| Mon Colle Knights | |
 Cover of the second manga volume featuring Mondo Ooya, Rockna Hiiragi, Gluko, and Batch. | |
| 六門天外モンコレナイト (Rokumon Tengai Mon Kore Naito) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Adventure, comedy, fantasy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Satoru Akahori Katsumi Hasegawa |
| Illustrated by | Hideaki Nishikawa |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Magazine | Dragon Jr. |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | September 27, 1999 – April 27, 2001 |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yasunao Aoki |
| Produced by | Fukashi Azuma Kazunori Noguchi Shinichi Ikeda |
| Written by | Satoru Akahori Katsumi Hasegawa |
| Music by | Hiroshi Sakamoto |
| Studio | Studio Deen |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | January 10, 2000 – December 25, 2000 |
| Episodes | 51 (Japan) 46 (English) |
| Anime film | |
| Mon Colle Knights the Movie: The Legendary Fire Dragon and The Mysterious Tatari-chan | |
| Directed by | Yasunao Aoki |
| Produced by | Jōichi Mizuno Kazunori Noguchi Satoshi Kawano |
| Written by | Satoru Akahori Katsumi Hasegawa |
| Music by | Hiroshi Sakamoto |
| Studio | Studio Deen |
| Released | July 15, 2000 |
| Runtime | 32 minutes |
Mon Colle Knights, known in Japan as Six Gates Far Away Mon Colle Knight (Japanese: 六門天外モンコレナイト, Hepburn: Rokumon Tengai Mon Kore Naito), is a Japanese manga series written by Satoru Akahori and Katsumi Hasegawa and illustrated by Hideaki Nishikawa. The original concept was made by Hitoshi Yasuda and Group SNE. The series is based on the Monster Collection trading card game.
An anime television series adaptation animated by Studio Deen aired on TV Tokyo from January to December 2000 and consisted of 51 episodes and one film. The Saban-produced Mon Colle Knights aired on Fox Kids in North America from July 2001 to September 2002, consisting of 45 episodes.[1] In 2006, it aired in reruns on Toon Disney's Jetix on Sundays, as part of Jetix's "Anime Invasion Sundays" block. The manga was published in English in Singapore by Chuang Yi.
On June 9, 2020, the original Japanese version became available on Crunchyroll via Discotek Media.[2] According to Justin Sevakis, the only reason why the anime was only available on Crunchyroll in Japanese is that the masters for the English dub couldn't be found.[3] Discotek Media asked fans to help find the masters. They were still searching for it as of September 15, 2020.[4] Discotek Media released the anime sub-only on Blu-ray on April 27, 2021.[5] However, Discotek Media promised that they were still looking for the English dub.[6] Discotek had found the English dub masters and released the English dub on Blu-ray on May 31, 2022.[7][8]
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- ^ Mateo, Alex (February 11, 2021). "Discotek to Release Lupin III: Elusiveness of the Fog Anime, Saint Seiya Movies on BD on April 27". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
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- ^ "Discotek Licenses 1980 Astro Boy, Digimon Adventure, Symphogear GX, More Anime". 19 August 2023.