I remember dreaming about this show in high school but having no idea wth i was dreaming about. I didnt even recognise the show right now till i saw that dude's odd purple hair and it all clicked.
I didn't recognize any of the characters until the blue Furok came up and then it went from "hmmm this sounds familiar but probably just a really generic fantasy story" to "OH!!! I SAW THIS!!!"
When I was a kid, I had a friend in grade school who told me they were "ancient Pokemon cards"...and I've never forgiven him for tricking me like that.
I remembered always waking up at around 5:00 on Saturdays and tuning in to 4Kids. And always would be loosing my shit on this, Yu-GI-Oh! and Sonic X. I miss my childhood.
We legit had the same childhood. I would wake up at 5 or 6am and go to CW4Kids just to watch Magi-Nation, Winx Club, Cubix, TMNT, YU-Gi-Oh!, Do-Re-Mi, Choatix, and Huntix. My favorite show in the channel was Sonic X, Winx Club, and B-Daman Crossfire. Too bad some of the shows I mentioned stopped airing half-way through, which left me confused when I was younger since I'd be wondering where's the show.
My personal favorite was Rollbots. I missed a lot of episodes back then though since I kept falling asleep. Honestly such a great show even to this day. The creator is putting together a reboot, and he posted his script for a potential pilot on his website. 4Kids is super nostalgic to me. Honestly makes me sad that Saturday morning cartoons have basically died off. There were some really great shows that came out of that era.
Yeah Magi-Nation was my favorite show, but ever since Cubix took over this show, I just forget about it and then I got into both Sonic X and Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal
I remember my local BlockBuster pushing this series if you rented the GBC title you'd get a booster pack for free. I bought alot of booster packs and starter sets from BlockBuster, my hobby shops didn't carry these cards. This series has some good nostalgic memories, I feel like playing the gbc title now.
I used to watch this every Saturday morning and i compleatly forgot it exsited untill a few days ago, I couldn't recall the name and felt so stuck, Thanks for making the vid lol. I did some googling(now knowing the name) and it aired on CBC (Canadian Brodcasting Corporation) from 2007-2012. It clicked, this **is** that show.
Please do Magi-Nation J/k. I was born in 1990 and have played tcgs (mostly Magic) my whole life and hadn't heard of the card game until years after it was dead and didn't know there was a show until you and people in the comments started mentioning it. How did I miss this?
I never watched the show or played the card game, but I loved the GBC game. I was immensely disappointed that it didn’t get more popular. I’d say it was one of the best games for the GBC.
I don't play it competitively but I'm pretty sure Yu-Gi-Oh was a pretty simplistic game in the early 2000s It's the new rules with the pendulum XYZ link summons.
i remember this one show that was on netflix, i dont remember the name of it though. basically these four kids had been studying at this little place away from people to train and stuff (i forgot). they all had their own like, creature, pet, things, i think one had a dragon looking creature and another had a little rock dude. and they were color themed, one was blue, another was red, the two siblings were like, brown i think then the bad guy happens, kind of similar to what happened in magi-nation, and the kids go on an adventure to save the world...and stuff also spoilers, the youngest dies in the middle of the show so thats fUN
You love all the same things from my childhood and more... Its actually amazing. Wakfu, Bionicle, Magi-Nation, Stormhawks... what next, Oban? Oh wait you did a video on that too and I somehow didn't see it. Your channel is my heaven, I love it.
I had no idea that this was an actual card game. I found this as a gbc game at a Zany Brainy back in like 98-00 Then promptly forgot about it until I saw an ad for the animated series years later; honestly this series makes me more nostalgic for the store than the game
The TV series just tosses out the storyline from the GBC game. By that time, the rights had changed hands from Interactive Imagination to Cookie Jar Entertainment.
I have never felt this much nostalgia in my short life EVER but could you check out kaijudo I remember watching it as a kid I think It would be a very good episode.
Thank you. I've been trying to remember shows like magi-nation and huntik and only remembered a small creature calling a boy g-abriel but needed to find the show. Once again, thank you.
I remember Magi-Nation as the video game and the ads sold me on it. Never got it because as a kid, I had no expendable income and games were a luxury. The ads did advertise the card game as well and I vaguely remember a TV show but I never came across it. Glad to see Kohdok gave the game (both of them) the thumbs up and I'll have to see if I can track down the GBC game.
