Chapter 14 spoiler talk

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Supposedly in this chapter Multi loses to Shiguru, and Ekusu vs Chrome begins, which is pretty interesting. We can assume Ekusu will defeat Chrome because the plot needs to prove his train of thought as wrong (seeing Chrome descend even further into madness would be cool, but nothing in the series has indicated something like that will happen). This means that everything will rest on Bird's shoulders, which obviously plays with expectations.

On one hand, Bird surpassing his limits and getting a big win in the most critical moment is definitely possible. It would also be a somewhat fitting end to his arc, since the other members of Persona have to rely on him this time. However, I could also see a loss incoming as well. We all know Bird always loses, and if that rule stays the same, Team Persona will have officially failed, and need to recuperate. In this event, I could see them going back and rechallenging their old rivals, and what do you know, but the leaders of both Zooganic and Yggdrasil are getting all new Beyblade very soon.

I think I would actually prefer Bird choking at the end, because him suddenly making a breakthrough wouldn't make much sense. Given what we've seen out of him, there's no reason to think he's hiding any potential, or learned any secret techniques off screen. I would go as far as saying that Bird suddenly gaining enough power to win would be plot armor. However, there is one more possibility, being a failure on Kamen Z's part.

This would manifest in one of two ways. Either Kamen Z is actually a fraud (Though this would make no sense and feel pretty cheap), so much so that even Bird can beat him (keep in mind he can't even beat amateur level Bladers either way). Or Kamen Z letting Bird win. The latter would definitely some interesting plot developments. Either way, I am curious about the future.

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We only have about 2 months before Season 1 concludes with 51 episodes, so how many chapters are left before they shift to the second season storyline?

15 or 16?

If this series get like 51 episode here is my guess on the episode released dates:

• Episode 42 - July 26th 2024
  
  
• Episode 43 - August 2nd 2024
  
  
• Episode 44 - August 9th 2024
  
  
• Episode 45 - August 16th 2024
  
  
• Episode 46 - August 23rd 2024
  
  
• Episode 47 - August 30th 2024
  
  
• Episode 48 - September 6th 2024
  
  
• Episode 49 - September 13th 2024
  
  
• Episode 50 - September 20th 2024
  
  
• Episode 51 - September 27th 2024
  
  
• If for a 52nd episode - October 4th 2024
  

Hope these ones will show the new upcoming X Beyblades like Leon Crest, Phoenix Rudder, Aero Pegasus, & even the Suzaku inspired Bey itself?

If this series get like 51 episode here is my guess on the episode released dates:

• Episode 42 - July 26th 2024
  
  
• Episode 43 - August 2nd 2024
  
  
• Episode 44 - August 9th 2024
  
  
• Episode 45 - August 16th 2024
  
  
• Episode 46 - August 23rd 2024
  
  
• Episode 47 - August 30th 2024
  
  
• Episode 48 - September 6th 2024
  
  
• Episode 49 - September 13th 2024
  
  
• Episode 50 - September 20th 2024
  
  
• Episode 51 - September 27th 2024
  
  
• If for a 52nd episode - October 4th 2024
  

Hope these ones will show the new upcoming X Beyblades like Leon Crest, Phoenix Rudder, Aero Pegasus, & even the Suzaku inspired Bey itself?

I’m am almost certain that they said it’s a 51 episode season

So I watched X’s dub premiere. Liked the voice acting and music. The battles were pretty meh(did NOT like the fact that Sword Dran was banking), but the generics are just killing me. First episode and 2 of the generics are just stock beys that established characters already have but with different color schemes. But all that aside, it was good. Will definitely be tuning in next week for episode 2.

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Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but previous generations first system(s) usually goes beyond 1 year, until the next April. CX has been leaked, but we don't know anything about any new systems starting up in October. Given that we haven't gotten the Vermillion Bird Beyblade, we can almost guarantee X will still be going on in October. However, the anime as mentioned above, ends in September. The manga should keep going as usual, but it seems like the anime will stop early, and not fully adapt the manga. If this was an anime that just took inspiration from the manga, like Sparking or DB, this wouldn't be an issue. But Season 1 of X has been shown to be a direct adaptation. So seemingly, it'll just end a little after Team Persona vs Pendragon, which is kind of crazy since we know the manga's going to keep going far beyond it.

