(Oct. 10, 2022 11:43 PM)BbladerIt/90 Wrote:(Oct. 07, 2022 5:59 AM)KIO Wrote: Casual profanity aside, my assumption is ADK didn't want religious connotations in the western market (Raphael the Archangel is related to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism), especially considering the large amount of Christians in the United States. Like Titanium says, Regnar is a much older name than a video game character's name.
In my opinion religion should stay out from EVERYTHING, i wish we could go back to what we had in plastic gen (bit beasts/power). They were extremely cool.
Beyblade is heavily steeped in mythology. Not usually Christian, MFB in particular was far more Greco-Roman due to the fact that most were based off of constellations and it was their culture that defined most of them. Even ignoring the fact that the God Ares showed up in that line, there's just so much Greco-Roman religious references in every single bey in that line until Zero-G.
The big 4 of Plastics, Dragoon, Dranzer, Draciel, and Driger, also have religious backgrounds of four holy beasts, with Strata/Gaia Dragoon as the 5th and final beast. Five of the Zero-G beys were planned to reference the same things, though Whiger and Garudas never released outside of a Japanese video game and we're never released.
Cerberus, guard dog of the Underworld, has shown up in every generation so far, but never been offensively based. Phoenixes have also shown up in every gen, and is the single avatar that has represented each of the four types (Attack, Defense, Stamina, and Balance). Both of these have heavy religious backgrounds. So do Pegasus and Unicorns.
If we remove all the religion from Beyblade, we don't have Beyblade any more. Every top released since MFB is based on some religion or mythology from somewhere, and anything from Plastics that isn't generic (e.g. Roller Defenser) has religious connotations to it. If you remove all religious or mythological identities from them, you're left with only basic descriptors to name things off of.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather learn that Valkyrie is based off of Norse mythology instead of just calling it "Tri-Blade Warrior" or something like that.
No myths and no religion means no Beyblade as we know it.
I understand why Hasbro would strip some names out, but they truly went way too far with it from the beginning of Burst, and there's a reason why I utterly despise Hasbro's naming conventions for it.
When it comes to names like Satan, sure, I get that. Parents in the states don't really want kids playing with Satan, I get that. Same with Cancer in MFB, nobody wants to buy Cancer even if they're talking about the astrological crab and not the disease. There's no reason to change Unicorn, or Valkyrie, or Spriggan even with the myths behind them.