@@Juanjose-tm4qp Ngl i speculated that Alice is in some sort connected to Masquerade. My friends didnt believe me since she was a girl and the antagonist was a boy, it also didnt helped since we were young and was still taking sex-ed (we were still 13 at the time) so some of my friends ruled my speculation out. Tbh my hunch came from two things, the first was my gut feeling. Ive been watching anime, playing games and reading manga and comic books since i was 4 years old so some sort of potential plot twist detector has been ingrained into me at a young age. The second was from promotions that you can see Dan and the gang each with a partner bakugan with their respective element but one stood out the most, Alice who was said lorewise to have made the game along side the other five but didnt have a partner much less played. Add to it that Masquerade was a darkus user and the only element Dan and his friends didnt have was said element which would potentially be Alice's element if she played bakugan like the rest of the gang.
@@edboy5418 "was said lorewise to have made the game along side the other five but didnt have a partner much less played" I think the actual story proved that to be a load of bunk. I mean Dan hadn't even heard of Sub-Terra in the first episode, which is also incredibly odd because he personally knows Julie but the fact of the matter is he was far too incompetent to have been one of the ones who made the game... Also Alice didn't even play the game, that always struck me as very strange. How can she be a battle brawler without doing either of those things? How could have she been one of the ones who made the game yet have no bakugan at all?
@@mattwo7 Thats the thing. Why were the six of them called that while Alice was the only one not playing. It struct to me as odd and by what i said i should have clarified it with them being the ones who made the rules for the game.
One thing I really did enjoy about the show was the fact that Dan was a co-founder for the rules and he wasn’t even top 10 till around the end of season 1. I liked that he wasn’t an overpowered protagonist from the get-go and I did enjoy everyone’s character interactions. Though now that I’ve aged the dialogue feels more childish and dated in most cases.
how the fuck can you enjoy that ? Dan was both the creater of the rules for something that he didn't make. Something that kept on falling from the sky. He also was the CLUELESS ANIME PROTAG WHO HAD TO GET EVERYTHING EXPLAINED TO HIM. How can you create something you have no control over while also being clueless about everything ? I understand that you liked the concept, like a game dev not being a great gamer. But the execution was horrible.
This series may be outdated and cringy, but it was my gateway anime, and I will always hold a special place in my heart for it. Thanks for everything, *Bakugan Battle Brawlers.*
@@B0K0691 It was originally produced in Japan and the first season originally aired in Japan and its after this first season that I started watching anime. It was my gateway anime.
Can we just appreciate how badass the concept of transforming runic spheres from space is one of the most interesting of all these "game anime" things?
World building wise Monsuno and Bakugan are pretty neat, gameplay wise Monsuno is absolute garbage and the Bakugan reboot Battle Planet is [Magic: The Cloning].
There are two things I remember really liking about Bakugan. The first is Masquerade being Alice was probably the best twist in a kids show. Second one was that Dan and Runo actually end up together and go on a date. I mean relationships like that are almost never shown in kids cartoons.
Mustache D. Luffy Yes it was at the very end of the first season. There is a small scene in which Dan picks up Runo for a date. It’s really cute. However, the only down side is that they don’t explore their relationship in future seasons outside of a few one off moments in episodes.
Matt Murray I remember that! My stupid fangirl heart ate that up. It frankly pissed me off when she didn’t even show up in season 3 and was only in seasons 2 and 4 as background noise
My main (and possibly only) complaint about bakugan, is that after a while, the protags would get all new "beloved partners" every season that we were just supposed to care about without referencing the old partners at all.
i don't think he aged after that tho. or they didn't mention it. cuz in mectanium surge he woulda been something like 17 or older and he didn't look or act like he had aged between new vestroia and then.
Season 2 really hits me because of the villains and how they werent JUST evil but teetered on the good-evil spectrum, especially when Hydron and Zenoheld started becoming more involved in the plot with their mechanical Bakugan. Watching Lync and Volt lose their fights and being sent to (???) actually made me feel something. Didnt feel so bad for Mylene though.
Epic Fury_101 Lync especially because he was SECONDS away from joining Alice and the Brawlers and that killed me. I was definitely rooting for him in that battle!
So fun lil fact: They changed Shun's backstory in the dub. Rather than his grandpa being a terrible person, he was a actually decent grandfather in the sub. In the sub, Shun also battles Dan on his way to go to his mom in the hospital because the initiation of a battle stops time (the battles also make a clock ticking sound to show this), until he realized it only slowed it down and his mom was dying regardless. Where in the dub it is so he doesn't have to be in his grandfather's custody.
I remember when this shit was everywhere while I was in elementary school. All the kids loved talking about the anime including myself, but then the anime/game quickly lost its relevancy and then it just disappeared. It really was a huge fad back in the day. I still remember a lot of people at the time thought Bakugan would be the Pokemon killer lol.
Bakugan was a lot cooler and more mature (for a kids toy tv show) which helped it gain popularity when Pokémon was dying out of fashion Like after 10 years or so of the original games release (mid 2000s or so) people were getting sick of Pokémon and growing up out of it, only now do we see a Pokémon Renaissance and shows Like bakugan/beybalde were a lot more appealing in my eyes compared to Pokémon
@@PeterGriffin11 Pokemon had a dark age in between poke-fever and Pokémon go. If you were a fan during that time you’d realize how uncool it was to like Pokémon at the time. Games still sold well but the hype died down
I think one of the big reasons that Bakugan hit it big quickly and then died off is because the anime was more structured than Pokémon’s. Its story was more exciting and thought-provoking than Pokémon’s, but it had a natural end point. Pokémon has a more open story and world to play around in, so it has more staying power. It’s the same reason Digimon was super popular for a while but ended after a few years.