On the flip side though, I always liked when the manga has a leg up on the anime. This usually alleviates pacing concerns, because otherwise the anime and manga would be running parallel, but the anime usually doesn't want to get further along than the manga. So, they have to take whatever the most recent chapter is and stretch it for as long as possible. While adding more depth is a good thing, being forced to can lead to undesirable results sometimes.

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Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but previous generations first system(s) usually goes beyond 1 year, until the next April. CX has been leaked, but we don't know anything about any new systems starting up in October. Given that we haven't gotten the Vermillion Bird Beyblade, we can almost guarantee X will still be going on in October. However, the anime as mentioned above, ends in September. The manga should keep going as usual, but it seems like the anime will stop early, and not fully adapt the manga. If this was an anime that just took inspiration from the manga, like Sparking or DB, this wouldn't be an issue. But Season 1 of X has been shown to be a direct adaptation. So seemingly, it'll just end a little after Team Persona vs Pendragon, which is kind of crazy since we know the manga's going to keep going far beyond it.

On the flip side though, I always liked when the manga has a leg up on the anime. This usually alleviates pacing concerns, because otherwise the anime and manga would be running parallel, but the anime usually doesn't want to get further along than the manga. So, they have to take whatever the most recent chapter is and stretch it for as long as possible. While adding more depth is a good thing, being forced to can lead to undesirable results sometimes.

It might be best if after this season ends, the anime waits a few months to let the manga make more chapters, that might help with pacing, and it might give the studio time to produce better animation and art for the next season. Burst had pretty good animation imo.

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Nuevo Redemption 
Time To Rise From The Ashes!

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but previous generations first system(s) usually goes beyond 1 year, until the next April. CX has been leaked, but we don't know anything about any new systems starting up in October. Given that we haven't gotten the Vermillion Bird Beyblade, we can almost guarantee X will still be going on in October. However, the anime as mentioned above, ends in September. The manga should keep going as usual, but it seems like the anime will stop early, and not fully adapt the manga. If this was an anime that just took inspiration from the manga, like Sparking or DB, this wouldn't be an issue. But Season 1 of X has been shown to be a direct adaptation. So seemingly, it'll just end a little after Team Persona vs Pendragon, which is kind of crazy since we know the manga's going to keep going far beyond it.

On the flip side though, I always liked when the manga has a leg up on the anime. This usually alleviates pacing concerns, because otherwise the anime and manga would be running parallel, but the anime usually doesn't want to get further along than the manga. So, they have to take whatever the most recent chapter is and stretch it for as long as possible. While adding more depth is a good thing, being forced to can lead to undesirable results sometimes.

It might be best if after this season ends, the anime waits a few months to let the manga make more chapters, that might help with pacing, and it might give the studio time to produce better animation and art for the next season. Burst had pretty good animation imo.

I agree that Burst had pretty good animation as well. What was the most surprising was its consistency in my opinion. I think having more time would be good in the long run, but it still does suck to not have a lot of the most iconic animators and a seemingly harsher schedule (51 20-minute episodes VS 26 20-minute episodes). I will say though I don't remember the manga being ahead of the anime for a second season before (they usually catch up by the end of S1), so if that does happen if would be cool.

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Do you think the animation will improve in a potential Season 2? I've heard that different teams work on the anime, so perhaps Season 2 could be assigned to a different team well before the first season ends, giving them more time to refine the animation. Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but the current animation really does a disservice to the manga's art style. It's one of the main reasons I haven't been able to enjoy this season as much as I'd hoped. While I understand that most Beyblade anime series haven't had the best animation, this season has been particularly disappointing.

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but previous generations first system(s) usually goes beyond 1 year, until the next April. CX has been leaked, but we don't know anything about any new systems starting up in October. Given that we haven't gotten the Vermillion Bird Beyblade, we can almost guarantee X will still be going on in October. However, the anime as mentioned above, ends in September. The manga should keep going as usual, but it seems like the anime will stop early, and not fully adapt the manga. If this was an anime that just took inspiration from the manga, like Sparking or DB, this wouldn't be an issue. But Season 1 of X has been shown to be a direct adaptation. So seemingly, it'll just end a little after Team Persona vs Pendragon, which is kind of crazy since we know the manga's going to keep going far beyond it.

On the flip side though, I always liked when the manga has a leg up on the anime. This usually alleviates pacing concerns, because otherwise the anime and manga would be running parallel, but the anime usually doesn't want to get further along than the manga. So, they have to take whatever the most recent chapter is and stretch it for as long as possible. While adding more depth is a good thing, being forced to can lead to undesirable results sometimes.