Funny. I literally discovered and subscribed to Kohdok 2 days ago before seeing this video. Also please make a quick video telling people that epic story media has uploaded the entire Chaotic series on their TH-cam page as part of their plan to gauge public interest.
god i know i'm late to this video but i'm so glad to have found this and other people who knew about the show. at times it felt like a fever dream but i'm glad it really Did Exist. good time
So im gonna be "That guy" for a moment here. what ended up happen among magi nation duel was the game was based like magic on 5 regions of the Moonlands based on the dark side of the mood. Tony Jones was a key character in the story not only for the show, but as a center piece of the early lore of the card game. heres as best of a tldr version i can give. the base set of the game was fun but had very noticeable rules and text issues with cause rerelease of the base expansion known as unlimited. From there the next set was awakening to which the core region aka the core of the moon was introduced. while yes most players had mono region decks. some deck were willing to splash other regions and pay the penalty cost for local meta game etc etc. the small amount of power creep were the shadow magi. corrupted version from respected regions. Shadow magi were allowed to only play core cards with certain regions if the card allowed those shadow magi to play them. i.e "this card can be played by naroom/cald/orothe etc etc shadow magi" in addition beyond the extreme power creep of the shadow twins. it was no until the set Nightmare's dawn where the game was on the brink of self collapse. That set has over 50% off erratas due to the sheer amount of vague interactions between the paradwyn and bogart regions not only sharing the same cards but leading to somewhat mirror matches leading judges to have hard time with rulings.
We would still have this treasure if kmart hadn't been in charge of all shipments of this game in the u.s. they went bankrupt and we lost the game permanently
@@gamerblisters Actually the tank started to go bankrupt when one of the lead designers wanted to push a ban list and cause tension among the staff and yugioh had a anime/manga
@@lolchaos13 kmarts distribution rights loss surely didn't help you cant get cards if noone moves the product,also magination had a cartoon , brief comic series and gba games
It took me over 10 year's to find what this show was called. I loved this show as a kid and was not surprised I got into anime and fantasy type tv shows when I got older after revisiting bits of this show. Definitely a catalyst for me 😂😂😂
I've tried playing the gba game on an emu and didn't know about a series or an actual card game. I watched this out of curiosity since I never finished the game.
The rights to Magi-Nation were acquired from Interactive Imagination by Cookie Jar. Cookie Jar was acquired by DHX. DHX became WildBrain. Unless the rights expired or were sold, they should still be held by WildBrain.
6:13 That very lie started a running joke with my sister that still goes on to this day. Whenever we're joking around and tell a lie (always something silly), we call each other Agram. We loved the show and I'm really glad you did a video on the series as a whole! I had an even larger nostalgia rush when you mentioned the MMO. I was really into Arderial as a kid so being an Arderialite in the game was a dream come true. So many Friday nights spent playing it and going on adventures with my main squeeze Xyx (a dream creature made of clouds). Wish it was still around... I loved how it used the soundtrack from the show!
The Hyrens in the games were basically Dragons, Deep Hyren being one of my favorites. I hope they reboot this franchise, but up the artwork to an even higher level.
It would be so cool for Magi-Nation to come back in board-game form, or something akin to another really token heavy game, Keyforge. Keyforge is a unique deck game by Richard Garfield, creator of MTG. In total you need about 7-8 sets of tokens for different mechanics in the tabletop card game. Each deck in Keyforge is unique, having been procedurally generated by an algorithm, and cannot be customized, as they are meant to be played only ever as is. P.s. I highly recommend Keyforge to anyone craving an immersive card game experience, but not willing to drop a ton of cash on a game you might only ever play once a week or so at an LGS event, or with some friends in school/work. I haven't had this much fun with a game and organized play since Innistrad/Return to Ravnica block standard in Magic.
Negative, you do realize you have set off into the universe a foreshadowing device that's probably gonna lead to this game coming back somehow right? With everything that has been announced lately, i'd be worried
I genuinely miss the concepts of this game and actually had no idea the cartoon existed. Didn't have a television at the time. Plot sounds about right compared to the other cheesy shows of the time.
have to say, that i am loving your videos. Getting to know what happened to old stuff i haven't seen in forever is really nice! For example! I remember Magination, I never truly watched it. I just remember seeing it on tv, while eating food at a restaurant. So getting to know how everything turned out is really nostalgic.
Two things - first - YOURE TWO WORLDS ARE COLLIDING Second - Did you see that Chaotic creator Bryan Gannon promoted a new TH-cam channel with all the old episodes season 1-3
Season 2 didn't debut on Kids' WB/CW4Kids, so that could be why. Instead it premiered on ThisTV's Cookie Jar Toons block, and 12 of its episodes went unaired and got released online somehow
To deal with tracking energy, we ended up using plastic toy coins to give them energy equal to the currency value, but before we came up with that solution, we'd use the pebble tokens that would come with Pokemon theme decks
I absolutely loved this game back when it was popular. The card shop I used to go to did a demo tournament where I learned to play, but there were only 4 of us that continued to play regularly, so the shop never ordered boosters for us to open, which made expanding our decks and collections very difficult.
I have had a lot of scenes and moments from this show stuck in the back of my head since I was a kid, but I just couldn't figure out what it was called. I think I remember enjoying it on Netflix!
Dude, I've been trying to remember this game for years now. Thanks for making is video. I forgot all about this game. I had a friend on my school bus in elementary that had these cards and YGO. Needless to say, I ended up being a bigger YGO fanatic but, I always thought the creature design for this game was amazing. I've been doing research on creature designs in fantasy games and I'm applying this to how I draw monsters for my own upcoming mmorpg. This was actually one of my childhood favorites.
I kind of wish that you would do a video on "Galactik Football". This both entertained and infuriated me. I believe an intelligent, handsome man like yourself would actually be able to figure how to articulate this better than myself. And i simply would enjoy listening to your voice as you break down the whole "story" of Galactik Football.
I only played the GBC game (which has held up surprisingly well), but I had a strategy guide that also had a full list of the cards in it. What I really enjoyed about those cards was not just the artwork and colors, but the funny little blurbs at the bottom
I loved the show as a kid! I never knew that it was even a card game lol. But I'm so glad I found this video and channel b/c a lot of things I was obsessed with as a kid are talked about here haha!
So MC dies, goes to a high fantasy world, learns magic, dies, gets reborn in a new, low fantasy world, with access to the magic MC learned in the high fantasy world.
Since you had a little sister, I can imagine you knew a little about the American Girl doll franchise and the movies. Would love to see you cover them.
I completely agree with his dislike of "this very clear prophecy must be followed exactly to the letter and can't be strayed from at all" cliche. I very much prefer the "this certain chain of vague events described as riddles so they aren't fully understood til they happen or are about to happen that then lead to the final confrontation with the big bad" approach since it allows for genuine surprise twists such as the prophecy actually meaning something else other than how the characters interpreted it. If you give a character a very clear "you must defeat this bad guy" prophecy, give me a show about the character growing stronger to prepare for facing the bad guy, not just a summary of the season thinly disguised as a so called plot.
It's one of those cartoons that I suddenly recall every year or so for absolutely no reason (as in, randomly, with nothing to possibly spark the memory)
Duuuuuuuuuuuudeeeeeee.... I didn’t know there was a real card game and a tv show! I had just played the GBC game. But elementary school me was pretty dumb with videogames that weren’t Pokémon
I just rewatched the series. And I still definitely enjoy it. Man the memories tho... I'd see it every Saturday. I started out leaving it there waiting for Sonic X, but then I began to love it
I feel like some A-hole, gatekeeper, purist because of my thoughts on the cartoon vs the TCG or video game, but if I'm being honest there is a high chance the cartoon would have been in my Saturday morning rotation. You got some good staple cards especially for Cald, and a new subscriber
I legit remember watching this show on the CW4Kids channel but I don't recall the main plot elements at all. The only thing I knew by heart my the theme song and it still slaps!!! Can you do a video on Huntix, please? Also, B-Daman Crossfire or the B-Daman franchise in general?
This video has some glaring information errors that need to be corrected. The GBC game was made to help promote the CCG. Interactive Imagination (known as 2i), the original company, wanted the synergy that Pokemon had between video game and CCG. The CCG basically continued the storyline of the GBC game, which pretty much stuck to the five original regions and the Core, plus a tiny bit of the Weave region. Some of the most significant characters never appear outside of the CCG. The CCG storyline itself was influenced by official CCG tournament results and fleshed out by official fiction posted to the Magi-Nation website. All of that was long gone when the TV show aired. One of the reasons that people loved the Magi-Nation: Duel CCG was because you could tell that the creators were fans much like the players. It was less apparent in the original set but became much clearer as expansions were released. They often showed a nerdy/geeky sense of humor. There would be references to things like Dungeons & Dragons, Transformers, Captain Planet and other nostalgic fan favorites. It's not true that nobody ran decks with more than one region. People would mix cards from different regions into their decks all the time. Cards like Ormagon, Shockwave and Thunderquake were often just too useful for many people to turn down using. I watched Dan Tibbles, one of the original lead game designers, play his personal deck at the Kubla-Con gaming convention and he was nigh unstoppable. No one could take him down. People I saw top the regional tournaments were defeated one after the other. It was made of, in his own words, "the best cards from each region." That's the five original regions of Arderial, Cald, Naroom, Orothe and Underneath (plus Universal, which was considered like the generic non-region with cards EVERYONE could play. Even Core). Everything was from Base Set (Unlimited) except for Rayje's Belt and Ohk from Awakening. One reason the card game imbalance became so large was partly because 2i (Interactive Imagination) relied on the fans to playtest the game before official expansion releases. They would find broken, imbalanced card combos but not report them to 2i for card revision. Then they would use the broken combinations to win local tournaments and claim the company sponsored prizes. The CCG was basically gone and out of print by the time the TV show aired. By that time, Cookie Jar Entertainment had already acquired the rights to Magi-Nation from 2i. The look and feel of the TV show seems like someone tried to get a version of Magi-Nation from Wish dot com. So much was changed that it was barely recognizable. That includes the storyline. The story by 2i was much more expansive and deeper. There was an entire mythos about the history of the Moonlands that the TV show plot never scratched. It lacked the heart that the original Magi-Nation had. Self sacrifice, corruption, redemption, bigotry were much more prominent as themes in the original fiction. The MMO game that Cookie Jar Entertainment put out, Magi-Nation: Battle For The Moonlands, was based on the TV show animated by DongWoo and thus did not follow the original GBC or CCG games. For the Japanese release, Tony Jones was gotten rid of completely. He was replaced by a character named Dan Monma. Dan was also the main character in the Magi-Nation manga that ran in Comic KoroKoro. He had a very different personality. As to what Phil Tavel has been up to, if you do a Google search you will find that he got in to Seattle politics. I couldn't believe it myself at first but I saw the campaign photograph and it is definitely him. I played and lost against him when the game creators were going around to promote the CCG at various tournaments and conventions.
