The most mind boggling element of the show is the fact that Dan was the only character from the original series who made the cut for the reboot. They likewise never explain where the other characters, such as Runo, Marucho and the like went.
It looks like just combined a few characters and called it a day tbh. Whats his name with the red glasses is clearly a bargain bin marucho, and that girl looks like a cross between Runo and Julie. Idk if they were just trying to simplify the ensemble of characters or what, but it clearly didn't work.
Also hated how they hyped up people for the leonidas release when its only leonidas in name with none of the personality and the only value it has is people saying how cool legacy leonidas is and then saying now we have a toy that has nothing to do with any of that but has the name leonidas slapped on it
As someone with an animation degree, I’m fully qualified to say gatekeeping animation critique is as brain dead as it gets. We have an instinct when it comes to natural motion since we’ve seen it so much in our lives. “Something seems off” is a common and valid response. Good video.
1: "This show is bad don't watch it." 2: "Hey! if you don't watch the whole thing, how can you judge it fairly?" 1: "But I did watch it though." 2: "Well if you finished it you must have enjoyed it."
Its a bit sad thinking about it, because Reboot Drago is a total assassination to OG Drago's character, from a wise partner that guides Dan to a fight obsessed robot...
I don't get why they dumb tv shows down for children. We were completely fine with it as kids and it was awesome. There's nothing bad about it but they continue to tone it down. Not only Bakugan but stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh, and Beyblade etc.
Because children have changed, more and more have become "RUclips" watchers. I've literally tried to sit down and watch TV with my little sister, she fast forwards/skips/rewinds all over the place. She says it's too slow/got boring ect. They want it to be short fast and move on to the next thing just like RUclips/ticktock. Watching a movie with her is hell. Anything with a decent story has bad viewership on the actual channels (older fans use online sources) so they focus on the toy sellers. All the cool shows we liked as kids were cancelled because they didn't sell toys enough, it's so dumb.
For a toy anime, OG Dan’s character development is so good! I watched the whole thing up to season 4 Mechtanium Surge and he actually feels like a mature grownup at his 20s. I missed the times where toy anime’s were serious with their plots.
I will say, Beyblade has had like… 4 reboots now. They nailed it the first time, granted, but they were better at innovating the toys too. Going from plastic to metal saga is a massive jump, then we get burst saga which itself was very different, and now we have X saga which merges the metal and burst series while still having a unique flair. They have had several tries to get it right, bakugan only got one.
@@mirzapramudya1580 Beyblade X, new series, new protag, new design. I’m just calling it X saga because I couldn’t think of a better name. It’s definitely similar to burst but it’s being advertised as the next “saga” so eh?
Well they had the advantage of the formula being simple enough that any mistep gimick or bad spin off can easily be brushed under the rug like it never happened cause the mainline toys and series can carry the brand confidently, im ngl i felt that the burst were too gimicky but not as bad as some of the other stuff the series tried however X combined the best aspects of both the metal and burst series by focusing on what makes battles exciting rather than gimmicky
@@hyperlink6547I just consider it the shogun steel of the burst saga. Kinda like how Shogun Steel introduced synchrome and a new part system while still being mostly metal, the new X show still has bursting despite adding more metal to the beys.
The original Villain masquerade (I think) was one of the coolest villains it being one of their friends and it was a female. It felt natural unlike female characters today. Honestly when it was first revealed I didn’t wanna believe at the time
the OG Bakugan did almost everything right until season 3 ofc Masquerade being Alice is the first plot twist i ever seen on anime and it comes from an anime that aired on tv for 9 years old kid Edit: i still remember they have an episdoe where Shun duel Dan and purposefully stall the match so his mom can lives longer in the hospital even by just some second. How is that being greenlit for kid show idk but its awesome
New Vestroia Ep 1 is my fav re-introduction to new season EVER! One thing they did right for series' like these : highlight the OG's exp and make them cool! NV introduced a new brawling system, they have new characters who obv use the system, dragged Dan into a double battle with the new system he has no idea about, explained a little bit about the rules mid-battle, and Dan + Drago completely crushed BOTH opponents single-handedly! Even without watching the 1st season, it hooks you right off the bat!