It might be best if after this season ends, the anime waits a few months to let the manga make more chapters, that might help with pacing, and it might give the studio time to produce better animation and art for the next season. Burst had pretty good animation imo.

Excellent idea. Another benefit is the absence of filler that reinforces story flaws like Birds repeated losses or the lack of stakes in general.

Xtreme Scanlations' English fan translation for chapter 14 is now out there.

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Chapter 14 spoiler talk

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Supposedly in this chapter Multi loses to Shiguru, and Ekusu vs Chrome begins, which is pretty interesting. We can assume Ekusu will defeat Chrome because the plot needs to prove his train of thought as wrong (seeing Chrome descend even further into madness would be cool, but nothing in the series has indicated something like that will happen). This means that everything will rest on Bird's shoulders, which obviously plays with expectations.

On one hand, Bird surpassing his limits and getting a big win in the most critical moment is definitely possible. It would also be a somewhat fitting end to his arc, since the other members of Persona have to rely on him this time. However, I could also see a loss incoming as well. We all know Bird always loses, and if that rule stays the same, Team Persona will have officially failed, and need to recuperate. In this event, I could see them going back and rechallenging their old rivals, and what do you know, but the leaders of both Zooganic and Yggdrasil are getting all new Beyblade very soon.

I think I would actually prefer Bird choking at the end, because him suddenly making a breakthrough wouldn't make much sense. Given what we've seen out of him, there's no reason to think he's hiding any potential, or learned any secret techniques off screen. I would go as far as saying that Bird suddenly gaining enough power to win would be plot armor. However, there is one more possibility, being a failure on Kamen Z's part.

This would manifest in one of two ways. Either Kamen Z is actually a fraud (Though this would make no sense and feel pretty cheap), so much so that even Bird can beat him (keep in mind he can't even beat amateur level Bladers either way). Or Kamen Z letting Bird win. The latter would definitely some interesting plot developments. Either way, I am curious about the future.

Keep cooking 🔥

Thoughts on the whole Chrome VS Ekusu rivarly

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Chrome is so weird bruh 😭 Bro lost a few matches and immediately reframed his entire life to imitate a 12 year old, nasty work. I still don't know if this is good writing or not, but it's entertaining so I guess I'll let it slide. I will say idk what Dran Sword means to him emotionally. On one hand it was seemingly the final nail in the coffin to make him feel 100% connected to Ekusu, on the other hand he now feels like he can discard it since he's already perfectly matches his image of Ekusu in other ways. But those ways in question were battling all of his recent opponents as Kamen X, which he could only do with his Dran Beyblades. I guess I'll let this slide too, but admittedly too many inconsistencies at some point will completely poison the plotline, so I'll keep my eye on this guy.

I wanna touch on the actual quality of the writing again for a second. I personally think that this choice for Chrome's character is a double edged sword. On one hand, it's an effective bait and switch. The only information we knew of Chrome before hand were public interviews (obviously unreliable) and Ekusu's memory of him (airhead). So Chrome actually being quite a different person in the present behind closed doors makes plenty of sense. However, the fact that we essentially only get crumbs of his character before the big reveal makes me feel less attached too him in the first place, so it doesn't really land. I think if we went further into Ekusu as a character (if there is any further to go) this would hit harder. All we've really seen in way of flashbacks in that he's super strong and fun to battle I suppose. If they were able to properly portray that Ekusu actually liked him as a person, then seeing him act differently would at least make me feel bad for Ekusu. But to Ekusu, Chrome isn't even a person, he's essentially just an ideal. He wants to fight the strongest Beyblader besides himself, and that just so happens to be Chrome (supposedly).

Now this does seem like I'm calling Ekusu a 1 dimensional character (he might be lowkey), but there is interesting places they could go with this. The fact that he's so solely focused on his own personal battles that he's willing to leave everything he has behind to chase after stronger opponents is an interesting concept. He's so caught up in the elation of climbing to new heights he didn't even clock that Multi had the same last name as Shiguru, who he was teammates with for a non insignificant portion of time. If they actually pointed out this obsession and portrayed the ups and downs on it, this could be interesting. On the other hand, I could see all of the stuff I'm yapping about as just being a writing oversight.

