3/27/2004 :: The videoclip is now in the battles partition of the media section. :) Also, Purple Ruby Red is holding a fanart chibi contest. The prize is a Metalman figure. ^_^ Try it out! And now, time for random quote of the night: Josuke: You know... on the end of EXE1... Josuke: Wily should have just freaking kicked Netto... Josuke: He was RIGHT THERE!!! Tabby: Hit Netto with a two by four or something Tabby: THWACK Josuke: lol Josuke: That would be hilarious! Sketch: Netto: Plug-in! Rock-*thud* Sketch: Wily: I WIN! 3/27/2004 :: Today's Axess episode was entitled "Videoman, Reloaded!". Beware, spoilers below. Video clip will be put up when I return home from work tonight, since I have run out of time. @_@; *flees* At the Dark Loid headquarters, the Mystery Man gives a Dark Chip to Videoman, as he asks him to delete Rockman. Videoman is all to happy to comply, as he remembers failing to kill Rockman's operator the last time. A new movie has been released on DVD, "Starpotter Reloaded"! (Which seems to be a cross between Star Wars, Harry Potter, and The Matrix, I am NOT joking. The main character looks just like Harry. o_o;;) At the DVD Rental place, video tapes have gone out of control! Meijin sends Netto there right away to take care of the situation. As Netto plug-in's Rockman, they find a hoard of electric Killer Eye viruses inside the computer. Rockman easily deletes them, but becomes bothered when he feels like someone is watching him. After the secure the area, they decide to rent the newly released movie. However, it's all rented out! A depressed Netto loudly complains, until Enzan arrives at the scene. As the two sit down, Enzan tells Netto over a cup of tea that he had met the actors of the new movie at the Ameroupe premiere. Netto becomes estatic and pleads with Enzan to introduce him to them (while glomping him in the process, Enzan's expression is priceless. ^_^;;) At the Game Soul center, the gaming screens flicker, then suddenly shows an image of Rockman! As this happens, the games inside start to malfunction. Likewise, other video run appliances begin to act oddly or completely break down. The next day, Netto is overlly excited at finally getting ahold of the video for the new movie. Just as he's celebrating, a scream breaks out and the billboard sign overhead shatters! All of the video screens inside a store now reflect an image of Rockman, and begin emitting a very strange sound wave. As Netto makes his way to the store, he plug-in's Rockman into a TV. As Rockman arrives in the cyberworld, he comes face to face with an exact copy of himself! The red-eyed version of Rockman smiles deviously, then points his buster point blank at the real blue navi. Rockman just barely dodges the shot, and quickly becomes overwhelmed by the ebil Rockman. Just as he's about to be deleted, a sword swipe slices through the copy, and destroys him. It's Blues! Netto is grateful for Enzan's arrival, as Blues helps Rockman to his feet. Back at the Science Labs, Meijin shows the boys screens of all of the copy Rockman's infiltrating the cyberworld. Inside the depths of the net, Videoman revels in his success at creating chaos. He's creating his new film, "Videoman: I'll Be Back!" The Dark Loid reveals that he had recorded Rockman while he fought off the viruses at the very beginning of the episode, allowing him to use the footage to create a barrage of copy Rockman's. Videoman implements the Rockmans into the Starpotter video tapes, and uses them to distribute his chaos everywhere around the city. Meanwhile, Netto is back in distress as his copy of Starpotter is malfunctioning. Enzan tells him that the tape probably became disrupted by the sound waves that the copy Rockman was emitting back in the television store. Netto and Enzan head out to track down all of the copy Rockmans, finding no shortage of them all around the cyberworld. As Videoman is creating more copy Rockmans in his hideout, Bubbleman suddenly appears and begins buffering his head with a padded stick. o_o; Videoman strangely complies and enjoys the cleaning, as Bubbleman sucks up to the Dark Loid. Afterwards, Videoman begins recording a new video, only Bubbleman gets in the way as his puckers up to kiss the camera. Videoman becomes disgusted and tries to push away the midget navi. At the Science Labs, Meijin, Yuuichirou, Dr. Regal, Enzan and Netto as analyzing an infected video tape. As they watch the video, they find the image of the copy Rockman within. They resolve that the process had to have been done at a dubbing company, which happens to be where Videoman's hideout is. Videoman creates a copy of Bubbleman for the chibi navi to play with, so he takes off his with little bubbly clone. After which, a window pops up showing that Enzan and Netto have arrived at the Video Tape Recording building. Videoman becomes gleeful that Rockman's operator has fallen into his hands (he seems to hate Netto more than Rockman himself). A Dimensional Area then forms around the building. As the pair run inside, they meet up with the Dark Loid. After narrowly dodging a Wind Cutter attack from Videoman, the two use Cross Fusion to transform (from now on, I will refer to Cross Fusioned Enzan and Netto as R Blues and R Rockman, as Capcom's summaries do). Now transformed, the two immediatly dive into the fight. The battle turns out quite even, with neither side gaining the upper hand. During which, Videoman begins recording again. After their first round, Videoman tells Netto about how he recorded Rockman earlier on. Rockman remembers the incident, exclaiming that he wasn't just imagining the feeling that he was being watched. As Videoman confirms Rockman's suspicions, he begins creating an all new copied army, but this time of R Rockman! Yelling, "Action!", the new army begins its assault on R Blues and the real R Rockman. The pair eventually finds themselves cornered back to back as the massive amount of copied R Rockmans surround them in a circle. As Videoman continues making more copies, he notices that a few of them begin to have glitches in them. R Blues also notices this, and quickly comes up with a plan. Enzan asks Netto if he has any electric battle chips, in which he responds that he has an Elec Sword. Confirming his plan, R Blues activates the Heavy Shake battle chip, and slams the giant object into the middle of the ground. R Rockman quickly activates his Elec Sword, and hits the Heavy Shake with it, setting off a gigantic electric wave! The shock blows away all of the copies in one blow. Furious that his army has been obliterated, Videoman attempts to create an all new one. But the few copies he manages to produce, as so full of glitches that they can't operate! R Blues confirms the fact that Videoman's recorded tape has now been destroyed due to the electric wave. Unwilling to give up, Videoman masses all of his power into one last try, and just ends up frying his video reel tape. As the smoke clears, the recorded copy of Bubbleman is all that was produced in the end. ^_^; Not only that, but it's just his lips! Both R Rockman and R Blues then activate their Magma Cannon battle chips, and fire off a Double Magma Cannon attack at the giant lips and Videoman. Unable to defend himself, Videoman is ultimately deleted. Netto and Enzan de-cross fusion, then smile and beat their fists together at their victoy. With the incident over with, all of the infected video tapes return to normal. Unfortunately, Netto is still unable to get ahold of the video tape to see the new movie. Just then, Enzan calls out to Netto from his company car, and motions for him to get in. Enzan has a surprise, it's all of the main actors from Starpotter! Netto is overly estatic as they greet in him in english, "Hi, Netto! Enzan!" Enzan reveals that they are there to film part 2 of the movie. But then again, Netto still hasn't seen the first one! ^_^; Next week, more Netto and Enzan, and Anetta! Yay for more EXE3 chars to make the scene. ^_^ 3/26/2004 :: I've been hopeless with updates this week. Mostly due to the fact that this is the last month of the semester, all my projects and final papers are crashing down on me. So for the month of April, I plead that you be patient with me. ^_^;; As for now, the seiyuu for Sparkman is now up, who interestingly enough also plays Zero in the Now Waking CD for Rockman Zero. Also don't forget, the Tri-Monthly contest is ending soon! Don't forget to send in your entry! 3/23/2004 :: Only a small fanart update tonight, as I spent every speck of my free time finishing this. x_o;; *twitches* Will add to actual gallery later... 3/22/2004 :: Screencaps for episode #24 of Axess are now up! I absolutely love every frame of Burnerman. Thus you will see that I scapped every scene of Burnerman. Yay for the rabid cupcake! Also, if you haven't done so already, please read the notice about my e-mail just above these words. Thank you! 3/21/2004 :: Yesterday's Axess episode (#24) was entitled "Red Hot Magma Fight". Yay for Burnerman! Beware, spoilers below. Two new clips in the media section this week! One in the battles, and another in the scenes. The episode begins with a singing Bubbleman, who is storing away his small collection of Dark Chips. He's happy that he may finally have a chance at defeating Rockman. Unfortunately, as soon as he starts walking away, a hoard of Dark Loid navis come and steal away his chips! As Bubbleman bursts into tears, Shademan arrives and tells him that Dark Loids do not need Dark Chips. As he walks away, an intrigued Bubbleman follows him a few steps behind. Meanwhile, Netto, Meiru, Tohru, Chisao and Mariko-sensei are heading out on another Hot Springs trip via a bus. Back at the Dark Loid headquarters, the Mystery Man hands over a Dark Chip to Burnerman, to aid in his mission. Among the Dimensional Area tubes in which the Dark Loids appear inside, we can see Sparkman and Gravityman (though they do not speak). Bubbleman appears inside another tube, and watches as Burnerman accepts the Dark Chip. As he does so, we hear a multitude of Dark Loids call out for the Dark Chip, in an addictive sort of way (rather creepy). At the control plant for the hot springs, Burnerman arrives and hacks through the firewall (with a funny engrish message on their computers reading "the virus invaded into the fire wall" ^_^;;) Once inside, he finds the main program protected by another multitude of firewalls. Soon enough the system detects Burnerman, and the alarms go off. The workers inside the building immediatly notify the Net Police. Meijin Eguchi notifies Enzan via PET about the incident at the Hot Springs. Enzan gives his farewell to Yuuichirou Hikari and Dr. Regal, whom he had been spending time with, and leaves right away. Dr. Regal of course just smirks as the Net Savior takes off. Enzan quickly boards a helicopter and heads for the Hot Springs. Meanwhile, Netto and co. have finally been dropped off at the bus stop for the Hot Springs. At the stop the meet the owner of the Hot Springs, who takes them to the resort. During which, Burnerman is slowly making his way through the layers of firewalls. Along the way, he easily deletes a round of security navis. Finally at the resort, Netto, Chisao and Tohru stand in front of a Hot Springs pool. Just before they dive in, Tohru warns Netto and Chisao not to go in. Not to be stopped like the last time they went to a hot springs, the two boys dive in anyways (while depriving themselves of their towels along the way O_o;). After a few mere seconds of relaxation, Netto and Chisao finds that their pool is a little more hot than they expected, and they quickly flee from the pool. From the other side, simular reactions are heard from Meiru and Mariko-sensei. Since the Hot Springs are unusable, the owner offers to let them play a pinball game called "Smart Ball". Meanwhile, Burnerman has finally broken through to the main program. He immediatly begins to alter it to his own accords. While the group is enjoying playing their pinball machines, they suddenly go haywire and spit out thousands of balls, covering everyone! Since Smart Ball is now out of order, Tohru suggests that they go see a real "Kanketsusen" geyser, which Netto confuses for the actual battle chip with the same name. Inside the main system, Bubbleman approaches Burnerman and tells him that the Net Saviors are approaching. Bubbleman then pleads to Burnerman for a Dark Chip, but he refuses. The group is now at the site of the Kanketusen, and sit as they wait for the geyser to activate. Suddenly, the ground begins to rumble under their feet! As Netto looks back at the resort, huge geysers begin sprouting out of the ground! As Netto asks the owner if those are the real Kanketsusen, he replies that something is wrong with the operating system. Netto immediatly leaves to take care of the problem himself. As Netto arrives at the control plant, so does Enzan. The two decide to work together in handling the problem. As they plug in Rockman and Blues, they find Bubbleman stopping up the system with his bubbles. Bubbleman, determined that he doesn't need a Dark Chip to defeat them, takes them both on in battle. However it only takes a few shots of the Rock Buster and a sword swipe from Blues to force the bubbly navi to log out. Meanwhile, Burnerman is torching the main program in the system with his burners. As he does so, explosions begin to break out all over the plant! Netto and Enzan realize that Bubbleman was only a distraction, and head to Burnerman's location instead. As they plug into the main control panel, Blues and Rockman finally track down Burnerman. Burnerman opens the fight with his Burning Jet attack, which the two just barely manage to dodge. Netto slots in the Bubble Shot chip, which Enzan slots in Variable Sword to counter attack Burnerman. Both Rockman and Blues gain the upper hand when their attacks wane down Burnerman. As the two order Burnerman to give up, he just laughs in their faces, then turns around to destroy the rest of the main program. As he does so, Dimensional Converter tubes start popping up all over the