The thing that always bothered me more than anything, (which is addressed in the video), is the lack of strategy in the reboot. Granted, it's important to realize that beginning in New Vestroia and ramping WAY up in the seasons following it, the original show was increasingly less about strategy and more about the Bakugan playing a random number of Ability Cards per turn, and someone won when the plot arbitrarily decided that their attack landed without being blocked or evaded. Seriously, there was no cap on the number of Ability Cards you could play, and that meant nobody ever had a good reason to STOP playing Ability Cards in a turn. That shit was ridiculous. It got so bad that by Mechtanium Surge, there were no G-power levels at all, and Gate Cards and Ability Cards only affected the action setpieces, not the game, because there was no game by that point. However, despite the show becoming less about strategy, we still have Season 1, where the show was ALL about strategy. While they didn't use any of the real-life cards, the game played in the show matched the rules of the real card game exactly, and every card had a specific effect. Card placement, Ability Card timing, the power of your shots, it all played a factor in Season 1, and that was what made it cool. So really, the problem isn't that the reboot has no strategy, the problem is that Bakugan hasn't been about strategy since Season 1 (Not counting Bakutech, which was easily the most strategy-based Bakugan anime) and the reboot did nothing to fix that existing problem.
Ill give legacy season 2 this, traps were better in the show than irl cause they were a workaround if your main bakugan got ability locked, attribute change irl is such an easy thing to do, especially with the number of special treatment bakugan that can easily change to the attribute that you need relevant to battle (not to mention ability cards)
Fun fact: Bakugan was the first anime I ever watched, without even being aware it was an anime at all. I thought it was a regular American cartoon like everything else on Bulgarian kids television. It was way later into my life when someone asked me what my first anime was, when I had an "Oh sh*t" realisation XD
I think for me it was the Pokemon, there were also French ones and some other animes I watched 1-4y later after 10PM as a kid on some channel. Some monster anime(I thought it was Tokyo Ghoul but nope, it's some other anime about monsters in a city with a really depressing artstyle), a few episodes of Bleach and maybe something else I don't remember.
Thank you!!! Im a big fan of the original series, have been since highschool, but i watched it for the plot. Dan was always my favorite, so season 4 was interesting since he fell off his high horse. But i always liked the shows' gradual development and that it actually does have stakes that have consequences. ( im a huge yugioh nerd too so i liked the similarity, otherwise these shows are no fun. ) But i loved that they can interact with their bakugan and have connections with them. Even during a fight. Yugioh DM, Gx, and 5ds didn't do that very often. So there's the big difference. And we got to see them in normal life more often, outside of battles. We know dans parents and runos parents and their personalities. Dans mom especially was cool to see her learn about the bakugaun being real and also interacting with drago and then the vestals. It's refreshing. All in all, i loved bakugan battle brawlers. I've not watched much of this one due tooooo..... well, your vid explains it. Tried to, even skippped ahead in hopes of improvements, but yeah, that didn't happen.
For me , the peak of the series was New Vestroia, especially when things were getting somewhat serious and even many of the villains were dying, making it look like one of the few shows of its type that actually seemed to take itself seriously (i mean, just compare it to the first 2 seasons of Yugioh GX and bakugan starts to look in comparation like a seinen anime)
I like the fact that you say the first two season because you know from the third season it's more than serious but i don't think non of bakugan or yu gi oh close to looks like a seinen anime
Yeah I remember the old bakugan and dinosaur king I love watching them but I hate the new bakugan it's so shit how them changed the complete story of the anime
@@RealZombieNinja Right!? Man I remember when the cardgame dropped. The first packs where sold only in a magazine back then. I still remember me and my friend grabbing several on day one. As a bonus seemingly no one else bothered with those, so there was more for us. Oh and man there was the Nintendo DS game too
I honestly despise how they never brought back the OG battle system. The 3x2 gatecard system where every brawler only had 3 gatecards to use and couldn't just blow them all if the opponent caught onto your strategy. Even if they didn't explain the system thoroughly, you can see its rules are consistent throughout every battle. It's cool how most battles also explained the strategies and the drawbacks that occur. My favourite is Alice vs. Klaus and Alice wastes all 3 gatecards on creating stalemates. Once she used them all up, she had no choice but to play on Klaus' terms and ultimately lost because he still had his signature gatecard. Definitely didn't make much sense as a kid, but looking back it was so in-depth and the creators actually cared for the game.
