Anime Profile: Megaman NT Warrior

The year is 200X. The world has become largely dependent on the technology of computers and cyber-space... even normal microwave ovens have their own internet network! Almost everyone carries around a device called a PET (Personal Exploration Terminal), a portable computer for everyday use. Within a PET lies a digital warrior program called a Net Navi, used for combat against viruses and other net navis!

Based on the popular MegaMan Battle Network RPG series, MegaMan NT Warrior stars a young boy named Lan Hikari and his crime-fighting cyber avatar, MegaMan. With the help of Lan's childhood friend Maylu Sakurai, the over-confident loud-mouth Dex Oyama, the intelligent and rich Yai Ayano, the timid Tory Froid, and Lan's powerful rival Chaud Blaze... they thwart net crime syndicates, like the World Three and Grave, that are bent on world domination!

MegaMan NT Warrior began as a video-game for the Game Boy Advance system and then continued to a hit manga by CoroCoro Comics (which is translated by Viz). In March 2002, the anime debut in Japan as Rockman EXE and was eventually dubbed into English after its 56-episode finale a year later. The show is dubbed by ShoPro Entertainment, responsible for the English distribution of other popular anime titles like Hamtaro, InuYasha, and Sonic X.

The series was also continued in October 2003 with the more mature-oriented Rockman EXE Axess.

Note: The original un-edited version of this description was submitted by Paper Ace Chase, who originally wrote it for TV Tome's profile of MegaMan: NT Warrior.

In the future, all around the world people have things known as PET's, and inside these PET's there are things known as Net-Navi's. Lan Hikari, a young boy living in Dentech City, is the grandson of the famous man who create the NetNavi concept, Dr. Hikari. Lan receives a PET from his father with a Net-Navi called MegaMan.

Lan and MegaMan began their adventures in the N1 Grand Prix. Along with friends, they fought against an evil group of people known as World Three. After World Three was defeated, a new group of baddies emerge, called the grave Syndicate. The battles heated up as MegaMan and Lan learned about the legendary Program Advance and tried to master this powerful attack.

Lan's father developed a new technology called "Dimensional Area", allowing digital objects to appear in the Real World. However, the Darkloids (NetNavis from the Nebula organization) took advantage of it, and now can wreak havoc in both worlds. To combat the new threat, Lan was one of few NatBattlers to gain the "Cross-Fusion" technology, allowing an operator and his/her NetNavi to merge into a single being with great power. Even Lan's friend/rival, Chaud Blaze, was given this new ability, until ProtoMan took a Dark Chip and replaced Shademan as the leader of the Darkloids. MegaMan also gained the 'Soul' ability, taking on the power and form similar to a alley NetNavi. While Lan and company deal with Dr. Regal and Nebula, the enigmatic Bass lies in wait....