The Beyblade America Arc Was Perfect Sports Anime. REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Get in the beystadium, Max, or Ray will have to do it again.
I did not expect Beyblade's American Tournament arc to echo story elements from NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, but here we are.
"It's like they say, Brad: only in America!" - A.J. Tucker
Beyblade Series 1 REVIEW Part Three
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PART 2 REVIEW: RAY'S ARC • The Beyblade Asia Arc ...
PART 4 REVIEW: EUROPE • The Beyblade Europe Ar...
PART 5 REVIEW: BLACK DRANZER • The Beyblade Black Dra...
PART 6 REVIEW: FINALE • How Did Beyblade End? ...
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if you are going to cover all arcs from season 1, I CANNOT wait for you to cover the "Black Dranzer" arc.
Haven’t watched beyblade since I was a kid, I’m 33 now, I’ve loved this retrospective review you’ve done. Thank you my friend!!
Hello me.
Wait I’m 33 too lol must just be our generation
Wow, 33 here, too. Got into Beyblade because my name is Ray and I thought his Tiger Claw stuff was the coolest shit ever.
So much nostalgia for this series.
33 in 4 months 😂
33 in the house 😎
Kids today will never understand how peak the original plastic gen beyblade was, and that's usually a shame. But you sir are making a change so that will not remain the reality :)
"Just like the audience, Chief wants more Kai."
Bruh, you don't have to call us fangirls out like that. 😋😆
But seriously, thank you so much for making such charming reviews!! All us OG Beyfans are loving them and can't wait for the next!! 😀😀
Do NOT sleep on Max. I think if you take all of Max's insane feats in this first series, by the end he's arguably the second best blader on the team.
Honestly Max was a underdog but he was doing some crazy stuff
Now, that's a good question indeed--ranking the Bladebreakers!
Not forgetting how much of a badass he was in the Russian arc
Just wanted to say I didn’t sub because you asked me to I subbed because you engaged with your audience and your videos are well made.
Max was, and still is, my favourite as a kid. I just really related to him and I was always thrilled when it was his turn to battle
Keep up the good work, Digiknow! The Beyblade retrospective might be one of the most creative things on this channel
I always felt Max's mom was cruel in this arc. Using her own son as an unwilling guinnea pig to forward her own career gains and berates her son and his team as "You are inferior to our scientifically cheated I mean created team." Then goes on to ask her own son to forfeit as he has little hope of winning... then says "We can go back to being mother and son after her team wins." Like she might have had nice moments but as a mother, she was horrible to Max and his friends.
For real! I feel like my moment of “ Wow, Max’s mom is kind of a [bleep], sheesh!”, after initially giving her the benefit of the doubt that maybe she’s just one of those people who takes their job seriously to a fault, was how she reacted when Max nearly got split in half by the glass wall in the lab (due to him setting off the security alarm running towards her). You’d imagine that at the very least she’d have a moment of motherly concern and panic because you know, she nearly watched her son get hurt (or killed) in front of her, right? But no - Judy just stares at Max (and the BladeBreakers), basically tells Emily “Welp, they have to find their own way out of the lab, I can’t help them.” [like she can’t be bothered with this right now] and leaves the room, while poor Max is banging on the glass, calling out to her.
@@milkystar8950 I know right. Like she tones down after this arc but still. She just comes across as snobby and arrogant with no concern for her son who as he said something along the lines of "I just want her to see me." Even through all of it Max is super adult and mature to bite the bullet for her.
@@milkystar8950 There's a scene that was cut off where Max basically yells aand calls out for his mom while hitting the glass wall while Judy just ignores him, I felt horrible watching that
@@justdemi2585 And given that she's never home, always away working on her team, for her to come off like that FROM THE VERY FIRST TIME WE SEE HER makes her stand out as not a good person entirely. She seems morbidly happy to ignore her own son only to give all her attention to kids that ain't even hers. We need more of Max telling her off for her own negligence, there really is no excuse. She showed her hand, she isn't doing this for her son in the slightest, and her being proud of him at the end seems more tacked on then anything because she never saw his growth or struggles to get to that point. Because she ultimately never cared.
I gotta say, Tyson's Grandpa was one of the highlights of this arc for me. His banter with the Bladebreakers and Mr. Dickenson is very fun.
And Max's storyline with his mom is a very nice. While I do like the Asia arc more, the America arc is a good follow-up.