In any case, I'm still waiting very impatiently for Bird's eventual fight, I hope they do something cool with it. I guess he wouldn't get this fight in Ekusu lost though, but he had no real reason to. I don't see unhinged Chrome having any more depth to explore beyond this fight, they basically already covered his whole mentality in chapter 14. Ekusu has also been constantly implied to be the actual strongest blader in Japan, so if he loses to Dragoon, that only has being left spin as its special trait, that would be extraordinarily goofy. I guess maybe if Chrome's facade breaks mid fight and Ekusu sees him for who he truly is, the sad/weirdness from it might make him freeze up and give Chrome the opportunity to win. Now that I think about it, so bladers in X actually have any independent control over their Beyblades? If not then that wouldn't work, but either way hopefully losing as a whole would still affect Bird in some interesting way.

Edit: Also just to be clear a lot of my predictions for the future hinge on my faith in the writers not suddenly making Bird win against Kamen Z for no good reason. If they just use strong bad writing then there's nothing I can do lol.

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Thoughts on the whole Chrome VS Ekusu rivarly

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Chrome is so weird bruh 😭 Bro lost a few matches and immediately reframed his entire life to imitate a 12 year old, nasty work. I still don't know if this is good writing or not, but it's entertaining so I guess I'll let it slide. I will say idk what Dran Sword means to him emotionally. On one hand it was seemingly the final nail in the coffin to make him feel 100% connected to Ekusu, on the other hand he now feels like he can discard it since he's already perfectly matches his image of Ekusu in other ways. But those ways in question were battling all of his recent opponents as Kamen X, which he could only do with his Dran Beyblades. I guess I'll let this slide too, but admittedly too many inconsistencies at some point will completely poison the plotline, so I'll keep my eye on this guy.

I wanna touch on the actual quality of the writing again for a second. I personally think that this choice for Chrome's character is a double edged sword. On one hand, it's an effective bait and switch. The only information we knew of Chrome before hand were public interviews (obviously unreliable) and Ekusu's memory of him (airhead). So Chrome actually being quite a different person in the present behind closed doors makes plenty of sense. However, the fact that we essentially only get crumbs of his character before the big reveal makes me feel less attached too him in the first place, so it doesn't really land. I think if we went further into Ekusu as a character (if there is any further to go) this would hit harder. All we've really seen in way of flashbacks in that he's super strong and fun to battle I suppose. If they were able to properly portray that Ekusu actually liked him as a person, then seeing him act differently would at least make me feel bad for Ekusu. But to Ekusu, Chrome isn't even a person, he's essentially just an ideal. He wants to fight the strongest Beyblader besides himself, and that just so happens to be Chrome (supposedly).

Now this does seem like I'm calling Ekusu a 1 dimensional character (he might be lowkey), but there is interesting places they could go with this. The fact that he's so solely focused on his own personal battles that he's willing to leave everything he has behind to chase after stronger opponents is an interesting concept. He's so caught up in the elation of climbing to new heights he didn't even clock that Multi had the same last name as Shiguru, who he was teammates with for a non insignificant portion of time. If they actually pointed out this obsession and portrayed the ups and downs on it, this could be interesting. On the other hand, I could see all of the stuff I'm yapping about as just being a writing oversight.

In any case, I'm still waiting very impatiently for Bird's eventual fight, I hope they do something cool with it. I guess he wouldn't get this fight in Ekusu lost though, but he had no real reason to. I don't see unhinged Chrome having any more depth to explore beyond this fight, they basically already covered his whole mentality in chapter 14. Ekusu has also been constantly implied to be the actual strongest blader in Japan, so if he loses to Dragoon, that only has being left spin as its special trait, that would be extraordinarily goofy. I guess maybe if Chrome's facade breaks mid fight and Ekusu sees him for who he truly is, the sad/weirdness from it might make him freeze up and give Chrome the opportunity to win. Now that I think about it, so bladers in X actually have any independent control over their Beyblades? If not then that wouldn't work, but either way hopefully losing as a whole would still affect Bird in some interesting way.

Edit: Also just to be clear a lot of my predictions for the future hinge on my faith in the writers not suddenly making Bird win against Kamen Z for no good reason. If they just use strong bad writing then there's nothing I can do lol.

Now that I think about it, how old is Chrome?🤔 Anyways, I’m kinda anticipating Persona to lose this match. Think abt it. Multi didn’t fulfill her goal of beating her sister, Bird should get neg diffed by anybody in the team, and Cobalt Dragoon is apparently a mixture of both Drake and Dran, so it might have the edge against DB. And besides, we’re only on the fourteenth chapter, and beys like Phoenix Rudder and Leon Crest are yet to debut in the manga.

