Nightmare Fuel / LBX: Little Battlers eXperience

aka: Danball Senki

• Consider being in the Yamano household. Your dad is working on multiple inventions which he plans to help humanity. Then he takes a trip to an important flight and suddenly the plane disappears with no trace and not even the authorities can find a clue, leaving your mother in shocked and sorrow. Then you find out your father might have been alive, and left you with the key to saving the world, only for a crime syndicate to send multiple officers after you with robots that can kill you in your very own living room. That's episode, chapter, and part 1 of Van Yamano’s journey in Danball Senki. Sweet dreams kids.
  • The Platinum Capsule was designed so that any unauthorized user who touches it will be electrocuted to near death.
• The fact that the school has a section outside where kids hang out in the slums and when Van and co go their to find Hanz’s crew in the game, a trio can come and attack your friends at any given time. Sure its with LBX, but the real life potential is just as scary.
• Hanz destroying Kazu’s Trooper. Even though he’s not too upset, the fact that his partner was instantly obliterated in a few seconds and the scattered pieces everyone are just disturbing!
• In the The Gold Knight chapter /episode 4, Kazu gets brainwashed by a salesman offering a new LBX, only for it to reveal the salesman is one of the Black Agent Moes in disguise! And with LBX Egypt, Kazu while Brainwashed and Crazy comes very close to defeating Achilles. Worse, Van & Amy just think its Kazu wanting a friendly battle not knowing their best friend is being used as a sleeper agent. Kazu’s smiles are nightmare incarnate as he tries to destroy Achilles
  • Then Achilles goes into V Mode, and proceeds to rip Egypt into shreds, brutally using stabs, Extreme Mêlée Revenge. Ban is begging it to stop by the end, but at least it free Kazu from the mind control.
• The next arc consists of the Innovators/New Dawn Raizers hiring an assassin named Jackal to kill the prime minister. And he proves he’s up to the challenge. When Tyler and Lex explain this situation, they explain that the Innovators also have spies in the government, LBX corporations, and even the police. Now had Van dialed 9-1-1 at any moment, the possibility remains his life could be in danger by any adult secretly working for the enemy.
  • That and the leader of Japan’s life is at risk during his inauguration celebration.
    • Worse, the assassin can do it with a toy made for kids
• Episode 6 and the second half of the level as Kazu trying desperately to hit Jackal’s LBX and the latter is trying to kill him and the prime minister at the time. If he hadn’t be careful, two lives would’ve been lost that day.
  • Though Kazu shot the sniper rifle, the sounds almost made it sound like the minister was killed even with his bodyguards jumping to protect him. Truth in Television as presidential assassinations such as John F. Kennedy have occurred in similar fashions.
• In episode 7, we learn the truth behind Professor Yamano's disappearance. His plane was heading towards a summit with several other professional scientists, only to find that he's being kidnapped, his fellow scientists have accepted the terms of their kidnapping, and their are two fighter crafts. Shouko and the Black Agents revealing themselves as the stewardess and the pilots respectively.
• Ban witnessing the death of Takuya's older brother, Yuusuke with his own eyes, and he had more difficulty of moving forward compared to Takuya himself.
• In episode 26 of W, Otacross explains to Yuuya that even though his cosplay is good, the fact that he’s not putting his soul and heart into it leaves him as nothing but an empty shell. Yuya breaks down, realizing he’s lived as nothing but a tool with no soul for half of his entire life and just stands broken as the Perfect ZX’s continuously knocks down Lui Bei. Its even worse once you consider the first time in years he showed emotions in years was when Ban and Jin witnessed Psycho Scanning mode affecting his body. Meanwhile, Alice stand there in fear of letting her teammate down. Until their Heroic Second Wind kicks in, the entire scene is just nightmare incarnate.
• Haruka was deeply burdened that her inventions lead the world to destruction. Starting from Adam and Eve before coming to learn about Mizel's identity.
• The fact that was mentioned in W's light novel volume 1 and season 1. This world was being controlled by the palms of a few people, who decides how this world should be shape as well as well as not hesitating nor regretting to use and sacrifice innocent people to achieve their goals. Some of this wrongdoings were demonstrated by Kaidou Yoshimitsu and Lex. What they did were totally wrong, no doubt about it. However, when you learn about this fact, you will realised that those few people who controlled this world might have done even worse.
• The concept of Danball Senki Wars, where middle-to-high school students get enrolled in simulated wars, which are revealed to be used settle real life disputes without bloodshed.

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