Bakugan was my SHIT in elementary, I traded those with all my friends, I had the Wii games, I was OBSESSED until the last season confused me and caused me to leave 😂
I was in ELEMENTARY. This shit was my life! I remember going to school with my bakugan all the time. Not so much to play the game but to collect and trade.
@@cyborgcuttlefish6326they sidelined half the main cast from Season 1, notably all the girls. It was a real shame because part of the appeal of the first season was the dynamics between the characters. Writing out half of them sucked out a lot of what made the show special.
30:58 If that wasn't insulting enough, they dragged Drago's old voice actor into the show to reprise his role and he is literally the _only_ returning voice actor.
I remember how I loved this anime and the toys! Shun was one of the first fictional characters I had a crush on! I’m a girl and I was bullied for liking Bakugan, sadly. I’m also sad that I lost a lot of the cards and toys.
I was pretty sure you were a girl solely because shun was the fangirl character of the show Bullying? How and why did you get bullied for liking bakugan? (I still have my Baku-merch tho)
That sucks. Bakugan was huge when it first came out, like everyone had those toys and I remember having bakugan fights with other people (my brother is still upset I lost the exedra and centipoid characters that we received, I am too D:), but I didn’t get bullied for it but was rather encouraged
Power100 If you're talking about popularity, Blue Dragon did not take off at all. I didn't hear about it till 2010-ish and most casual anime watchers in the west won't really know about it
That really is one of the most understated strengths of Dan. He’s anime protagonist who actually has to work and think for his victories, and it’s fine if he doesn’t always win.
That's one thing I loved about it. Dan lost bunch of times. And each time the loss was pretty heavy. He did not have heavy plot armor unlike a lot of anime protags
I will vouch as a Canadian, bakugan was pretty big back when I was in like, grade 1-3, I vividly remember bringing my bakugan to friends houses all the time, or friends wanting to hang at my place to play bakugan heavily because I had so many of them, since like you I got them whenever I could, birthdays, christmas, whatever money I got as a kid. Think I still have the box somewhere actually, I'll have to look into that
Honestly I love the anime, the first one was by far the best imo but season 2 was alright, I just really wish they had kept more of the strategy the first season had throughout the series I always remember the fight between Shun and Komba where Shun beat 2 of his bakugan by blowing them onto mind ghost causing them to both get defeated instantly
@@gavinsmith9871 In my humble opinion, it's because the game itself matters less and less the further into the plot we are. Like, for example, Ren losing to Fabia in season 3 episode 26 should not happen, if one does count the numbers that are convieniently not displayed on the screen.
I had a Darkus Fear Ripper with 450g's as my very first Bakugan ever. I was so stoked I found one that strong. I legit felt like Masquerade with Hydranoid. Course it helps that me and my friends completely ignored the official rules of the game and played by the show's rules and with the show's ability cards. I watched every episode repeatedly, recorded all the names and effects of each ability I saw, and we played using those instead of the boring shit the company put out.
@@StarboyXL9 That is so incredibly cool. None of my friends were into bakugan and i was too dumb of a kid to play properly so i never learned the rules until i was 12 or older
The logic behind this in the show is essentially the same as in the actual card game. Notice that Kaiba isn't surprised because Exodia is super rare, he says (paraphrasing) "Impossible! No one has been able to *summon* him!" That's because it's super impractical to have your one win condition be drawing into 5 specific cards with no support to help get them out. You'd have to go out of your way to make a deck dedicated to stalling your opponent and drawing cards, which likely wouldn't go well against most well structured decks. And that's why no one really runs Exodia, both in the show and in real life.
@@justanothercommenterwithan9089 It's really not. Even with 3 Pot of Greeds, with a 30+ card deck you're not that likely to find all 5 pieces very quickly. There are still other cards besides Pot of Greed that let you draw as well. They could just run Heart of the Underdog. Plus there's also the matter of hand destruction effects that would screw with it on top of that.
Definitely would love a continuation of Bakugan reviews. I watched all seasons and rewatch them every so often, but I do think that the number of aliens and invasion plots are outrageous and becomes like power rangers by season, not episode.
I remember I was a kid watching the first season, when mom walks in, sees a battle and is worried if it's too violent (my younger sibling/s were watching too). I literally had to try to convince her that the show had a lot of good family morals like friendship and teamwork, when in reality I just wanted to watch it cause it was cool and I had the toys... Also, one time for a creative writing project, I just wrote out (in detail) the beginning of the Bakugan videogame. (It was published in the student year book and stands as probably my greatest school achievement...) *(**#PlagerismFTW**)*
i had to beg my parents to let me watch the show since they also thought it was too violent, the agreement was that it was the only show like this i was able to watch (i wasnt even allowed to watch pokemon)
Ah, the classic over-protectiveness. One of the best ways to get your childhood screwed up is by having over-protective parents who also have no idea of what the hell they're doing. I remember watching it at the time when my life wasn't a nightmare.
Bakugan Stan Incoming! This randomly showed up in my Timeline and I couldn't be happier. I play this game at least once a year and no matter what it never fails to put a smile on my face. Doesn't matter how old it is or anything like that, I still love it.
Well, the anime-disease of shuns mom is straight up death in the original version, that should explain quite a few things and give further meaning to others...
@@B0K0691 maybe in different scenarios, but how is it important in this case. The point in this case wasn't what she died from, but rather that shun didn't visit her in the last minutes before her death because he was playing bakugan. Btw. Didn't think i'd find an Inazuma11 fan out in the wild
2:48 damn now your just making me jealous. I loved the series and had the videogame. Yet i never could get a single bakugan to this day. To this day I have a feeling of emptiness, not getting to every use a bakugan.
The second you mentioned how iconic the opening was even without seeing the show in 10+ years I sang it out loud bar for bar and fun fact the point where you chime in is actually the point in the song where that part comes on the timing is impeccable
Huzzah! A man of quality!! But seriously. Bakugan was my jam as a kid and it still is to this day! I loved collecting the toys, cards, accessories... I've even got a few dekas and customized a few Bakugan to look like the ones in the anime! I'm such a huge Bakugan dork that I even desire to make my own Talking Bakugan one day using whatever technology the talking Zoobles used (does anyone even remember Zoobles at all?). It's nice to see another fellow Bakugan stan make a retrospective on this series since I thought I and a few others would be the only hardcore fans out there. The more love for this obscure franchise, the merrier!
I have no idea why but I had the need to go back to bakugan but I didn't want to rewatch the entire thing and i am so glad you made this video dude. Thank you, I'm still shocked that Alice was Masquerade this whole damn time. I never really got that far haha, great video
Ever since one of my friends brought a Darkus Dragonoid to school and showed me what Bakugan was, I was hooked. Which explains why I damn near cried when I couldn’t see anything about it for months assuming it was cancelled
well you can buy new ones too! Not to mention Ultras are very highly detailed, but are extremely hard to close without practice. My goal is to buy Darkus Draganoid Ultra, which may not be in shops yet, but I did saw a character card of him.
LOL kinda forgot light was an original element for these guys. Skylanders was the one that introduced light and dark later. But OMFG If I had friends around my town when I was younger, u would've had more fun with them. Still got like 10 figures and a small handful of cards still. Love them to pieces. Literally. Got a broken skorpion dude in my room. Kinda wanna buy the new ones now that you mentioned the models looking better in person.
Come one how many want them do do a port of the old Bakugan Wii game? I want to have battle's with Leonides again on the Switch, heck they could even update the game by adding online support, so you could battle other players it would be so damn cool.
I love that game! Hell I still have it! I just can't find anyone IRL to play it with. If they made it an online game with multiplayer pvp that would be awesome, so long as it was the original game and they didn't change the rules/mechanics or something. Dammit now I gave myself nostalgia
Anybody else have a table at elementary school that would chant the opening theme song almost every day? My school even GOT IN ON THE HYPE and put a show case of rewards up for reading so many books or something. There was all kinds of bakugan packs waiting on those shelves, and the kids had a new favorite past time.
I rewatched the first few episodes to see how the series held up in my eyes and I got quite a few hard laughs at how cheese the voice acting is, but it was so enjoyable at the same time? It’s like an animated version of all the live action power rangers fused with Yugioh and Pokémon. That being said the new series feels so soulless and so does the main cast, at least the original played around with some interesting concepts for their characters and the world building they did with Vestroia.
Matti -Bonne I think it's because they have to play it safe. They're probably wasn't a lot of funding and with today's over sensitive parents they probably couldn't get away with actual consequences of characters actions or real stakes.
This show was my childhood, so much in fact I had the 2009 game on 360. Oh and the Alice twist I would've never have predicted at 9/10 years old. Nowadays yes, but not back in the day.
I love Bakugan I recently played through the game and watched the show beginning to end a few months ago and forgot how dark and interesting the characters in season 2 actually were baron and his especially had a sad ending for each other I also recently remembered a couple other great shows after The Dragon Booster Chaotic Magi-Nation And a bunch of Jetix shows Rest in Peace
I’m glad someone else remembers this show...kinda sad I gave all of my bakugan and power cards to a friend who moved away and that I also haven’t seen in years
I remember it. That show was awesome, Loved the first game they made for it. Leonitas . . . being able to choose what attribute he was (Always DARKUS). Must've replayed that game at least 10 times
I remember back in elementary school we don’t know how to play bakugan so we just play them like how marbles are played…it didn’t end well due to some parts being fragile.
Did you know what has the pretty similar lore elements to the first season of Bakugan? The answers are the fourth season of Digimon and the first one of Beyblade.
I remember playing a Bakugan game on the Wii as a kid, for some reason I distinctly remember the menu select voice being the character saying "I should (verb)", I remember me and my friends making jokes about it whenever we were about to do something. One line I remember especially well is "I should change my clothes" which plays when you hover over the menu option to change your characters fit. This brings back so many memories.
31:37 yea the actual real-life reboot game is alot better as a whole than the real-life og game. Im not a fan of removing the gate cards, but on a whole, its more strategic I guess. But anime-wise, the original is miles better.
Bro about the Battle Brawlers game. It was such a goddamn gem back in the PS2 days. Still is, infact. This and Battlefront 2 were two of my favourite games of all time and still are without a fucking doubt Emulating and playing this beauty again just made me realize what a great childhood I really had. The only thing tho, I keep asking myself how I even managed to beat the Vladitor in the doom dimention back as a child with a light-type Leonidas. all in all, such a goddamn classic. Everytime I hear about the OG Bakugan or Beyblade, I'm instantly back in my old room having the time of my life.
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Only the OG Bakugan fans will remember battling Battle Axe Vladitor with Omega Leonidas in the Doom Dimension.
I still have that game
Ok but how do you win that last lv
@@Aaron-wq3jz miss the first throw. He will land on the card and then throw. This way he won't take away your points
Esteban Maysonet that game was the best
Man that fight frustrated me to no end as a kid.
Here’s to all the nerds who put gate cards under their shirt shoulders to have the bakugan ride along
WHY DID I NEVER THINK OF THIS!?
i'm so mad thats so cute i wish i had of thought of doing that when i was a kid :(
Thats advanced oh my god
I took my mom’s mp3 holder and just stuck them inside and clipped it to my belt 😂
I loved doing that! Those were the days.
