Mega Man Megamix

Mega Man Megamix, known as Rockman Megamix (ロックマンメガミックス) in Japan, is a Mega Man manga drawn by Hitoshi Ariga, first released in 1997 in Japan. The manga will be released in the US by Udon Entertainment, being available sometime between January-February 2010. It is currently available for preorder on Amazon.

Release Information
Rockman Remix, Rockman Gigamix and the Rockman 9 Arrange Soundtrack are also included as they contain stories from Rockman Megamix.

Rockman Remix
Rockman Remix (ロックマンリミックス) is a manga by Hitoshi Ariga with three stories, two from the Mega Man classic series and one from the Mega Man X series called "Mega Mission", which is based on the Carddas Rockman X Mega Mission released by Bandai. The classic stories where used again later in the re-release of Mega Man Megamix, but the story "Orders to Destroy R" was modified to adapt with the story of the first game, "Rockman's Birth".

Stories:
 * 1) Orders to Destroy R
 * 2) Metal Heart
 * 3) Mega Mission

Rockman MANIAX
Rockman MANIAX are short comical stories by Hitoshi Ariga that where originally published in Comic Bom Bom between 1997-1998, and some of the stories where re-released in the 2003 Rockman Megamix releases. Below are some of the main stories:


 * Talk with Guest Characters: Hitoshi Ariga talk with the manga characters.
 * Dr. Wily's Animal Kingdom: Dr. Wily introduce animal robots.
 * This Month's Justice: Short stories with Duo talking with a Robot Master, which ends with Duo thinking they are doing something wrong and punish them. For instance, when he was going to shake hands with Sword Man, Sword Man accidentally uses the arm with his sword, and Duo throws him far away with a uppercut, leaving his legs behind.
 * Dr. Rightot's Laboratory: Rightot (Auto) tries to create one robot in each story, some of then being Bikkuri Man (Surprise Man), Shake Man, Massage Man, TV Man, Sexy Man, Suika Man (Watermelon Man) and Giga Rightot (Giga Auto), but they don't work well and accidentally hurt Dr. Light when they broke in the end, sometimes even making Light go to the hospital.

Rockman Gigamix
Rockman Gigamix (ロックマンギガミックス) is a 3 volumes manga by Hitoshi Ariga with new stories. Currently only the first volume was released, with the second volume planned to be released in the end of 2009 and the last in March 2010.

In the end of Volume 1 there is a image of the Wily Castle from Mega Man 4 and silhouettes of the Stardroids from Mega Man V, suggesting volume 2 will have stories based on those two games.

Stories:

Volume 1:
 * Asteroid Blues
 * Burning Wheel

Story
The story from Megamix, Remix and Gigamix.

Rockman's Birth
Rockman's Birth (ロックマン誕生) is based on the first Rockman game.

In the year 20XX, humans and robots work together, until various industrial Robot Masters went out of control and started to attack humans using an army of robots. Dr. Right is called to investigate why his robots went out of control, and as the army was not able to stop his robots, the household robot Rock allowed Dr. Right to remodel him into a battle robot called Rockman to help stop the robots. Later, Dr. Right and Rockman finds out that the Robot Masters were reprogrammed by the evil scientist Dr. Wily to conquer the world.

Orders to Destroy R
Orders to Destroy R (R破壊指令) is based on Mega Man 2. It was originally released in 1996 with "Metal Heart" in Rockman Remix, and the story was modified in the 1998 version of Rockman Megamix to fit with the story "Rockman's Birth".

After the events of Rockman's Birth, the government decides to dispose the six robots of Dr. Light that where controlled by Wily because they are dangerous. Mega Man runs to the building they are located and is attacked by Air Man, Flash Man and several robots from Air Man's stage, while Wood Man is sent to rescue Light's robots and convince them to work for Wily, but four of them refuse and helps Mega Man to fight Wily's robots, while Elec Man and Ice Man goes with Wood Man to Dr. Wily's base. After Air Man's robots and Flash Man are defeated, Metal Man, Crash Man and Heat Man appear to aid Air Man, and Wily makes a broadcast. Mega Man goes after Wily's base using Item-2 and is chased by Heat Man, while the others fights against the other three Wily robots.