Thoughts on the whole Chrome VS Ekusu rivarly

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Chrome is so weird bruh 😭 Bro lost a few matches and immediately reframed his entire life to imitate a 12 year old, nasty work. I still don't know if this is good writing or not, but it's entertaining so I guess I'll let it slide. I will say idk what Dran Sword means to him emotionally. On one hand it was seemingly the final nail in the coffin to make him feel 100% connected to Ekusu, on the other hand he now feels like he can discard it since he's already perfectly matches his image of Ekusu in other ways. But those ways in question were battling all of his recent opponents as Kamen X, which he could only do with his Dran Beyblades. I guess I'll let this slide too, but admittedly too many inconsistencies at some point will completely poison the plotline, so I'll keep my eye on this guy.

I wanna touch on the actual quality of the writing again for a second. I personally think that this choice for Chrome's character is a double edged sword. On one hand, it's an effective bait and switch. The only information we knew of Chrome before hand were public interviews (obviously unreliable) and Ekusu's memory of him (airhead). So Chrome actually being quite a different person in the present behind closed doors makes plenty of sense. However, the fact that we essentially only get crumbs of his character before the big reveal makes me feel less attached too him in the first place, so it doesn't really land. I think if we went further into Ekusu as a character (if there is any further to go) this would hit harder. All we've really seen in way of flashbacks in that he's super strong and fun to battle I suppose. If they were able to properly portray that Ekusu actually liked him as a person, then seeing him act differently would at least make me feel bad for Ekusu. But to Ekusu, Chrome isn't even a person, he's essentially just an ideal. He wants to fight the strongest Beyblader besides himself, and that just so happens to be Chrome (supposedly).

Now this does seem like I'm calling Ekusu a 1 dimensional character (he might be lowkey), but there is interesting places they could go with this. The fact that he's so solely focused on his own personal battles that he's willing to leave everything he has behind to chase after stronger opponents is an interesting concept. He's so caught up in the elation of climbing to new heights he didn't even clock that Multi had the same last name as Shiguru, who he was teammates with for a non insignificant portion of time. If they actually pointed out this obsession and portrayed the ups and downs on it, this could be interesting. On the other hand, I could see all of the stuff I'm yapping about as just being a writing oversight.

In any case, I'm still waiting very impatiently for Bird's eventual fight, I hope they do something cool with it. I guess he wouldn't get this fight in Ekusu lost though, but he had no real reason to. I don't see unhinged Chrome having any more depth to explore beyond this fight, they basically already covered his whole mentality in chapter 14. Ekusu has also been constantly implied to be the actual strongest blader in Japan, so if he loses to Dragoon, that only has being left spin as its special trait, that would be extraordinarily goofy. I guess maybe if Chrome's facade breaks mid fight and Ekusu sees him for who he truly is, the sad/weirdness from it might make him freeze up and give Chrome the opportunity to win. Now that I think about it, so bladers in X actually have any independent control over their Beyblades? If not then that wouldn't work, but either way hopefully losing as a whole would still affect Bird in some interesting way.

Edit: Also just to be clear a lot of my predictions for the future hinge on my faith in the writers not suddenly making Bird win against Kamen Z for no good reason. If they just use strong bad writing then there's nothing I can do lol.

Now that I think about it, how old is Chrome?🤔 Anyways, I’m kinda anticipating Persona to lose this match. Think abt it. Multi didn’t fulfill her goal of beating her sister, Bird should get neg diffed by anybody in the team, and Cobalt Dragoon is apparently a mixture of both Drake and Dran, so it might have the edge against DB. And besides, we’re only on the fourteenth chapter, and beys like Phoenix Rudder and Leon Crest are yet to debut in the manga.

I've realizes that the current battle could actually end in either a win or draw, but the result actually doesn't matter. Ekusu won't lose since Kamen Z and Black Shell need their debut battle. And whether the next fight ends in a draw or win it's still basically a 1-1 situation for both teams (Given that victory rests on the result of Bird vs Kamen Z). With that in mind, I definitely see Chrome putting up more of a fight now. I guess a 4th fight afterwards would happen, but let's be real Bird is cooked.