place, forming a Dimensional Area! Burnerman appears in the real world, to take care of the "human world". He quickly burns a hole in the ground, then jumps downwards and dissappears. Before following him, Enzan and Netto use Cross Fusion. As Burnerman reaches the bottom, he finds the lake of magma that powers the entire Hot Springs below ground. When cross fusioned Enzan and Netto arrive to stop him, Burnerman uses the power of the Dark Chip on himself. After quickly dodging an attack from Enzan, Burnerman powers up his flames and heats up his entire body (I am so reminded of Dilandau from Escaflowne when I hear Burnerman yelling "MUERO!" (BURN) ^_^;;). As Burnerman dodges a buster shot from Netto, he dives himself into the lake of magma, dissappearing below the surface as he swims towards the bottom. As Netto and Enzan arrive at the edge of the magma, Netto de-cross fusions in order to slot in new battle chips (we also see that when not in Cross Fusion, Netto can barely stand the heat). After readjusting his battle plan, Netto re-cross fusions with Rockman once again. Shocking even Enzan, Netto uses the Salamander battle chip to encase his entire body in a flame dragon, then dives himself into the magma as well. As Netto catches up with Burnerman, the Dark Loid can hardly believe that a human could follow him so far. Netto latches himself to Burnerman's back, then pulls the both of them up and out of the magma, despite his protests. Once Burnerman is free of the magma, Enzan wastes no time in swiftly attacking with his sword, slicing off Burnerman's arm. Swearing revenge on both Rockman and Blues, Burnerman is forced to log out. With the problem taken care of, Enzan tells Netto that they quickly need to leave the underground heat, since the Dimensional Area will be fading. The two makes it out just fine, and fall out of Cross Fusion. The two eventually leave the plant, with the workers thanking them profusely. Netto suggests that Enzan come with him to the Hot Springs, and he accepts. Soon enough all the boys are back at the Hot Springs pool (Enzan in a towel!). Just as Tohru is about to tell them something about their hot spring, Netto and Chisao dive right in! Sure enough, after a few moments, both boys are nearly roasted to death and flee from the pool. Meanwhile, Meiru and Mariko-sensei are enjoying their hot spring very much. The scene ends with everyone laughing in amusement (including Enzan! I think this is like...the first time we have ever seen that boy laugh. o.o). The episode ends with one last scene, where we see a very familiar broken down laboratory. Giant robotic hands are working on a broken Dimensional Converter. Upon a painting on the wall of a certain famous mad scientist, the image of Shademan appears, laughing.... Well, this was certaintly an interesting turn of events. What Wily will have to do with this storyline is still unclear, but I guess we'll find out. Next week, Videoman returns, with an evil copy of Rockman! Don't miss it! 3/19/2004 :: New seiyuu information is up, much thanks to Heat Man. :) Seiyuus for Gravityman, Dr. Regal, Commissioner Kifune, and Manabe are now up, as well as their other anime/game roles. Axess update tommorrow shall be late at night, since I am stuck at work from morning to evening then am going to a movie afterwards. Bweeee. 3/18/2004 :: According to the official site for the KidsWB, it has been announced that Megaman NT Warrior will be returning to US airwaves this May. Kinda ironic, exactly a year will have passed and only a total of 17 episodes have aired here. Meanwhile, Canoodia is now in its second run of the newer episodes. Whether or not Kids WB will begin at episode 1 or start up at episode 18 where they left off is still unclear. Guess we'll have to wait for the commercials to start running. 3/17/2004 :: Fanart update today! I'd like to welcome new artists EnzanEXE, RyanMan, and Ryu to the galleries. ^_^ Also, regular members Cool Fire Bird, Zhentarim X, Suraida-chan, Neko, and Meta have had new work added to their galleries. Enjoy! 3/17/2004 :: A much needed update has been done to the Merchandise section. New items have been added, prices/availability updated, and everything has been -organized-! Yay for easy searching! Also, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day! XD PlaguedOne is a dear friend of mine, who badgers me day in and day out that everything should be green. So here you go, Plagued-kun, it's GREEN! SO. Everyone make sure to refresh the main page! XD 3/15/2004 :: I apologize for the frequent down time this past week. My hoster was having some server troubles, but I've been told that they are now running smoothly again. Hopefully anyways. :P 3/14/2004 :: Screencaps for episode #23 of Axess are now up and available. Also, for future notice, anyone who posts any spoilers or plotline related to EXE4 in the forum, outside of the Gaming Center section and without spoiler tags, gets an automatic ban. We're serious people, NO SPOILERS. Also please remember to NOT e-mail me any information regarding EXE4. I do not want to know. Thank you. 3/13/2004 :: Today's episode of Axess (#23) was entitled, "Terrible Super Energy". Beware, spoilers below. New video clip in the media section! This was a rather disturbing episode. o_o; If there's any translation errors, they're my fault, as I am doing this one on my own. :P All you people on vacation for spring break! XD *shakes fisto* The episode begins with Rockman and Blues destroying viruses inside a Dimensional Converter that was salvaged from one of the Dark Loid's previous attacks. Netto and Enzan are trying to discover the secret of the Dimensional Converter's power, without having much luck. The next day at school, Netto is completely exhausted from battling viruses so much. Meiru, Tohru and Chisao greet him, and Netto begins complaining about their failures in figuring out the Dimensional Converter. Rockman suddenly receives an e-mail from Meijin, which dampens Netto's mood again, as he's called out on Net Savior duty. At the airport, Netto, Enzan, Manabe and Commissioner Kifune greet a newcomer, Dr. Regal. He has come from Kingland to help with the Dimensional Converter study, as he is the global authority of super energy. Dr. Regal is introduced to Netto and Enzan, the two Net Saviors. (It should be noted here that Dr. Regal is quite obviously our Mystery Man, in charge of the Dark Loid organization Nebula). The group of five is soon on their way to the location of the Dimensional Converter via car transportation. Along the way, Netto and Enzan have their usual round of disagreements, which seems to amuse Dr. Regal. From the very top of a nearby building, Yuriko sets up a sniping gun, then fires a device onto the antenna of their car, infecting their car's computer with viruses! Enzan and Netto quickly plug-in their navis, and easily clear the computer of the infection. Meanwhile, Dr. Regal has kept close watch on their battling skills. Once at the laboratory, Dr. Regal and Dr. Yuuichirou Hikari are introduced to each other. Once inside, Dr. Regal immediatly recognizes the "Dark Loid Dimensional Converter" (of course he would :P). Yuuichirou explains that they have been unable to crack the secret of the Dark Loid's power. Dr. Regal then asks Netto if he would please plug-in Rockman into the Cyber World of the Dimensional Converter. Inside, Rockman is ordered to enter the firewall surrounding the inner sanctum of the Dimensional Converter. As soon as he passes through, Netto slots-in the Number Soul Unison Chip, to allow Rockman to be able to analyze the surrounding area (we get a transformation sequence this time, too!). Meanwhile, Yuriko is operating from her car, via a laptop. She locates the password that Rockman used to breach the firewall inside the Dimensional Converter. As Rockman is scanning the area, he notices a tall stairway leading up to a suspicious platform up above. Confident that the platform is the Dimensional Converter's energy system, they ask Rockman to go take a look. Rockman shows some hesitation before acknowledging, having a funny feeling, but shakes it off. As Netto orders Rockman to be careful, he proceeds to begin climbing the steps upwards. As Rockman reaches the very top, an unstartling sight welcomes him. Bright orbs of light begin floating past him, which turn out to be the ghosts of dead navis! As one of the spirits passes straight through his chest, Rockman clutches his head and collapses to his knees, obviosuly frightened to death. (Remember, Rockman is highly afraid of ghosts) As Rockman whimpers in fear, the energy core of the Dimensional Converter is revealed. However Rockman is too frightened to move, and Netto is forced to plug him out. As Rockman retreats to his PET, Netto asks if he saw the ghosts, which Rockman confirms. Dr. Regal refuses to believe that navi ghosts were inside the Dimensional Converter. At that moment, Dr. Regal suddenly believes that he's discovered that source of the Dimensional Converter's energy. The others are told to wait outside as he experiments on it. As he finishes, the others are brought inside, where Dr. Regal reveals the Dimensional Converter device he has built. Everyone is estatic that Dr. Regal has figured out one of the secrets of the Dimensional Converter. (This part was a little blurry, as I could not catch just exactly what Dr. Regal has built.) The device is then plugged into the main Dimensional Converter. Suddenly, a very suspicious spark travels along a wire and into the Dimensional Converter, unnoticed. Inside the Cyberworld, the new Dark Loid Navi uses the firewall password that Yuriko found in order to break through. As soon as he enters, alert notices begin popping up on the computers! As expected, both Rockman and Blues are plugged into the Dimensional Converter in order to stop the intruder. As Rockman and Blues stand at the bottom of the staircase, Rockman convinces himself that he is not afraid of ghosts, and they proceed upwards (poor Rockman ^_^;). As soon as they reach Sparkman at they very top, the energy core of the Dimensional Converter suddenly begins to pulsate, as do the symbols on Rockman and Blues' chests! Both soon navis begin to grow very weak as their energy is being sucked away. Suddenly, a Dimensional Area is formed around the building! Sparkman travels to the real world, and introduces himself to the bewildered Yuuichirou and Dr. Regal. Enzan and Netto waste no time in using Cross Fusion to merge with their navis. As Netto and Enzan approach Sparkman, again their symbols begin to pulsate, and they become weak. Sparkman uses his Spark Ball attack to begin the battle, which the two boys quickly dodge. However, the Spark Balls begin firing off stray shots of electricity, targeting the entire lab! Dr. Regal and Yuuichirou leave the area for their own safety. From their waiting point outside, Manabe and Commissioner Kifune become startled when explosions begin occuring from inside the building. Netto activates the Gold Fist battle chip, while Enzan activates a combination of Slow Gauge and Custom Sword. As both leap in for an attack, they just barely miss! Sparkman retaliates with a spark attack and sends both Netto and Enzan flying. Determined to protect the Dimensional Converter, Netto activates the Fumikomi Cross (Step Cross) chip and Enzan activates the Fumikomizan (Step Sword) battle chip for another duo attack. Before they cane strike however, Sparkman actives a special technique, which turns Netto and Enzan's shadows against them! With new foes to battle, the pair finds themselves on the defensive. Just as Sparkman thinks he has them, Netto and Enzan each attack their opposite shadows! The move surprises their opponents, as Netto defeats Enzan's shadow and Enzan defeats Netto's. Enzan quickly uses the Area Steal and Muramasa Blade chips to attack Sparkman face to face. Sparkman commends Enzan for using Area Steal to match his speed, while initiating Muramasa since his hit points are so low. While he's distracted, Netto activates the Volcano Cannon chip from behind, and prepares to fire at Sparkman's back. Suddenly, a mysterious voice tells Sparkman to look behind him, and he notices Netto just in time. Before Netto can fire, Sparkman grabs Enzan and holds him in front of him as a shield. Enzan tells Netto to fire anyways, but he just can't. Enzan finally manages to break free, and Sparkman electricutes Netto, causing him to fall down beside Enzan. As the weakened duo can't move from where they are, Sparkman takes this opportunity to completely destroy the Dark Loid Dimensional Converter. As the Converter explodes, so does the building, and the Dimensional Area fades away. Inside the rubble of the science lab, the scientists and net saviors gaze at the now demolished Dimensional Converter. Netto apologizes for failing in his mission, but is comforted by his father. Yuuichirou states that he's finally discovered the secret of the Dark Loid Dimensional Converter's power....the source being Net Navis. Everyone is highly troubled by this news, refusing to believe that anyone could be so cruel to Net Navis as to use them for a power source. However, this explains the reason for the spirits of deleted navis inside the Energy Core, being the remnants of their programs. Dr. Regal apologizes for causing the incident in the Science Lab, but Netto and Yuuichirou reassure him that he was not at fault. Enzan, however, remains silent on the issue. Overall, an episode that progressed with the plot quite significantly. Rockman's scene with the ghosts of the navis was quite emotional, as one is not used to seeing Rockman so deathly afraid of something. Next week, the return of the rabid cupcake! *cough* I mean, Burnerman! Oh yeah, and Bubbleman too. :P Yay. 3/12/2004 :: Tonight I wish to put out a warning. Lately you may see DVDs of Rockman.exe on ebay, that claim to have english subtitles. DO NOT BUY THESE, THEY ARE SCAMMING YOU. Fansubs are not meant to be sold, they are free for all fans! These are NOT official DVDs, and they will not even play on most DVD players. Save yourself the waste of money and do NOT give these scammers your money! These episodes are readily available on IRC at all times, just follow the simple directions on #WolfPackProductions' website. I myself am there 24 hours a day with a fserve set up to serve all 56 episodes of EXE at all times. If you need further help, visit our EXE Anime topic on the forum for further assistance: http://www.kishuku.