All I remember is that the original antagonists was a reverse trap
Pretty original by the time that a female member of the Protagonist gang was the villain all this time.
It shocked me when i watch that it was Alice.
@@Juanjose-tm4qp Ngl i speculated that Alice is in some sort connected to Masquerade. My friends didnt believe me since she was a girl and the antagonist was a boy, it also didnt helped since we were young and was still taking sex-ed (we were still 13 at the time) so some of my friends ruled my speculation out. Tbh my hunch came from two things, the first was my gut feeling. Ive been watching anime, playing games and reading manga and comic books since i was 4 years old so some sort of potential plot twist detector has been ingrained into me at a young age. The second was from promotions that you can see Dan and the gang each with a partner bakugan with their respective element but one stood out the most, Alice who was said lorewise to have made the game along side the other five but didnt have a partner much less played. Add to it that Masquerade was a darkus user and the only element Dan and his friends didnt have was said element which would potentially be Alice's element if she played bakugan like the rest of the gang.
@@edboy5418 "was said lorewise to have made the game along side the other five but didnt have a partner much less played"
I think the actual story proved that to be a load of bunk. I mean Dan hadn't even heard of Sub-Terra in the first episode, which is also incredibly odd because he personally knows Julie but the fact of the matter is he was far too incompetent to have been one of the ones who made the game... Also Alice didn't even play the game, that always struck me as very strange. How can she be a battle brawler without doing either of those things? How could have she been one of the ones who made the game yet have no bakugan at all?
@@mattwo7 Thats the thing. Why were the six of them called that while Alice was the only one not playing. It struct to me as odd and by what i said i should have clarified it with them being the ones who made the rules for the game.
Was pretty good she was like the strongest female ever unfortunately her good side is weaker
"I'm so wasted"
- Bakugan dub
Bless the man that decided they needed modern slang to keep up with the kids.
@Drive Check. yep
@Drive Check. I liked the dub in the first season but I liked the sub for 2nd season.
One thing I really did enjoy about the show was the fact that Dan was a co-founder for the rules and he wasn’t even top 10 till around the end of season 1. I liked that he wasn’t an overpowered protagonist from the get-go and I did enjoy everyone’s character interactions. Though now that I’ve aged the dialogue feels more childish and dated in most cases.
how the fuck can you enjoy that ? Dan was both the creater of the rules for something that he didn't make. Something that kept on falling from the sky.
He also was the CLUELESS ANIME PROTAG WHO HAD TO GET EVERYTHING EXPLAINED TO HIM.
How can you create something you have no control over while also being clueless about everything ?
I understand that you liked the concept, like a game dev not being a great gamer.
But the execution was horrible.
Let’s be honest Alpha Hydranoid has one of the most badass designs ever
It's a crime how little he was used after season 1
@Yann Dylan
“Hydranoid is underused.”
Reaper: Am I a joke to you?
And that scream when he was played on the field damn
Alpha hydranoid is the most chad bakugan. Just for the chainsaw belly alone
i have the bakugan, it pretty cool. it has a nice weight to it cause of the metal strip
This series may be outdated and cringy, but it was my gateway anime, and I will always hold a special place in my heart for it. Thanks for everything, *Bakugan Battle Brawlers.*
Not so cringy that the new Bakugan.
Dan and rest of the characters weren't that different from Beyblade V-Force/G-Revolution.
I loved bakugan back then. Wish I could say the same with the reboot
But how is Bakugan an anime? It was made in the US/Canada. That'd be like calling Last Airbender an anime
@@B0K0691 It was originally produced in Japan and the first season originally aired in Japan and its after this first season that I started watching anime. It was my gateway anime.
Can we just appreciate how badass the concept of transforming runic spheres from space is one of the most interesting of all these "game anime" things?
and they're literally balls
World building wise Monsuno and Bakugan are pretty neat, gameplay wise Monsuno is absolute garbage and the Bakugan reboot Battle Planet is [Magic: The Cloning].
About Shun's mom. As far as I know in the japanese version she died due to cancer.
Oof! Cancer strikes again
Cancer the ultimate plot device
Ibrahim Abukar It's true
Nitwit's World Ikr
ArtistAnthony9 same. Back then it was so sad and it still is. You can find it on RUclips just type in Shun's mom death or something like that
You know a series is huge when it has DRAPES.
There are two things I remember really liking about Bakugan. The first is Masquerade being Alice was probably the best twist in a kids show. Second one was that Dan and Runo actually end up together and go on a date. I mean relationships like that are almost never shown in kids cartoons.
They dated? First I’ve ever heard of that one
Mustache D. Luffy Yes it was at the very end of the first season. There is a small scene in which Dan picks up Runo for a date. It’s really cute. However, the only down side is that they don’t explore their relationship in future seasons outside of a few one off moments in episodes.
Matt Murray I remember that! My stupid fangirl heart ate that up. It frankly pissed me off when she didn’t even show up in season 3 and was only in seasons 2 and 4 as background noise
My main (and possibly only) complaint about bakugan, is that after a while, the protags would get all new "beloved partners" every season that we were just supposed to care about without referencing the old partners at all.
oh yeah i hated that too.
it kinda made sense in season 2. but after it was just "did your previous partner mean nothing to you?"
@@ghoulchan7525 exactly. And "why does this new partner mean SO MUCH to you??"
@@joelbrich2538 and Dan kept draco but Draco looked a bit different each time.
@@ceshmate1953 Metamorphosis does that to you.
