering for Ikki and Metabee were voiced by Naomi Wakabayashi in the Japanese version. |
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Staff (スタッフ) |
Several staff members from Electro Kid Jam, including the director, cameraman, and security. One of the members was voiced by Jun'ichi Miura in the Japanese version. |
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Nae Aki | |
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Honey | |
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Zuru Zora | |
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Locknex | |
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Brass | |
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Unitrix | First appearance. |
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