Alright, now that I've motivated myself to watch this episode, here's what I thought of it:
Yeah, it's not too bad actually. I like the idea of Suou changing personalities as his beyblade changes, and having his more stern face be the other side of his face is cool. Oh yeah he has a stern serious side to him, as opposed to his eye closed welcoming face and personality. This is also the first time we get to see any quake type function in action with the Operate driver, as Quake never got an anime appearance and Spriggan Requiem simply never did a quake move in the anime.
Oh right, I should do my usual "play by play" plot summary and review. Well it begins with Suou cutting some plants, while thinking about his battle against Fubuki when he first had his Super Z beyblade. Suou at the time used that generic Beat Kulkulcan combo and predictably lost very easily, it should be noted that Suou has used three beyblades from what we know, the first being that generic light blue Yeager Yggdrasil combo, then the mentioned Beat Kulkukan generic, now he has Hell Salamander. After the flashback, he gets... whatever that thing on the shelf is and uses it to make his Hell Salamander, from what I see that thing on the shelf he uses looks like bones but someone could fill me in on what that actually is.
Alright so this leads me to a reoccurring problem I have had with the Burst anime in general, whenever they show the process of making the beyblade, it never seems to logically make sense to me, but the thing he uses to make his beyblade doesn't even look like metal, and how Aiga and his dad, and now Suou and that old man he was with can make super complicated detailed beyblades, along with the coloured plastic, I can understand the metal parts but how the coloured plastic bits? And how did Suou get his driver? Why use a display piece, whether it be that statue Aigas dad make or Suous display of... that bone like thing, when they could get high quality strong metal elsewhere, it just seems like some lame attempt at adding some mystical elements to it.
Alright enough of that rant, now Suou battles Ranjirou, and uses defense mode... against a stamina type. However it does end up making sense as the rounder shape is used to have as much surrounding the layer as possible which made it possible to push Ragnaruks wings inside and deactivate it's special move. Ranjirou of course loses, 2-0 in fact making me believe the Rantaro losing curse is finally being passed on to him, and I am guessing Aiga will beat him soon too, considering he hasn't yet.
Oh and Aiga battles Suou and wins round one, forcing Suou to change modes and also his personality, being more aggressive. He feels like a totally different character no doubt, now that I think about it, Suou is almost a tiny bit like Kensuke, except his two personalities aren't using puppets and aren't both at the same time. Alright maybe they aren't that similar. Anyway, Suou uses the quake move from Operates attack mode like I mentioned, and beats Achilles by diving onto it, ending the battle. The battle was pretty fun to watch and Achilles did seem like it could've won, but it didn't.
Ranjirou and Aiga train against each other, and I swear the people behind the show must really miss the super repetitive Rantaro and Valt training and bickering, so they brought it back! Only this time it's Ranjirou and Aiga, who are virtually identical to the aforementioned characters, especially Ranjirou who now feels just like Rantaro with hardly any differences.
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