Admittedly I don't watch Yugioh, but Beyblade's hair seems wackier sometimes. Lui is something else. I guess the contrast between Beyblade and Beyblade Burst is just very noticeable. Everyone looks so flamboyant and brightly coloured since Metal.
Its' really weird with Beyblade and female characters.
- I think with the original series it was like 7 to 13 female characters/bladers.
- Then in the Metal Saga we had about 6 females but most were Faux Action Girl s with the exceptions of Sophie, who was more of a tag team with Wales, and Madoka, who was really useful as the bey mechanic. Maybe Ren from Zero G too since her win record is at least decent in terms of female characters.
- Burst is the one that gets this critique the most by the Beyblade community. See with the Burst saga, there's around 16 important bladers and all the side/not as important characters either get generic or beys that are a generation late without a name. Most of the female characters are likeable but they're reduced to cheerleaders at best and the one actual blader is an Ensemble Dark Horse, but a supporting character.
We've had this talk quite a bit in fact.
Shonen seems really obsessed with pushing out females as much as possible. They are unerringly convinced that their target demographic doesn't want Action Girl type characters, and if they do have them, they will tend to be Faux Action Girls who are usually the first to lose or get kidnapped, and rarely get any important arcs.
I don't know if they are right? Do we here anything from the target of these shows about how they feel about it?
One Strip! One Strip!GT's becoming a Broken Base. I like, but I'm excited for season 5.
Wait, there's a Beyblade forum? Why is it so dead? Yo I've seen every season, and I like all of them. The OG, Metal Saga, and the Burst...trilo.quad...quintrilogy: that's a word for five seasons right?
What's the last season you guys checked out? if my career picks off and then I have the time to go back and do youtube reviews, I wanna cover a seasons There are people who cover the newer seasons on a weekly basis.
I rewatched Beyblade G: Revolution, Metal Masters, and yeah I keep up with the Burst saga, Sparking's been pretty fun so far. One day, we kinda need like a special that brings all three generations together.
Like the only season I haven't seen was that rare spinoff that aired only in Malaysia.
I'm still not entirely sure how Tyson won this. It look liked he beat the power Zeo stole from Draciel and Dranzer, but Zeo was dominating for the entire match. Some times Zeo was losing power but other times he was gaining power....like it's awesome Tyson managed to hold on, but need an explanation.
Also, there's a official Beyblade channel for the original trilogy...and yet I was too lazy despite saiyng I wanted to watch the original and V-Force. Well, now I have a channel.
B-Da Blade Fan #1
Finally, someone else that watches Burst!
Yeah Dynamite Battle seems pretty interested. The protagonist has a really fun quirk. While I liked Hikaru, I could see people getting annoyed with the standard goody two shoes dumb-ish protagonists after Valt (Drum, Hyuga) even though I like him.
Plus, he seems like a hyperactive Batman. I wanna see what the supporting cast has to offer but our new protagonist is oozing with personality. Looking foward to it.
Alright, now that the Youtube channel is 39 out of 52 episodes, let's talk about G-Revolution. Man I really should rewatch the original and V-Force fast though. So let's get through my general thoughts out.
- While I like Metal and Burst, this season really needs a remake/reboot with better graphics cuz some of the battles and stadium they came up with were freaking awesome. With Metal taking power levels to the max, and Burst being more realistic, I like the balance the battles had. Not all the fights hold up though, I'd say 68/32.
- Yeah, Tyson's not really that much of a jerk. All his teammates left him, Kai didn't even tell him in person, Daichi comes into his life, and he's suffering from performance anxiety and pressure, to even when he makes improves, he still struggles. I know everyone was so split on him, but as he keeps going, he's still a fun protagonist to watch go through this.
- Daichi isn't pissy to me either. Dude just wanted to win and be champion. Plus he let himself be a team player.
- Kenny gets to be taken seriously as a blader, the set up is really strong....and it's dropped after his fight with Tala. What was the point of it being a team tournament...yes I know it's tag, when we just limit the cast to two per team and none of the alternates get used. They should've just gave him an official bit-beast and let him battle the third tier members.
- Heck, Mao, Michael, and the Russian bois are all there. Yeah they're great supports, but given that people gave Tala shit for losing against Daichi and Rick, letting others take his place would save that debate and make them feel like a team. F-Dynasty is exempt since they had only two members. At least their arc was handled well, saving for one.