2nd season made sense of it, and Marucho still used Preyas in the end, but 3rd and 4th seasons? Yeah, they fxxked up
I loved how, near the end of the series, they were adults.
They were? I remember watching it but I don't remember them becoming older
@@guythat779 they get older each series
I was the kid waiting for Dan and runo to become a thing, but nothing happened
Yeah. I believe Dan is 12 in battle brawlers and 15 in new vestoria
i don't think he aged after that tho. or they didn't mention it. cuz in mectanium surge he woulda been something like 17 or older and he didn't look or act like he had aged between new vestroia and then.
Shun's backstory was so freaking sad and mature for BAKUGAN of all things
The bakugan Retrospective: Because who else will?
*Negative legend and billiam would like to know your location*
bakugan was weird XD billiam
The virgin Battle Brawlers Vs The Chad Jojo bizarre adventure
Diamondbolt wants to know your location
Bakugan is just Pokemon
@@RathouseFilmworks not really, the video it self explaied that you known...
Im not gonna lie at the end of the first season when Dan looks up in the Sky and sees his bakugan I cried
Season 2 really hits me because of the villains and how they werent JUST evil but teetered on the good-evil spectrum, especially when Hydron and Zenoheld started becoming more involved in the plot with their mechanical Bakugan. Watching Lync and Volt lose their fights and being sent to (???) actually made me feel something. Didnt feel so bad for Mylene though.
Bruhhh ik season 2 hurt me hard man they didnt deserve to go there
Epic Fury_101 Lync especially because he was SECONDS away from joining Alice and the Brawlers and that killed me. I was definitely rooting for him in that battle!
Chamber I was rooting for Lynx because I knew he had a thing for Alice. And then what does he do? Homeboy dies on her.
Well, Volt actually won his fight with Hydron, Hydron was just a sore loser and dragged him into whatever it was anyway.
Rob Macher Youre right, I forgot about that. That made me even more angry
So fun lil fact:
They changed Shun's backstory in the dub. Rather than his grandpa being a terrible person, he was a actually decent grandfather in the sub. In the sub, Shun also battles Dan on his way to go to his mom in the hospital because the initiation of a battle stops time (the battles also make a clock ticking sound to show this), until he realized it only slowed it down and his mom was dying regardless. Where in the dub it is so he doesn't have to be in his grandfather's custody.
I remember when this shit was everywhere while I was in elementary school. All the kids loved talking about the anime including myself, but then the anime/game quickly lost its relevancy and then it just disappeared.
It really was a huge fad back in the day. I still remember a lot of people at the time thought Bakugan would be the Pokemon killer lol.
it died to suddenly! i remember in like 2010 they released an online game and it shut down in 2011 after only a year
Bakugan was a lot cooler and more mature (for a kids toy tv show) which helped it gain popularity when Pokémon was dying out of fashion
Like after 10 years or so of the original games release (mid 2000s or so) people were getting sick of Pokémon and growing up out of it, only now do we see a Pokémon Renaissance and shows Like bakugan/beybalde were a lot more appealing in my eyes compared to Pokémon
@@MustacheDLuffy Pokémon never died as a franchise though it's literally the highest grossing media franchise of all time.
@@PeterGriffin11 Pokemon had a dark age in between poke-fever and Pokémon go. If you were a fan during that time you’d realize how uncool it was to like Pokémon at the time. Games still sold well but the hype died down
I think one of the big reasons that Bakugan hit it big quickly and then died off is because the anime was more structured than Pokémon’s. Its story was more exciting and thought-provoking than Pokémon’s, but it had a natural end point. Pokémon has a more open story and world to play around in, so it has more staying power. It’s the same reason Digimon was super popular for a while but ended after a few years.
Bakugan was my SHIT in elementary, I traded those with all my friends, I had the Wii games, I was OBSESSED until the last season confused me and caused me to leave 😂
I was in middle school when this was hype. God damn it I’m old
I was in ELEMENTARY. This shit was my life! I remember going to school with my bakugan all the time. Not so much to play the game but to collect and trade.
Super Booster Boy I remember watching this show before going to ELEMENTARY, at 6:30 and God damn it was worth it! It was an awesome show.
Midnight 49 Why the hell were you up so early? What time does school start were you are?
Jack Vornwald I was in kindergarten
@@midnight4956 me too
All I remember from this anime is one line for it's theme song.
"Two worlds collide, on the inside"
Great movie subtitle
That singer did not need to go that hard for a children's anime about throwing sentient marbles around, but goddamn am I glad he did.
I was a little child when this came out. This was the shit during my childhood. I LOVED it. Still do. Anyone else?
Same
he was too, this guy was 4
saaaame here, loved it!
I fuckin loved it, my elementary school banned them and we had to start a "black market bakugan trading ring"
Sam Hobart bro SAME.
I still think Alice and Hydranoid should have more screen time in later seasons.
100%. the main villain was part of the Brawlers with a hella powerful bakugan and she somehow gets sidelined?
@@cyborgcuttlefish6326they sidelined half the main cast from Season 1, notably all the girls. It was a real shame because part of the appeal of the first season was the dynamics between the characters. Writing out half of them sucked out a lot of what made the show special.
30:58 If that wasn't insulting enough, they dragged Drago's old voice actor into the show to reprise his role and he is literally the _only_ returning voice actor.
Well they covered it an about 7 different autotune programs which is ugggggggh killl me
& he HATED his role & didn’t get the original, imagine what he thinks of the reboot?
@@Barakon if he hated it so much why didn't he quit?
@@ghoulchan7525probably good pay,
@@ghoulchan7525He needed a job to pay bills.