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7396 3/10/2004 :: NT Warrior edits for episode 23 are now online. Not much was changed from this episode, besides some facts about Pharaohman. I've begun official work on the screencaps section, in rebuilding all of season 1 and season 2. The season 1 section should be ready around early April, if I can accomplish 1 episode a day or so. Bweeness. 3/9/2004 :: Screencaps for Axess episode #22 are now available. Cuteness aboooouuunds! 3/9/2004 :: Sorry for the downtime, everyone. Apparantly my domain registrar failed to remind me about my domain renewal, so it expired. I renewed it yesterday, but it will probably take a full 24 hours before it's fully functional again and non quirky. Thanks for everyone's patience. 3/7/2004 :: Yesterday's episode of Axess (#22) was entitled "Bubbleman's Great Friendship Plan!" Beware, spoilers below, as usual. No clip this week, as there wasn't anything in particular that make a clip of, and my bandwidth could use the break. New clip will be promised next week though, yesh indeed. At the Dark Loid headquarters, Bubbleman (dressed as a scientist) is giving a lecture on how to defeat Rockman. He concludes that the only way to do so, is to fight fire with fire, ie: Soul Unison. When Bubbleman asks for volunteers, everyone logs out right away! Desperate to find someone to Soul Unison with, Bubbleman even turns to Shademan, who also logs out without delay. Bubbleman then realizes that he should first become friends with whom he wants to Soul Unison with. He heads to Net City, where he tries to befriend various navis, only to be ignored. Determined to not fail, Bubbleman sets up a cart filled with bottles of water, and tries to attract attention this way. The first navi he runs into happens to be Numberman, however Bubbleman acts so strangely that he scares him off! Who should walk by next, but the cute Roll-chan. Bubbleman presents to her a very pretty flower, but she declines and quickly takes off. Roll then becomes terrified when Bubbleman begins chasing after her! Unfortunately for Bubbleman, Roll finally snaps and begins to repeatadly smack him with her antennae while apologizing at the same time (Gomen nasai! *smack* Gomen nasai! *smack* Gomen nasai! *smack*), which is absolutely hilarious. ^_^; As Bubbleman sits dejectedly by his cart, a familiar little navi walks up to it, intrigued by all the water. With a very cute "Pelulu!", we see that it is Aquaman. Aquaman and Bubbleman become quick friends, due to their same interest in water. Aquaman reveals that he's lost in the city because his operator Shuuko has misplaced her PET. Bubbleman then convinces Aquaman to follow him for awhile. Back at Higureya, Shuuko is emotional due to losing Aquaman in Net City. Netto, Higure, Meiru and Tohru offer to help her find Aquaman by sending their navis into the city and conducting a search. Once inside, Rockman, Numberman, Roll and Iceman split up in different directions. Meanwhile, Aquaman is filling up a gigantic jug with his water. Once he's finished, Bubbleman connects the hose from the top of his head to the object, and fills it with bubbles as well. Their new creation, "Electrical Cider", is complete! However when they try to sell it in Net City, no one wants to buy it. Just then, Iceman spots the two! It takes a moment for Aquaman to remember who he is, but eventually does so when reminded of their previous net battle. When Bubbleman asks if they are friends, they decide at that moment that they are. ^_^; Bubbleman begins to get upset at being left out, but the two immediatly also accept him as a friend (which spawns their new friendship dance and song O_o; "Tomodachi! Tomodachi! Tomodachi!" When Iceman asks what they are up to, Aquaman reveals their Electrical Cider project. When Iceman tastes a sample, he decides it isn't quite right. Using his power, Iceman creates a gigantic icecube in the middle of the tank! Now that their Cider is chilled, it's absolutely perfect, and begins to sell like crazy! Before they realize it, their cider is completely sold out. To celebrate the event, Bubbleman presents to Iceman and Aquaman each a prize: Bubbleman Bottle Cap #1! (think a very tiny Bubbleman figurine) Next he decides to take them somewhere special, but Iceman becomes worried about their operators. However, Aquaman wishes to continue following Bubbleman. Iceman decides to go as well, and both are presented with Bubbleman Bottle Cap #2! Overjoyed by their new friendship, the three take off once again. When Rockman, Roll and Numberman regroup, they realize that Iceman is now missing as well. Tohru has no luck in contacting Iceman, so they set out once again to find the missing navis, this time as a group. Meanwhile, Bubbleman, Iceman and Aquaman arrive at their special place: a beach with an ocean of water! Combining all three of their powers once again, they build a fantastic castle fort out of ice, with slides and swimming pools inside! Back in Net City, Roll finds out from a passerby the direction in which Iceman and Aquaman ran off to. Determined to find them, the three set off. Inside the fort, Bubbleman, Iceman and Aquaman are enjoying the slides and water tremendously! As they head to the top of the slides once more, Aquaman and Iceman comment on how wonderful Bubbleman is. Obviously happy, Bubbleman presents them with Bottle Cap #3! When Bubbleman asks them if he is their friend, they respond cheerfully that he is. Enthralled this his plan is a success, Bubbleman suddenly turns around a rams the two smaller navis, yelling "Soul Unison!" When absolutely nothing happens, Iceman and Aquaman become upset because he attacked them. Aquaman, being the emotional little navi he is, is on the verge of tears (which have proven to be quite destructive). To calm down the tearful navi, Bubbleman presents him with Bubbleman Bottle Cap #4, which is a figure of Bubbleman in his bubble armor. ^_^; This cheers up Aquaman considerably, and becomes happy again. As they continue their way up to the top of the fort, someone suddenly calls Aquaman's name. As they look over the castle wall, they see Numberman, Rockman and Roll down below on the beach! Both Numberman and Roll remember the navi who had approached them earlier in Net City, and of course Rockman immediatly points out Bubbleman. The Dark Loid wastes no time in firing off a round of bubbles at Rockman, who fights back with his Rock Buster to snipe them out of the sky. When Aquaman and Iceman ask why they are fighting, Bubbleman responds that Rockman is jealous of their friendship, and that they must protect it! Aquaman resolves that it is a friendly net battle, so the two navis join in for the fun. Iceman and Aquaman begin attacking alongside Bubbleman, creating a world of chaos! Being obviously overpowered, Rockman finds himself quickly in trouble. He tells Netto to head to the Swimming Pool server, where they are located, so he can use Battle Chips to help him. The entire group heads over there immediatly. As soon as Netto connects to Rockman, he slots in the Fire Soul chip. Using his Fire Arm attack, Rockman is able to effectively counter-attack Aquaman's incoming attack, but still can't quite stop their onslought. Bubbleman, who is now standing behind Iceman and Aquaman, decides to try Soul Unison once again, only rather quietly this time. He repeatadly tries to touch them while saying "Soul Unison!", even go so far as to rub his butt on poor Iceman and chew on Aquaman's head, but still nothing happens. Aquaman and Iceman combine their attacks to create a frozen lake on the beach, entrapping Rockman, Roll and Numberman's lower bodies in the ice! When Bubbleman notices that they've won the battle on their own, he realizes he doesn't need Soul Unison after all! Just as Bubbleman is about to fire the last shot to finish them, Shuuko's voice suddenly calls out to Aquaman! Tohru also finally contacts his navi Iceman, obviously upset at his wrongdoings. Finding that they have no choice but to give up their fun, Iceman and Aquaman log out and return to their operator's PETs, leaving Bubbleman all alone. Meanwhile, Rockman uses the fire from his arm cannons to melt the ice, setting him and the others free. Finding the battle over, all three log out as well. Bubbleman becomes depressed, finding his Bottle Cap figurines littering the floor of his now empty castle. Back at the swimming pool, Shuuko asks Aquaman what he had been up to. He responds that they had made a lot of money with the Electrical Cider, which suddenly excites Shuuko "Okane?! (Money?!)", then immediatly becomes embarrased at her outburst. Aquaman continues rambling about his new friend, as does Iceman to Tohru, which only frustrates them. "Wakaranai... (I don't understand...)" When Netto tries to cheer them up, Rockman comments that they forgot to find out what Bubbleman was really up to, which causes Netto to become just as depressed. As Bubbleman tries to enjoy his empty castle, he suddenly feels water dripping from above. He finally decides to leave, and watches with tears in his eyes as the castle crumbles and melts into nothing. He eventually flees from the beach in tears. As he returns back home to the Dark Loid headquarters, he reports to Shademan that his test was failure. Shademan shrugs it off, and reminds Bubbleman about his longing quest to defeat Rockman, which revives his crushed spirit. Just before he leaves, he taps Shademan on the knee, hands something to him, then leaves in a cheerful mood. Shademan: "Puku...?" Shademan picks up the object Bubbleman had left him, finding it to be the last Bubbleman Bottle Cap figure, which happens to be Bubbleman in his Rush disguise. The episode ends with Bubbleman vowing his neverending desire to defeat Rockman. This was such an ENJOYABLE episode, so filled with cuteness and fun! You actually felt pity for Bubbleman in the end, when he's left all alone. Shademan's "puku" and expression at the end was also rather amusing. ^_^; Next week, the Mystery Man is revealed, Sparkman is introduced, and more Blues and Enzan! Don't miss it! 3/5/2004 :: NT Warrior edits for episode 22 are now online. ^_^ I've also fixed the images for the episode 20 summary, I didn't realize I didn't update the last bit of html. ^_^;; Sorry about that. Also, I am officially now employed again! I start my new job at Hallmark this coming Sunday. ^_^ Thank you everyone for all your support and good luck wishes during the last two months! 3/5/2004 :: The new Tri-Monthly Contest for March 2004 is now up and ready! Go check it out, and we look forward to seeing your entries! ^_^ 3/4/2004 :: Edits for NT Warrior episode 20 are now online. Also, if all goes well, the next Tri-Monthly Contest shall be announced tomorrow! 3/3/2004 :: Edits and changes for NT Warrior episode 18 are now up on the site in the Episode Summaries section. I received my batch of Canoodian episodes today, much thanks to Anime Master ZERO. ^^ The only episodes I am missing are 19 and 21 out of 18 - 33, so those two will be updated when they come around on American TV. The Canadian run ended at episode 33, then began reshowing the series from the beginning. The first Devil Roll episode was actually handled better than I expected. Most of the glaring mistakes were in the dialouge, and not the actual visual censorship (ie: Roll-sama's whip remained spikey). I'll continually be updating episodes with their edits as I watch them. :P Yay for dubbies. 3/3/2004 :: Screencaps (a whole lot of them x_o) from episode 21 of Axess are now up and available. I have also come to the decision to completely redo my screencaps from the first and second season of EXE. Reason being, the quality of the current ones just plain out suck. Most were even taken from lower quality vcds instead of the original avis. Since then I've become a bit wiser, and have found a much easier way of taking scaps. It will be a long project in the haul, but I plan on completing all 56 episodes by this summer. My server bandwidth has been doing quite well, so there's still plenty of room to grow. ^_^ The new screencaps will be set up in the same style that the Axess section has been going in, ie: one page will be one episode. Hopefully this will make it much easier to browse in the future. Here's to making a better site for all! ^_^/ 3/2/2004 :: New episode summaries for episodes 23, 24, 25 and 26 of Axess are now up, thanks to Heat Man for translating them. ^_^ Some new characters will be popping up, from both EXE3 and EXE4. Go check it out. ^_^ 3/1/2004 :: Nothing new to this site today, as I am crunched in trying to complete a project, as well as getting sick yet AGAIN. I did however, update my other site, OtaRockman. If you are cosplaying as a Rockman character at Otakon 2004, and have not yet done so, please sign up and be added to our cosplayers list! ^_^ An interview by one of our cosplayers was featured in this month's AnimePlay magazine as well. Check out the details in the updates section at OtaRockman. ^_^ http://www.kishuku.com/ota_rockman.html 2/26/2004 :: Today's Axess episode was entitled "Shademan's Ambition!" Beware, spoilers below as usual. New videoclip of Gravityman vs. Cross Fusion Rockman and Blues is in the media section. As a side note, PLEASE do not send me any anime / game relations from EXE / BN 4. I was already spoiled on EXE 3's entire plot due to this, I'd really like to play a BN game without having it told right to me. Thank you very much. The episode begins with Shademan ranting about the Dark Chips and the Dark Loids. He's begun to mistrust the human he is following, and decides to raid a stash of the Dark Chips on his own. Rockman is