- Barthez was pretty cool as Anti Villains who Boris set up, but we didn't need Aaron. It's just the fight between F-Dynasty vs Barthez was kinda disappointing. Raul gets the focus, Miguel's shown to be strong without cheating and Mathilda's bey combined all of theirs. Have Mathila beat Julia in an upset, and Raul has to beat her and Miguel to prove himself. Instead Barthez goes out pretty anticlimatically.
- Max did pretty freaking well. He almost beat Kai, came up with a plan to beat Tyson, withstood a special move, and was able to beat Daichi.
- Ray supposedly Took a Level in Jerkass...really? He just got more serious about leading the team. He legit knocked Lee out of the stadium since Lee was pushing himself too far. Yeah he was upset he didn't have a rematch with Tyson, but the worst he did was call out Tyson for being oblivious for Hiro and Kai turning against BEGA, and that was more honest than rude.
- Tala lost against Daichi, Rick, and Garland...and personally it doesn't upset me. He's strong. But now he doesn't have a bajillion bit beasts. He didn't have time to use his special move against Rick, Daichi and Kenny legitimately came up with a counter for him, and against BEGA...who looked like they were training a lot beforehand, Tala did the best he could.
- Lee was a bit of a disappointment, but at least he got the win on the free for all.
- They legit had Rick x Mao/Mariah. Helped the former be a bit more likable at times.
- I have a problem with Ray: his battles. The animation never allowed him to go all out in his last few matches. He never got to use Gattling Claw Maximum effectively to beat someone, the animation for Kai beating Ray was weak at the exact moment Ray lost so it was pretty unclear.
- Kinda sucks we never got to see Kai and Tala battle alongside each other in the same dish.
- Kai turns against the team. that NEVER GETS old.
- Hiro's a Magnificent Bastard. Dude manipulated the matchups Kai would be pissed Tyson wasn't battling him in Italy, and Kai legit sent his bey straight out of bounds after colliding with Daichi just to nearly hit Hiro on the bench stands. And Hiro didn't even glitch. That was like the best battle of the series and it only lasted 20 seconds.
- Tyson vs Kai. The third time I rewatched the show, I thought that the animation didn't hold up. Now, while it's not perfect, after Ray vs Kai, and Daichi vs Tala being just decent, it's still a damn good battle. Especially with Kai using his Feather Storm with Blazing Gigs Tempest, only for Tyson to use the Galaxy Turbo Twist to blow the feathers right back at him and stopping the second half of the attack, forcing Kai to fight his own special, was pretty cool.
- The imagery at the end makes up for the Limited Animation. From the stars coming out, to Dranzer as a red sun, and Dragoon blasting through as a ray of light, and then the whole Earth blows up. It's a sight to behold.
- Ming-Ming. How is it after 3+4+6 seasons...wow 13, she's still the best female blader in the whole series. I know I'm not at that battle yet, but considering she beat Daichi, that's more impressive than most of the female bladers, which I will get to later.
- Someone talked about how Japanese shows tends to has these stoic mysterious characters but aren't really characters. Mystel feels like an example, but he does have a lot of charm. We just barely know anything about his backstory. At least his interactions with the White Tigers is fun.
- Moses, ahem, Crusher is still sympathetic enough as an Anti-Villain. I do like Boris using genuine bladers as pawns. Though it's ironic that in Burst, the players are basically pro there. And I just realized Moses and Monica are both religious saints.
- Kai immediately figuring out Hiro joined BEGA to motivate Tyson to get strong is just genius and screwed up at the same time. But, hey, it worked. That being said, someone beyond the family allies should've helped them get some parts too.
- One thing I appreciate is that starting from the late 20s, a lot of the characters move like they're moving with their blade, which, while cheesy, gives the feeling training your mind and body can make you a better blader, something that wouldn't be perfected until Burst. Helps that Garland uses a martial arts style to launch.
- Kinda funny that Julia, Mathlia, and Mao point out that Ming-Ming's on the Justice 5 team, so the G Revolutions having a girl be a member would be a cool idea. Too bad this season has a bad habit on picking the Hilary a crap ton. If I had to pick a candidate, I would've wanted Kenny if Kai didn't return but as for a girl, Julia did perform the best solo and on teams.
- But yeah. Girls in Beyblade are so disappointing, since every saga, the number and importance went down every time.
- In the OG trilogy, we had: Julia, Mathilda, Mao, Salima, Mariam, Emily, Ming-Ming and Queen, who all at the very least had a purpose, characterization, could actually participate, and weren't pushovers.
