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Mr. Famous' apprentice, known as Meijin Apprentice (名人見習い,Meijin Minarai) in Japan, is a minor character from Mega Man Battle Network 3 White that appears in Yoka, where he gives several battle tips. Mr. Famous appears in his place in the Blue version of the game.
The character has brown hair and pupil eyes. He wears glasses, a lab coat, green undershirt, red tie, dark blue pants, brown belt with a metal buckle and brown shoes.
Famous’ apprentice has a brief appearance in the beginning of the film, where he operates FootMan and loses a NetBattle against Netto Hikari and Rockman.
Gallery[]
Mr. Famous' apprentice in Mega Man Battle Network 3 White
Mr. Famous' apprentice in Rockman.EXE: Hikari to Yami no Program
Concept art of Mr. Famous's apprentice.
Mr. Famous’ Apprentice’s Progess PET from the movie among several other character’s.
Trivia[]
Researcher Tanaka and Apprentice Minamide.
This character is likely based on Naoto Minamide (南出直人 Minamide Naoto), who acted as Apprentice Minamide (南出見習い Minamide Minarai) of the Virus Research Institute. He worked alongside Eguchi Meijin (Mr. Famous) and Researcher Tanaka at Capcom promotions and events.
Naoto Minamide.
Yuji Ishihara says that a member of the animegoods team at the World Hobby Fair was used as a model for this character [3]. Masakazu Eguchi says that Famous’ Apprentice is based on “Mr. M” who, as of 2014, still worked at Capcom Tokyo.[4] Minamide also belonged to the Capcom goods team and had his name appeared in staff rolls of nearly all Mega Man Battle Network games.