battling a young kid's navi at the game center, while Netto operates him from the shadows. Unfortunately they're not battling for fun, but rather on Net Savior business. The kid's navi is obviously infected with the power of the Dark Chip. After Rockman defeats him, the net navi is transmitted to the science labs for observation. The young kid becomes concerned for his navi, but Rockman gently reassures him that everything should be fine. Rockman and Netto reaffirm the effects of the Dark Chips, in which they completely destroy the Net Navi's soul in return for a great deal of power. Meijin interrupts their conversation, and informs Netto to continue searching out the Dark Chips, along with Enzan. The other Net Savior himself has found 3 more infected navis. Blues easily takes them down with a few sword swipes, then sends them along to the science labs as well. At the Net Police headquarters, Manabe is sent out by the Commissioner Kifune to track down the source of the Dark Chips. As she sets out on her mission, she heads towards a large compound out in the middle of nowhere. Along the way, she stops a delivery truck, which is filled with toy duck boats. Among them however, she finds a small black box, which contains 4 dark chips inside. Convinced she has found another Dark Chip factory, she decides to investigate. Meanwhile, Yuriko has noticed Manabe's arrival. The Mystery Man activates a Dimensional Area around the building, keeping Manabe outside of its perimeters. Back at the Science Labs, Yuuichirou is analyzing the four infected net navis while Netto and Enzan watch. He doesn't know if he can reverse the effects of the Dark Chip because of the intensive damage to the Net Navi's identity program. Manabe soon contacts Netto and Enzan via their PETs, and informs them of the Dimensional Area covering the Dark Chip factory. Enzan fires off towards the location right away, while Netto follows closely behind. Shademan inquires about the Dimensional Area to the Mystery Man, then dispatches Gravityman to protect the vault of Dark Chips inside the building. Enzan and Netto arrive at the location, and look for a way to enter the Dimensional Area. In order to break through with Cross Fusion, a great amount of speed is needed. Netto finds a ramp to skate down from, while Enzan picks off a speed boat to cross the lake with at a high velocity (which is Blues' idea, though Enzan first mistakes the boat for the toy duck one. ^_^; He quickly corrects this by noticing the real speed boat next to it. XD) As soon as Cross Fusioned Netto/Rockman enters the Dimensional Area, they're faced with a hoard of missile throwing viruses! Netto activates the Rock Buster and begins firing away immediatly. Unfortunately he soon becomes overwhelmed, and is forced to flee (his expression is -hilarious- XD). As he takes shelter in the space between two buildings, he's quickly found by another virus, and has to jump high for safety. As he's up in the air, he notices Cross Fusioned Enzan on top of the building! Yuriko is watching the two from her dark lit room, via moniters. Netto goes off on his own again, and has no luck finding the storage of Dark Chips. As he heads outside, he notices another tall building. Using the Dash Condor chip, Netto sails upwards, then vaults himself through the window at the top floor. Just as he lands, a mettool falls from above then dissappears into pixels. A pair of feet land where the mettool had once been: it's Enzan! Determined to put a stop to the Dark Chips, Netto and Enzan head towards the center of the building. Yuriko goes so far as to trying to kill the pair by sending the elevator crashing when they step in, but they're thankfully saved when Netto uses the Yo-Yo chip to pull them both out to safety. Busting their way in, Netto and Enzan finally track down the location of the Dark Chip vault. Getting to it won't be easy however, as a giant Dark Loid stands in their way: Gravityman! Enzan takes the first crack at him, and is immediatly squished to the ground by his Gravity Drive attack. Netto retaliates with the Shot Gun chip, which is also repelled by Gravityman's force. Gravityman quickly takes the offensive with his Gravity Hold attack, firing off a massive black hole blast towards the two. Netto and Enzan just barely manage to dodge it as it flies by, only to be crushed to the ground again by another round of Gravity Drive. Meanwhile, Shademan takes advantage of the distraction by entering the Dark Chip vault himself, swearing to take them for himself. Netto and Enzan become frustrated by their lack of ability to defeat the massive Dark Loid. The duo tries again with the Spread Gun, Wide Sword and Bamboo Sword chips, but are repelled easily by the Gravity Drive attack, which slams the two into each other while in mid-air. As Gravityman charges up for another attack, Netto and Enzan suddenly come up with a plan. Netto charges Gravityman head on as he fires off another Gravity Hold attack. Netto uses the Rock Buster to weaken it, then takes it on full force, along with another Gravity Drive attack. Enzan uses that moment to leap off of Netto, and manages to land a hit on Gravityman's gravity meter with a Long Sword. Finding the opening they needed, Netto fires a Charged Shot from the Rock Buster, and sends Gravityman reeling out of control, leading him to eventually log out. Meanwhile, Shademan has entered the vault of the Dark Chips. Much to his surprise however, he only finds a single chip laying on the floor: he's been deceived! Yuriko taunts him from the control room, leaving him in a bad temper. As Shademan is leaving, he runs into Netto and Enzan, who order him to hault. Netto remembers the Dark Loid from the very first episode, when he stole the handful of Synchro Chips from the Science Labs. Already in a bad mood, Shademan has no shred of patience for the two Net Saviors. Using his Crush Noise attack, he sends both Netto and Enzan crashing into a nearby wall. The hard impact causing them both to fall out of Cross Fusion, and no longer able to battle. Shademan then logs himself out, and the Dimensional Area dissappears. Overall a very good episode, they helped drive the plot forward a bit. Gravityman's log-out scene was hilarious, as he spews out random words and spins out of control. XD Next week, Bubbleman and his antics return! 2/26/2004 :: Search Soul has been added to the Style Changes section, bringing Axess back up to date. Also, thanks to Anime Master ZERO I will be receiving a batch of the NT Warrior episodes that aired in Canada, so that I can begin updating all of the new edits before they hit the air over here in the US (thus allowing me to keep from getting backlogged again :P). Yay hey. 2/25/2004 :: The episode summaries for Axess episodes 8, 9 and 10 have been updated to be complete. Remember, I am waiting for the subbed versions of the episodes to be released before writing the official summaries for the site, to make sure that there are no translation errors. Time to sleep, job interview tomorrow. @_@ 2/23/2004 :: Screencaps for both Axess episodes 19 and 20 are now up and available. Also of news, LBD_Nytetrayn from Mega Man Network has been in contact with Viz, who will be publishing the Megaman NT Warrior Comic / Manga. Well, I've been in contact with Viz(as usual), and have found out that NT Warrior has already gone to print. The unfortunate part is, while my petition WAS successful in seeing Mega Man manga make it to America, I don't know to what degree the rest of it was. In short, I'm told they're working as best as they can to keep it consistent with the cartoon(and trust me, I've informed him of just how bad an idea this is, even citing the white-out threats). However, if there is demand for it, and circumstances allow, they may be able to pull a "Cardcaptors" and release a version that uses the game-accurate names. As for other edits, I really don't know yet how those will be, if at all, other than name-changes. Another plus: the manga, like so many others of theirs, will remain unflipped, which is a good thing as the art would suffer tremendously between Navi icons and English text within the art, among other non-symetric issues. "Also, original covers." That's what he told me. It is VERY good news to hear that the published manga will be released in the traditional Japanese back-to-front style (for those unfamiliar, Japanese mangas are read backwards). This will keep the artwork true to the original. Hopefully the artwork will remain uncensored, LBD_Nytetrayn will be keeping on top of the issue as he keeps in touch with Viz. Thank you, Nytetrayn! 2/21/2004 :: I'm finally back in good health, and ready to catch up on things! Today's Axess episode was entitled "Hand Over the Dark Chips!" Beware, spoilers below. New Enzan/Blues cross fusion clip is in the media section, cause we got a TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE this time, thank you ShoPro. >:3 During the night, street lamps are flickering along a local highway. Inside the light's server, Desertman is struggling to survive after his near death encounter with Rockman and Searchman. He heads straight for the Net Police's depository of Dark Chips that have been confiscated. The injured Dark Loid begins devouring Dark Chips one after the other, causing a panic in the control room of the Net Police building. Desertman's data is slowly being taken over by the influence of the Dark Chips, resulting in purple spots appearing all over his body. As luck would have it, Enzan arrives and busts the control console with his fist, shutting down the Dark Chip transfer. Enzan wastes no time in plugging in Blues, who uses an Aqua Sword to take a devastating slice out of the intruder. Enzan halts his navi before he deletes him, and instead decides to put Desertman into captivity. Obviously, Shademan is less than pleased that one of his own has been captured. He gives out orders to Flashman (whom we haven't seen since episode 4) to go out and retrieve the stolen Dark Loid. Inside his cage, Desertman isn't looking so good, as he suffers from the lasting effects of the poison from the Dark Chips. At the Science Labs where Desertman is being held, Enzan, Netto, Yuuichirou and Meijin have conjoined. They discuss how the Dark Chips eat away at the Navi's data, until they are ultimately taken over with no mind of their own left intact. Netto and Rockman recall how Beastman acted when he too went out of control on the Dark Chips before he was deleted. They begin calling them "Akuma" Chips, which roughly means Demonic. Suddenly the alarms go off in the labs, viruses have broken through the firewall! Convinced that someone is breaking in to retrieve Desertman, Netto plug-in's Rockman into the server, who rapidly begins deleting viruses as they arrive. Netto uses an array of wood based chips to tackle the electric viruses without much of a problem. Meanwhile off in the distance where Desertman is being held, Flashman arrives to set him free. Just as Flashman offers his hand to take him home, Blues intervenes. To Flashman's surprise, Desertman poofs into a mini Blues doll, it was kawarimi! Not amused at being duped, the Dark Loid takes on Blues in battle. When Flashman barely avoids a leathal hit, he quickly flees and logs out of the server. After the incident, the Commissioner of the Net Police pleads with Yuuichirou to begin learning the secrets of the Dark Loids from Desertman right away. At the Dark Loid Headquarters, a discussion is being carried on between Shademan and the Mystery Man. It's becoming obvious at this point that Shademan is beginning to distrust the human, as his fellow comrades are not faring so well from the Dark Chips. As the Commissioner Kifune and his assistant Manabe are leaving, their car is suddenly taken over and goes out of control! Yuriko has ordered Needleman to bring the two to a junkyard as hostages. If the Net Saviors don't give them back Desertman, they'll put the car in a steel compactor with Kifune and Manabe still inside! Faced with a crisis, Netto rides with Meijin on his motercyle towards their location to bring Desertman as asked. Enzan receives word of Netto's actions, and immediatly orders his car around to follow suit. As soon as Netto and Meijin arrive, Needleman orders them to insert Desertman into the console. Meijin does as asked, and a relieved Netto goes to let the hostages out of the car. Only the car doors still won't open! Inside the console, Flashman approaches the suffering Desertman with a Dark Chip. Instead of giving it to him however, Flashman stabs Desertman directly in the head with his arm blade! Flashman then absorbs the Dark Chip himself, taking away any hope for the other Dark Loid. Desertman can only laugh at his comrade, as he tells him that he too will fall under the same dismal fate, as the Dark Chip eats away his data. Flashman, having heard enough, finally deletes the infected navi with a Neon Light attack. Rockman tells Netto to plug him into the car's computer so he can unlock the doors. As soon as Rockman enters, Needleman attacks! Netto wastes no time in slotting in the Search Soul Unison Chip, and this time we get a nifty transformation sequence to boot. As Needleman attacks from below, Rockman leaps up and fires his rifle gun from up in the air. The hit lands directly through Needleman's chest, forcing him to log himself out. With the doors unlocked, the Commissioner and his assistant are finally freed from the car and escape just as it's being crushed to a pancake. Just as Commissioner Kifune is offering his thanks to Netto, a Dimensional Area forms around the area! Rockman tries copying Searchman's technique of destroying the Dimensional Converter from the cyber world, but is unsuccessful when he find sit protected by a force field. As Netto is thinking of what to do next, a giant crane hook comes crashing down from overhead! Meijin manages to grab the boy and pull him out of harm's way just in time, but Netto loses his grip on his PET and it goes flying. Just at the same time, Flashman appears in the real world, right next to