When you are done Beyblades. You should do Medabots if their enough interest of course.
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Oh hell yes Medabots. That show was amazing.
He already has a video on Medabots.
This guys new
I think it's interesting that the way the American institutions work in this show is later reflected quite darkly in the Russia arc. Sure, Judy's facility is overly focused on the science of making the perfect blade and blader combo, while excluding the spirit that the boys represent, but at least they indulge their bladers' other interests and hobbies. But when we get to the Russia arc, we see them training a creepy abbey that seems designed to strip away the trainees' individuality, and they go as far as turning Tala into a cyborg after their initial plan- get Kai to wield the incredibly powerful Black Dranzer for them- goes off the rails.
The Russian team indulges in similar dirty tactics to the All-Starz, giving themselves the home field advantage on every fight, but they go even further and pull shit like stealing Max's Bit-Beast ahead of the battle so that Kai will be forced to take his place, and _then_ forcing Kai to fight on a water-based field against a water-elemental opponent. And even that might be a double-layered scheme on Voltaire's part to put Kai's back against the wall and force him to accept Black Dranzer again in order to overcome his opponent.
'Get in the beystadium, Max, or Ray will have to do it again.' Pinning my fav comment in a week! Lemme hear your thoughts / jokes / whatever! :)
Your thebeybknow now.
You should also someday watch the show in sub. I would like to know what you think. I recently watched it in both. Even though the main themes of the arc are there, there are differences by just dialogues.
Oh my god, when are the next arcs coming up ? I don't mean to be desperate but I am 😅
@@sinfulpotato7804 I’ve been on a two week vacation since this came out so not for another week or two at minimum.
@@thedigiknow lol sorry for pestering so much. I have no idea what's got into me. Hope you had a great vacation! Thanks for replying
Max is 100% the Joey Wheeler of this series. Dude's a regular joe in a larger-than-life world.
Joey always finished top 2 or 4 tho
He's just as good as the other three. He just suffers from being soft towards his opponents which Rei also suffers from as well.
Well no, because Max isn'r annoying.
I partially agree since Max is the main character's best friend just like Joey. However, Max was intelligent and a skilled blader whereas Joey's deck relied on luck most of the time. Max's power was almost equal to other bladebreakers but Joey was obviously incompetent against Kaiba. I honestly think plot armor carried Joey to top 3 duelists and again the plot armor did dirty to Max and Rei because Takao/Tyson and Kai were obviously the main protagonists of the show.
Idk where this bayblade renaissance has come from but I'm loving it. Please keep this coming
Never thought about the evangelion concept here, but it really does make sense 😂
“There’s no Kai in Team” killed me 🤣
Can’t wait for part 4 royalty arc/european arc
This arc had my blood boiling in the Japanese version. PPB’s pretentiousness was up to 100 and Judy Mizuhara is somehow almost as bad as Gendo Ikari as a parent
Where to SEE it in japanese?.
Max was my fav growing up. Sadly he went a bit underused (or missused) after this arc. At least for this season, I havent watched the others. But a fave in my heart regardless
I really miss when beyblade was so over the top thst made me love the show so much
BLACK DRANZER REVIEW IS LIVE ! ua-cam.com/video/vwfg7O0XTNM/v-deo.htmlsi=JTtYFUvyEmdY3nEP
It was actually taken down by a copyright strike ... so this version needs your help! Please give it a watch :)
Thanks to this series I'm now 40 episodes in to a rewatch.
Another great video. It sucked seeing Ray do so poorly but this arc taught us that everyone in the bladebreakers is legit and we're not supposed to powerscale but rather consider beyblade a real sport where intagibles and matchups matter
The final fight is just such a letdown. There is comically little to Ray and Max's rounds. Loved Tyson's strategies though.
If you could believe it, Max's mom was even colder in japanese. Her inner monologue is pretty much "Give up Max and save yourself the humiliation, there is no chance you can win". She never believed in him until they lost which makes her even less likable.
dang!!!
Honestly, for me, the US Arc was my least favorite but looking back at this review I appreciate it more.
The Neon Genesis Evangelion references popped me though😂
1:09 I do adore how the building is shaped like a top, the world needs to know that this is where _top science_ is being made. Also 1:29 I wish that instead of a bunch of kids in this shot, we had a bunch of grumpy military men hovering over big bowls with battle tops made for children in their hands. You know, for the sake of national security.