Yeah I think this video is severely lacking. It focuses entirely too much on the cartoon, and maybe a minute or two on the card game. My friends and I went to, I believe GenCon (though it may have been a more local con?), and met Matt Holmberg, and kept up a correspondence with him, he was a cool guy.
I never knew there was a cartoon, but I emulated a video game adaptation of the card game and called Blockbuster a few times to ask if they were getting the real cards... There weren't many card store options in those days. I never found the cards, either.
I honestly thought magi nation was just a fever dream when i was young
I thought the same lol
I remember dreaming about this show in high school but having no idea wth i was dreaming about.
I didnt even recognise the show right now till i saw that dude's odd purple hair and it all clicked.
I didn't recognize any of the characters until the blue Furok came up and then it went from "hmmm this sounds familiar but probably just a really generic fantasy story" to "OH!!! I SAW THIS!!!"
Same brooo
Same
As soon as he said "saving someone from the bad guy" an ad with Elmo laughing pops up and I couldn't stop laughing.
Yes Elmo the greatest shadow magi
When I was a kid, I had a friend in grade school who told me they were "ancient Pokemon cards"...and I've never forgiven him for tricking me like that.
Did you also download free RAM
Anyone remember Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5? Always wondered what happened to that show.
Yea I remember taht
Yeah i watch it in youtube
The Hot Wheels Avenegrs
Yeah, my brother used to watch it
That was werid and give me hellboy vibes
I believe within this channel I have found my people..no place like home.
Daniaal khan one of us , one of us, one of us !
I'm sorry
cringe...
Anyone remember Dino Squad. This is an animated tv show that has teenagers turn into dinosaurs
Goddammit I had an idea for a story with the same gimmick.
I made a playlist with old shows that i used to watch check it out if u want its on my profile
I don't, but I want to know more!
@@Deoxys911 you can look up the show on TH-cam and watch a episode.
Wtf
I remembered always waking up at around 5:00 on Saturdays and tuning in to 4Kids. And always would be loosing my shit on this, Yu-GI-Oh! and Sonic X. I miss my childhood.
Same.
We legit had the same childhood. I would wake up at 5 or 6am and go to CW4Kids just to watch Magi-Nation, Winx Club, Cubix, TMNT, YU-Gi-Oh!, Do-Re-Mi, Choatix, and Huntix. My favorite show in the channel was Sonic X, Winx Club, and B-Daman Crossfire. Too bad some of the shows I mentioned stopped airing half-way through, which left me confused when I was younger since I'd be wondering where's the show.
No wonder I didn't know about this series since I never woke up that early :P 4Kids was my shit too.
My personal favorite was Rollbots. I missed a lot of episodes back then though since I kept falling asleep. Honestly such a great show even to this day. The creator is putting together a reboot, and he posted his script for a potential pilot on his website.
4Kids is super nostalgic to me. Honestly makes me sad that Saturday morning cartoons have basically died off. There were some really great shows that came out of that era.
Yeah Magi-Nation was my favorite show, but ever since Cubix took over this show, I just forget about it and then I got into both Sonic X and Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal
Soooooo any chance we can force him to do "Spider Riders" next?
CALLING ALL SPIDER RIDERS
LET'S RIDE
@@dcb99filmz SPIDER RIDERS
YESSSSSSS
ARACHNA POWER
"Mom, can I play Magic the Gathering?"
"We have Magic the Gathering at home."
Magic the Gathering at home:
You have a good mom
@@Scalesthelizardwizard lowkey I'd choose Magi-nation over Magic The Gathering
Mon Oliz ah but you see I would also prefer magi nation
I'll just take Yugioh
Magic clones are common.
Yugioh clones (2010 type yugioh and onwards) are rare.
I remember my local BlockBuster pushing this series if you rented the GBC title you'd get a booster pack for free. I bought alot of booster packs and starter sets from BlockBuster, my hobby shops didn't carry these cards. This series has some good nostalgic memories, I feel like playing the gbc title now.
emulation
.....or pay the $5 on eBay for a cart.
'cuz choices.
