Mega Man 3: Protoman's Rebirth! (Part One)
385A mysterious robot named Proto Man has appeared! Where did he come from? (Chapter Markers and more below!)
0:00 GTV ID: Rush to Greatness!!
0:08 Introduction: In the Year 200X....
1:13 Chapter 1: The Good Dr. Wily
5:15 CM 1: Rockman 3 (Japan., 1990)
5:49 Chapter 2: Proto Man's Battle
9:43 CM 2: Jollibee's Kid's Meal (Philippines, 2011)
10:00 Chapter 3: Inside the Submarine
14:50 Preview of Next Program
Episode information
GTV 120 "Mega Man 3: Proto Man's Rebirth (Part One)" Season 6 Episode 16
Original Airdate: November 12, 2021
Produced October 26-November 10, 2021
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my aging MacBook Pro,
which is on its way out. So long Touch Bar, its been real!
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Don't forget part 2! https://youtu.be/8MnI91aSrPk
Check out the rest of the Mega Man Manga series
Mega Man Manga https://youtu.be/irqYNCBaxR4
Mega Man 2 Dr. Wily’s Revenge Manga Part 1 https://youtu.be/hYvzP7AmCOs
Mega Man 2 Dr. Wily's Revenge Manga Part 2 https://youtu.be/rrLizQB-8tM
Mega Man 4: coming in 2022!
Other GTV Episodes about Mega Man
A Classic Rockman Collection https://youtu.be/aV2cNK7GejU
Mega Man 30th Anniversary https://youtu.be/HFzo9Y77asY
Elec-Man VS. Journey https://youtu.be/7GSx_0yMuXo
Mega Man Box Art https://youtu.be/BYWotFHxc-Q
MegaMan Lightbulbs https://youtu.be/aQTF2mMX81k
A brief explanation about this book!
The Rockman manga series began in Japan in 1992, published by Kodansha and written by Shigeto Ikehara. The books covered both the GameBoy and Family Computer series of games. While they were distinct and separate, the series began with Rockman 4 in 1992. Only after that were the first 3 games given a manga treatment. So the books were not written in order, nor when all of the games were new. The book covering the first game was very close to the story of the game, as was the second, though some liberties were taken. By this point all of the 8-bit games had a manga retelling, except for 3. In July 1994, the book Yomigaeru Blues was published in Japan. The story was compiled from weekly strips the were published months before. The book tries to create a new and different story that would be more interesting than just following the script of the game, which by then was 4 years old.
The book was written with the audience having knowledge of the complete series of games, as well as books that came after the setting of Rockman 3. As a result, some things in the book are left very ambiguous. There is no origin story for Rush, nor is Mega Man told that he and Proto Man were both built by Dr. Light. Dr. Cossack knew Dr. Light before the events of Mega Man 4 and are friends or at least colleagues. Some of Dr. Cossack's robots appear in the story, which makes sense because these are the robots he used when he turned evil in the next game.
So if you read this book at the end of the series, it works almost like a "gaiden," though it shares many elements of Mega Man 3 and does feature each of the robot masters, even if some of them are just in the background. Long story short, there is no book called "Rockman 3" but this is as close as you'll get.
I took some liberties with the presentation. The book has 5 chapters, though for the purposes of having a balanced video, I turned it into 6 chapters, by putting the submarine battle into its own chapter, which was originally part of chapter 2. The start and end of other chapters are shifted, as the start each boss battle ends a chapter, while the battle finishes at the start of the next one.
I removed some anachronisms that would place the story beyond the third game, which made sense for those who read the books in order, but would not make sense if you had not read them, and followed the story of the games. Other things, like Eddie, were left in because they were too essential to the plot, but who's to say he wasn’t created before Rockman 4 and just wasn't used??
Music sources:
Boss Battle and Wily theme by Synthescissor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvDZRJ3aUc3zL3vPVcL2vOA
Enker by Mike Essa https://www.youtube.com/user/mikethesmooth
Megaman 9 and 10 remixes by The Legend of Renegade
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLegendofRenegade
Other music from the original FC game or the Rockman Complete works remix for PlayStation
CMs by Chris Aaron 83 and Megaman World
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