Dude I'm from Zimbabwe and we had a whole league for bakugan in school lol. We even did the whole lose your bakugan is you lose the game. Every vendor street to top specialty shop sold them and we were up to date even when New Vistroya came out. I have 6 versions of Drago lying somewhere at home 😂😂. So yeah, Bakugan was also an insane hit here in Africa too😅
The main problem is that bakugan ditched actually trying to show the characters playing a game (like the yugioh anime) and instead became pokemon but simpler and worse
As a Bakugan fan, my love for Bakugan has shifted to Transformers. Far better toys than whatever G3 is doing with that halfbaked bind system, cringe thin plastic, gag-worthy designs and insulting “TCG”. Just stick with the old TCG, it was the one of the best TCGs I’ve played
The Wii Game's music had no business going as hard as it did and I respect it greatly lol Also, Aquos used to be my favorite element and Preyas my favorite bakugan, but now I think I'm more partial to a mix of Ventus and Darkus with Harpius being my favorite Bakugan now.
Yeah i was surprised how often i was rooting for the female characters in bakugan cause how competent they were and their motivations, mostly season 2 mira and season 3 fabia, but julie, runo, and alice were also compelling, moreso than some of the characters in the metal series of beyblade who actually battled, i can only think of a generic antagonist one from masters and someone who got the cant battle anymore trauma treatment going from fusion to masters
Starting from season 2 New Vestroya. Seems they thought to have mixed target audience, but boys dominated so they left only one girl. In season 4 If I remember right they have 0 girls in team.
In the first bakugan the mc is actually sickly designed. Also, his aspirations and personnality, although, of course kind of childish, but I'm not complaining cuz it is a kid's show, are very very likeable. Bro will fight anyone to get better he doesn't care and that's why he's the best.
I remember the hype of New Vestoria, and it delivired the hype, Dan's character got better, new characters were awesome, plot was decent too, and villans were pretty cool too, especially Spectra (knowing they bring him back in S4 cuz he is that cool).
The ability cards made more sense for me than the hexagon cores because in the end we all are just going to admit that we loved and would always cherish the original Bakugan series
Surprisingly the main character has a different name, it just sounds like the G1 Dan's name, while his last name was changed to sound like how English speakers pronounced the old one as little joke.
I'm genuinely happy that when I saw my younger brother watch this shit I told him to stop watching it, watch the old one, AND HE FUCKING AGREED IT BEING WAY BETTER!
They didn't do it because it was "bad", they did it because after 5 years they realized most kids who were into would be getting their teen years and losing interest (especially with a barely playable TCG), so they rebooted to take in fan feedback while also attracting a new generation of kinds.
@@BoYo275and what did we get the same battle system from the first reboot,different characters design they pulled a shun with the blue hair girl by giving a different design,may drago worst than he was before and they have the balls to call it Bakugan generation 3
@@randomt800kiddo2 Basically, the TCG died shortly after release as it the reboot launched before Covid, after things calmed down SpinMaster still refused to put any effort into making more cards, so they unofficially killed it of which caused most older people to leave to fanbase. I then went on pretty strong/well, growing a fanbase for 5 years, but SpinMaster felt the kids from 5 years ago would've outgrown it, so they rebooted it to take in fan feedback & attract a newer gen of young fans..
@@GodFusionShiro It keeping a similar battle system as Gen2 isn't too bad of a thing, since compared to a lot of other "Kid universally have these mosters and battle with them" series where they just stand around yelling orders, or the humans aren't needed almost at all for their monsters to fight on their own, it is pretty unique and interesting. I don't think they tried to "Pull a Shun" with Mia with blue hair being a lot like Lia, I think it just kinda accidently happened. But while I 1000% miss Lia & the rest AO , I personally like Mia a lot so far. Yeah, Drago's new design isn't the greatest, but I wouldn't call it bad or worst. I just think it'll take some getting used to over time.
Bakugan BRAWL! Bakugan STAND! Words I remember fondly and cherish forever. Bakugan was the GOAT back when I was a kid in the early 2000s. I remember wanting the cards and monster balls so badly. This show is my childhood. I’m glad that a new generation can enjoy this series, even if it’s not the best looking animation.