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Now that I think about it, how old is Chrome?🤔 Anyways, I’m kinda anticipating Persona to lose this match. Think abt it. Multi didn’t fulfill her goal of beating her sister, Bird should get neg diffed by anybody in the team, and Cobalt Dragoon is apparently a mixture of both Drake and Dran, so it might have the edge against DB. And besides, we’re only on the fourteenth chapter, and beys like Phoenix Rudder and Leon Crest are yet to debut in the manga.

I've realizes that the current battle could actually end in either a win or draw, but the result actually doesn't matter. Ekusu won't lose since Kamen Z and Black Shell need their debut battle. And whether the next fight ends in a draw or win it's still basically a 1-1 situation for both teams (Given that victory rests on the result of Bird vs Kamen Z). With that in mind, I definitely see Chrome putting up more of a fight now. I guess a 4th fight afterwards would happen, but let's be real Bird is cooked.

A draw might be likely if the author wants to build up stakes or establish relativity I guess the end result of Chrome v Ekusu is irrelevant since Bird gets stomped either way. I don’t really see why a fourth fight would happen unless Chrome and X are really like that.

The Beyblade X anime will be on break next week in Japan due to the Olympics.

New dub name :

Yuni Naniwa, Titus Manju, Jian Strong, Blaze (Burn) according to the officiel TikTok account form Beyblade X.

New dub name :

Yuni Naniwa, Titus Manju, Jian Strong, Blaze (Burn) according to the officiel TikTok account form Beyblade X.

Ok, I assume Jian Strong is Rex Jura, but... Is Titus really Quinn?

Edit:

Just saw the wiki, Titus is King and Jian is Chou... It doesn't ring to me. Toguro appears unchanged

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So many thoughts bruh (RIP Season 1)

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Unsurprisingly, Ekusu beat Chrome. I do like that they upped the stakes by having 2 of his Beyblades break. I would wonder how this would pa out in the future, but its Ekusu, and Ekusu always wins, so he'll be fine. This plot line of Chrome VS Ekusu did not move me for reasons I've previously stated, but I won't drone on about the same points over and over again.

So Kamen Z is a Blader named Seal, right? He's supposed to be a foil to Bird, but it doesn't exactly have any impact in the series' final chapter unfortunately. Especially since Bird has been watching his come up, but we've only heard of him now. That is a clear disconnect between the audience and character that removes all impact.

Anyways Bird lost again, unsurprising as well. I think we're supposed to feel more empathy since it was presented as a fake-out at first, but what did you expect? Same thing for Ekusu, Dran was winning and Hells was bursting, simple as that. This, just like all of his losses, is presented as only a minor setback, we still had fun and Bird still gained new fans. But it should be crystal clear that all of his losses and their build up over time as the result of his character not significantly developing in any way, shape, or form, is the real takeaway.

And then......its over. They just lose, and its wraps. Season 1 has officially concluded manga wise. So, let me get this straight. For every single chapter of this Season (even worse for the anime's 48 20 minute episodes) Bird was constantly strung on with promises of development, only to start and end as a flop. This is such an insane miss, and I think this will resonate even more strongly in the anime. Because, imagine sitting through each episode week by week, where his losses are even worse, only for the series to unceremoniously crush any hopes of him developing and end immediately. This is just embarrassing bro, there is genuinely 0 reason for you to return to the next season for it to get better (assuming you were not satisfied), because Beyblade has year long seasons. Bird has to be the biggest flop protag in Beyblade history. This was a generational performance, for all the wrong reasons.

So, there are other towers to climb I suppose. I previously said that the tower climb aspect felt lacking, since the amount of floors they rose each battle was completely random, and they ended up getting to the top in a way unrelated the tower in the first place. I'm hoping that they make the level by level progression more concrete. Seems like we have 1 more major rival team, while Zooganic and Yggdrasil evolving further, and a new rival character with a Samurai Bey. I'm curious about her situation team-wise. I wouldn't be opposed to just being a singular rival for Bird though as a singular, concentrated plot line for him to develop.

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Got around to reading the translated chapter 15

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My feelings on Khrome vs Ekusu haven't change. Making it a sudden twist means giving up substantial build up for Khrome, so I just don't care for him. If they implied that Ekusu was viewing their relationship through rose tinted glasses in the flashbacks, that would fix the problem. But the reality is that we hear about Chrome a few times, and his big reveal as the final antagonist hinges on subverting expectations built through, like, 3 short scenes.

