Beyblade Burst Super Z Episode #4 (Apr 23, 2018 JPN / Oct 28, 2018 CAN)

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So when I saw the trailer and saw Kurtz return, it seemed interesting. I figured Kurtz and Valt would exchange and just ask how each other have been, but no, it immediately starts at the tournament where they barely even talk to each other. Even more disappointing that they skip immediately to the third round revealing the score was 1-1 before it (I should note that I was accidentally spoiled the final score due to the thumbnail, but Valt was clearly going to win anyway so whatever). So the battle was incredibly short as only the third round was shown. The Kurtz part of the episode was overall very disappointing.

Now for the Ranjiro segment of the episode where his group steals Aiga's beyblade, which Ranjiro disapproves of. Reading of the description of this episode given here, I was expecting almost the entire Beyclub, or at least a good chunk of members would troop in into Ranjiros hideout, but in reality, it's just Toko and Nika, Fubuki, the person who stands with Fubuki (I forgot his name) and that was it, I forgot if Hoji's brother was there or not but regardless not as much as I expected. That's not a criticism, just me reading the description and expecting a bit much out of it. Although the so called "chaos" isn't really there, and the rest of the beyclub members being there isn't exactly make everything worse.

Oh and Fubuki beats Ranjiro really easily, which makes sense since I'd imagine Fubuki trained to beat him after his initial loss. One thing I wanted to point out is that in the show as a whole, the stamina types always act more like defense types while defense types budge a little more when attacked, or move around a little more, usually around a more sturdy stamina type. Fubuki vs Ranjiro shows that, it reminds me of Sisco vs Rantaros battle, where the defense type acts more like an attack type and the stamina type seems more defensive. Still, it's cool to see Forneus forcefully uppercut Ragnaruk and predictably bursting it as a result.

Now for my biggest problem of the episode, Aiga vs Fubuki. Okay, so Aiga was obviously going to beat Fubuki at some point, but to me it felt too soon. Aiga didn't really practice or learn any new moves, and the only opponent he fought after Fubuki was Ranjiro. Fubuki also had a logical way of beating him in the second round and Aiga somehow pulled through, I don't know it just seemed a bit too convenient for him to win that easily. You could argue that Aiga could've beaten Fubuki initially had he not pass out from exhaustion but to me, Aiga feels too convenient. Unlike Zero Kurogane, who both trained relentlessly and had a logical way of beating him, I never felt like Aiga had either, but that's debatable and I'm probably wrong on that. My point is that I would've preferred if Aiga was shown training really hard before battling Fubuki, which Fubuki himself does do.

Lui's reintroduction is pretty cool looking though, and I do like the settings he was put on, it makes him feel more threatening there.