3:16 I guess the sub lore could be stretched a bit to find a middle ground, by saying that the beasts were artificially created in a lab.
6:48 It is amazing to me that he doesn't shoot his beyblade out of a _finger gun_ launcher, given what censorship was like. The idea of launching a beyblade with gunpower is pretty hardcore not gonna lie, it reminds me of how some fiction works have like a katana be shot out of its sheath via a gun-like mechanism for a cool fast sword draw, you can't go wrong with shooting impractical non-bullet things out of guns.
10:07 So if they overcame that and they are that strong now, does that mean that this time the antagonists are 25 times stronger than our heroes were back then? Or is everyone consistently just 5 times stronger? Maybe the crew needs to get 5 times stronger themselves, then a lot of these problems will be avoided.
12:18 That is indeed such a sweet line, love her for it. Max's arc is very good.
This was a fun one, looking forward to the next and your other videos!
a sweet line, yes, but i still don't like her xD
also, the 5 times stronger thing is hilarious.
Every time I watch Beyblade I get a little sad because I know the original characters are gone forever.
Personally I preferred the previous arc to this one because Ray is much better of a character than Max
Also Ray’s dynamic with Driger was better
But my favorite arc of this series is definitely the last arc(the one after this)
You did it you called him Kenny. And Izzy even though they served the same role so it can't be helped.
Also, they got better at the upgrades in future seasons. This is season 1 after all.
Izzy is literally Kyouju in the Japanese version. All her lines are really his which is interesting because they cut out the frog bit beast Kyouju uses in later seasons
This was a good arc Kai being Secretly a nice Guy here Giving Max his time to shine was nice and seeing Max’s story with his mum and seeing the Science vs Spirit was a cool concept.
I love the idea that it was the baseball player who lost due to unabated thirst for power. Especially with the history of steroid use in the American baseball leagues. Think this was on purpose?
Hahah so interesting! Didn’t think about it that way but you could be onto something
Ray was done so dirty this arc mannnn 💀
Gets washed by Steve, gets an upgraded bey, loses to a random by looking away before the fight ends (which I actually find pretty OOC? Ray, (and Kai) is like, the last person id expect to do that) WITH HIS NEW BEY, then gets washed by Eddie when hes holding back, THEN GETS WASHED BY EDDIE EVEN WORSE THE NEXT MATCH. They really gave bro an upgrade, then didn't let him win with it 💀💀💀.
Also wanna talk about how weird the powerscaling was this arc (I know how that sounds, but hear me out.)
Max was the weakest member of the team in the Asia arc (I don't think anyone would dispute that), but within this arc, even while doing the same training as everyone else, and not getting an upgraded bey, or launcher, he skyrockets to top 2 at minimum. The bey spirit amp somehow made him stronger than Ray, the arguable strongest member of the team in the last arc, without any upgrades.
Beyblade do be that serious, I suppose.
Please do this retrospective up to G-Revolution. OG Beyblade needs more love on UA-cam
Please keep the vids coming my man! 👌🏿👌🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
The Europe arc let’s goooo. The majestics are way too overlooked and their bit beasts are the most unique of the majority of the series.
Max's mom hardly ever spent so much time with her family that when she has a chance to be a mom, the time she spent on her career meddles with her that she ends up going down that path instead. Honestly, if this wasn't an anime about spinning tops, then there'd be a lot more depressing talk. But they end up trying ton settle it as neatly as possible.
Excluding episode 18 where they return to japan and help some random kid that we never actually see again, and the clip show filler episode 29 Play It Again Dizzi, I gotta say my two favorite arcs are max with the american arc and tyson with the european arc
5x stronger makes sense because theres 5 BladeBreakers. So if he can beat a blade thats as powerrul as his team then hes got to be good right?
I really didn't mind that Ray lost to basketball guy he just needed to a match in this arch and I would be fine, but no. My baby was done dirty, so I was there waiting for his get back. Get ready for next arch, sir.
I feel like this is a random moment to focus on, but when they go and watch Michael's debut match he says "what are the Breakers doing here, being spies?" I'm just like dude, your team literally has data on all your competitors, them watching one of your matches shouldn't be a big deal. Idk, I always just thought that was a little strange.
I just take it as him being a hypocrite (at the time).