I used to watch this every Saturday morning and i compleatly forgot it exsited untill a few days ago, I couldn't recall the name and felt so stuck, Thanks for making the vid lol. I did some googling(now knowing the name) and it aired on CBC (Canadian Brodcasting Corporation) from 2007-2012. It clicked, this **is** that show.
Oh the memories! I have so much nostalgia.
Same
Same
Yes
Bruh I thought this was a fever dream. Theme song is still banger though
Please do Magi-Nation
J/k. I was born in 1990 and have played tcgs (mostly Magic) my whole life and hadn't heard of the card game until years after it was dead and didn't know there was a show until you and people in the comments started mentioning it. How did I miss this?
I thought that this was just a Gameboy color game
Yeah what fuckin dimension is this where it's a TV show and a card game I only played the gb color game and took a look at the mmo
Their was a actually computer game about Magination, I actually played it a little bit.
@@palladiumpony9596 I only knew this franchise by the online game...
@@fancypants3828 what's the name of that computer game
I never watched the show or played the card game, but I loved the GBC game. I was immensely disappointed that it didn’t get more popular. I’d say it was one of the best games for the GBC.
I don't play it competitively but I'm pretty sure Yu-Gi-Oh was a pretty simplistic game in the early 2000s
It's the new rules with the pendulum XYZ link summons.
eh, rituals and fusion summons was day 1.
Xyz were somewhat fun but pendulums just ain’t fun for me I stopped playing after that
I think this was on kids wb at one point.
Yeah and Cw4kids too
This show was my only Saturday morning cartoon. My mates and I used to role play as the show’s main characters. It was a dark but happy time.
Magi Nation? (takes long sip) that's a name I haven't heard in a long time
Magi Nation is a Canadian show and I love it. I am obsessed with it. I'm obsessed with the realms.
i remember this one show that was on netflix, i dont remember the name of it though. basically these four kids had been studying at this little place away from people to train and stuff (i forgot). they all had their own like, creature, pet, things, i think one had a dragon looking creature and another had a little rock dude. and they were color themed, one was blue, another was red, the two siblings were like, brown i think
then the bad guy happens, kind of similar to what happened in magi-nation, and the kids go on an adventure to save the world...and stuff
also spoilers, the youngest dies in the middle of the show so thats fUN
@Boss of Runes I think ur talking about Di-Gata Defenders
Finally a Magi Nation video!! Magi Nation is such a nostalgic show. It's so sad that the show was cut short and there wasn't a season 3
I remember making my own Dreamcreaters based off this and forcing lucid dreams about this world
You love all the same things from my childhood and more... Its actually amazing. Wakfu, Bionicle, Magi-Nation, Stormhawks... what next, Oban? Oh wait you did a video on that too and I somehow didn't see it. Your channel is my heaven, I love it.
The CCG was out of print by 2002, 5 years before the show aired in 2007.
I had no idea that this was an actual card game. I found this as a gbc game at a Zany Brainy back in like 98-00
Then promptly forgot about it until I saw an ad for the animated series years later; honestly this series makes me more nostalgic for the store than the game
The TV series just tosses out the storyline from the GBC game. By that time, the rights had changed hands from Interactive Imagination to Cookie Jar Entertainment.
I have never felt this much nostalgia in my short life EVER but could you check out kaijudo I remember watching it as a kid I think It would be a very good episode.
Great show
Best show ever
Thank you. I've been trying to remember shows like magi-nation and huntik and only remembered a small creature calling a boy g-abriel but needed to find the show. Once again, thank you.
@@dumbledom9542 no problem 👍🏽
I remember Magi-Nation as the video game and the ads sold me on it. Never got it because as a kid, I had no expendable income and games were a luxury. The ads did advertise the card game as well and I vaguely remember a TV show but I never came across it. Glad to see Kohdok gave the game (both of them) the thumbs up and I'll have to see if I can track down the GBC game.
Funny. I literally discovered and subscribed to Kohdok 2 days ago before seeing this video.
Also please make a quick video telling people that epic story media has uploaded the entire Chaotic series on their TH-cam page as part of their plan to gauge public interest.
god i know i'm late to this video but i'm so glad to have found this and other people who knew about the show. at times it felt like a fever dream but i'm glad it really Did Exist. good time
this looks like an 80s cartoon made in the 2000s
So im gonna be "That guy" for a moment here. what ended up happen among magi nation duel was the game was based like magic on 5 regions of the Moonlands based on the dark side of the mood. Tony Jones was a key character in the story not only for the show, but as a center piece of the early lore of the card game.
heres as best of a tldr version i can give.
the base set of the game was fun but had very noticeable rules and text issues with cause rerelease of the base expansion known as unlimited. From there the next set was awakening to which the core region aka the core of the moon was introduced. while yes most players had mono region decks. some deck were willing to splash other regions and pay the penalty cost for local meta game etc etc. the small amount of power creep were the shadow magi. corrupted version from respected regions. Shadow magi were allowed to only play core cards with certain regions if the card allowed those shadow magi to play them. i.e "this card can be played by naroom/cald/orothe etc etc shadow magi" in addition beyond the extreme power creep of the shadow twins. it was no until the set Nightmare's dawn where the game was on the brink of self collapse. That set has over 50% off erratas due to the sheer amount of vague interactions between the paradwyn and bogart regions not only sharing the same cards but leading to somewhat mirror matches leading judges to have hard time with rulings.