I also felt that Khrome's final revelation was redundant. Him needing Ekusu to need him was clearly the entire point. I guess he was blinded by the initial shock so he didn't fully internalize that Ekusu still needed him. But either way I feel like we're kind of just ignoring the true depth of their fractured rivalry.

The fact that Khrome invented a false version of Ekusu based on a mis conceptualized version of Ekusu, along with Ekusu being to straight forward and air headed that he didn't realize and unknowingly shattered that illusion, feels like the real takeaway here. I feel like something more could be said about Pendragon's internal dynamic, but I feel like the specifics of Khrome following behind Ekusu are too shallow as presented.

Also, Bird is still trash. I really try not to be overly critical I swear, but I just can't not notice this failure of a character. Results aren't everything so you should focus on personal enjoyment and growth. This is true to a point, however results still are the backbone of your personal career. Especially when this career was created to achieve a dream to be #1, which is BUILT ON results. So Bird's complete failure to follow through on this end is obviously disappointing, right?

Yes he did grow stronger on a personal level, but that growth is completely negligible compared to what the environment he's in needs out of him. So saying that he still got something out of his losses, when that something is still rendered moot, just doesn't work. I could see this message coming out of a story where he only battles a few times. But Bird has been on a losing streak for 15 chapters (over a year). So it's been hammered home to the readers just how much he is losing, and just how much he would need to win.

Bird does need wins because of the goal set up by the story, so to give us a 15 month losing streak, and then to expect us to overlook it for the other side of the coin is too unreasonable of an ask. Yes, personal growth is important. But you can't ignore that results are important to an extent. Because of this I feel like the rebuttal to Shieru does not work. Even Bird himself says that he wants to have a battle like Ekusu, only to immediately defeat himself (His X Dash was too powerful). This series wants to have its cake and eat it, but didn't buy the cake, and expects everyone to follow through with the eating portion anyways.

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So why does Bird's bey break itself anyway, who's at fault? As a Blader, he regularly trains himself which should be rewarded by the writers instead of punished. His Bey is getting upgrades so it's not like it's broken too. When Shiguru borrowed it she could win with it for example.

In Pokemon, people always made a HUGE deal out of Ash losing his leagues and stuff, but if they had to deal with Bird's status quo... well, let's say I'm not sure that fanbase would survive.

It's just so weird and nonsenesical, they should have let him win the finale here.

Chapter 15 was... okay to me. Didn't really put too many high expectations for the team to win against Pendragon and it seems like writers want Persona to win their finale maybe in Season 2.

But here's what I found interesting:

Bird's Xtreme Dash "Round Judgement" was quite impressive but Hell's can't withstand that much power that it bursts itself.

In anime episode 44, Multi stated that Hell's Sytche was crafted for her sister before she left and joined Pendragon. Shiguru easily beat Bird with it but she mentioned she can only use Balance-type in battles.

Looking back, before Takumi destroyed Bird's first Bey: Strike Hawk, it was an attack type. But what if Bird fits with Attack Type and not Balance?

The reason why Multi gave Hell's to Bird just for her battle against Persona back then. But what if that Bey was never meant for Bird?

Giving a prediction here: Bird will obtain a new Attack-Type Bey in the next season and it won't be Hell's anymore. It'll be a Bey that works well with Bird and we might see him win in Season 2.

New Beyblade X opening will be performed by the japanese group L'Arc-En-Ciel. Source : Twitter Account from Beyblade X and the group.

Yapping about Beyblade X New Arc

Spoiler (Click to View)

L'Arc-En-Ciel is an insane pick, shoutout Gundam 00. The anime immediately going into the next chapter is insane I suppose, but in a very bad way. A two week break is sounds about right compared to the time between Burst's seasons, but this is not what X needed as all. Clearly something big needs to change in production due to the quality. The series has admittedly been getting more consistent, but the fundamental problems with the actual motion (or lack of it) still exist. I don't believe just taking a break isn't what we needed, but oh well.

Btw the Tenka (samurai girl)'s look in the anime visual is distinctly different in vibe than the manga. It's not a bad thing, but I just hope that when she shows of more passionate energy the design will be able to convey that probably (the presence of shark teeth alone should hopefully help). Whale Wave being Meiko's is a fun idea, but also we all know she's never going to be an especially relevant member of the cast, right?

Once I find the raws of Chapter 16 I'll probably have more thoughts.

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