In the original version from Rockman Remix, the story begins with Mega and Roll in a stroll in the city. Suddenly, Dr. Wily makes an announcement on TV and his robots attack Mega Man, and Flash Man captures Roll. Some time later Dr. Light's robots appear to help and they fight against the robots while Mega Man uses Rush to rescue Roll and stop Wily.

Asteroid Blues
Asteroid Blues (アステロイドブルース) is a story from Rockman Gigamix based on the events of Mega Man 3, where Mega Man fights against the eight Robot Masters, Doc Robot, Break Man and Gamma.

Metal Heart
Metal Heart (メタルハート) happens between Mega Man 3 and Mega Man 4. Dr. Wily created a new Yellow Devil using the brain of a toy robot he gathered from a junkyard, but the Yellow Devil doesn't obey him and goes away. Wily order the Robot Masters from Mega Man 3 to bring back the Yellow Devil, and if not possible, destroy it. Mega Man notices the chaos caused by the Yellow Devil in the streets and Wily's robots agree to join forces with him to stop the Yellow Devil.

Return of the God of Death
Return of the God of Death (蘇る死神) happens some months after Mega Man 4. Dr. Wily reactivated Skull Man, who wants revenge for being deactivated by Dr. Cossack and attacks Cossack's castle. He wasn't able to find Cossack, but Pharaoh Man, Dust Man and Drill Man are taken by the Skeleton Joes with him. Later, Dr. Cossack is in a TV interview about a book he released about the relationship between humans and robots. Ring Man, severely damaged, rushes to Dr. Light's laboratory to ask help from Mega Man, but it was too late as Skull Man captured Cossack during the interview. Mega Man, Roll and Beat goes to Dr. Cossack's lab, finding it destroyed. After helping Bright Man, Toad Man, Dive Man and Kalinka, they help Mega Man find Dr. Cossack, but things get worse when Beat disappear, Roll and Kalinka are also kidnapped, and they need to fight against Dust Man, Drill Man and Pharaoh Man.

Holiday of Soldiers
Holiday of Soldiers (戦士の休日) happens after Mega Man 5. Dr. Light's six robots from the first game finished their jobs and are going home. In the way they see two robots (Dark Man 1 and 2) stealing a bank and they try to stop them, but suddenly the two are stopped by a mysterious robot with shades (Proto Man). Another unknown robot (Bass) has seen how fast he defeated the two and wants to fight against him. Light's robots try to help, but they get in trouble with Bass and Treble, and Proto Man leaves without fighting to take Bass away from them. A few days later, Mega Man, Roll, Auto and the six robots go to a amusement park, and there they find the Mega Man 5 bosses (who acts like Super Sentai characters when fighting in the manga) working to obtain money for Wily, but they don't want to fight and have fun together. After a lot of fun, Bass appeared and almost hit Mega Man, but Elec Man noticed Bass and saves Mega Man and a human kid near him. Bass causes chaos in the park, and the Mega Man 5 robots help the civilians while Mega Man fights for the first time against Bass.

Power Battle
In Power Battle (パワーバトル), Bass and the Dark Men kidnapped Roll to lure Mega Man into a fight against Bass.

The Strongest Enemy to Date
The Strongest Enemy to Date (史上最強の敵) has the events of Mega Man 6, where Mr. X tries to conquer the world, and the fight against Copy Rockman.

Burning Wheel
Burning Wheel (バーニングホイール) is a story from Rockman Gigamix based on Mega Man: Battle & Chase and Mega Man 7.

For Whose Sake?
"For Whose Sake?" (誰が為に) is a 16 page Rockman Megamix story that serves as a prologue of Mega Man 9 that came with the Rockman 9 Arrange Soundtrack. A new law is estabilished that robots should have lifespans to regulate the increasing number of robots, with them being scrapped when their time is over. Dr. Light doesn't agree with the law, but there is nothing he can do about it. Some time later, robots all over the world rampage against the new law, all of them being Dr. Light's robots. Dr. Light is the main suspect for this and is arrested. The six robots from the first game fight against the eight from Mega Man 9, but the six are defeated by them. Wily visits Light in jail, and hints he's the one behind it. The story ends with Mega Man preparing for the battle.

