ReBoot
Series, 1994, The Moltar years, Set in Mainframe
ReBoot is #7 of 16 in release order and #7 of 16 in chronological order in the Toonami Classics.
The story
Bob, a guardian from the Super Computer, helped by his friends Dot, Enzo, and dog Frisket, defend the digital city of Mainframe from evil computer viruses that seek to dominate the city and infect the entire net.
ReBoot recap
ReBoot was one of the first fully computer-animated TV series. It is set inside Mainframe, a computer system, where Guardian Bob protects the city with his tool Glitch, helped by his friend Dot Matrix, who runs a diner, and her little brother Enzo. Their enemies are two viruses, the power-hungry Megabyte and the unstable Hexadecimal. The User regularly drops games into Mainframe as cubes, and Bob and the others must enter them and beat the User, or the trapped part of the city is nullified. At the end of season 2, Megabyte sends Bob out into the Web. In season 3, Enzo loses a game, is trapped in the game cubes, and grows up into Matrix, a hardened gunslinger, travelling with his friend AndrAIa until they find Bob and return. Season 4 brings the Daemon, a virus spreading through the whole Net.
ReBoot ending explained
ReBoot ends on a cliffhanger. Season 4 was cut to eight episodes, and its last episode was rewritten to end with Megabyte in control of Mainframe's Principal Office, a situation that was never resolved on TV; the creators have never said how it would have ended. Webcomics later carried the story on, and Netflix's live-action reboot ReBoot: The Guardian Code (2018) followed new characters.
Where to watch ReBoot
ReBoot is streaming on Prime Video, Hoopla, Pluto TV, and Amazon MX Player in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 7.9/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after Yu Yu Hakusho, before Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
- Chronological order: after Yu Yu Hakusho, before Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
Cast
- Kathleen Barr as Dot Matrix (voice)
- Michael Donovan as Fong (voice)
- Shirley Milliner as Hexadecimal (voice)
- Garry Chalk as Slash (voice)
- Tony Jay as Megabyte (voice)
- Scott McNeil as Hack (voice)
- Michael Benyaer
- Andrea Libman as AndrAIa (voice)
- Paul Dobson as Matrix (voice)
- Sharon Alexander as AndrAIa (voice)
- Ian James Corlett as Bob (voice)
- Matthew Sinclair as Enzo Matrix (voice)
Created by John Grace, Philip Mitchell, Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson.