MegaMan NT Warrior





MegaMan NT Warrior, known as Rockman.EXE (ロックマンエグゼ) in Japan, is the first season of the Japanese anime series based on the Mega Man Battle Network series. It loosely covers the events of Mega Man Battle Network 1, 2, and 3, though it heavily diverges form the source material in terms of how events are played out when they happen (ie. the N1 Grand Prix, an event from BN3, happening before Gospel becomes a threat, the main antagonist organization of BN2). The series spawned four seasons, Axess, Stream, Beast, and Beast+, as well as a movie, Hikari to Yami no Program, set during Stream.

The series would later be succeeded by MegaMan Star Force, set 200 years in the future, which spawned a second season, Ryuusei no Rockman Tribe.

Music
Opening Theme:
 * 1) Rockman no Theme - Kaze wo Tsukinukete (ロックマンのテーマ〜風を突き抜けて〜) by Hashimoto Jin

Ending Theme:
 * 1) "Piece of Peace" by MIKA (episodes 1-25)
 * 2) "Begin the Try" by Shoutaro Morikubo (episodes 26-56)

Cast
Note: Some characters have different names between the games and anime. For instance, FireMan and ColorMan are named TorchMan and WackoMan in the anime.

Broadcasters who transmitted
Japan: TV Tokyo

USA: Kids' WB and Toonami Jetstream

Canada: TELETOON

United Kingdom: Jetix

Latin America and Brazil: Jetix and Rede Globo (Brazilian broadcast)

Portugal: SIC and Canal Panda

Hungary: A+ and RTL Klub

Poland: Jetix

English releases
The first six volumes were also released in VHS.

Trivia

 * The dub episodes 18 "There's no "I" in Team (Part 2)" and 30 "Crimson Flash!" are absent in the anime's English official site, leaving it with 50 episodes and making the numbering of the dub episodes from episode 18 and onward wrong.
 * GutsMan's dubbed voice actor, Scott McNeil, has actually done voice work for the Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon where he voiced Proto Man, Dr. Wily, and Eddie.
 * The letters "NT" in the anime's title stand for "Network Transmission".
 * Although the anime follows the plot of the game in few aspects, most part of the time making it's own plot, one of the most remarkable differences is the fact the world is refered with it's real geography. Electopia is refered as Japan, Netopia as Europe and so on and on. This trait is shared with the follow up Megaman Star Force anime series, while the game also uses the same names the game uses for countries and cities.