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For my next purchase I've bought one of the newly hyped Gachi beyblade! In this case it's Bushin Ashura .Hr.Kp TEN. I got this one first just because it's my favourite looking one of the three, all three of them look fantastic but I just love this one the most. Plus I've always had a thing for new defense type releases, especially if it's a new system and is this lovely green colour.
First of all, let's talk about the layer. Bushin Ashuras layer is a bit bigger than I thought it would be, but I don't mind, I really like the way it looks. It feels pretty heavy, but obviously it isn't the heaviest. The Gatinko Chip of this layer has a really nice translucent green colour, and alongside the Bushin colour, hans a very colour scheme very reminiscent to Hazard Kerbeus .7.At, heck even the driver looks similar but I'll talk about that later. Anyway, let's talk about the teeth on the Ashura chip, well... this is advertised to have 7 teeth, 7 clicks basically, and the idea is that the teeth are asymmetrical and they click one tooth at a time. The thing is though, the 7 teeth thing is hardly noticeable for me, while it could be because the Hurricane disk made it slightly tricky to assemble, I could rarely feel 7 clicks. It was either 5-6, or 4 regular clicks as if the teeth were lagging. The teeth strength is okay though, definitely not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, I wouldn't call it viable but it's okay. Bushin I have yet to see it's true performance but it has okay defense I guess. The TEN layer weight chip feels heavier than the one I got from Driger F despite it's small size, but we'll see how it does when more parts come out. Overall I love the way this layer looks, it's one of the most beautiful beys I have thus far! It's performance is a mixed bag though. Not that I mind too much.
Hurricane is our first free spinning disk, and it has a buzzsaw look to it which is awesome! In fact, it's a nice plum colour, seriously this thing begs to be used for Tornado Wyvern for a fully free spinning bey, it's very reminiscent of it. With my comment on how BA looks like Hazard Kerbeus, is Ashura a mix of a few defense types over the system? Anyway, it free spins smoother than I expected and it feels heavy too, but since it's 25 grams, it's lighter than the other new disks and also lighter than 7/0/10/00 + Wall/Turn/Lift/Bump combos. People have also speculated that this might be good for LAD and despite being free spinning, I'm not sure if I agree, the disk is very rigid and even the circular part below is a little bit rough, we'll see though. However I still love love love this disk because it looks amazing and the gimmick is cool and unique for a disk.
Keep is a free spinning rubber tip, which is a great idea since Burst beys lack the stamina to maintain spin for a rubber ball tip like Bite. It's technically not a brand new concept, as Quest is kind of similar, only it overdid the whole idea. Keep is a godsend compared to Quest though, as it has much more stamina, the rubber ball has pretty good K.O resistance from what I can tell but doesn't overdo it like Quest. It's stamina still isn't great though, the free spinning mechanism is on par with Gyro and isn't that smooth so while it does compensate for the rubbers grip, probably not that much. Question is which one resembles Bearing Core 2 more? This one or Quest? I also love how the Driver looks by the way, it has a very castle turret look to it and it's pretty angular. I wish it was wider though haha.
So overall, I love Bushin Ashura, it's probably one of my favourite beyblades, but I wouldn't say I loved it more than Hazard Kerbeus or even Emperor Forneus, maybe on par with Forneus though. Still, I'm glad I own this, this is definitely my favourite Gachi bey so far, and despite the performance being a mixed bag overall, it has decent K.O resistance and is incredibly fun to play around, I love all the parts and it looks super cool. I'd pick it up, the parts might be interesting to mess around with! It gets an A grade from me!
And yes I'll get the other two later!
My Cho-Z Reaper Deathscyther .12.Cr concept render, click below to see!
No I don't plan on doing more yet.
I should probably go back to making fan custom Zero G beyblade concepts again