We would still have this treasure if kmart hadn't been in charge of all shipments of this game in the u.s. they went bankrupt and we lost the game permanently
@@gamerblisters
Actually the tank started to go bankrupt when one of the lead designers wanted to push a ban list and cause tension among the staff and yugioh had a anime/manga
@@lolchaos13 kmarts distribution rights loss surely didn't help you cant get cards if noone moves the product,also magination had a cartoon , brief comic series and gba games
It took me over 10 year's to find what this show was called. I loved this show as a kid and was not surprised I got into anime and fantasy type tv shows when I got older after revisiting bits of this show. Definitely a catalyst for me 😂😂😂
I've tried playing the gba game on an emu and didn't know about a series or an actual card game. I watched this out of curiosity since I never finished the game.
I've been trying to locate the company that created this so that either I can buy the IP or have it remastered on another console
The rights to Magi-Nation were acquired from Interactive Imagination by Cookie Jar. Cookie Jar was acquired by DHX. DHX became WildBrain. Unless the rights expired or were sold, they should still be held by WildBrain.
I loved watching the show on Jetix and Kix Including how they incorporated real world lessons into the story of each episode
I'm so thankful you made this videl,I used to watch this on Netflix and ever since it was takin off of Netflix I've been looking for its name
What about what happened to Zoids, Legend of the Dragon, Jackie Chan Adventures, and/or Deltora?
6:13 That very lie started a running joke with my sister that still goes on to this day. Whenever we're joking around and tell a lie (always something silly), we call each other Agram. We loved the show and I'm really glad you did a video on the series as a whole!
I had an even larger nostalgia rush when you mentioned the MMO. I was really into Arderial as a kid so being an Arderialite in the game was a dream come true. So many Friday nights spent playing it and going on adventures with my main squeeze Xyx (a dream creature made of clouds). Wish it was still around... I loved how it used the soundtrack from the show!
This brought back memories of another similar looking show; Spider Riders
Canadian's Cartoon Shows played Saturday mornings as a kid. loved them
Magi-Nation, Huntik, Dagata-Defenders, Roll-Bots* - check em out
The Hyrens in the games were basically Dragons, Deep Hyren being one of my favorites. I hope they reboot this franchise, but up the artwork to an even higher level.
yeah... the artwork is ugly as hell O_o
Zanji1234 I did not remember it looking so bad
Deep hyren was my first deck as well
Can you talk about Cardfight Vanguard when you can?
It would be so cool for Magi-Nation to come back in board-game form, or something akin to another really token heavy game, Keyforge. Keyforge is a unique deck game by Richard Garfield, creator of MTG. In total you need about 7-8 sets of tokens for different mechanics in the tabletop card game. Each deck in Keyforge is unique, having been procedurally generated by an algorithm, and cannot be customized, as they are meant to be played only ever as is.
P.s. I highly recommend Keyforge to anyone craving an immersive card game experience, but not willing to drop a ton of cash on a game you might only ever play once a week or so at an LGS event, or with some friends in school/work. I haven't had this much fun with a game and organized play since Innistrad/Return to Ravnica block standard in Magic.
This entire show was one giant acid trip
Negative, you do realize you have set off into the universe a foreshadowing device that's probably gonna lead to this game coming back somehow right? With everything that has been announced lately, i'd be worried
I'm literally rewatching this series.
I'M GONNA CRY, we need the show back!
I genuinely miss the concepts of this game and actually had no idea the cartoon existed. Didn't have a television at the time. Plot sounds about right compared to the other cheesy shows of the time.
I didn't know there was even a card game to Magi-Nation. All I knew was the show.
You poor SOB
I didn't until recently, where I found out about the GBC game's existence and the existence of the card game
If you liked the show you might like the video game. However, it is a card game first and foremost.
The GBC game's capture method was "beat the shit out of them and collect animite fragments left behind" which while violent made a lot of sense.
Only kids living in the UK can remember this airing on Pop & Kix. Those were the days
Kix was the best
Using amulets/artifacts to summon creatures... Reminds me a bit of Huntik.
Also... Need to make sure I do plenty of playtesting for my card game...
19:02
Card: "Weebos are for wimps"
So close to being Weeaboo
I remember watching this show just to get to Sonic X
So, when you are going to do a video about What Happened to Magi-Nation?
have to say, that i am loving your videos. Getting to know what happened to old stuff i haven't seen in forever is really nice!
For example!