- The Metal Saga had Hikaru: who got worfed so hard she quit, Mei-Mei who was funny but was a benchwarmer, Selen at least was sneaky and contributed, Sophie's decent enough but only works with her brother one v one, Lera was at the very least able to figure out Jigsaw's hacks, Demure had her gender changed, Ren at the very least was active but then again out of the heroes only Zero+Shinobu+Sakyo only mattered in the end. Well Madoka and Maru were still helpful engineers.
- Burst...is a complicated one since the author was told by his editors not to include any female bladers, so you do get female characters in support roles that are either good/fine (Kris, Nika, Ichika) or exist (Laika), or can blade (Sasha), but they aren't included with the actually 12-16 blader cast, which is annoying.
- As for the G Revolutions vs Justice 5, I think who was chosen makes sense, but if I could change two things, I probably would've switched Ray and Max's opponents. Max being the defensive one having to fight back against Crusher's overwhelming nature, especially with both of them having family as a motivation element. That and Ray and Mystel still had a rivalry. Question is should Ray still lose, or draw again, and Max lose, but his defense was so strong, it'd shattered Crusher bey in the process.
Wait! Is that why there are no female bladers in those later series? I had no idea.
Geez. I can't believe they're still doing that. Then again, it doesn't take an order to have no females for a series to do a poor job with females. But the fact they weren't even allowed to try....
...and like, I barely watch Burst. But what little I have seen did make it clear every blader is male.
One Strip! One Strip!It's a shame too, cuz one of Burst's strengths is it's characterization, which really would've helped out at least 2 of the girls. I'm one of the few people who enjoys all three sagas, so it hurts to see the decline.
It also doesn't help that Burst makes a crap ton of feminine looking guys, which isn't a bad thing (we need more shows where guys get along in general, anime tends to just be really good with that), but with Gwyn (type Beyblade Gwyn, and you'll see what I mean) especially, people arguing why they didn't just make him a girl. Dynamite Battle might get one later given there was an image of a girl like blader wearing a cat ear helmet in the manga cover, but it's highly unlikely so far.
Sasha in season 2 is the sole remaining member of the original BC Sol members Valt joined at the beginning of the series, and stuck with the team, grew to trust Valt, and even won in a tournament match, and got to battle Free...calling him out for losing the team, and continuing to battle even though she was outmatched. But never got her own bey otuside the outdated stock combos that aren't named.
And Ichika in season 4 left her brother's team because Fumiya kept pushing her too far just to win to the point the whole team was dealing with obsession and joined the Victories, basically the new protagonists of the team. It's got good moments, but she doesn't get to blade outside of one scenario and it's dropped halfway through.
We're on 41 and all the heroes are acting like Kai's not going to be their fifth member. their options are:
- Tala...which would be good if he could recover in time.
- If Zeo came back, that could actually work. Then again I keep hearing V-Force is the black sheep of the original series.
- Julia would be fun.
- Lee, nah. Rick possibly, but too ego.
Though I'm wondering if Aoki eventually wanted to make Kenny the fifth sacred Bit-Beast user but came up with Daichi and figured a new face was worth more.
Admittedly it would be wild to see Kenny take levels in badass as a blader, but G Revolution has shown off how important he is as a mechanic.
Ray vs Garland was a missed opportunity if he joined up with BEGA briefly.
Still as much as I like Kai's storyline this season at the end, I'm just really getting tired of the Lancer/Rival deciding to side with the bad guys despite being very aware of what they're planning. At least Hiro is trying to use Brooklyn to motivate Tyson.
Kai and Shu both have this problem, and while Shu learned his lesson in season 2, fought the temptation in season 3, and only "defected" to get Lane to work with him in season 5, Kai had to get beaten that bad to switch sides.
Kyoya and Shinobu at the very least never turned evil. Kyoya left the Gan Gan Galaxy team because he wanted to fight Gingka, but A) fought with Gingka to stop Hades, and B) left the heroes in Metal Fury...but didn't side with the villains. He was just pissed everyone was seeing him as Gingka's lackey. And Shinobu just used his inadequate to improve more.
But there's one cool thing I didn't recognize it until this rewatch. The heroes just need to master their new upgrades, but the Justice Five are still using Engine Gear system bladers. They're using a weaker system, but are still able to hold their own against the Heavy Metal System. Usually it's the reverse.
G Revolution 42
- I remember Kai getting beat hard, but not to the point Brooklyn's Zeus SHATTERED DRANZER GT, holy crap that was brutal.