I think it is a requirement for every kid born in 2004 to love this series
I remember how I loved this anime and the toys! Shun was one of the first fictional characters I had a crush on! I’m a girl and I was bullied for liking Bakugan, sadly. I’m also sad that I lost a lot of the cards and toys.
I was pretty sure you were a girl solely because shun was the fangirl character of the show
Bullying? How and why did you get bullied for liking bakugan?
(I still have my Baku-merch tho)
Mustache D. Luffy I’m pretty sure I just lived in an unaccepting community, and other kids didn’t like me that much to begin with.
That sucks. Bakugan was huge when it first came out, like everyone had those toys and I remember having bakugan fights with other people (my brother is still upset I lost the exedra and centipoid characters that we received, I am too D:), but I didn’t get bullied for it but was rather encouraged
This show was good when it came out. This did better than Blue Dragon in my opinion.
Power100 If you're talking about popularity, Blue Dragon did not take off at all. I didn't hear about it till 2010-ish and most casual anime watchers in the west won't really know about it
That really is one of the most understated strengths of Dan. He’s anime protagonist who actually has to work and think for his victories, and it’s fine if he doesn’t always win.
That's one thing I loved about it. Dan lost bunch of times. And each time the loss was pretty heavy. He did not have heavy plot armor unlike a lot of anime protags
17:35 Shun's Mom actually died in that flashback, the dub tries to play that off as her "going into comma"
X Scythe 4 kids I know you’re hiding
Yup even as a kid I knew something was off
I will vouch as a Canadian, bakugan was pretty big back when I was in like, grade 1-3, I vividly remember bringing my bakugan to friends houses all the time, or friends wanting to hang at my place to play bakugan heavily because I had so many of them, since like you I got them whenever I could, birthdays, christmas, whatever money I got as a kid. Think I still have the box somewhere actually, I'll have to look into that
"The best series about magical beasts and shit you can summon to fight for you to save the world"
*Jojo fans are typing*
Stands aren't magical beasts
They're spiritual beasts close but very different
@@joshuamedina6807 Point still stands.
@@brandonwells7594 S T A N D S
@@joshuamedina6807 I'm not the clown, I'm the entire circus.
@@brandonwells7594 fun fact if I had a stand it would be called Game The System yours is probably jokes on you
Honestly I love the anime, the first one was by far the best imo but season 2 was alright, I just really wish they had kept more of the strategy the first season had throughout the series
I always remember the fight between Shun and Komba where Shun beat 2 of his bakugan by blowing them onto mind ghost causing them to both get defeated instantly
"it shows that he isn't the perfect character who wins all the time"
Yet anyway
He starts winning more and more in seasons 2 and 3... and then goes back to losing in season 4.
@@aminadabbrulle8252 pretty much
@@aminadabbrulle8252 Not because he gets weaker, his enemies get stronger.
He ends becoming the best anyways.
@@gavinsmith9871 In my humble opinion, it's because the game itself matters less and less the further into the plot we are. Like, for example, Ren losing to Fabia in season 3 episode 26 should not happen, if one does count the numbers that are convieniently not displayed on the screen.
A hero isn't the one who always wins.
He's the one who always tries.
Brooooo i remember bakugan it was so good!
And i remember that i will play all day with my pyrus reaper
I had a Darkus Fear Ripper with 450g's as my very first Bakugan ever. I was so stoked I found one that strong. I legit felt like Masquerade with Hydranoid.
Course it helps that me and my friends completely ignored the official rules of the game and played by the show's rules and with the show's ability cards. I watched every episode repeatedly, recorded all the names and effects of each ability I saw, and we played using those instead of the boring shit the company put out.
Joel Gawne I feel so pathetic thinking how I was back then. Nobody followed the rules ever they became action figures 😂
My first one was actually a Ventus Fear Ripper! And I think had about the same amount of g's as well!
@@StarboyXL9 That is so incredibly cool. None of my friends were into bakugan and i was too dumb of a kid to play properly so i never learned the rules until i was 12 or older
Remember how exodia wasn’t actually rare, it was just that people were too lazy to make a deck around it
The logic behind this in the show is essentially the same as in the actual card game. Notice that Kaiba isn't surprised because Exodia is super rare, he says (paraphrasing) "Impossible! No one has been able to *summon* him!"
That's because it's super impractical to have your one win condition be drawing into 5 specific cards with no support to help get them out. You'd have to go out of your way to make a deck dedicated to stalling your opponent and drawing cards, which likely wouldn't go well against most well structured decks. And that's why no one really runs Exodia, both in the show and in real life.
@@Jason_Altea ok but pot of greed is legal in the anime so your point is invalid check mate
@@justanothercommenterwithan9089
It's really not. Even with 3 Pot of Greeds, with a 30+ card deck you're not that likely to find all 5 pieces very quickly. There are still other cards besides Pot of Greed that let you draw as well. They could just run Heart of the Underdog.
Plus there's also the matter of hand destruction effects that would screw with it on top of that.
@@Jason_Altea that's not even mentioning shit like mill decks or plays done with maxx c
Definitely would love a continuation of Bakugan reviews. I watched all seasons and rewatch them every so often, but I do think that the number of aliens and invasion plots are outrageous and becomes like power rangers by season, not episode.
“Spectre Phantom,” literally: “ghost ghost.”
I remember I was a kid watching the first season, when mom walks in, sees a battle and is worried if it's too violent (my younger sibling/s were watching too). I literally had to try to convince her that the show had a lot of good family morals like friendship and teamwork, when in reality I just wanted to watch it cause it was cool and I had the toys...
