Saying I'm proud of my work is an understatement and in the past as well. The films The Fast and The Furious, The Warriors, Real Steel, and I, Robot were big contributors on how I shaped the lore and the world. And added my own layers of how I would create a robot battle series. Combined it with a more serious and grounded world similar to Pokemon. So I took the concepts of Mega Man X and his advanced AI lore along with the techno magic aspect. By the way, robots are real and the possibility of fighting robots in the future is already here and likely to be a Real Steel kind of scenario in the next 30 years. But what about the older kids and young adults. There was always a limited scope of violence in Pokemon, which to me held back some of the series, but also understandably.
But Pokemon aren't real and you can't kill them. I knew robots were the only thing that could counter Pokemon in the market so it had to be done with a mixture of psychology, market knowledge, and the inner 9-year-old that still wanted to be a Pokemon Master. Gundam has cornered mecha with melodrama and the same child-soldier premise for so long I'm numb to it. Nothing could compete with that until I saw Medabots and saw hope. Can't wait until lunch or after school to take on kids with your newly caught Mewtwo or trained Charizard. Every kid, poor, rich, cool, nerd, weird, didn't matter they either had the card game or video game or both. One day I sat in my office thinking about Pokemon's impact on the world and particularly my childhood. It was a show so full of wasted potential and great concepts but poorly execute. As the show progressed, the writing go progressively worse, to the point where you couldn't even finish some episodes because they were so bad. But Medabots gave us the cool talking, badass robot, Medabee whose personality was aggressive and fiery. Young boy protagonist meets his stubborn, independently thinking partner and begins a journey of discovery and challenge. It was very similar to the premise of Pokemon but just as different in many ways. As a kid raised in the first gen Pokemon era, I was introduced to a show called Medabots. From a start video game IP to a multi-platform entertainment media IP that will one day be worldwide. My dream of developing a robot battle action TCG to one day compete with the likes of Yugioh, Pokemon, and Cardfight Vanguard has been underway for quite some time now.
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