- Kinda ironic Hiro's giving "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Kai for only joining Bega to beat Tyson, he did pretty well against Garland so he's about even with all the other members.
- It's oddly refreshing that Zeus is a stamina type. I've had this minor issue in Beyblade lately that the Big Bad has almost never been a Stamina type after the Shoot Generation: Tala, Zeo, and Brooklyn all have Stamina beys. Meanwhile afterwards, we've had:
- Metal Saga: Ryuga (Attack), Faust (Defense), Rago (Balance),
- Burst Saga: Lui (Attack), Red Eye (Balance), Phi (Defense), Gwyn (Defense), Lain (Defense), and Dynamite's true villain isn't clear just yet. The variety is nice, that's all.
- As predictable as it is, I'm glad Tyson had Kai on his mind as the fifth person, but as proof Kenny is the absolute heart of the Bladebreakers/G-Revolution, he actually made Dranzer Metal Flame prepared. The two of them just trusting he'll join them just warms my heart for some season.
- It's also super fitting Dickenson coined the re-name of the team G-Revolutions. He's been watching over these boys since the start after all. I hate dumb father/father figures in tv shows (Professor Utonium in the reboot, and Timmy's dad). It's just nice.
- And yeah, Kai's going to find Dranzer at Tala's hospital room.
- I forgot they dressed Tyson's grandpa as a Japanese luchador haha, man this show.
And Daichi vs Ming-Ming is next episode. This should be fun.
Alright, let's break it this segment up into 3 sections.
Original Beyblade G-Revolutions vs Justice Five final battles
- 43: Daichi vs Ming Ming. It's the weakest of the five battles. Choreography wise it's okay, and I don't mind Ming-Ming's singing. We usually get Break Them by Talking in this series (Damien or Lui), so seeing a person use it to motivate her passion and power is pretty cool. What sucks is how anticlimactic it is. The visuals of them changing up the environment to a dinosaur rockland and a fairy tale was nice, but Daichi's special just glows red, Venus shoots some flower petals that are gone, and Venus just casually hits it. Daichi respecting Ming Ming in the end is a good thing.
- I mean in Beyblade, unless you count Mariam since the Saint Shields are anti-heroes Sophie in Metal Saga and now Illya in Burst, Beyblade's number of women is already low but villains is pretty much non existent. Ming-Ming's the closest and taking out one of the six strongest bladers kinda makes her the best woman in the show.
Just for reference, if I had to rank the Bladebreakers+Tala, it would be:
- Tyson
- Kai
- Ray and Max since they specialize in different tactics
- Tala and Daichi since Daichi lost to Max, Tyson, and Kai and only beat the later too when Tyson had performance anxiety, and Kai threw the match to have Dranzer threaten Hiro when Hiro took Tyson off the match to throw off Kai, motivate Kenny and Daichi, and ensure Tyson would be ready for their next battle. And Tala never got the chance to fight any of the Bladebreakers but Daichi since he always dealt with the second fiddle of the team, and the writers wouldn't let Kai lose to anyone other than Tyson and Daichi.
- Granted some people consider Tala weak because "he lost thrice" despite those losses being from Daichi thanks to Kenny exposing his weakness, Rick using what should've been a stadium loss, and that fight with Garland, "the second strongest member," was a tie but the dub cut out some of Tala's injuries so it looked like Garland won.
- 44: Ray vs Crusher still holds up as one of the most intense battles in both Japanese and English dub. The only argument I could knock against it is that Crusher won despite Ray dominating for most of the fight was intense, but keep in mind three things:
- They made it very clear Ray would've won, Gigars was destroyed while Driger was out of bounds.
- He's fighting for his sister who's trying to fight a deadly disease that could kill her and losing means the person funding it would stop. As long as Ray didn't throw the fight, (which he didn't out of respect and pride, good), it makes sense narrative wise that he would win, Justice 5 are Anti Villains who just want their dreams accomplished with BEGA. Like people in the capitalize soc...I'm reading too much into it.
- Gigars legitimately crushed Driger underneath rubble after somehow being strong enough to use the stadium floors as Spikes of Doom, and Ray was still able to survive and yeah, destroyed his beyblade. Ray lost but he lost in the coolest way possible.