I get that is a children’s franchise of toys, but they’re anime for Bakugan and Beyblade back in my day had emotions,story and characters you wanted to see in recent years both series lost magic they had
Fuck I remember watching and Bakugan as a kid... But to be honest Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Bakugan Battle Brawlers and Dragon Ball Z Kai were my whole introduction to anime as a kid
I came to learn of this reboots existence from a Twitter post comparing the reboot design of Dan to the original, saying: *"These is not the same N!gga."* And everyone in the comments saying "the Drip, the Swag, the Sauce, it's all Gone, they violated my guy😭"
As a former bakugan fan, i am upset at the quality of this anime, however, as a person who wished to have bakugan as a child, i am more sad that i can't find the old bakugan in stores. I just like the old designs and the new feel too detailed and it makes me feel sad that i didnt get it when they were still out.
Used to be too expensive for me as a kid back in the day, now it's too expensive because the toys are old and people overprice them on Ebay. Reminds me of those Bionicle dreams people keep having, where even in their dreams they can't afford the toys lmao.
All the new designs look cool except dragonoids and a few snake bakugan, legacy definitely did snakes a bit better even if it were repetitive and every roboot dragonoid design looks like blitz or battalix dragonoid which is easily the worst main drago designs from legacy
OG Bakugan : "Characters actually relevant and important to the show, the fact that the world in danger and I love how it actually feels intense at times." Reboot Bakugan : "Stupid cash grab without a real soul or effort put into voice acting and the show is just plain boring in general."
so true, it was and is a waste of time to be made. It is only a cash grab that was made for a 1 year promotion, i lost interst the first time i bought one an quit after episode 3 it was so not worth it.
In the summer between my 5th grade and 6th grade year i found myself living in a spouse abuse community home. Just that year i had begun playing and collecting Bakugan. Me and another boy really connected with each other there for the first time because we both played Bakugan. He was a few years younger than me. We traded a bit, he loved the game as much as i did Yugioh when i was his age. Eventually i ended up walking about 2 hours (there and back) from Walmart. I was young and this was not smart but i would go to the toy section. Stuff my jacket pockets with as many Bakugan that would fit. On the walk back i was always so excited to share the new awesome Bakugan with that kid. His eyes would light up! I did this several times while living with him in that house. Even on My second to last day i did it as a parting gift as well as giving to him my entire collection. I quit Bakugan but passed on my passion for the game to him. Wish i could talk to him again! It’s been 17 years i think? Anyway that’s my fondest memory of the silly card game that is know by Bakugan haha
ME. I ABSOLUTELY hate how Digimon Reboot put some sexual harassment, instead for example, another vocal remix of Butterfly and Brave Heart. I always had to put Brave Heart at the fighting scenes and Butterfly for opening.
Bakugan was so popular at my school among the boys the girls started getting into it. Bakugan faded away when i moved away to another school after 4th grade, thats when Bakugan also fell off after New vestroya.
Bakugan since its origins has been a mixed production of Japanese animation with Canadian animation. Starting with the second season called New Vestroia, its episodes began to be released first in Canada and after in Japan. Still Bakugan Planet remains a mixed production since the studio TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd., abbreviation for Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., Ltd., is involved.
The orinignal bakugan and beyblade metal fusion will always be apart of my heart in a special place i always had to make sure i watched the next ep on cartoon network before going to school. My og legends with the oringinal yugiog
I watched the first like 2 minutes of the show. When "Dan" and Drago started talking like old pals. like they were the ones who went through all the crap og dan and drago went through i was like nah you haven't earned this show,and dropped it immediately.
@Dbzking654 I watched that all the way up to the end with phi vs aiger. I just didn't care that much. I'd rather just watch something else at that point. Shogun was pretty alright.
I wouldn't warrant comparisons if the reboot was anywhere near the original's level; but since that's obviously not the case I don't see why we can't fault the new show for what the old show did better
Imagining a proper reboot of the first two seasons with updated animation, seems like a dream! As a kid, I always wanted a high quality posable figure of the dragonoid evolutions, I still do!!
The original series is one of my childhood favorites. The intro song alone was better than the entire reboot. And when I saw what it became years later, I hated it and now I am so sorry for the original series' creators that have to be associated to this in any way, shape or form.
The new animation and voice acting legit feels like a Crunchyroll original series with a brand new team putting out their first product, not something from an animation studio that's been in business for years...
This Bakugan would've been better received had they not rebooted it with some of the same characters of the original. Should've had a new protagonist instead Dan/Drago 2.0.
