Beyblade Burst Gachi

Well, this was an improvement on the previous season, but not by much. Whilst it definitely did help that Aiga wasn’t a main character in this season, it’s really depressing that the head writer for the Beyblade Burst generation has no idea how to write for actual human beings; he can write good beybattles but when it comes to the human characters, you just want to beat them with a baseball bat, especially the protagonists and the nonsense narcissist villains. And it’s a real shame too because the writer has a lot of experience writing for the Pokemon anime. I don’t really have it inme anymore to keep getting angry about the Beyblade Burst series but the best decision they ever made was to cut the episode lengths in half… meaning we only suffer for half the amount of time.

It is normal for toy based anime to promote their latest product using anime as medium. Beyblade is about toys and it always be. But when the proportion itself is larger than the overall story, it will reduce the enjoyment of the anime itself, make it no more than advertising medium with mediocre storyline. That's the current trend of modern Beyblade franchise. In contrast, the best series so far, Bakuten Shoot G-Revolution, never heavily emphasized on promoting product, but focusing on interesting story and enough character development. Without implicitly stating "Boys only toys" in the story, that proved by the absence of competitive female bladersin this recent series, the earlier version of Beyblade was indeed has no gender equality issue. Even if I've watched until final episode, nothing changed at all. Not to mention its several repetitive last episodes that only show nothing except focusing on Gwen's hatred and unstable emotion make it even more boring to watch. After considering those factors, this is the detail of my assessment; Story 3 Art 6 Sound 5 Character 3 Enjoyment 3 Overall 4 If Takara is truly targeting larger market that encompass wide range of age and gender, then they have to improve their strategy. Plastic generation, even though never heavily advertised, in fact still popular and give a great remark for Beyblade fans due to its memorable story, this will eventually result in long term selling products that will give better profit for the company itself. The average score of latest generation was always less than its predecessors, I hope Beyblade will get better in the future in order to break its downgrade tradition.

Watched the Beyblade Burst ss 1 + 2 long ago and now finally finished this season. I just didn't have the motivation to watch this because there is no old characters, nostalgia can be a scary obstacle! Anw, the series kinda suffers from the new format (12min/ep). The duration is technically 26 episodes - half of the normal BB shows. What suffers from this cut is the pacing, story, and characters. Not many new rivals are introduced, the villains appear out of nowhere and challenge the good guy's crew with an absurd reason like "darkness will consume all, your Beyblade is over" without any background.The story is basically non-existed and just "the protagonist is challenged by random people, process to win different tournaments". However, there is a really strong cast and strong bond between them (the trio Drum, Delta, Akane), much like the ss 1. Although because of the short duration the staff couldn't do much with them, there are lots of scenes portraying these precious kids support each other. Beyblade Burst is always good at organizing battle to make the protagonist stand out but not OP at the same time, this series is the same. The growth of Drum feels really realistic, emotional when we see how far he has gone in the end. Although the relationship between Drum and his main rival is average and pretty cliche, they make a great connection with the "real last boss" (not the one I mentioned above). The last boss Gwyn basically is just a kid that never has friend and doesn't realize his wish for making friend with Drum. There is a great irony and contrast in the Drum - Delta - Gwyn: Thanks to Drum, Delta develops to a better person while meeting Drum makes the normal world of Gwyn destroyed and forces him to get out. The best part of this series would be animation, especially in ep 49 where all the freaking budget just throw in it. Overall, I enjoy the series for what it is. The characters are cute, battles are good.

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