Which one is better?

Perhaps I'm a bit ignorant in what I'm about to say considering I watched this as a kid through the English dub, but Beyblade is garbage. It's one of those series that's meant solely to overhype a product that has no redeeming value. B-Daman and Bakugan also serve a similar role. The toys aren't anywhere near as cool as the anime makes them out to be, and the characters are all cardboard cutouts. The English dub is laughably bad (I must have been 8 when it premiered), filled with the most generic rock and rap music, and I'm 90% sure that those two announcers who bantered with each other but were never shown and Dizzy were English dub additions.

I will not lie, I remember liking various aspects of the first series as a kid, like traveling around the world, the rivalry between Tyson and Kai, the final battle, the Europe arc which I remember feeling a lot like filler, and just a bunch of random overall elements that fascinated me as a kid. But Kai has ARM BLADES. The drama is over SPINNING TOPS. Rap-metal vocal music starts playing in matches and it's just the stupidest thing.

I remember seeing a decent amount of V-Force, enough to remember that magnets were the big new thing, the animation style was dramatically different, and the final boss was that kid who was actually an android meant to replace the scientist guy's sun.

I sort of remember bits and pieces of the third series, but I was left with all sorts of questions as a kid, like why was Daichi introduced in the movie and the series in totally different ways? Whatever happened to Tyson's dad? Why is his brother relevant now and why is he switching sides more than a picky kid at a buffet? I still remember that line from the last episode. "Darkness, it is my shield, it is my gun, my... WALL. Nobody understands me!" That's worse than Naruto dialogue.

Only saw a bit of Metal Fusion or whatever where the English dub pronounced what was obviously the Japanese name Ginga (Galaxy) as Gingka (with a soft G).

Anonymous 2017-01-23 06:14:08 Post No.152581119
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>>152579608
No, you all are just dubfags

Anonymous 2017-01-23 07:53:34 Post No.152583493
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I watched a bit of both (more of the original admittedly, and caught bits and pieces of mid-late Metal. Also both dub), and I think I preferred the original because of the characters. I feel like every character in the original had their "thing", and the bit-beasts were more interesting.

Everything in fusion kinda made it seem like the Ginga show, where he starts out this amazing person looking to teach this kid some stuff, but he's basically the only one allowed to really shine. It's been a long time since the original though, so I'm probably just forgetting all the times Max jobbed (despite that he was still my favourite, more like bit-best).

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