Netto's PET! Claiming his luck at being able to prevent Netto and Rockman's Cross Fusion, he gets ready to smash it to pieces with his foot. As his foot comes soaring down, a battle chip flies out of no where and knocks Netto's PET to safety. As the group looks to the whom threw the chip, they find Enzan! After a short introduction, Enzan whips out his own synchro chip and performs Cross Fusion with Blues (TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE OMG@#$!) Netto decides to stand by and let Enzan handle this one on his own. As the battle begins, the two go at each other head on. Enzan activates the Bamboo Sword chip, while Flashman fights back in hand to hand combat with his arm blades. The group watches silently as they battle, keeping themselves out of the way. Netto himself becomes completely shocked when Enzan pulls out a new trick, a program advance! (Remember, Cross Fusion takes a great deal of the operator's strength...most likely even more so when such a large attack is performed) Activating the Flame, Aqua, Elec, and Bamboo Sword chips, he activates the Elemental Sword! The 4 swipe hit attack finally defeats Flashman, and he logs out. With the battle won, Enzan reverts out of Cross Fusion with style. Back at the Dark Loid Headquarters, a sullen Flashman stumbles his way towards the awaiting Shademan. However, something is wrong.... Flashman's expression is completely blank! Shademan becomes bewildered as the zombie like Dark Loid tries to wrestle Dark Chips out of him, and is ultimately forced to stab through Flashman's chest with his own hand. As the pixels of Flashman fade away into deletion, Shademan becomes greatly disturbed about the effects of the Dark Chips, and begins distruting the human he has been following even moreso. Saa....not one, but TWO Dark Loids deleted this week. Next episode a new character arrives, Gravityman! More Enzan Cross Fusion, too. >:333 2/19/2004 :: I have been very sick with the stomach flu since early Wednesday morning. Site updates will continue when I can stand to be out of bed for more than 5 minutes. Hate being sick. x_o 2/17/2004 :: New character bios are now online. ^^ Profiles include: Shuuko Kido, Aquaman, Laika, Searchman, Desertman, and Videoman. Also, #WolfPackProductions has released not one, but THREE new subtitled Axess episodes tonight! Catch episodes 8, 9 and 10 at their webpage: http://wpp-fansubs.com/! 2/16/2004 :: Special thanks to Heat Man from Planet Mega Man for supplying new information on seiyuus. ^^ The voice actors for Videoman, Laika, and Desertman are now up! Desertman has the same voice as my favourite video game villain of all time, Ghaleon from Lunar SSS. >:3 GHALEON. *clings* New fanart is also up, by TabbyKitsu. ^^ Go see! 2/14/2004 :: Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! As per usual here is this week's Axess summary ("Search Soul!"), beware of the spoilers below. New Soul Unison clip in the usual media section. Enjoy! As a navi is making a data deposit in a vault, mysterious things begin to happen. All of the stored data begins to fly away! The security navis are dumbfounded by the invinsible theives, and are unable to stop them. Is it a ghost?! Back at the Science Labs, a Dimensional Converter is being studied. Netto is summoned to the Net Savior headquarters, where he meets up once again with Laika. The two are ordered to investigate the incident of the stolen data, and to track down the theives. As the situation is explained to them, Rockman becomes afraid of the "ghosts", which refers back to EXE episode 26. ^_^;; (He hides in his PET again, which is the same he did when Netto was on the ghost ship). Laika becomes annoyed at their behavior, and once again puts down Netto as being "weak". The two seperate off their own ways. At the Dark Loid headquarters, Shademan presents forth the stolen data in exchange for more Dark Chips. We're actually given a better look at the "Mystery Man" this time, though his identity is still not fully revealed. At the bank where the previous incident occured, Netto and Laika have their navis investigate the now empty vault in the cyber world. Searchman uses his search abilities to track footprints left on the ground, and identifies the culprits as Mettools. Laika keeps this newly found information to himself, and leaves a clueless Netto behind. Meanwhile, Rush appears in the real world beside Netto, and hints that he knows where to find the source of the theives. Unfortunately, Rush's "nose" for direction leads Netto to various resturaunts rather than the location of the data theives. Netto becomes frustrated, and orders Rush back into the cyber world. With no leads to go on, Netto heads back to the Net Savior headquarters. Laika, on the other hand, has tracked down the theives at yet another bank, who are in the process of stealing another batch of data. Searchman is able to use his scanning ability to see the invincible mettools, and strikes them down with his rifle gun. However he leaves a few unscathed, and instead marks them with a paint shot so Laika can track their movement in cyberspace. After completing his task, Laika returns to the Net Savior headquarters to join up again with Netto, who is sitting depressed at a counsole. Laika finally explains the situation with the invinsible mettools, and shows their movement on a computer screen. When he's done lecturing, he once again pegs Netto for his uselessness. Rockman tries to pry out of Searchman the reason why Laika and Netto can't get along, but gets an unsatisfactory response. Netto becomes ultimately frustrated, and leaves the headquarters on his own. Out on the streets, Netto takes out his anger on a poor aluminum can, causing a scene. Rockman finally manages to calm him down, and restores a bit of his confidence. Rush suddenly reappears at Netto's side, however the boy is weary of following him again. He eventually gives in, and Rush leads him to yet ANOTHER resturaunt. (Netto: "I was an idiot to believe him AGAIN.") This time however, Rockman notices a surge in the network nearby, which gives Netto the lead he was looking for! Meanwhile, Laika tracks down the mettool's movements on the computer to another bank which they are going to invade. He and Searchman head off in that direction in order to stop them. Netto has already arrived at the location, which seems to be an abandoned building. He plug-in's Rockman into the building's server, and they immediatly find the Dark Loid navi Desertman inside! Desertman has been using the power of the Dark Chip in order to create invisible fields around the mettools. As Rockman watches from above unoticed, a pack of mettools returns to Desertman, carrying a new load of stolen data. However Desertman notices the purple paint marks that Searchman had tagged them with, and realizes that they've been tracked! Highly upset, Desertman throws a fit, which causes some of the data to fall into a giant bowl of lava that is boiling in the center of the room. Taking this as his cue, Rockman finally presents himself to the Dark Loid navi. Furious that Rockman has found him, he sends a pack of mettools through the invinsible field gates. Rockman prepares his Rock Buster, but has no idea as to where to fire! Being at a disadvantage, Rockman is attacked from all sides by the unseen mettools. Netto finally retaliates by double slotting in the Air Storm and Flame Sword chips, which creates a firey tornado around Rockman. From this position, Rockman is able to use his sword to delete all of the attacking mettools without having to directly see them. As the last mettool is taking care of, Rockman leaps from the tornado and lands directly in front of an astonished Desertman. Not to be underestimated, Desertman creates an invisible field directly around himself, which leaves Rockman blind to his attacks. Netto and Rockman attempts to use the Tsunami and Aqua Sword chips, but is still unsuccessful and damaging the hidden Dark Loid navi. As Rockman leaps up to avoid an attack from below, Desertman attempts to crush him with a Heavy Sand cube. Netto quickly slots in a Break Hammer chip, which allows Rockman to obliterate the giant cube of sand. However, there's another one directly behind it! Catching Rockman offgaurd, both cube and navi crash into the ground. Much to Netto's relief, Rockman had used the Break Hammer to make a hole in the ground, which shielded him from the cube above. As Rockman crawls free unscathed, Desertman grabs him from behind with one of his giant hands! Unable to break free, Rockman finds himself in a desperate situation. Just then, Searchman appears! Laika steps up beside Netto, and expresses his disbelief that he was not the first to find the source of the theives. As Searchman aims his rifle directly at the Dark Loid, Desertman threatens to drop the still entrapped Rockman into the boiling lava below. Laika orders Searchman to proceed with his mission, but the navi becomes hesitant as he remembers Rockman's friendship. As Searchman stalls his attack, Desertman manages to hit him with a Lion Head directly. Laika becomes frustrated with his navi, ordering him to fire. Yet again, Searchman refuses to attack, and is struck for a second time by a Lion Head. Searchman tries again to take aim, but can't make himself take the shot. An intense moment passes between Laika, Searchman, Rockman and the Dark Loid, until Desertman finally just lets go of the blue navi and sends him flying towards the lava, as well as fires a double Lion Head at Searchman. Seeing no other choice, Searchman fires a Freeze Break shot at the lava, and takes the hit from the Lion Head full force. Searchman's shot solidifies the molten lava, which saves Rockman's life. Laika is in complete shock that his navi disobeyed his orders! Searchman sits against a wall, obviously injured as pixels break away from his body. Rockman runs to his side, and asks him why he saved his life, "Searchman.....Searchman.....why...?!" . Searchman is unable to respond, and collapses. Desertman sees this as his prime opportunity to delete them both, and sends another Lion Head in their direction. As the attack closes in on two navis, their symbols begin to glow! Rockman becomes surprised as Searchman opens his eyes, and softly tells him, "Go...Rockman..." Rockman simply nods, and both navis are embraced by the bright light. Laika: "What the...." Netto: "This is...Soul Unison...!" Laika: "Soul Unison?! True enough, Rockman and Searman combine to create Search Soul! Rockman uses Searchman's scanning ability to lock on to the approaching Lion Head, then obliterates it with a shot from his rifle, taking out a chunk of Desertman's side in the process. Enraged, Determan makes himself invinsible yet again, but this time Rockman can see him! Rockman tracks Desertman until the Dark Loid is directly below him, then points his rifle downwards as he fires another shot. Desertman takes the attack head on, and is forced to log out. After the battle, Netto receives the Search Soul Unison Chip. Laika is still highly upset with his Navi, and stalks out of the building. Netto and Rockman simply smile, having finally proven their worth to the Net Savior from Sharo. It is time for Laika's departure, as he prepares to leave on a plane to go back to his own country. Rockman and Searchman exchange goodbyes, and the two navis thank each other for what happened while fighting against Desertman. As Laika is walking up the steps to the plane, he actually mentions that Rockman had saved his navi during the incident. Netto simply beams, after finally receiving his praise. Sadly though, Laika follows up with another insult towards the two, which causes Netto to become enraged all over again. Netto shouts at the plane as it's leaving, but eventually calms down and even smiles, knowing that Laika at least has a shred of respect for him now, which is better than none. ^_^; Ahh, Searchman is the coolies! Definately a good episode, I do so hope he returns again eventually. I didn't hate Laika so much in this episode as I did the last one, maybe because Netto finally SUCCEEDS at something which makes Laika not so high and mighty. Next week, more Rockman and Blues cross fusion, don't miss it! 2/11/2004 :: 2 new chibis are up, done by Tabby! One is in the Fanart & Fanfic section, while the other is in the NEWLY opened Style Changes section, which has been completed! This will be continually updated as more Axess and Manga is released. Last but not least, I have put up one of my EXE3 PETs up for sale on ebay, to help pay for these servers while I am out of a job. Please be kind and help out the poor webmistress. :P http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3273773053 2/10/2004 :: Nothing new today, as I spent my time in finishing another fanart, this time of Harpuia. Yay for artsies! He's up in my gallery now too. More stuff tomorrow when I am not braindead. 