Also, one time for a creative writing project, I just wrote out (in detail) the beginning of the Bakugan videogame. (It was published in the student year book and stands as probably my greatest school achievement...) *(**#PlagerismFTW**)*
i had to beg my parents to let me watch the show since they also thought it was too violent, the agreement was that it was the only show like this i was able to watch (i wasnt even allowed to watch pokemon)
@@drazzie22 really? I would have thought pokemon would be easier to convince them it wasn't violent since a lot of them are cuter and cuddly-er...
@@insertclevernamehere1186 probably, but since bakugan was much more popular and new at the time, i was more interested in that one
@@drazzie22 fair enough
Ah, the classic over-protectiveness. One of the best ways to get your childhood screwed up is by having over-protective parents who also have no idea of what the hell they're doing. I remember watching it at the time when my life wasn't a nightmare.
Bakugan Stan Incoming!
This randomly showed up in my Timeline and I couldn't be happier. I play this game at least once a year and no matter what it never fails to put a smile on my face. Doesn't matter how old it is or anything like that, I still love it.
Well, the anime-disease of shuns mom is straight up death in the original version, that should explain quite a few things and give further meaning to others...
I think she died of cancer, which is literally the worst plot device
@@B0K0691 maybe in different scenarios, but how is it important in this case. The point in this case wasn't what she died from, but rather that shun didn't visit her in the last minutes before her death because he was playing bakugan. Btw. Didn't think i'd find an Inazuma11 fan out in the wild
@@infinitezero7457 oh word, have you checked out my vid? How do you know I am one?
Pushea up glasses. Actually shun was playing bakugan in the vain attempt to slow down his mothers death.
@@fightingmedialounge519 K.
balls popping up into various creatures and beasts is still a goated concept for a pokemon-type game/show
SWEET! Another Bakugan fan!
Pyrus attribute for life!
Just Stop: I was in a whole new league with Bakugan
Me, a used-to-be Beyblade fan: OH, YOU’RE APPROACHING ME?
I have those “drapes” in my room still lol ( I’m 17)
Yellow Charmander My younger brother had a bakugan bed sheet but it's torn now
2:48 damn now your just making me jealous. I loved the series and had the videogame. Yet i never could get a single bakugan to this day. To this day I have a feeling of emptiness, not getting to every use a bakugan.
I was in Grade 1/2 when this came out. Hydranoid was GOD.
My 450g Fear Ripper might have something to say about that lol
Joel Gawne *OH CHRIST* xD
I was never lucky enough to pull Hydranoid, especially since my parents were picky on what I could buy.
The second you mentioned how iconic the opening was even without seeing the show in 10+ years I sang it out loud bar for bar and fun fact the point where you chime in is actually the point in the song where that part comes on the timing is impeccable
Just saying, watching the show was 7 year old me’s entire reason for living
Huzzah! A man of quality!!
But seriously. Bakugan was my jam as a kid and it still is to this day! I loved collecting the toys, cards, accessories... I've even got a few dekas and customized a few Bakugan to look like the ones in the anime! I'm such a huge Bakugan dork that I even desire to make my own Talking Bakugan one day using whatever technology the talking Zoobles used (does anyone even remember Zoobles at all?). It's nice to see another fellow Bakugan stan make a retrospective on this series since I thought I and a few others would be the only hardcore fans out there. The more love for this obscure franchise, the merrier!
It's time like this that I remember we're the same age. Rock on my fellow Stan.
Bro i loooooooved backugan when i was younger. Still got my boxes of backugan and decks of cards
Man I remember making fanfiction with my friends as everyone thought of an idea at the same time they were fucking weird
Is it on fanfiction.net?
I remember in middle school when EVERYONE was talking about Bakugan.
I loved the anime. It had good set up and characters and the battles had stakes and realistic outcomes. Definitely cover the other seasons.
YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR WHATS RIGHTTT BEFORE ITSS GONEEEE THIS IS BAKUGAAANN
Bakugan is something I will cherish forever. It was a part of my Childhood. And I even still have the old toys and cards
I have no idea why but I had the need to go back to bakugan but I didn't want to rewatch the entire thing and i am so glad you made this video dude. Thank you, I'm still shocked that Alice was Masquerade this whole damn time. I never really got that far haha, great video
Ever since one of my friends brought a Darkus Dragonoid to school and showed me what Bakugan was, I was hooked. Which explains why I damn near cried when I couldn’t see anything about it for months assuming it was cancelled
well you can buy new ones too! Not to mention Ultras are very highly detailed, but are extremely hard to close without practice. My goal is to buy Darkus Draganoid Ultra, which may not be in shops yet, but I did saw a character card of him.
The reboot did only one thing right and that was make a legitimately really good card game that I adore. Seriously, can't get enough of that.
LOL kinda forgot light was an original element for these guys. Skylanders was the one that introduced light and dark later. But OMFG If I had friends around my town when I was younger, u would've had more fun with them. Still got like 10 figures and a small handful of cards still. Love them to pieces. Literally. Got a broken skorpion dude in my room. Kinda wanna buy the new ones now that you mentioned the models looking better in person.
I haven't seen bakugan in like 10 years but that theme songs still creeps into my brain every now and then
The first half of season 4 was my favorite part of the show.
I'm so glad that this video was made.
Thank you! It's really nice to revive my memories of Bakugan.
Come one how many want them do do a port of the old Bakugan Wii game?
I want to have battle's with Leonides again on the Switch, heck they could even update the game by adding online support, so you could battle other players it would be so damn cool.
I really do miss leonidas
Kazuma DoubleIce leonidas was the best. Wish the game that came after was a sequel to that.
@@karystmania5509 Yeah I did as well to bad that it wasent,
I love that game! Hell I still have it! I just can't find anyone IRL to play it with. If they made it an online game with multiplayer pvp that would be awesome, so long as it was the original game and they didn't change the rules/mechanics or something.
