Mega Man Battle Network 4

* Red Sun
* Blue Moon

**Mega Man Battle Network 4**, known as **Rockman EXE 4** in Japan, is the fourth installment of the *Mega Man Battle Network* series. It was first released in Japan on 2003, and was later released in United States and Europe on 2004.

## Story

### Overall story

The members of NAXA decided to send a NetNavi to divert the incoming asteroid from earth by opening an international tournament for them to win. Meanwhile Nebula, a criminal organization, has emerged.

**Chapter 1**: Lan Hikari woke up to go shopping with his dad. But first, Lan has to send his NetNavi MegaMan to fix the oven by deleting the viruses that caused the oven not to work. After eating breakfast, Lan and his dad went to Elec Town to buy some light bulbs at an electronic store. Lan sent MegaMan to track down a vampire-themed Darkloid named ShadeMan. When encountered him at the Elec Tower Comp, MegaMan tries to attack ShadeMan (only for ShadeMan to be immune to his attack) before escaping when ProtoMan encountered him. After discovering a Dark Chip that ShadeMan left behind, Lan went to seen Higsby to take a look at the Dark Chip from ShadeMan. When examining the chip, Higsby warn Lan of never used the Dark Chips.

### Tournament stories

#### The Den Battle/City Battle Tournament

* **Tensuke's story** - Tensuke Takumi, operator of TopMan, tries impressed his grandson Kosuke by showing him a spinning top, only for him to walk away. After when MegaMan was sent to fix the malfunctioning top, Tensuke scold at Lan and walks away. After meeting him at Elec Town, Lan went to a meeting of the NetBattle Club, held at ACDC Town, to ask a quartet of elderlies about helping Tensuke and they told Lan to pass their test to talk with the assistance of the NetBattle Club in the cyberworld. After passing the test and contact the assistance of the NetBattle Club, went to Elec Town square and Tensuke fighting with his twin brother. Later, Lan and Tensuke went to the Den Dome to NetBattle. Afterwards, Kosuke came to the tournament with his Tensuke's brother and apologize to him for calling his boring and then Tensuke starts arguing with his twin brother.

* **Terry Jomon's story** - Terry Jomon, operator of SparkMan, sends Lan an email offering free PET maintenance. When meeting with Lan, Terry sabotages his PET to prevent him from using his folders but the one containing weak Battle Chips. After Terry dropped a coded message of how to fix the PET, Lan went to Elec Town to an elderly man, who is Terry's grandfather, to fix the PET for him. Later, Lan went to the Den Dome to defeat Terry there.

**Red Sun version**:

* **Dex Oyama story** - Dex Oyama was about to defeat Lan Hikari in the Den Battle Tournament. However, after when Chisao kidnapped, so Lan and MegaMan has to go solve riddles to find him. After finding out Chisao was responsible of faking the entire kidnapping of himself to prevent Lan and MegaMan from entering the tournament, Lan came late to the tournament to fight Dex Oyama, After Lan won the match, Dex demands his brother Chisao to apologize to Lan for faking the kidnapping.

* **Mr. Match's story** - Mr. Match

## Characters

The Hikari family* Lan Hikari
* MegaMan
* Yuichiro Hikari
* Haruka Hikari

Lan's Friends* Mayl Sakurai
	+ Roll
* Dex Oyama
	+ GutsMan
* Yai Ayano
	+ Glide
* Eugene Chaud
	+ ProtoMan
	+ LaserMan
* ShadeMan
* Duo (Final boss)

### Tournament participants

* Tetsu
	+ Heel Navi
* Yuko
	+ Ponta
* Terry Jomon
	+ SparkMan
* Tensuke Takumi
	+ TopMan
* Dex Oyama
	+ GutsMan
* Mr. Match (*Red Sun* version)
	+ FireMan (*Red Sun* version)
* Higsby
	+ NumberMan (*Blue Moon* version)
* Shuko Kido (*Blue Moon* version)
	+ AquaMan (*Blue Moon* version)
* Flave Yamakawa
	+ NormalNavi
* Riki
	+ Crusher
* Atsuki Homura
	+ BurnMan
* Viddy Narcy
	+ VideoMan
* Mayl Sakurai (*Red Sun* version)
	+ Roll (*Red Sun* version)
* Lilly (*Red Sun* version)
	+ WindMan (*Red Sun* version)
* Sal (*Blue Moon* version)
	+ WoodMan (*Blue Moon* version)
* Tamako Shiraizumi (*Blue Moon* version)
	+ MetalMan (*Blue Moon* version)
* Jack Bomber
	+ NormalNavi
* Paulie
	+ Jammer
* Mr. Famous
	+ KendoMan
* Ivan Chillski
	+ ColdMan
* Raoul (*Red Sun* version)
	+ ThunderMan (*Red Sun* version)
* Raika (*Red Sun* version)
	+ SearchMan (*Red Sun* version)
* Eugene Chaud
	+ ProtoMan
* JunkMan (*Blue Moon* version)

## Adaptations

### Anime series

The story elements from this game were utilized to the *MegaMan NT Warrior* anime series. Dr. Regal (leader of Nebula and also operator of LaserMan), and ShadeMan appeared in the *Axess* season as prominent antagonist while the non-Darkloid Navis from this game such BurnMan, VideoMan and ColdMan appeared in the season of the anime portrayed as Darkloids who are working for ShadeMan and later Nebula.

The non-Darkloid Navis were portrayed again in the *Stream* season as Asteroid Navis, given by Slur, to chaos around society. Dr. Regal continue to appeared in the rest of the Stream season of the major antagonist while ShadeMan appeared in two episode as the main antagonist.

In the Beast season of the anime series, human characters such as Dr. Regal and Narcy reappeared as the habitants of a parallel universe Beyondard. NetNavis such as JunkMan, KendoMan and SparkMan reappeared as Zoanoroids.

## Trivia

* This is the last mainline *Mega Man Battle Network* game to have GutsMan Navi Chips.
* This is the only mainline *Battle Network* game where Roll is a fightable NetNavi, though she can only be fought in *Red Sun* version of the game.

## External links

* Article at MMKB