- 45: Max vs Mystel. It says a lot when even the villain is telling Max not to lose, but that just served my point that Beyblade needs to have a protagonist who uses Stamina or Defense at least one. The argument is "Attack and Balance beyblades have the most flashy and potential use for battles," yet so many major characters in the series: Max, Tala, Ming Ming, Brooklyn, Zeo, Kyoya, Kenta, Yu, Damien, Free, Sisco, Phi, Gwen Fubuki, Amane have proven that's not the case with half of the main villains in Burst being Defense, and at least one person in the main cast having defense. But having Max's conflict be everyone getting to him about his defense was a decent conflict, but he made the battle fun, defending while fighting back against Mystel's offense.
- 47-48: Okay, it was pretty watching Kai dressing around as a hobo for the past 5 episodes. Though I wouldn't have mind if Tyson vs Garland went before this and Kai vs Brooklyn was the final match before Tyson vs Garland.
- If Kai wasn't a good guy, those flames of his anger would be a clear sign he was turning evil. Dude was destroying the stadium without moving.
- I mean, Brooklyn's blading style is if the Dark-Dark Fruit was a spinning toy.
- Considering that Kai...well dies, it kinda makes Free forfeiting in the semi finals of the God Blader's Cup in Beyblade Burst God more reasonable, since Free was destroying his body just for those bursts of power. In the manga it turns out underneath Free's arm and gauntlet, there were mostly bit wounds on his arm he gave himself to make himself more seriously while in the anime when he goes all out, he had to go to the hospital.
- Then again, between the main and "ultimate rivals," Shinobu and all the burst ones from seasons 2 through 3 are the only ones who've never come close to becoming evil. Kai switched sides in all but one season, Tala was the Final Boss, Ozuma almost helped the Psykicks in the long run, Kyoya went a little insane in the first arc of Metal Fusion, Shu turned evil, Delta came pretty close despite fighting technically on the good guy's side to drain out everyone's light, Lane tried to destroy all the blader's careers and surpass them, Basara turned on the heroes and Rashad was all too eager to break Bell's beyblade.
- Again, Max and Ray have every right to want to get Kai to forfeit for the sake of his body, but at the same time, Kai's determination is such a highlight.
- Props to the dub for not censoring the blood from Kai's mouth, ribs, and arms.
- Brooklyn using his aura to attack Kai should've been an instant DQ.
- Still, Kai pulling out the win is still amazing, but the final hit after Dranzer's spirit came it kinda felt weak. Still, Kai won the mental game.
- But Dranzer breaking and Kai falling like that on his knees, granted he gets better, but it's still weird no one followed him to just get him to the hospital since when he shows up in the finale, his body is bandaged up, meaning someone had to get him.
- 49: Garland vs Tyson. Naturally after how intense the last episode was, you'd think it'd be a downgrade and some fans think so, but honestly, it's pretty fun in terms of battling. The fun part about Beyblade is always when the martial artists duke out in the ring: Garland, Ray, Dashan and the rest of Wang Hu Zhong, Xhaka and Xhan, even Ruway, both the characters and their beys are so animated. Tyson's not too bad either, just countering by himself, though the battle is just normal after that.
- This also happens to be the most HOMOEROTIC BATTLE IN THE HISTORY OF BEYBLADE, and as someone who's seen every episode of every season but the spinoff that never made it to America in this franchise, that's really saying something. I almost thought the dub added those in to hide any potential
- And 50-52 still hold up:
- 50: the other members of Justice 5 get their Heel–Face Turn after Tyson pulls a "come at me bro", though we still have no idea what the heck is Mystel's background.
- 51: Tyson flying into a dimension to fight a demonic prodigy is the most anime thing ever.
- 52: It's still weird to see two beyblades that require spinning to be able to clash in midair, though given the high winds they were producing, that's probably giving them the source of their spin, which is ridiculous.
But given that Hiro/Hitomi planned everything, it makes me question if he knew Kai would give his life to beat Brooklyn, which is a little messed up when you think about it.
But it worked out in the end.
Metal Saga
- Fun fact: Brooklyn (OG) and Gingka (Metal Saga) have the same voice actor.
- Same with Lee and Kyoya.
- and Kai and Tsubasa.
Burst
- I need to catch up a bit with Dynamite Battle since I want to wait til the third arc concludes to binge, but rn they're doing a 3 vs 3 match. Two protagonists and the Plucky Comic Relief versus a Hero Anatagonist, their Face–Heel Turn friend even though they're not evil, and the only female with her own bey, so I'm
By the by, it probably won't happen outside of fanon, but let's say there's a crossover between the original series, Metal, and Burst. Any dream matches you wish would go down?

The characters in Beyblade Burst have the most absurd Anime Hair, I swear. No one dresses normally.