I found that outro amusing, I know it was TheDigiKnow's spin on the expression "no I in Team," by using Kai's name. But the letter Kai is the Roman character that looks like an X. Also, back in the time this series was running, back in the early 2000s internet days, I also learned that the name Kai means "Fiery" in Celtic; while most people these days, and probably back in the early days, just took it as a Japanese name that wasn't changed for the dub, I like to think of it as the creators of the series keeping the multicultural aspects of Beyblade, with Kai having what looks like a common Japanese name that also has ties to an older western language; especially with Dranzer having a Fire element to it.
The "no Kai in team" is a snarky line Kai actually says in a previous arc
@@Polychromatic8 I forgot that was a line used in a few episodes, so I completely missed that reference :P, but my points still stand.
i never suscribe when asked, but its beyblade
Thanks Digiknow for doing this retrospective on Beyblade.
I wish they would bring these beyblades back
Since you're going to be covering the rest of the og series, does that include everything after V-Force, including the movie? Because I'm reaaaally curious what you think of that!
Right now I’m only 100% committing to season 1, but I do want to revisit the other two seasons AND I’ve never seen the movie!
The reason I love this arc is because like max im also mixed in half native American and a member of the Choctaw tribe and also half Dominican and I don’t get to see her a lot because she work as a researcher over sea so I connected to max more than anyone seeing her and maxs relationship grow and go through these loops was her meaning full for me cause it reminded me of mine
It only helps that like max and his moms conflict in difference in ideals it’s same with me and my mom my mom wants me to be a researcher but I just want to be a vet I love animals I want to help them and that’s what I want to do to help part of the world but she dosent believe that’s a good way to but I am going to prove her wrong may not be know but it’ll be soon
ray turned into the wiping girl in this arc
Ah yes a digimon and beyblade channel. Never have I clicked subscribe so fast
Thanks & welcome !!!
You forgot about the beyblade that hatches out of a turtle's egg!
Lol is that the one where the kid goes "the end" after telling the story 😂
God I hope he eventually does Monster Rancher. That shit defined my early years.
My favourite part that you missed out was when they failed to collect data on Kai in an earlier round coz he won so easily.
Man, OG Beyblade was the bomb.
Loving this review series. I grew up watching Beyblade - still love it to this day.
Came for the Beyblade, but stayed for the Digimon, another childhood love
I don't know what took me so long, but I finally subscribed with this one! Best of luck on the road to 50k.
No wonder Max stays in Japan
Thank you for this, i love beyblade, used to tune them up and work a lot on mines, even my friends requested me to upgrade theirs. The most vivid memory i have, and also the last time, was a tournament that an store within my city held, to be honest i am from a poor country so only 4 people registered in the tournament, and 2 of those were me and my sister, my sister decided to join with a unmodified beyblade Wolborg 4 (Tala's beyblade), i went with a modified bayblade, a mix up between dragoon, draciel and custom weight disk, among the other 2 players i spotted a guy from my same school, i noticed he was also using an original default beyblade and was going against me, so since i didn't wanted him to feel bad for joining i did gave him an extra weight disk i had with me, which gave his beyblade enough power to beat me one round, but then i beat him the other 2 rounds, he still had fun and did thank me for giving him the weight disk.
Unfortunately my sister, who refused to use any of my disk's got crushed by him for the second place xD, but it was a nice experience, i wish those tournaments could had happen more officially within my country, or i wish i was born in US to attend to the big ones...
Damnn It's been so long. I remember watching this on Toonami. These videos are nostalgia treats :')
Ray comepletely losing to Eddy after upgrading is like Gohan losing to Majin Buu after having his potential unleashed.
for Max's char development they massacred my boii Ray😭😭
He be done dirty 🥲
I can understand the show not being good at writing upgrade sequences, it’s a Beyblade, it’s a small spinning top it must be very hard to figure out how to upgrade it without drastically changing the blade’s appearance.
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I would like u to revisit g revolution and v force, because in my opinion thats where the series flopped. Nothing can beat the original. Would still like to see ur taughts.
Max was my favorite character growing up so it's always nice to see him get some of the spotlight
Great video!
Did you watch galactic football back in the day? Would make for another banger retrospective series
hey, the idea that all the american kids have gimick luanchers makes sense when you think about america from a japanese point of view. America is one of the most indivualist countries in the world, so why wouldn't they want to show it off?