2/9/2004 :: Screencaps for episode 18 of Axess are now up, which includes many shots of our new bishy pessimist, Laika. I can't wait to see the look on his face when his navi preats with Rockman. >:D Random fun chat quote: Ryo|xenosaga: have ya'll dubbed Searchman as "GIJoeman", the all america hero yet? Sorakazi: Better, Ryou. ^^ Ryo|xenosaga: oh? Sorakazi: USArmySoldierMan[VOTEFORBUSH] Ryo|xenosaga: HAH Ryo|xenosaga: ah yes that is better *Ryo|xenosaga snirkles 2/8/2004 :: Yesterday's episode of Axess was entitled "The Man Who Came From Sharo". New video clip of Videoman is in the media section. Beware, spoilers below! Special thanks once again to Josuke with his help in translating. Also, as a side note, the NT Warrior op has been removed from the clips section for the time being due to bandwidth constraints. It may reappear later on, who knows. I figure most people who wanted it have probably downloaded it by now anyways. :P Hope you enjoyed it! A large truck has stopped in the middle of railroad tracks, and it's engine has quit running. What's worse, is that a train is on its way, and it can't be stopped! Something has caused the operations of the train to go out of control. A mysterious man with grey-bluish hair watches from the side, then moves closer to the scene. He then plug-in's his navi Searchman into the computer, who quickly deletes the viruses inside. As Searchman plug-out's, Rockman arrives at the scene, only to find the situation already taken care of. Netto is bewildered, and he notices the strange man just before he dissappears from sight. Later in the day, Netto arrives at the Science Labs. Immediatly he notices the man from the train incident! He is then introduced to Laika, the Net Savior of Sharo country. Rockman is delighted to see Searchman again, who had saved him from Shadowman a few episodes before. Netto takes his time to show Laika around the Science Labs, stopping in areas to show him their chip development, as well as Rockman's battling skills. Last they stop in the Dimensional Area testing room, where Netto shows Laika the effects of Cross Fusion. Laika, however, is far from impressed, and leaves in the middle of the demonstration. As Netto joins Laika for a meal, he meakly tries to figure out what is bothering him. Laika states that Cross Fusion is not needed, and a waste of time. He implies that all you need in battle is your own smart thinking. This simply infuriates Netto, who argues that it's not like that at all. Meanwhile, the crowds are enjoying a cutesy movie at the theater, until all of a sudden an odd navi replaces the character on the screen! Other movies begin reacting the same, including some films that closely resemble James Bond and The Matrix. ^_^; Every single character is replaced by the Dark Loid navi, Videoman! Eventually he takes over every single film, then terrorizes the audience when a tsunami on the screen becomes real and floods the theater with water! While Netto continues to argue with Laika, he receives a Net Savior call from Meijin. They are soon both instructed to head over to the theater to stop Videoman's madness. As they arrive at the scene, water is overflowing out of all of the theater's windows. The two go their own seperate ways as they search for a way in. Laika heads to the front, and attempts to pry the main doors open, only to find them jammed shut. Netto pounds his way through the back door with a sledgehammer, and wastes no time in heading towards the main control room. As the commotion goes on, Videoman watches the crowd from his server, as if enjoying a movie (complete with his own director's chair that says "Videoman" on the back XD). From his position he's able to control the enviroment inside the theater! He begins "directing" his own film as he sets off a jet of flame, causing a rise of panic from the crowd once again. Outside, Laika plug-in's Searchman, who deletes the viruses that were jamming the doors. As they open, the people trapped inside pour out as Laika shoves his way inside the theater. Netto finally arrives at the control station inside the theater, and plug-in's Rockman into the server. Inside, Videoman is preparing for the "climax" of his film, as he watches the terrified crowd with glee. Videoman imagines a tornado sucking up the entire theater and tossing it into the sky Wizard of Oz style. ^_^; However his imagination is interrupted when Rockman busts his way into his hiding space! Just as Videoman recognizes the blue navi, the Mystery Man activates a Dimensional Area around the theater. As Rockman fires his Rock Buster, Videoman dissappears then arrives in the real world next to Netto! Having only one choice, Netto initiates Cross Fusion and merges with Rockman. Likewise, Laika finds himself confronted by Ratton viruses once he gets inside. Netto and Videoman soon crash their way in from above, landing in front of Laika. Netto pleads with him to leave because it's dangerous, but Laika just retorts that Netto doesn't understand the fact that he doesn't need Cross Fusion in order to take care of things. Laika then runs off on his own, thwarting off the Ratton viruses with a fire extinguisher along the way. As Netto tries to go after him, Videoman stuns him in the back with one of his video reel tapes. Thus, Netto is forced to turn back and fight him. Meanwhile, Laika instructs Searchman to find one of the Dimensional Area converters. He soon locates one just outside of the building, and Laika fights his way through viruses to get as close as he can to it. As Netto attempts to thwart off his own opponent, Videoman uses his fast foward abilities to deflect his attacks easily. Netto then activates a long sword chip, and attacks Videoman head on. However even a sword cannot cut his video reel tape! Videoman comments that the rare metal he was given has made his video tape ultimately strong (rare metal was mentioned back in Burnerman's episode, who was stealing it for the Dark Loids. It is also used to construct Dark Chips) As Netto tries to desperately think of what to do, Rockman instructs him to activate the Aqua Sword. Though baffled, Netto does so, and attacks Videoman once again. While he still cannot cut through his video tape, it does dampen it with water, which INFURIATES Videoman. His precious video tape is ruined! This absolutely pisses off the Dark Loid navi, who moves himself behind Netto at lightning speed. He then uses his video tape to wind its way around Netto's body, trapping him in his clutches! Videoman starts his tape rolling, which electricutes Netto and disables him from being able to escape. Videoman then takes things a bit further as he moves the ensnaring video tape over Netto's nose and mouth, blocking any way to breathe. Meanwhile, Laika has finally tracked down Dimensional Converter. He slots in a Warp Gun chip, which powers up Searchman's rifle. A window in cyberspace opens up, allowing Searchman to take aim on the Dimensional Converter outside. Laika turns his gaze to the Converter as he awaits Searchman to fire. During which, Netto is slowly losing his strength as he runs out of air in his lungs. Rockman becomes immensly worried, while Videoman continues to suffocate the boy. Searchman finally releases the shot from his rifle, which travels through cyberspace to strike through the inner core of the Dimensional Converter. It takes a moment for the converter to shut down, and eventually the Dimensional Area begins to dissappear. Videoman becomes surprised when the Dimensional Area fails, then releases Netto as he dissappears. Netto falls out of Cross Fusion as he collapses to the floor unconcious, his PET landing beside him. Rockman yells out to Netto constantly until the boy reawakens, who starts coughing as he gets up to his knees. As Netto questions the fact that he's been saved, Laika steps up to him. Netto once again receives a lecture about the Synchro Chip and how there is no need for it, stating that the Japan Net Saviors are weak. As Laika leaves, Netto becomes furious all over again at the Net Savior from Sharo. Axess proves once again just how much more serious the battles are compared to those in EXE. With the included threat of putting Netto's body in danger while in Cross Fusion, we no longer have only Rockman to worry about, and Netto cannot be repaired like Navi data. While it is a drastic change from the original EXE, it is a good one I think, as it makes it more interesting. Next week, ironically enough, is Search Soul! :P Yay for more sassy Laika, who's even more pissy than Enzan times two. 2/7/2004 :: Episode 18 of Axess was nowhere to be found today, so I will attempt again tomorrow. On the upside, fresh news on NT Warrior has come in from Anime Master ZERO. Episodes 30 and 31 have been added to the chopping block, which sadly were the Curry Battle and Elec Hakushaku's mother episodes. As for some new dub changes, Gospel has been changed to Grave. Yes, Grave. (WTF?) In AMZ's own words: "Aki-chan's voice was terrible as was her song, not to mention how her name was pronounced. The gas in Yaito's bathroom was changed to steam. Forte, while not speaking in the ep, did think and his voice, while being high like his original voice, was totally unfit for his character (I was at least expecting a deeper voice). Sadly yes, Gospel was changed to Grave. Yaito's dialogue about Netto seeing her naked was changed to her dying of embarrassment. And to top it all off, Shuryou sounds like an adolescent with a slight hint of roboticism in his voice." ......thank God #WolfPackProductions continued subbing this series after it was liscensed. We love you, WPP! 2/5/2004 :: Heat Man has graciously translated Capcom's latest release of Axess episode summaries! Episodes 19 through 22 are now available in the episode list. This next batch is quite interesting, yes indeed. >:D (Burusu! Burusu!) In the meantime, I'm also working hard on completing the Style Changes section. Slowly bit by bit this site IS getting up to date. :P Actually the only partition that's lagging is the detailed NT Warrior summaries, and season 2 screencaps (which I am just about to give up on hoping for dvds for). Soo...you might see some of those this weekend. :P Neverthess, bedtime for me. Dentist visits make for very long days indeed, especially when 2 fillings are included. Hurrargh. So glad it's over. 2/4/2004 :: Wanna know who'd shell out a ton of money for a rare plushie? Yes, your crazy webmistress would. But a happy crazi she is! *click* Apparantly he came from a game center in Japan. If anyone has any further info on this certain plushie, please let me know. I've only seen very few of this one as it is. What I wouldn't give for a Blues or Forte one. >:D Anyways, on to the site updates! -New Fanart by Metal Shark Player and Forteotakugirl -Seiyuus for Shuuko & Aquaman (thanks Heat Man!) -New links added 2/1/2004 :: Today I finally managed to get the official OtaRockman cosplay group website online. ^_^ Major thanks to Tabby for all her help! We encourage everyone who is cosplaying at Otakon 2004 to visit this page and fill out the form inside the Cosplayers List section. ^_^ Also, the music videos in the media section are now working again. :) Last but not least, screencaps from episode 17 of Axess are also now up. ^_^ Happy February everyone! 1/31/2004 :: Not surprisingly, it has been reported that episodes 26 ("Bizarre! Mystery of the Ghost Ship!") and 27 ("To Become an Idol!") have been cut out of NT Warrior's lineup. While episode 27's cut was expected due to the boys cross dressing and the difficulties with providing a song for Aki-chan, episode 26's cut comes as a surprise. This is mostly because it was the beginning of Netto's trip around the world, which he won for winning 2nd place in the Grand Prix. These cuts will obviously create confusion as the storyline progresses, since it will leave Hinoken's constantly missing Netto at each city lacking reason, as well as the group's aquaintance with Aki-chan (which is especially important). 1/31/2004 :: Today's Axess episode was entitled, "The Assaulting Beastman!" Beware, spoilers below. New Soul Unison and Spoiler clips are the media section for those who want them. :P Beastman is currently on a rampage as he absorbs the power of the dark chip. He causes multiple power outages throughout the city, before returning to report in at the Dark Loid headquarters. He is then rewarded even more dark chips. It's obvious that he's completely addicted to them. Meanwhile, Netto, Meiru and "Mariko-sensei" (who is actually Yuriko) are taking a trip to go visit the new Sea Tower, which is a giant skyscraper mall built in the middle of the sea. As they arrive, Netto and Meiru are amazed by all the colorful and exciting booths set up around the mall. They are soon greeted by Tohru, Chisao and Rush, who remind "Mariko-sensei" about the Onsen Hot Springs Club. "Mariko-sensei" obviously has no clue as to what they're talking about, and blows them off. The trio then shortly leaves to return to their testing springs set up upstairs. Netto and Meiru are bewildered by "Mariko-sensei"'s odd behavior. As Tohru, Chisao and Rush are walking upstrairs, they run into the real Mariko-sensei. As they stare at her in confusion, she hyperly beckons them upstrairs to join her at the hot springs. Despite being utterly confused at the "double Mariko's", they follow her nontheless. During their tour of the mall, Netto spots a stand selling metal wheel shaped Onigiri (rice balls). The booth belongs to none other than Tamako, operator of Metalman! Tamako is overjoyed at seeing Netto again, going so far as to give him a noogie right before challanging him to a net battle. Seeing no other choice, Netto accepts and plug-in's Rockman. A crowd starts to gather around Netto and Tamako, who are engaged in a heated net battle. Rockman and Metalman go all out against each other, both determined to win. Tamako reveals the scars that Metalman has received on his fists from training so hard for the day that they would re-challange Netto and Rockman. As Mariko-sensei is walking to the Hot Springs upstairs, she suddenly runs straight into her evil twin sister Yuriko. She quickly covers herself by hypnotizing Mariko-sensei, making her forget their encounter. Mariko-sensei continues on as if nothing ever happened, while Yuriko slips away. Metalman and Rockman's battle wages on, each round turning out quite even between them. Meanwhile, Mariko-sensei is now enjoying a relaxing bath in the hot springs. However Tohru is stuck testing the frigid cold hot spring, while Chisao is left with the volcano hot one, and Rush is caught in a spring that is spiraling out of control! As Metalman charges at Rockman with his new Metal Break attack, something breaks out of the ground between them. It's Beastman! The Dark Loid navi has come to settle his score with Rockman once and for all. Beastman devours a Dark Chip before launching a full fledged attack on the blue navi, who receives a nasty slash to his forearm while defending himself. As Beastman goes in for another attack, Metalman intervenes and protects Rockman from further injury. Metalman and Rockman work together, and battle Beastman as a team. Metalman manages to slice off Beastman's legs, while Rockman pelts him in the