Cast
Note: This list is incomplete.

Main characters

 * Dr. Right (Dr. Light)
 * Dr. Wily
 * Dr. Cossack
 * Kalinka


 * DRN000 Blues (Proto Man)
 * DRN001 Rockman (Mega Man)
 * DRN002 Roll
 * Forte (Bass)


 * Rightot (Auto)
 * Rush
 * Eddie
 * Beat
 * Tango
 * Reggae


 * Copy Rockman
 * Yellow Devil
 * Yellow Devil MK-II
 * Doc Robot

Robot Masters
Dr. Right's robots:
 * DRN003 Cut Man
 * DRN004 Guts Man
 * DRN005 Ice Man
 * DRN006 Bomb Man
 * DRN007 Fire Man
 * DRN008 Elec Man


 * DRN065 Concrete Man
 * DRN066 Tornado Man
 * DRN067 Splash Woman
 * DRN068 Plug Man
 * DRN069 Jewel Man
 * DRN070 Hornet Man
 * DRN071 Magma Man
 * DRN072 Galaxy Man

Dr. Wily's robots:
 * DWN009 Metal Man
 * DWN010 Air Man
 * DWN011 Bubble Man
 * DWN012 Quick Man
 * DWN013 Crash Man
 * DWN014 Flash Man
 * DWN015 Heat Man
 * DWN016 Wood Man


 * DRWN017 Needle Man
 * DRWN018 Magnet Man
 * DRWN019 Gemini Man
 * DRWN020 Hard Man
 * DRWN021 Top Man
 * DRWN022 Snake Man
 * DRWN023 Spark Man
 * DRWN024 Shadow Man


 * DWN033 Gravity Man
 * DWN034 Wave Man
 * DWN035 Stone Man
 * DWN036 Gyro Man
 * DWN037 Star Man
 * DWN038 Charge Man
 * DWN039 Napalm Man
 * DWN040 Crystal Man


 * MXN041 Blizzard Man
 * MXN042 Centaur Man
 * MXN043 Flame Man
 * MXN044 Knight Man
 * MXN045 Plant Man
 * MXN046 Tomahawk Man
 * MXN047 Wind Man
 * MXN048 Yamato Man


 * DWN049 Freeze Man
 * DWN050 Junk Man
 * DWN051 Burst Man
 * DWN052 Cloud Man
 * DWN053 Spring Man
 * DWN054 Slash Man
 * DWN055 Shade Man
 * DWN056 Turbo Man

Dr. Cossack's robots:
 * DCN025 Bright Man
 * DCN026 Toad Man
 * DCN027 Drill Man
 * DCN028 Pharaoh Man
 * DCN029 Ring Man
 * DCN030 Dust Man
 * DCN031 Dive Man
 * DCN032 Skull Man

Minor characters

 * Manga only characters
 * Charlie (a reporter based on a character from the Street Fighter series)
 * The 4 Dark Men
 * Chest, Plum and Ripot


 * Gamma (Asteroid Blues and Metal Heart)
 * Fake Man (For Whose Sake?)

Rockman's Birth:
 * Big Eye
 * Bunby Heli
 * Changkey
 * Foot Holder
 * Killer Bomb
 * Met
 * Pepe
 * Picket Man
 * Suzy
 * Watcher
 * Crazy Razy

Orders to Destroy R:
 * Mecha Dragon
 * Gremlin
 * Petit Gremlin
 * Kaminari Goro
 * Matasaburo
 * Pipi
 * Monking
 * Batton
 * Robbit
 * Springer
 * Sniper Joe

Metal Heart and Return of the God of Death:
 * Telly
 * Potton
 * Skeleton Joe

Burning Wheel:
 * 4 Roader
 * Gilliam Knight
 * King Gajuras
 * Sisi Truck
 * Tripropellern

The manga also has cameo appearances of characters from other series, like Denise as a weather forecaster in "Orders to Destroy R" and some humans from the MegaMan Battle Network series watching a screen in "Asteroid Blues".