Loving these reviews. I remember watching this as a kid. Looking forward to the next arc.
This arc was really solid storytelling
Michaels blade was cool and powerful in the series but it real life that thing was awkward, top heavy, and would just fall over. It ended up just becoming a show piece of mine. Just like Chief’s stupid Hopping Driger…
Here it is. Max's mom, the legendary destructor. She who would slay her son in front of his friends and loved ones. Who would end him in public.
When Emily says "are you sure this isn't a conflict of interest Judy"
No Emily, it is definitely not. She will eat her spawn in a moment.
And yes, everything about Beyblade's representation of America is so funny.
I’m going through these videos as I just finished beyblade g revolution. I hope you cover all the way to g revolution.
I hope after you finished the original beyblade, you check out beyblade metal fusion.
WHY didn’t you mention the most ridiculous scene of the arc where the three government bladers have sheriff star-shaped beys with a different letter of U.S.A. on each one?
If you were from the UK and you didn't have sky, odds are you watched this on a saturday Morning on the milkshake show.
I never really liked Max's mum, i do like the All-Stars they all have some character. When i first watched i thought that it was going to have Emily as Max's sister lol.
The best America arc in any anime.
Buuuut I can't wait for the next arc.
The slappiest arc in all of toy anime of all.
As someone who loves the original beyblade trilogy (as you can see by my profile pic) I love these reviews your doing. Hope you decide to do V-Force and G-Revolution too.
i LOVED how original the blade blayders were in the original eries, i'm not even talking about the visuals. but the beyblades and the stadiums. later on they became super generic but on the originals u had stadiums with buildings, trees etc etc very cool for the animators. Also they drew most of the time instead of going full cgi like later on
I liking the original series because in the tournaments they had fun Bey stadiums and every character had their own unique way to launch their Beys maybe not all characters but majority of the characters did and i liked how different characters customized their Beys like 1 character used wool from a sheep and 1 used a turtle shell etc. why are newer gens not like this? Because people just used normal Bey parts, Bey launches, and Bey stadiums.
man i love these reviews, keep it going!
Mannn i love these reviews. you gotta cover V-force & G-Revolution too🔥🔥🔥
Please do Kai's arc where he gets black Dranzer
So from the American team only 2 beyblades from the american season were released as real world products, Tryagle and Trypio, and both came with unicque gimmicks, Tryagle came with a spining gear and base that allow it to jump (which is a gimmick that had been remade in future beybalde generation and apperantly isnt really bad when it comes to gameplay), and Trypio to "fly" (or better say glidea little bit when launched) in it takara tommy version, the hasbro version of Trypio was just a very big beyblade.
Later when the football player ger replaced by anohter character this new character was realeased and it was called Rock Bison while Emily bey, Trygator, only had it 2.0 upgrade release as a random piece from booster packs in japan.
Trygle.
I disagree about that part with the launchers, it's one of the things I love most about the original series is just how creative and wacky they can get with ways to start a spinning top.
Bro is gonna make me fucking rewatch this series. Side note: i had a huge crush on Max's mom as a kid idk why lol
making me wanna go rewatch this something fierce lmao
I guess you can say the artificial bit beasts made in labs is a result of research on the real bit beasts. You could say they were trying to replicate its' power and mass produce it.
I would love to see you cover black dranzer ,dranzer and kai
It’s pretty interesting that despite being Team Captain neither of the final rounds have featured Kai
I'm excited to revisit the Black Dranzer arc. That was the coolest thing when I was 11 years old.
Kai is just so beyond everything he appears to have no fucks to give. 🤣
Great Arc I just hated the launchers as a kid and still do!!! 😂
I hope you go all the way to G Revolution
(The dream is that you go all the way to Burst)
Blast from the past 😂 I think my favorite ark was the artificial bit beast ark
I know everyone else is thinking it: Max's mom looks kinda fine
Not gonna lie, even as a kid I thought Max's mom was a baddie.
The manga did upgrading better, I think. Hope you take a look at it.
Gonna watch it today. Just finished SHAMAN KING (to be shaman). Another highly underrated show.
I love Shaman King
Don't check out BeyBlade X, it's mid.
The og is backkkk!!!!!!!
Kai's been a bad ass leader thus far, more so than I remember tbh.
I love that one of the lauchers is a straight on revolver 😂😂😂 'Murica