head with his Rock Buster. The two then fire off Metal Wheel and Volcano Cannon harmoniously, which strike Beastman dead on. However both are surprised when Beastman is still standing after the attack. During the battle, Yuriko instructs her net navi Needleman to begin his attack on the Sea Tower's server. Soon enough, the tower itself begins to crumble and collapse into the sea. The rumbling causes Netto to fall, and he loses grip of his PET, which then falls into a crack in the floor. Netto quickly rushes over, only to find it out of his reach as it rests on a few wires that are sticking out of the jagged wall. Meiru and Tamako help hold onto Netto as he leans down to try and retrieve his PET. Meanwhile, Beastman mocks Rockman's sudden loss of his operator to aid him. Beastman launches another round of attacks at Rockman, and Metalman once again steps in to protect him. The Dark Loid navi decides it's time to devour yet ANOTHER dark chip, which begins to transform him into an even bigger beast. With his increased speed, he knocks both Metalman and Rockman out of the way. As Beastman goes in for the kill against Rockman, his claws instead strike right through the chest of Metalman. Having received a near fatal wound, Metalman is greatly disadvantaged. Beastman again goes in to attack Rockman, and is AGAIN stopped by Metalman, who forcibly uses his Metal Wheel attack to stall him. Rockman is astounded by Metalman's endurance, but immediatly becomes worried when the injured navi collapses. As Beastman arises once again, Rockman goes to Metalman's side. As Rockman becomes enraged by Beastman's banter, a bright light erupts from Rockman and Metalman! During which, Netto is still trying his hardest to get back his PET. As a recurring rumble causes his PET to fall off it's balance and plunge deeper into the crack, Netto forsakes all and leaps after it, who is barely caught by Tamako and Meiru. His fingers have just barely managed to catch his PET! As Netto visably relaxes, a bright light suddenly emerges from the screen. Netto: "This is....Soul Unison?!" Sure enough, Rockman has transformed into Metal Soul! Beastman leaps after the small navi, only to have his right arm completely shattered by Rockman's incredibly hard defense. Having gained the advantage, Rockman uses Metalman's "Metal Break!" attack to inflict a devastating attack on Beastman, causing him to log out. As Netto, Meiru and Tamako are preparing to leave, a dimensional area suddenly covers the tower! Beastman reappears in the real world, and immediatly charges at Netto! Out of desperation, he's become convinced that if he kills Rockman's operator, then Rockman will become much easier prey. Meiru and Tamako are horrified as Beastman attacks Netto head on, and buries him in a pile of rubble. Just as Beastman begins to glorify his victory, Cross Fusion Rockman bursts free! Beatsman becomes enraged that his plan has failed, which triggers a final transformation. The Dark Loid navi becomes the powerful and purple-toned Beastman DS! Netto tries his best to avoid Beastman's new burst of energy and attacks, but quickly becomes overwhelmed. Just as all seems lost, he activates a sword chip on his right arm, and delves in for the final blow, slicing Beastman cleanly in half. The evil navi utters his disbelief just before he explodes, finally deleted. With the threat taken care of, the dimensional area fades away. As Netto reverts back to his regular self, he collapses in Tamako's arms, clearly exhausted. Meanwhile, back in the hot springs, Mariko-sensei, Tohru, Chisao and Rush have been completely oblivious of the turmoil inside the tower. ^_^;; Back at the Dark Loid headquarters, Shademan, Yuriko and the Mystery Man are all disgusted that their Dark Loid navis keep failing their missions. Next week is the return of Searchman, and the introduction of his operator! The animation in the preview looked kind of poor though...I really hope it's not a repeat of episode 5's blunder. 1/30/2004 :: New batch of fanart is now up! New art has been put up in the following members galleries: Cool Fire Bird, MH Alia, Maq, digidestiny_00, Suraida-chan, and Jen. Also, two new gift fanarts are up, given by Neko and Kat! ^_^ Thank you so much everyone, keep them coming! 1/29/2004 :: Screencaps from episode 16 of Axess are now available. :) A new batch of fanarts will be going up tomorrow (I'm so dead tired at this point). Also, coming in from Planet Mega Man, Sho Pro will be releasing a new line of Megaman NT Warrior clothing this spring. For boys. Yay for girls getting the snuff AGAIN. Stereotypes no baka. 1/26/2004 :: Two new chibis are up, drawn by Tabby! Check out the Extra Downloads and Cosplay & Spirit sections. ^_^ Also, I finally made some use of my promo NT Warrior DVD, and ripped the opening from it. So a nice quality clip is now available in the NT Warrior section. Enjoy. :P 1/25/2004 :: Yesterday's Axess episode 16 was entitled, "Cute! Demon..?" As usual a video clip has been added to the media section, in the soul unison section. Beware, spoilers below! Special thanks to Josuke for help in translation. Netto, Meiru, Tohru, Chisao, Rush and Mariko-sensei are all talking to Higure at his battle chip shop, Higureya. It seems he's going to hold a new Net Battle Tournament! Suddenly, one of the local merchants busts into Higure's store, exclaiming "The 'bad luck girl' is coming!" Thus, all shops in the area close immediatly, including Higureya. Everyone peers outside to see a young girl walking down the streets, but she doesn't look scary at all! Shuuko Kido spots Higure's advertisement poster for his Net Battle tournament, and decides to enter when she sees the prize is a cake made by Meiru's mother. Higure is dismayed that this girl who's bad luck is phenominal has decided to enter his tournament. Netto and the others decide to enter as well to cheer him up a bit. Netto goes outside to greet her, but Shuuko has already left. Of course, the next day ends up being rainy and dismal. Everyone is standing in the outdoor arena with umbrellas when Shuuko finally shows up. The poor girl is drenched to the bone, but refuses Netto's offer for an umbrella. Higure decides to begin the tournament, and everyone plug-in's their navis into the counsole. When Shuuko plug-in's her navi Aquaman, everyone becomes apprehensive to see this "fearsome navi who belongs to the bad luck girl". Everyone is surprised when Aquaman ends up being a little squirt of a navi, who is even more cuter than Iceman (as the eskimo navi says so himself!) However the navis are still slightly afraid of him because of their reputation. When Numberman tries to attack with a dice bomb, the dice lands on one of its edges and doesn't explode! As the cute little navi advances on them, each step drives the group backwards, until they all accidently ring out. Shuuko and Aquaman are declared the winners! After the tournament, Higure decides to hold a congratulations party for Shuuko. As they approach Shuuko's home, they hear a scream from inside! As they rush in, they discover Shuuko in a distress. The electricity has gone out, which means Shuuko can't cook her meal for the party! As her two brothers Atsuko and Taichi comfort her, Aquaman decides to go to the Power Plant to reactivate the electricity. As the wee aqua navi enters the Power Plant's servers, alarms are activated throughout. After Aquaman succeeds in turning back on Shuuko's electricity, a gang of security navis ambush him! Finding himself utterly terrified, Aquaman bursts into tears which flood the entire network! The consequences result in the Power Plant disfunctioning, as Kero Midorikawa reports the incident on live television. Netto and Higure decide to go help Aquaman, dragging Shuuko along with them. As Rockman and Numberman arrive at the scene, they can't get their words through to the bawling Navi. When Rockman tries to break his Aqua Barrier with the Rock Buster, it has no effect! When Netto and Higure try to destroy the barrier with battle chips, Aquaman just begins to cry harder. Shuuko breaks down in tears herself, claiming that everything is her fault. After losing her parents and having to raise her brothers on her own, she's become too afraid. Higure then steps in, telling her the only reason Aquaman is so afraid is because she is. He then notes that she should have more confidence in herself, much like Netto. Shuuko comes to her senses, then tells them that they can stop Aquaman's crying if they plug up the hole on the top of his head. Numberman exlaims to Rockman his desire to save Aquaman, which triggers a new Soul Unison! Welcome, Number Soul! After Rockman's transformation, he uses Number's scanning abilities to locate a week point in Aquaman's barrier. As he fires a dice bomb, the explosion causes a wave of air to wash away Aquaman's protective wall. Netto then slots in Air Shoes and an Elec Sword, as Rockman takes aim at the still crying navi. (Amusingly enough, the battle chip that Netto slots in is his Synchro Chip. Animation error!) As Rockman goes in for the strike, he blunts down his Elec Sword at the last minute, and punches in Aquaman's blow hole. The little navi is surprised that he isn't deleted by Rockman's attack, and finally stops crying. As they leave the power plant, Netto receives the Number Soul unison chip. Shuuko thanks Higure for all of his help and encouragement. The next day, Netto and Meiru go to visit Higure at his shop. They're both surprised to see that Shuuko is now working there as well! Aquaman is so happy that he nearly begins to cry again. ^_^; This was such a very cute episode! Shuuko's voice acting was supurb, which really brought out her character. Next week, Metalman and Beastman return! Don't miss it. ^_- 1/22/2004 :: I've begun work on getting Scarab's creative NT Warrior summaries online. You can find them either in the NT Warrior section, or linked beside the American air date in the regular episode summaries section. More of them will go up as the days follow, but for now episodes 1, 2 and 4 are now available. 1/20/2004 :: Nothing new today, as this was my first day back to classes, and then I spent all my free time finishing ((- this artwork of Sasuke from Naruto -)) Yes, I am a rabid Naruto fan as well. ^_^; Also, I'd like to take this time to put out this general message: PLEASE do not e-mail me, asking where to download all of the episodes. This is why I put up the FAQ and Merchandise section. *points* I will ignore all said e-mails from now on. >_>; 1/19/2004 :: As you may have noticed, Mana.exe made me a wonderful art to celebrate 468,000 hits! *hugs* Thank you, Mana! Also, some new additions of wallpapers are now up in the "Extra Downloads" section, all submitted by PlaguedOne. ^_^ Thanks, guys! 1/18/2004 :: Screencaps for episode 15 of Axess are now up. ^_^ The Rock & Roll section has also been updated! 1/17/2004 :: Beware, spoilers for episode 22 of Rockman.exe contained below. While I was working on today's updates, Arison-chan was watching episode 22 of NT Warrior being shown in Canada. For those who were curious as to whether or not they would keep the ending of this one true to the original, you can relax, because they did. A few minor cuts were made to make the scene shorter, but overall they did not change it to something more kiddy (yes kids, characters really can die!) Rockman's final words in the original were "Ne..tto..kun...", while in the dub they are changed to "Del...e...tion.." Anyways. Just to satisfy those curious cats out there. It was also reported that the swords were left unblunted for the most part, surprisingly. While leaving the arena via helicoptor, Enzan's last words are "I didn't want it to go THIS far..." while Netto's scream is left intact, though changed to the word "NO!" instead of an anguished yell. Sigh, I want to see this episode... 1/17/2004 :: Today's episode of Axess #15 was entitled "Superhuman Guts!" Beware, spoilers below. Episode clip in the battles section of Axess videos. Enjoy! This episode begins back in Jawaii, where Dekao is making a curry delivery for Maha-Ichiban (resturaunt owned by the World 3 members). After the customer eats his delivered curry, he announces that he will not pay for it, because it was too spicy. Instead, he gives Dekao an old style of the PET as payment. When Dekao returns back to the resturaunt, Mahajarama, Hinoken, Madoi and Elec Hakushaku get angry at him for giving the food away for free. They tell him to throw away the old device. As Dekao is taking out the trash, a memory card falls out of the blocky PET. Dekao inserts his Advanced PET into a slot on the top, then swipes the card. Back inside the resturaunt, Gutsman is helping the WWW navis cook a pot of curry. Coloredman and Elecman get on his case about his operator screwing up. As Dekao swipes the card, Gutsman grows huge then goes beserk, destroying the pot of curry! He also has a little fun in paying back Coloredman and Elecman by juggling them in his massive hands. The effects eventually wear off, and a bewildered Gutsman turns back to normal. The World 3 realize that this a divine chance for Dekao and Gutsman to take on Netto and Rockman, who just happen to be on their way for a visit as they return from Kingland. As Netto arrives, the World 3 and Dekao greet him with a mock N-1 Grand Prix battle arena, complete with holographics fans and a giant net battling dome. When the battle begins, Dekao swipes the memory cards, increasing Gutsman's strength and size. However he soon goes too far, and Gutsman goes out of control again! Even a "Hyper Burst" program advance can't slow him down! Gutsman eventually breaks out of the net dome, and goes on a rampage through Jawaii's Net City. Netto, Dekao and Mariko-sensei head to the man who gave Dekao the device, and Netto recognizes him from the Cutman Brothers incident (he owned the resturaunt, in episode 38). As Netto peeks at the back of the object, he sees the name "Tadashi Hikari". The old device was made by his Grandfather! Netto immediatly contacts his father, and Yuuichirou explains that Tadashi