I recently purchased myself a small present, or rather a large one for a Megaman fan such as myself. I figured it would be good to start my Blog of Love for Megaman series with this purchase before getting into the serious task I engaged myself to do; Writing about Megaman's story all while filling the plot holes and showing my love for the Blue Bomber. Hopefully, by the end of these many blogs, Tanya (and all of you, but Tanya was the one who asked) will understand why I love it so much. Despite being often regarded as kids games, Megaman still is regarded as the most challenging games of all times, so much that people actually begged Capcom to make Megaman 10 easier because they thought Megaman 9 was too hard for their weak skills (I mean come on.. Megaman 9 was one of the easiest in my opinion), no offense intended to those who had difficulties with it.
Not to mention that Megaman has what I consider the most devoted fans any video game has ever had, with most of them being over the 20's today, some with families, kids, even married. So don't you dare call Megaman a kids game! Hopefully, these people will induce their knowledge and love of the Blue Bomber to their kids so that he can live on forever and be the biggest character ever known in the video game industry, if he isn't already with his appearance in hundreds of games after 22 years. Many of us have been following the series since we were kids. The first Megaman game I ever played was Megaman 2 (I must of been around 4 or 5 years old), and I still love you Quickman, even now that I am 23 years old. I still hate the disappearing blocks from Heatman's stage though.
On to the topic, the Official Complete Works books are what I have bought. Unfortunately, I don't think there exists such books for the Legends and ZX series, but I suppose they will exist one day. If they exist already, I never saw them.
Series of the Official Complete Works books. Notice how I even used a blue background! (those are my bed sheets)
These books are a nice addition to any Megaman fan's collection. It contains the official artworks of every enemies in the games, official and never before seen sketches and it also holds parts of the story in the games. All of this is filled with comments from many people who, over the years, have worked on the Megaman titles, including Keiji Inafune, who is regarded as being Megaman's father. With all of this stuff in the books, it gives us a nice 200 pages books per series, which in this case is the Classic series, the X series and the Zero series. Originally, Rockman and Rockman X were in a single book for their release in Japan, but when Udon got the rights to translate and release it in North America, Megaman and Megaman X got their own seperate books, each with around or over 200 pages.
I will list the games found in each of the books along with its different sections, all of this with a nice scanned picture of the front and back of the corresponding book. I apologize for the length of the contents since it is pretty long, especially for the Classic and Zero series. I marked the pages of categories but not of the sub-categories. You will notice in the classic series that Megaman & Bass is there twice, but that's because originally, it came out on SNES in Japan only as Rockman & Forte, it only came out much later in North America under the name Megaman & Bass on GBA.
Megaman Official Complete Works (208 pages total):
Front and Back cover of Megaman Official Complete Works
- Megaman Series (005):
Megaman
Megaman 2
Megaman 3
Megaman 4
Megaman 5
Megaman 6
Megaman 7
Megaman 8
Megaman & Bass
Megaman: Dr. Wily's Revenge
Megaman II
Megaman III
Megaman IV
Megaman V
Megaman: The Wily Wars
Megaman: The Power Battle
Megaman 2: The Power Fighters
Wily & Light's Rockboard ~That's Paradise~
Megaman's Soccer
Megaman Battle & Chase
Super Adventure Rockman
Rockman Complete Works (PS)
Rockman (PS)
Rockman 2: The Secret of Dr. Wily (PS)
Rockman 3: The End of Dr. Wily!? (PS)
Rockman 4: A New Ambition!! (PS)
Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (PS)
Rockman 6: The Greatest Battle of All Time!! (PS)
Rockman Battle & Fighters (NGP)
Megaman & Bass (GBA)
Rockman Power Battle Fighters (PS2)
Megaman: Powered Up
- Rought Sketch (113)
- Gallery (133)
- Archives (157)
- Special (199)
Megaman X Official Complete Works (144 pages total):
Front and Back cover of Megaman X Official Complete Works
- Megaman X Series (005):
Megaman X
Megaman X2
Megaman X3
Megaman X4
Megaman X5
Megaman X6
Megaman X7
Megaman X8
Megaman Xtreme
Megaman Xtreme 2
Megaman X: Command Mission
Megaman: Maverick Hunter X
- Rough Sketch (091)
- Gallery (097)
- Archives (101)
Megaman Zero Official Complete Works (176 pages total):
Front and Back cover of Megaman Zero Official Complete Works
- Introduction (003)
Image Board
Story of Zero
Mutual Relations
- Character (023)
Zero
Ciel
Resistance
Neige
Caravan
Craft
Cyber-X
Harpuia
Fefnir
Leviathan
Phantom
Copy-X
Elpizo
Dark Elf
Omega
Weil
- Enemy (059)
Boss Enemy - Zero
Boss Enemy - Zero 2
Boss Enemy - Zero 3
Boss Enemy - Zero 4
Normal Enemy
- Cyber Elf (109)
Cyber Elf System
Nurse
Animal
Hacker
Other
- Special Contents (127)
Rough Sketch
Other Illustrations
Ending Digest
Memorable Events
Data Archives
Reploid Dialogue
Megaman Zero 3 Enhancement Cards
Idiom Dictionary
Special Interview
That sums it up. I would of put scans of a few pages inside the books, but that's when I realized it was pretty hard to scan the inside of such large books with semi-hard covers, so I didn't do it lol.
This marks my first of my series of Blogs of Love for Megaman, and hopefully I'll be able to come up with something interesting about the series. Considering the numbers of canonnicle series (that is purely speculation) and how I need to fill the plot holes, I'd expect between 7 nd 9 blogs to complete this. Technically it would be one for each series (which makes 5) and one for filling the plot holes between each (which means 4), but if I can, I'll place plot holes in the same as a series if its small enough for me to prevent a blogging chaos. Despite hating the Battle Network and Star Force series, I will make a small blog explaining a little bit of their stories, though they do not appear to be part of the other series. I will explain why once I get there.
Next time, in the Blogs of Love for Megaman, I'll begin with the classic series and work my way up.