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Medabots aired on fox kids when I was like 11 and then when I was 17 me and some friends found it on YouTube and rewatched (it's still all there) and found out the show is funny as hell and not in a gag dub kinda way. It's on that collectible battleable pokemkn trend but the setting here is that every kid has a fully armed 3 foot tall robot they battle with and they're treated like having pokemon cards, just no biggie. It knows it's silly and leans in just enough.
The collectible battleable trend anime I remember from my own childhood was Dinosaur King, but it seems reviews are not as kind to that than to Medabots. I do enjoy a good anime that knows it's silly and leans into it just enough, I might say that Precure is such a franchise though I haven't seen much of it.
Digimon is also sick, the dub has silly gags thrown in and the sub is more srs but I like both cause I grew up with the dub. Bear in mind it was constantly compared to pokemon cause they got a show going a year after pokemon even tho Digimon existed a year before pokemon as a tomagotchi kinda thing. Anyway, it's the kind of kids show you'd like your kid to watch if you had one. First 2 seasons are like that at least, the cast learns personal growth stuff that a pre teen should be hearing about. Then season 3 comes along and is in a whole different continuity and is run by the same dude who made serial experiments lain and while amazing I can recall as a kid being pretty spooked by stuff, it's psychological horror and also the back story involves a bit of knowing how computers work. It's really cool but it's also weird that it aired as a Saturday morning cartoon