I remember Magination, I never truly watched it. I just remember seeing it on tv, while eating food at a restaurant.
So getting to know how everything turned out is really nostalgic.
I remember never missing an episode of this cartoon but I could never remember the name of it, man do I thank the excistence of this channle
Man, I miss the era of Saturday morning cartoons. Randomly remembered this show last week.
Great video, but when are you going to cover Magi Nation?
I was pretty sure the show came out a few years after the card game died. I'll have to double-check that.
Yeah, the show came out in 2007, 5 years after the last card set.
18:00 Every intermediate Japanese-as-a-second-language reader: "Kanji, kanji, kanji, and this is... *reads kana*"
This show's theme song rocked
I remember seeing ads for this on Super Mario World DVDs
I was introduced to the series via the Gameboy Color game. It was too confusing for lil ol' me so I kinda forgot it even existed until now.
Two things - first - YOURE TWO WORLDS ARE COLLIDING
Second - Did you see that Chaotic creator Bryan Gannon promoted a new TH-cam channel with all the old episodes season 1-3
This is the first I'm hearing of a second season of Magi
Season 2 didn't debut on Kids' WB/CW4Kids, so that could be why. Instead it premiered on ThisTV's Cookie Jar Toons block, and 12 of its episodes went unaired and got released online somehow
To deal with tracking energy, we ended up using plastic toy coins to give them energy equal to the currency value, but before we came up with that solution, we'd use the pebble tokens that would come with Pokemon theme decks
I absolutely loved this game back when it was popular. The card shop I used to go to did a demo tournament where I learned to play, but there were only 4 of us that continued to play regularly, so the shop never ordered boosters for us to open, which made expanding our decks and collections very difficult.
I have had a lot of scenes and moments from this show stuck in the back of my head since I was a kid, but I just couldn't figure out what it was called. I think I remember enjoying it on Netflix!
Dude, I've been trying to remember this game for years now. Thanks for making is video. I forgot all about this game. I had a friend on my school bus in elementary that had these cards and YGO. Needless to say, I ended up being a bigger YGO fanatic but, I always thought the creature design for this game was amazing. I've been doing research on creature designs in fantasy games and I'm applying this to how I draw monsters for my own upcoming mmorpg. This was actually one of my childhood favorites.
I kind of wish that you would do a video on "Galactik Football". This both entertained and infuriated me. I believe an intelligent, handsome man like yourself would actually be able to figure how to articulate this better than myself. And i simply would enjoy listening to your voice as you break down the whole "story" of Galactik Football.
I only remember the GBC game. Had no idea it had a card game, let alone a cartoon
The last scene I remember seeing was the blue fox armor guy finding the book of elders in water and that's it. That's the final scene.
I only played the GBC game (which has held up surprisingly well), but I had a strategy guide that also had a full list of the cards in it.
What I really enjoyed about those cards was not just the artwork and colors, but the funny little blurbs at the bottom
People were really asking for you talking about this show , I only vaguely remember it enough to not really think about it .
I loved the show as a kid! I never knew that it was even a card game lol. But I'm so glad I found this video and channel b/c a lot of things I was obsessed with as a kid are talked about here haha!
You had to wake up at 6 am to watch this on the CW. Those were the times.
Kids WB
Wait a minute...that show...I've watched it! I never thought it's about a card game to begin with!
Huh...
"Isekaied into another world"?? Isekai means another world. You just said he another worlded to another world lol.
I thought Isekai meant somebody got hit by a truck?
English is a strange language that uses strange words from other languages in strange ways.
@@NimhLabs Not "A" truck, Truck-kun.
So MC dies, goes to a high fantasy world, learns magic, dies, gets reborn in a new, low fantasy world, with access to the magic MC learned in the high fantasy world.
@@wickederebus that sounds like an interesting idea.
Since you had a little sister, I can imagine you knew a little about the American Girl doll franchise and the movies. Would love to see you cover them.
I completely agree with his dislike of "this very clear prophecy must be followed exactly to the letter and can't be strayed from at all" cliche. I very much prefer the "this certain chain of vague events described as riddles so they aren't fully understood til they happen or are about to happen that then lead to the final confrontation with the big bad" approach since it allows for genuine surprise twists such as the prophecy actually meaning something else other than how the characters interpreted it. If you give a character a very clear "you must defeat this bad guy" prophecy, give me a show about the character growing stronger to prepare for facing the bad guy, not just a summary of the season thinly disguised as a so called plot.
It's one of those cartoons that I suddenly recall every year or so for absolutely no reason (as in, randomly, with nothing to possibly spark the memory)
Duuuuuuuuuuuudeeeeeee.... I didn’t know there was a real card game and a tv show! I had just played the GBC game. But elementary school me was pretty dumb with videogames that weren’t Pokémon
I just rewatched the series. And I still definitely enjoy it. Man the memories tho... I'd see it every Saturday. I started out leaving it there waiting for Sonic X, but then I began to love it
I feel like some A-hole, gatekeeper, purist because of my thoughts on the cartoon vs the TCG or video game, but if I'm being honest there is a high chance the cartoon would have been in my Saturday morning rotation.
