(May. 13, 2021 4:47 PM)Instarez Wrote: Alright, here's my opinions.
Season 1:
Valt- small arc
Shu- nothing
Ken- small growth
Daina - small growth
Wakiya - small growth
Lui - small growth
Season 2:
Valt - small growth
Shu- character arc
Silas - small growth
Free - small growth
Season 3
Aiga - garbage arc
Fubuki - small growth
Ranjiro - small growth
Season 4
Delta - small growth
Fumiya- small growth
Blindt - small growth
Gwyn - small arc
Season 5
Lane - small arc
There isn't much character arcs. There's some growth, but it's pretty bare bones stuff. Ken makes friends, Daina and Wakiya aren't jerks, Lui gets less cold, and Valt hast hat one arc in the start where he believes in Valkyrie or whatever. Valt gets some small growth. Shu did get an actual arc though, that was nice. Silas and free just learned to not only care about themselves. Just really small changes. Aiga's arc was trash. Fubuki made some friends, and Ranjiro was less of a jerk. That's about it. Delta and Fumiya stopped being mean. Blindt barely had one, idk what was going up with this dude. He didn't really change as a person, he just temporarily worked with the bad guys for no reason and then stopped for no reason. Gwyn had a small arc which was just him making friends.
As you can see. Beyblade really isn't the pinnacle of amazing characters. They could still certainty tackle more stuff though, for example: Brooklyn. Brooklyn was really good at everything, and therefore people were jealous, or thought he always thought of others and less than him. He was isolated from everyone and then grew cold. That's a pretty good backstory. What about Phi? Well, Phi didn't get the bey he wanted.... ok, Gwyn? He couldn't make friends. Shu? He just worked hard but couldn't get anywhere. In comparison to Brooklyn, those guys are a lot more stale.
Now let's look at Kenta. Kenta went on a journey of self discovery (literally), and learned to believe in himself. Free and Silas? They just didn't care about anyone else until they realized everyone else was nice and that they should care about them. Fubuki? Honestly he arguably didn't have any growth. He already had friends and wasn't mean or anything. Ranjiro, was just kind of mean until he wasn't.
Now for our heroes! Gingka is pretty unique. He was a blading prodigy, and could do anything on his own, therefore he wasn't used to working with others. However when forces rose that were better than him, he was kind of shook. He tried to search for an answer, a why. But in reality, all he needed was to work with his friends. In doing so he became a better person. Valt? In Burst he was just mad until he learned to believe in his bey. In God he had to pull the team together that's it. Aiga … we don't talk about Aiga. Drum, he didn't really have any development. He met new people and made friends. Hyuga and Hikaru had 0 development.
So my point is: Burst character are stereotypical, and boring. They need to experiment with more character types like they used too, cause now it's just super small simple stuff like jerk becomes friendly, rather than some interesting and unique stuff, like a Brooklyn. In comparison, Metal Fight and Bakuten Shoot have characters that just feel more human. They go through stuff, they feel things, you can relate to them. It's a lot more than what Burst does. Even Bell seems to be having a jerk becomes friendly arc, which is just great.
I don't agree. Honestly you missed a lot of details with regards to Burst. Those first two seasons really took the characters on relatable arcs. I made a post on the previous page detailing some of the arcs of a few of the Burst characters. So you can look at that for a more indepth dive. Just to give one example here, Daigo's arc is one plenty can relate to. His desire to improve in the face of Valt's growing skill led him to cheat and afterward he struggled with the choice he made. Plenty of people can relate to making a serious mistake and struggling with the regret, the guilt of what you've done, your mind constantly reminding you of the error you made. The show very nicely illustrated his struggle, with the constant flashbacks of that choice. In the end he resolves to never repeat that mistake. To never betray himself that way again. I like how they touched on this later in season when he told Jin that its not about getting caught, it about being able to look yourself in the mirror. This is just one example. Those first two seasons are full of great, meanigful, relatable character arcs stuff we didn't we didn't really see much of in Metal Fight. I can't speak to OG since I haven't seen it.