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 video game 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. The first, Axess, was dubbed in English while Stream, Beast, and Beast+, as well as the movie, Hikari to Yami no Program, set during Stream, only aired in Japan. In the dubbed version of the show, the 56 episodes that compose the first season of the Japanese version is split into two seasons, with "season one" ending on episode 25, and "season two" starting with episode 26 and ending on 52, having skipped a few episodes that were only aired in Japan.

It would later be succeeded by MegaMan Star Force, set 200 years in the future, which spawned a second season that only aired in Japan, Ryuusei no Rockman Tribe.

Music

 * Japanese opening themes
 * 1) "Kaze yo Tsutaete" (ロックマンのテーマ〜風を突き抜けて〜 Rokkuman no Tēma ~Kaze wo Tsukinukete~) by Jin Hashimoto (EXE)
 * 2) "Futatsu no Mirai" (二つの未来 Futatsu no Mirai) by Michihiro Kuroda (Axess)
 * 3) "Be Somewhere" by Buzy (Stream)
 * 4) "Shouri no Uta" (勝利のうた Shōri no Uta) by Dandelion (Beast)
 * Japanese ending themes
 * 1) "Piece of Peace" by mica (EXE, eps 1-25)
 * 2) "Begin the Try" (begin the TRY) by Shōtarō Morikubo (EXE, eps 26-56)
 * 3) "Hikari to Doku Basho" (光とどく場所 ) by Kumiko Higa and Akiko Kimura (Axess)
 * 4) "Doobee Doowop Communication" (ドゥビドゥワ コミュニケーション Dubiduwa Komyunikēshon) by Babamania (Stream, eps 1-25)
 * 5) "Hikari to Doku Basho ~ Yūjo no Shirushi (光とどく場所〜友情のしるし) by Kumiko Higa and Akiko Kimura (Stream, eps 26-51)
 * 6) "Ashiato" (あしあと) by Clair (Beast)

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

Reception
MegaMan NT Warrior achieved popularity among Japanese viewing audiences. According to a viewership sample conducted in the Kantō region by Video Research, the anime drew in an average of 4.5% and a maximum of 5.9% of households during the last year of its original run.

The MegaMan NT Warrior: Program of Light and Dark and Duel Masters: Curse of the Death Phoenix double feature ranked first for the weekend ending March 13, 2005 dethroned Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean from the first place and broke the record for spring break in Japan with a gross of $12,708,498 USD from Mega Man X8 launch in Japan and Resident Evil 4 selling and critically acclaimed in Japan and North America This record are still for 5 weeks until Constantine broke the record with a gross of $14,859,234 USD on April 17, 2005 and dropped to ranked fifth at the Japanese box office for the weekend ending March 20, 2005 with a gross of $1,093,870 USD. The following week it dropped to seventh place with $559,800 USD and a cumulative box office gross of $6,178,840 USD at three weeks of release.

Trivia

 * Episodes 18 and 30 are absent on the anime's English official site, leaving it with 50 episodes, causing the numbering of the episodes from episode 18 onward to be wrong.
 * The letters "NT" in the anime's title stand for "Network Transmission".