Pencil boards are supposed to be used to write on, but not much people do that since they're a wee bit too expensive to write on. Most people keep them in their plastic sealed cover and use them like pictures. There's a lot of different MKR pencil boards around, there's horizontal ones and vertical ones.

Most popular Anime series have these. They're basically cards like the size of a telephone card, but usually has a screenshot from the Anime printed on them. There's around 110 of these around, they range from "normal" to "special" cards. Normal cards are ones that have a normal print on them. Special cards are ones that shine, they're made of several layers of plastic that reflects light, so when you look at them in different angles with light shown on them, they flash. Hence they're also known as "Flash" cards. On the back of the cards, there's usually a description of a character, but they're all in Japanese. These cards seem to have came out after the Sega Saturn game of MKR came out, but I'm not totally sure about this. There's also a set for RAYEARTH OVA, for a near complete listing of these, take a look here.

Key chains are what they are. MKR key chains feature a flat hard plastic character. I've seen key chains of Hikaru, Umi, Fuu, Mokona and Clef, I'm not sure if there's more around. Anyways, being a person who doesn't have much keys, I didn't have any use for a key chain. There is one interesting key chain though, it's the Puchi Kyara. It's actually a CD Single, but comes in the form of a key chain.

I used to be a huge fan of PATLABOR and GUNDAM models, but as space and money ran out, I didn't touch models anymore, but that didn't stop me from looking at models. Usually, at model shops and Anime shops, you'll see models from a lot of different places, most of them robots, but there are models of people. I've seen lot of models from Belldandy from AH! MY GODDESS! and Rei from EVANGELION, so MKR has models too. However, I must say most MKR models don't even look half as good as these models from other series (around the same quality of those SAILOR MOON models if you ask me).

Ah, the type of MKR merchansise that I have a lot of. Compared to other big hit series (such as RUROUNI KENSHIN and EVANGELION), MKR doesn't have a lot of CDs. MKR CDs are basically placed into 3 categories, the CD Albums that contains all the songs, the Soundtrack CDs that has all the background music, and the CD Singles. Although you can find most of the songs on the Singles on the Albums, the Singles contain certain tracks that you can't find on Albums (mostly Karaoke tracks). There's mainly two distributors of the CDs - Polygram which did the original release in Japan - and SM, the infamous Taiwanese company that sells Bootleg CDs. For more info on Bootleg stuff and what's all the fuss, read the Bootleg section.

LDs, around the closest thing you can get to DVDs. Before DVDs came, LDs were the thing for Anime in Japan. Most Anime was released in both VHS and LDs, LDs being high quality choice. However, LDs didn't really sell that much due to their size (they're nearly as large as those old records) and price. MKR was released on 12 LDs. 5 from the first season and 7 from the second season. There were also 2 boxsets of the 2 seasons.

For tapes and DVDs, there were 2 separate releases. One was originally from CLAMP in Japan. They released the tapes in 1995 and 1996 as the series was on TV. There were 7 tapes of the first season and 10 for the second season. After the initial release, another release was launched, this time shortening the first season to 5 tapes and second season to 7 (by cramming more episodes on one tape). The DVD version came out in 1999, a DVD boxset for each season.

The other release was done by AnimeWorks, a division of Media Blasters. They were the ones who did the North American commerical release of MKR. Before that, people had to rely on fansubs (for more info, please read the Fansubs section). AnimeWorks released their first tape of MKR around September 1999 and continued on a 4 episode per tape policy and finished the first season in mid 2000. After they finished the tape release, they did a DVD boxset of the first season. Afterwards, they did the second season and finished by the end of 2000. A DVD boxset of the second season came out in June 2001.

The Japanese Manga came to the scene in 1994 and finished in 1996. Shortly after its release, translated versions popped up around the world, I don't know what languages have the Manga made it to, but I know there's a Chinese and English version. It might be hard to find either version of the Manga now since it was so long ago. When I went to buy the Manga back in 1997, I had to look around a bit, so imagine now ~_~

I've never seen one of these in real live, but they exist. I don't have much info on them, but I guess you just use them like normal cups and mugs :P

A bit different to models, they don't require you to piece them together. They're kinda like Barbies in MKR outfit. They come in boxes, there's one for each of the three knights complete with armor and their Escudo swords.

Besides the Manga, there's other MKR stuff in the form of books. There are 2 Original Illustration Books, they're like an artbook of the series. They contain pictures of MKR done in Manga style, each has around 50-60 images in them, some span for 2 pages (hence making them hard to scan). Most images used on the Dimension are from these two books. Besides these two, there's the Materials Collection. It's basically a book about MKR, it contains character sketches, character heights and other interesting things such as Tarta and Tatra's dancing scene. There might be more MKR books around, but I haven't seen them.

Around the peak of the MKR hype, a calendar was released. It had dates of 1996, each month of the calendar was accompanied by an Anime style image. However, the quality of some of these images are rather poor. I have not heard of any other calendar releases.

I'm not talking about a walking Mashin or something, but video games. Yes, MKR has made it to the video games market. There was one Super Nintendo game, a Sega Game Gear one, a Gameboy one and one on the Sega Saturn. The Sega Saturn one got a translation from Working Designs and is available in English. I haven't played the Sega Saturn game myself, but from what I heard, it sticks to the storyline of the first season and has numerous cutscenes from the Anime. In the Downloads section, you will be able to find a ROM of the Super Nintendo MKR game.

Fansubs are basically Anime with subtitles done by fans. A lot of Anime fans don't understand Japanese, hence rely on English subtitles to understand what they're saying. Fansubs are meant to be distributed freely, and if you do find yourself paying for fansubs, the only thing you should pay for are the shipping and cost of the tapes themselves.

There was a fansub for MKR, but it never got finished, or should I say nobody managed to get their hands on most of the second season episodes. Nobody really knows if the sub ever got finished or was it just a distribution problem. The sub ended somewhere in the second season. However, with the coming of the commericial release from Media Blasters, all fan releases were ceased as it's a rule of fansubs. If you find any episodes of MKR online, they're either the old fansubs or rips from the Media Blasters tapes, both of which are marked illegal.

In the recent years, as internet connections became faster and faster, a lot of people have completely skipped even buying bootlegs and download Anime directly online. Much like the downloading pirated computer programs, movies and music, this is once again in violation of copyright. It is sad however that people tend to take this for granted - you'll be surprised how many "fans" will boast about how much Anime they "own" but have never bought even a single legit DVD.

This is the gray area of the Anime market. Since Anime stuff is so expensive (a normal audio CD can cost up to 30 bucks US and more), some people would be unable and/or unwilling to pay. However, some companies found ways to avoid the high prices by taking loopholes in copyright laws or just plain ignoring it. One such company was Son May, also known as SM. Son May was a Taiwanese company that releases Japanese CDs (Anime and Jpop alike) only in Taiwan. Since Taiwan wasn't bounded by copyright laws before joining WTO in 2001, they aren't illegal - as long as you buy them in Taiwan. Of course, a lot of people took them overseas and started selling them abroad. Ever Anime was another company that was similar to Son May.