(May. 13, 2015 10:45 PM)Bey Brad Wrote: [ -> ] (May. 10, 2015 9:06 AM)Kai-V Wrote: [ -> ]I have to restrain myself from commenting on the attractiveness of two generations of Beyblade characters, seriously, hahah.
OK no, you have to, and I will totally chime in with my own thoughts in response.
Ahahah, sure ...
Well, it helps that we got to know basically the whole background story of Bakuten Shoot Beyblade characters and that those stories were rather interesting.
I also honestly cannot objectively establish whether my age in relation to the characters' age represents a factor in whether I 'relate' to the characters or not, but characters like Kai seriously only seemed like the very young adolescents they were when you saw an adult pop in right beside them in the same frame. So, I must have been around twelve years old at the time whereas Takao and the rest's ages spread from 12 to 14 between all three seasons of Bakuten Shoot Beyblade, so that was clearly relatable, yet they also seemed older : I do think girls in particular tend to go for older guys instead of younger ones, in general. I may be wrong though, but even with Beyblade, Hasbro clearly used older boys in their advertisements because they know that older kids and young teens tend to look up to older adolescents at that point.
In comparison, and again I have no idea if this is just a perspective that I naturally and fortunately gained with age (because you are not supposed to be attracted in any sort of way to kids when you get to a certain age ...), but it seems to me that the way the Metal Fight Beyblade characters were drawn always only made them look like kids. Besides Kyouya and perhaps Benkei, I had no problem at all this time believing that they were twelve years old.
Now, Ryuuga and even Ginga sometimes were definitely really 'bada**', but I just really like them as characters, and I think it shows a lot that there is no way I would have enough content to write a page about Ryuuga or Kyouya as big as this longest page ever about Kai Hiwatari :
http://animemanga.worldbeyblade.org/inde...i_Hiwatari
So, there is no reason not to find Metal Fight Beyblade characters really, really cool, but there was nothing like episode 30 of Beyblade G Revolution, no really interesting stories, Ginga's father was never dead so that stopped being a touching aspect very quickly, characters did look like kids this time in my opinion, and there are probably more things to list as well.
There is most likely more to say on the subject, but so far this is what I have thought of in the last few days, hah. Oh, also, Bakuten Shoot Beyblade characters succeeded in being likable despite a highly questionable dubbing, whereas the Metal Fight Beyblade dubbing was closer to the original.