made it to install modifications into your navi (E-Reader advertisement, anyone?) Meanwhile, the World 3 navis attempt at stopping the rabid Gutsman. After a round of attacks, Gutsman easily fights back and causes all 4 to log out. Roll-chan then tries to calm him with her sweetness, but instead Gutsman just grabs hold of the pink navi, and begins climbing a tower King Kong style. Meiru calls Netto via her PET, exclaiming that Roll-chan is in trouble. Rockman flies over to Gutsman's location via a Hell Condor (Fishy) virus. Mariko-sensei pops up with the idea that perhaps Bad Spice chips may cause Gutsman to calm down and fall asleep. Netto heads back to Maha-Ichiban, where the World 3 members provide him with a whole breifcase full of the spicy chips. As Rockman drops a barrage of the mushroom ("chamush") viruses onto Gutsman, they eventually begin to take affect. Roll finally manages to break free, and jumps out of Gutsman's hands. Eventually the giant navi loses his grip, and starts to fall, only to catch himself halfway down. A very perky Roll stands at the ledge above him, and pries the poor guy's fingers free, sending him crashing to the ground. With Gutsman back to normal, the episode comes to a close, and Netto leaves to go back home to Japan. Next week, Shuuko and Aquaman, and a new Soul Unison! Don't miss it! 1/16/2004 :: Rainy days + bad Texas drivers = Ryouko sits at home all day. Thus, I was able to get some actual site work done. :P Yay! Today's updates: - Axess episode 14 Screencaps - 2 new chibis by Tabby! Official Gallery & Music/Videos Sections - New fanart added to members galleries: CoolFireBird, Tabby, Silver, Suraida-chan, and PlaguedOne - NT Warrior Edits for Episodes 16 & 17 Also worth mentioning, Tabby and I have finished the logo designs for the t-shirts for Ota-Rockman 2004! For those who are uninformed, Ota-Rockman is a giant cosplay group that now meets every year at Otakon, one of the biggest anime conventions in the US. Last year there were over 50 of us who all dressed up as our favourite Rockman characters! We're returning full swing this year, and to show our fandom and support we have created these t-shirts for everyone to wear when we are not in costume. Even if you are not planning on dressing up, you can still wear the shirt! Everyone is welcome! ((- Click here to be taken to the sale page! -)) 1/15/2004 :: Some real life issues have kept me away the past day or so, preventing me from getting much work done. I did however get a new Side Story manga up in the manga section, featuring "Forte & Serenade: The Legendary Battle" Special thanks to Suraida-chan for all her help and information! Also, I've now added Tabby Kitsune's Commissions banner to the top of this page. Tabby has done outstanding artwork for this site, including the main page graphic of Rockman & Blues, and all of the chibis that you see at the very top of all the sections. Please help a fellow starving artist out and order some commissions from her! I can promise you that you will be astounded by the artwork she can create for you! 1/13/2004 :: About panicked when I realized my 3rd tape of NT Warrior episodes had gone missing. Finally managed to track it down after I realized I had forgotten to label the blasted thing. Nevertheless, NT Warrior edits for episode 15 of EXE are up. Will complete 16 and 17 tomorrow. Some small things were also fixed in the exe manga #6 summary, and new side-story manga stuffs will be up tomorrow thanks to Suraida-chan. Am now officially unemployed. Yay for poor people. 1/12/2004 :: The manga section is now finally complete! Thank you all for your patience during the rebuilding time of this section. If anyone finds an errors whether they are typos or translations in my summaries, please let me know, as I shall not be offended. Also, a new fanart is up in my own gallery, of classic Forte. ^_^ Last but not least, I would like to extend a very special thank you to Netto Hikari, who has so graciously offered to host my music videos! You can now find them in either section within the music & videos. *yawns* Oyasumi. x_o; 1/11/2004 :: Yesterday's episode 14 of Axess was entitled, "The Stolen Princess!" There's no new video clip today, as nothing really significant happens besides the return of Yaito. Summary below! The episode begins with Netto confronting his father at home, demanding how it was that Enzan got ahold of a Synchro chip. Yuuichirou reveals that because Enzan is also a Net Savior, and must battle the Dark Loids and Dark Chips, that he would be given the chance to test out Cross Fusion. At the Sci Labs, Enzan and Blues perform the act perfectly, thus Enzan was awarded the chip. Yuuichirou is astounded by Blues and Enzan's abilities, while Netto fumes over the situation. As Netto is leaving his house, an advertisement for a new game "Strawberry Princess", is playing on a giant screen nearby. Netto suddenly recognizes the voice talking: it's Yaito! Netto then receives an e-mail from Meiru, asking him to meet her at "Open Your World" (sort of a space museum?) Not only that, but Netto has to drag along a bag full of Strawberry Milk! As he arrives, so does Meiru and Rush. However when he asks her why she wanted to meet there, she has no idea what's going on! It turns out that Meiru had received a mail from Mariko-sensei, asking her to come. Sure enough, Mariko-sensei also arrives, stating that Netto had e-mailed her too! As the three deliberate over the situation, the elevator in front of them suddenly opens. As soon as the all get inside, the elevator goes out of control! Eventually the elevator shoots out of the top of the building, and up into the sky. It then transforms ala power ranger style into a robot, and flies off into the distance, with Netto, Meiru, Rush, and Mariko-sensei inside! After passing through a variety of enviroments, they finally land back onto the ground. As the doors open, they reveal none other than Yaito herself! She welcomes them to Kingland, where she has been studying abroad. Back at the Ayano-Kouji house, Yaito treats everyone to a fancy dinner. During which, she reveals that the data of the "Princess" for her new game has dissappeared! She pleads with Netto and Meiru to help her find it, so her game may be completed. Netto, Meiru and Yaito begin their search all over Kingland for the missing data, and likewise use their navis to search in the net world. (side note: Rockman, Roll and Glyde's reunion is so cuuute. ^_^) While they find viruses everywhere they go, no sign of the Princess' data can be found! Meanwhile, chaos is breaking out all over the Ayano-Kouji residence. Netto and co. eventually are lead to believe that there may be a connection between the missing data and all the mishaps. Yaito leads them all to a real castle in Kingland, which was a present from her Papa. As they arrive, Rockman, Roll and Glyde log into the Castle's server. Soon enough, they find a gigantic virus inside. Not only that, but the voice of the Princess is coming from within! Convinced that they have located the missing data, all three navis work together in weeding out the viruses, then destroying the gigantic one with a program advance from Netto & Rockman. As the data is set free from the virus, Glyde quickly goes to retrieve it. Inside the little globe of data, a mini Princess is seen inside, ranting at her current situation. It's a mini Princess Yaito! ^_^ With the data restored, Yaito's game is now complete! Everyone gathers to play it, while Yaito oddly sneaks away from the room. Soon after, Mariko, Rush, Netto and Meiru see THEIR characters in the game: only they're turned into hideous villains! The episode ends with the four chasing after a fleeing Yaito. ^_^; Next episode, Dekao and the World 3 return! Don't miss it. ^_^ 1/10/2004 :: As you may have noticed, I have not yet gotten ahold of Axess episode 14. This is mostly my fault, as I ended up sleeping most of the day away, then had to go to work. Anyways, will hopefully have tomorrow. In the meantime, I have uploaded new fanart to my own gallery, and have put up two new giftie fanarts from Tabby to the gift section. ^_^ Also, make sure to refresh the main page if you haven't already, as I tweaked the main image some. Last but not least, if you have not already visited this site's official IRC channel located on aniverse, then you should do so! Intructions for getting on irc are listed on WPP's main site, as we are on the same server (Aniverse). Our channel is #RockmanEXEOnline ^_^ Come join us! Gutsman: .... Gutsman: I love this room (#RockmanEXEOnline) Gutsman: so full of life and excitement Juliamon: Eh, I dunno. It can go from fun to depressing really quick here. Juliamon: And then right back up to WTF. PlaguedOne: WTF is the best kind :) Ryo|sitework: I agree 1/9/2004 :: New graphic on the main page, for the new year. >:D Cross Fusioness! Thankee to Tabby-kins for her gorgeous artwork! >:D 1/9/2004 :: For those who have not yet heard the big news, the Rockman.exe manga has been liscensed by Viz. They will be releasing it here under the title "Megaman NT Warrior", which leads to believe that they will not be using the original names from Rockman.exe. Sad, that is. But still, a translated manga = YAY. Hopefully this will lead to some of the other Rockman mangas being translated, including the EXE Battle Story. Speaking of the manga, volume 2 through 6 will be up soon. I have summaries for all of them but half of #6 written, just need to find time to sit down and type them. x_o;; 1/8/2004 :: For all you fans who have been in depression in not being able to buy all the Rockman.exe goodie toys online, your prays may have been answered. The toy company Mattel will be releasing new action figures based off of Megaman NT Warrior. Whether or not this is a good thing, only time will tell. I think we can all agree on one thing though, thank god it's not JazWares. Also, kudos to Anime Master ZERO who has kindly offered to record Canoodian NT Warrior for me! Thank you! 1/7/2004 :: Thanks to no less than THREE hotlinkers, I have been forced to take down over half of the Axess clips. They will return as soon as the hotlinkers REMOVE my videos from their forums and websites. As usual, I will publically humliate them to the public for the LEECHERS that they are. http://www.dw02.com.hk.ro/execgi-bin/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=6&show=0 http://warriorsempire.freedatos.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=3682#3682 http://rockman.soi13.net/anime/index.shtml#movies The past two days I have been working on a new interface for the forum. It's almost completed, so members of the forum will soon have a second forum style to chose from (you may choose to keep the current one, or change to the new). My job in the real world is also ending this week, and they have me working every day until then, so please excuse any lags in updates during this time, as I am also hunting for a replacement job during my free time. Thanks for your patience. 1/4/2004 :: As you can see, I've added a link at the top of this page to TokyoPop's new survey, which is allowing readers to voice their opinions on which manga they would like to see translated next. For those who do not know, TokyoPop is one of the leading manga distributers in the US. This is a prime opportunity! Please take the time to vote for your favourite Rockman manga series. Currently there are mangas for the Original, X, and EXE versions of Rockman over in Japan. Thanks! Now, time for the site updates. ^_^ - 2 new chapters of "Steal Your Chip!" have been updated in the fanart section. ^_^ - Moved the 2003 Updates to the archives listed at the bottom of this page - Cosplay picture of Hardcore Hecxz as Higure Yamitarou in the Cosplay & Spirit section - Battle Story #3 manga information & summary is up - Rockman.exe #1 manga information & summaru is up 1/3/2004 :: A new bunch of fanart has been uploaded, almost 30 pieces! New fanartists added includes: Roll Xtreme EXE, Elsie, and digitaldestiny_00! I'd like to give a very special thank you to Juliamon, Sketch, Anime Freak, Jen, and Eddie who sent me such wonderful fanart gifts for my birthday and Christmas as well! ^_^ *big hugs* Last but not least, regular artists galleries Meta, Doug, SSP, Silver, and Klonoa also have new work added! Keep the submissions coming! ^_^ My own fanart gallery has been updated with 3 new works, two of which were CGed by my dear friend Tabby-kins. ^_^; Also, the Merchandise section has finally been updated, so all the info there should now be current. According to a few sources, TeleToon in Canada has begun airing new episodes of NT Warrior, starting with episode 18 (Devil Roll!). If there is anyone who lives in Canada and is able to record these, I would be willing to pay you for the tapes and shipping to the US. It's most likely these episodes will not air in the US until Spring, and I would like to keep this site as up to date as possible where NT Warrior censorship and edits are concerned. If you would be willing to do this for me, please send an e-mail at forte@kishuku.com and let me know, I would kindly appreciate it. :) That's all for tonight. ^_^ Oyasumi! 1/2/2004 :: The summaries for EXE episodes 54, 55, and 56 are now up and completed! This finishes up all of the summaries for the entire season of EXE. Hurrah! 1/1/2004 :: As was stated, the winner of the December Tri-Monthly Contest has been revealed! Check out the Contest page for a link to see the winner and all of the fantastic entries. ^_^ Thank you so much to everyone who entered, and congrats to the winner! Hope to see you all again in the next contest, which will be held in March 2004! Oh, and Happy New Year, everyone. ^_^ Here's to another good one! Old News Archives ((- 2004 --- 2003 pt. 2 --- 2003 pt. 1 --- 2002 -)) Rockman.exe Online has been created to help other fans have a decent source of information and media on this great anime series. If you find any errors in this site, or would like add anything, please don't hesitate to e-mail me! Thank you all, and enjoy your stay.