Dammit now I gave myself nostalgia
As a person who still owns and regularly plays the game, if they remade it for the Switch I would just DIE of joy.
Anybody else have a table at elementary school that would chant the opening theme song almost every day? My school even GOT IN ON THE HYPE and put a show case of rewards up for reading so many books or something. There was all kinds of bakugan packs waiting on those shelves, and the kids had a new favorite past time.
I rewatched the first few episodes to see how the series held up in my eyes and I got quite a few hard laughs at how cheese the voice acting is, but it was so enjoyable at the same time? It’s like an animated version of all the live action power rangers fused with Yugioh and Pokémon. That being said the new series feels so soulless and so does the main cast, at least the original played around with some interesting concepts for their characters and the world building they did with Vestroia.
Matti -Bonne I think it's because they have to play it safe. They're probably wasn't a lot of funding and with today's over sensitive parents they probably couldn't get away with actual consequences of characters actions or real stakes.
Dan has a overly cringey voice but DRAGOs & Helios Eng VA is god tier.
Just stop at s2
This show was my childhood, so much in fact I had the 2009 game on 360.
Oh and the Alice twist I would've never have predicted at 9/10 years old. Nowadays yes, but not back in the day.
Best child show I watched. Probably on par with Ben 10. Bakugan S1 and 2 were incredible.
The reboot's IRL game is amazing
I remembered my Bakugan days I was the Darkus master of my school.
Honestly who played with the cards because I didn’t
I did but I barely had any. Least the new version made the cards far more relevant.
Wait, there were cards?
Exactly literally threw it and bakugaun brawl
We played with all the cards and even used the color coordination rules too
We did but we allowed as many as you wanted on the field so the field would just be a mass of cards
I legit binged the entire original series over a week and then found this video im so happy
I love Bakugan I recently played through the game and watched the show beginning to end a few months ago and forgot how dark and interesting the characters in season 2 actually were baron and his especially had a sad ending for each other
I also recently remembered a couple other great shows after
The Dragon Booster
Chaotic
Magi-Nation
And a bunch of Jetix shows Rest in Peace
Which bakugan game?
I actually had that Bakugan DS game when I was a kid. Best game I ever had.
JS: [Groaning] "Oh, I can only wait for the Egoraptor comparisons to me _now."_
*Retweeted by Humblebrag*
Okay, I've gotta admit - that picture of Sans holding Steven Universe at the 13:20 mark cracked me up. 🤣🤣🤣
Everyone in my class watched the first 2 seasons and everyone came up with stupid theories about it. So many memories
Can we all agree on one thing tho:
Runo is best Bakubae and this is FaCtZ!
Finally, someone who knows the truth
I’m glad someone else remembers this show...kinda sad I gave all of my bakugan and power cards to a friend who moved away and that I also haven’t seen in years
This was my freaking childhood and was something me and my brother could bond over. Still have my bakugan and cards
10:12 - 10:22 Not going to lie as someone who like fairy tail,those shots had me laughing.
I am glad that someone loves Bakugan as much as I do.
16:46 To be fair, Joey also had his Lucky Dice Cards and they've haven't always been on his side
I love when things like this get a resurgence.
If only Chaotic the card game/anime could come back but that's in legal limbo for eternity.
I remember it. That show was awesome, Loved the first game they made for it. Leonitas . . . being able to choose what attribute he was (Always DARKUS). Must've replayed that game at least 10 times
Seriously, Darkus Leonidas easily top 5 best bakugans
I remember back in elementary school we don’t know how to play bakugan so we just play them like how marbles are played…it didn’t end well due to some parts being fragile.
Did you know what has the pretty similar lore elements to the first season of Bakugan? The answers are the fourth season of Digimon and the first one of Beyblade.
24:07 I remember pac man party I used to play it for hours. But do you remember fossil fighters?
"Because Who Else Will"
Negative Legend and Billiam? I mean, they already made their own.
>Enjoying halfway into the video
>plays Bojack Horsemans intro in the background
Didn't know I was gonna enjoy this while sobbing uncontrollably
Yeah, That's a very accurate video title.
man this video took me waaaay back, great job
I remember loving this franchise as a kid.
I remember playing a Bakugan game on the Wii as a kid, for some reason I distinctly remember the menu select voice being the character saying "I should (verb)", I remember me and my friends making jokes about it whenever we were about to do something.
One line I remember especially well is "I should change my clothes" which plays when you hover over the menu option to change your characters fit. This brings back so many memories.
I loved this series so much as a kid, I still believe defenders of the core is an amazing game, same goes for the first one too.
You watched the reboot but NOT new vestroia ?!?! New vestroia was lit and I except a part 2 !!! Great vid btw !
Aw heeeeeell yeeaaaaah.
I have so many broken bakugans in my basement.
Thank you for being an original stan!!!😍 I still love the show too! ❤ Have since high school. Dan and drago all the way!
31:37 yea the actual real-life reboot game is alot better as a whole than the real-life og game. Im not a fan of removing the gate cards, but on a whole, its more strategic I guess. But anime-wise, the original is miles better.
Yeah. So it's.
Bro about the Battle Brawlers game. It was such a goddamn gem back in the PS2 days. Still is, infact. This and Battlefront 2 were two of my favourite games of all time and still are without a fucking doubt
Emulating and playing this beauty again just made me realize what a great childhood I really had.
The only thing tho, I keep asking myself how I even managed to beat the Vladitor in the doom dimention back as a child with a light-type Leonidas. all in all, such a goddamn classic.
Everytime I hear about the OG Bakugan or Beyblade, I'm instantly back in my old room having the time of my life.