You got some good staple cards especially for Cald, and a new subscriber
I had no idea the show was based on a game. This show was all I knew of! I ducking LOVED IT!! It can ABSOLUTELY stand on its own!
You didn't mention that Vrok was imagined up by the main character as a kid, which is why he came to mind in the show
I legit remember watching this show on the CW4Kids channel but I don't recall the main plot elements at all. The only thing I knew by heart my the theme song and it still slaps!!!
Can you do a video on Huntix, please? Also, B-Daman Crossfire or the B-Daman franchise in general?
He did both of those already
Finally, my prays have been heard. Thanks a billion for doing the video!
I was absolutely obsessed with the gameboy game and TCG but had no idea there was a series with it. Looks like something I'm glad I missed, honestly
This video has some glaring information errors that need to be corrected. The GBC game was made to help promote the CCG. Interactive Imagination (known as 2i), the original company, wanted the synergy that Pokemon had between video game and CCG. The CCG basically continued the storyline of the GBC game, which pretty much stuck to the five original regions and the Core, plus a tiny bit of the Weave region. Some of the most significant characters never appear outside of the CCG. The CCG storyline itself was influenced by official CCG tournament results and fleshed out by official fiction posted to the Magi-Nation website. All of that was long gone when the TV show aired. One of the reasons that people loved the Magi-Nation: Duel CCG was because you could tell that the creators were fans much like the players. It was less apparent in the original set but became much clearer as expansions were released. They often showed a nerdy/geeky sense of humor. There would be references to things like Dungeons & Dragons, Transformers, Captain Planet and other nostalgic fan favorites.
It's not true that nobody ran decks with more than one region. People would mix cards from different regions into their decks all the time. Cards like Ormagon, Shockwave and Thunderquake were often just too useful for many people to turn down using. I watched Dan Tibbles, one of the original lead game designers, play his personal deck at the Kubla-Con gaming convention and he was nigh unstoppable. No one could take him down. People I saw top the regional tournaments were defeated one after the other. It was made of, in his own words, "the best cards from each region." That's the five original regions of Arderial, Cald, Naroom, Orothe and Underneath (plus Universal, which was considered like the generic non-region with cards EVERYONE could play. Even Core). Everything was from Base Set (Unlimited) except for Rayje's Belt and Ohk from Awakening.
One reason the card game imbalance became so large was partly because 2i (Interactive Imagination) relied on the fans to playtest the game before official expansion releases. They would find broken, imbalanced card combos but not report them to 2i for card revision. Then they would use the broken combinations to win local tournaments and claim the company sponsored prizes.
The CCG was basically gone and out of print by the time the TV show aired. By that time, Cookie Jar Entertainment had already acquired the rights to Magi-Nation from 2i. The look and feel of the TV show seems like someone tried to get a version of Magi-Nation from Wish dot com. So much was changed that it was barely recognizable. That includes the storyline. The story by 2i was much more expansive and deeper. There was an entire mythos about the history of the Moonlands that the TV show plot never scratched. It lacked the heart that the original Magi-Nation had. Self sacrifice, corruption, redemption,
bigotry were much more prominent as themes in the original fiction.
The MMO game that Cookie Jar Entertainment put out, Magi-Nation: Battle For The Moonlands, was based on the TV show animated by DongWoo and thus did not follow the original GBC or CCG games.
For the Japanese release, Tony Jones was gotten rid of completely. He was replaced by a character named Dan Monma. Dan was also the main character in the Magi-Nation manga that ran in Comic KoroKoro. He had a very different personality.
As to what Phil Tavel has been up to, if you do a Google search you will find that he got in to Seattle politics. I couldn't believe it myself at first but I saw the campaign photograph and it is definitely him. I played and lost against him when the game creators were going around to promote the CCG at various tournaments and conventions.
Yeah I think this video is severely lacking. It focuses entirely too much on the cartoon, and maybe a minute or two on the card game. My friends and I went to, I believe GenCon (though it may have been a more local con?), and met Matt Holmberg, and kept up a correspondence with him, he was a cool guy.
THIS IS THE SERIES I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR YEARS
Finally!
Yay!
I never even knew it had a season 2 I only ever saw season 1 so I always thought it was a one and done
I never knew there was a cartoon, but I emulated a video game adaptation of the card game and called Blockbuster a few times to ask if they were getting the real cards... There weren't many card store options in those days. I never found the cards, either.
I've played well over a dozen TCGs/CCGs over the years and this is still my favourite one
Oh my god people actully rememberd this show
The big thing I remember from this show was the whole “monsters in stones” thing.
Guys..
I NEEED too know what happened to “Spectrobes”. I had SOOO MANY memories with this game franchise.