NT Warrior: Traffic Signal Chaos!

Before I get into the review, I thought of something interesting regarding the opening themes to anime shows imported to the US. Rockman.exe, the original show before dubbing, features a big long musical introduction with many J-Pop like lyrics. See for yourself as the show changes the introduction song as it moves from series to series. In the United States, the English dubbers must have felt a song of this nature wouldn't work for kids and came up with a new one. Besides it being in Japanese, they also seem to have felt the original intro sequence was too slow and not action packed enough. The US theme of the show is completely different, more techno, no real lyrics and the sequences shown are more action oriented.

It's actually pretty typical of many foreign medias to move at a slower pace than American medias as any film class will tell you. I wonder though, how often this musical change happens when an anime receives an American dub. It's not like the J-Pop type of song can't be successful, after all, everyone and their mother remembers the "I Wanna Be the Very Best" song from Pokemon. I just thought it was kind of interesting. For the record, I actually like the American sound track better, but that's probably from my own conditioning of American media. Anyway, this review is significantly padded now, because this next episode is fucking awful.

Plot Synopsis
The last episode was similar to the third scenario of Battle Network 1 in that it had out of control vehicles about to crash. This one however, is probably closer related as it actually messes with the traffic signals and includes Maddy and her Net Navi Colorma... wait? WackoMan? Alright, sure, why not.

So the episode begins with the introduction of the worst character in the show, Yai Ayano. In the game, Yai is rather innocuous and not important enough to even warrant attention. In this show though, she is a collection of the same fucking joke over and over. The setup goes, Yai is rich, the punchline is, other characters are shocked at her frivolous spending. This gets old, real fast.

In this show, she's also an arrogant bitch most of the time. You would think the shows writers would take an opportunity to develop her character some, make her realize that money can't buy everything and that sort of thing, but no, instead she frequently flashes her wealth and acts like a spoiled brat every episode, and the other characters love her for it. Yay status quo...

Yai comes to her new school in DenTech city, having skipped some grades because she is a genius or something and the show just kind of bullshits around for a bit while Yai makes use of her money to get better cafeteria food, show a full length biography on a dvd of herself to the class, and roll around in a limo.

Anyway, the next day, Yai has to go to the bathroom but refuses to use the schools bathroom because they don't have gold plated faucets or some shit. So she decides to wait until she gets home, but UH OH, WWW has turned all the stop lights red in the most ineffective world domination plan ever. Luckily, Lan shows up with Mega Man, defeats WackoMan and Maddy, and runs Yai to the nearest bathroom. The next day, Yai shows up with a new limo with a toilet installed in it... gross...

Critique
Is there any character worth liking on this show? Even MegaMan comes off like a nagging nanny to Lan. There was a simple opportunity to show some humility in Yai about using the schools bathrooms, but the fact that she just buys a new bathroom for her limo just shows she doesn't learn anything. This episode is just horrible, and nothing interesting really happens until halfway through. Honestly, sometimes I'm amazed this show made it through its first season, let alone survived 4 years.

Rating: Thumbs Down.