I played this one Bakugan game for the Wii so much. I put so much hours into it and I got into Bakugan anime after I beat the game. I really liked it and I collected the toys and cards. Idk what happened to Bakugan 💀
@@saltyralts fr, I had everything maxed out, collected every bakugan, every card, every character. I invested so much time into it. Im sad bakugan itself died 😔
Why do they look 8?! Like I always liked how in cartoon animes, the characters looked to be in their mid teens cause it gave me people to look up to and aspire to be when I was older as a kid. The characters don't have to look the exact age of the target demographic
I know its not fully related to bakugan. But you sent down the speed racer rabbit hole for the last hour. Never expected to see something so unhinged yet amazing, so chaotic but natural. Thank you
(takes a sip of coffee) Ahh, the OG Bakugan opening, this takes me back to my childhood mornings and afternoons. Loved the OG show and that opening was dope.
It’s Bakugone 😔
This is the best comment
Facts
for me the worst part about reboot is that Draco went from an leader who was fighting for his kind to some guy that just wants to fight.
Bro became Goku 💀
Like goku
Gokufied if you will
Hey, I heard you’re strong!
Everyone else is saying Goku
I'm gonna say "Michael Bay Optimus Prime"
An amazing series that faded from history, alongside other gems like Generator Rex.
That and megas xlr
@@MisterO-b7v Broo I never see anyone talk about Megas XLR, even though it had some of the craziest robot mech fights ever
Sym-bionic Titan
@@SandeepSinghMango it was one of my favorites, just like been 10 and Bakugan
@@WakeUpToReality... i mourn its demise every day….
The most mind boggling element of the show is the fact that Dan was the only character from the original series who made the cut for the reboot. They likewise never explain where the other characters, such as Runo, Marucho and the like went.
Shun did too… sort of.. at least his name did…
It looks like just combined a few characters and called it a day tbh. Whats his name with the red glasses is clearly a bargain bin marucho, and that girl looks like a cross between Runo and Julie.
Idk if they were just trying to simplify the ensemble of characters or what, but it clearly didn't work.
@@deadturret4049 yeah, Shun is basically Marucho with Shun’s name and a handful of his physical characteristics.
Also hated how they hyped up people for the leonidas release when its only leonidas in name with none of the personality and the only value it has is people saying how cool legacy leonidas is and then saying now we have a toy that has nothing to do with any of that but has the name leonidas slapped on it
Thank you, someone who has actually has criticism that isn't "this isn't like the original they should bring the original back"
I like both the original and previous reboot and Now The NEW Reboot is gonna get Use To 😤
GREAT VIDEO BAKUGAN.
No
No What
"This isn't like the original they should bring back the original" 💀
As someone with an animation degree, I’m fully qualified to say gatekeeping animation critique is as brain dead as it gets. We have an instinct when it comes to natural motion since we’ve seen it so much in our lives. “Something seems off” is a common and valid response. Good video.
1: "This show is bad don't watch it."
2: "Hey! if you don't watch the whole thing, how can you judge it fairly?"
1: "But I did watch it though."
2: "Well if you finished it you must have enjoyed it."
Lmao, can't win with some people, sometimes you just have to acknowledge when it's not worth arguing any further.
Brainrot people
old bakugan anime = teen titans
new bakugan anime = teen titans go
Saying the New Bakugan is basically the Teen Titans Go like the Old Bakugan is Basically the Teen Titans is an Insult to Teen Titans Go.
@@SpultoBNMTheMutuallyUnrequited that's exactly my intention.
@@RyuzakiTaiyouteen titans go is leagues better than that trash bakugan reboot
@@SpultoBNMTheMutuallyUnrequited and thats a good thing
I think bakugan's intro is solely responsible for my love of rock and metal
Same here
We all gotta start somewhere
The biggest victim in this is Drago's voice actor. He knows the writing is bad but loves the character.
Its a bit sad thinking about it, because Reboot Drago is a total assassination to OG Drago's character, from a wise partner that guides Dan to a fight obsessed robot...
@@nickwolf1234
OG Drago: A bro
Reboot Drago: A robo
I don't get why they dumb tv shows down for children. We were completely fine with it as kids and it was awesome. There's nothing bad about it but they continue to tone it down. Not only Bakugan but stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh, and Beyblade etc.
Beyblade x looks sick tho
Because children have changed, more and more have become "RUclips" watchers. I've literally tried to sit down and watch TV with my little sister, she fast forwards/skips/rewinds all over the place. She says it's too slow/got boring ect.
They want it to be short fast and move on to the next thing just like RUclips/ticktock. Watching a movie with her is hell. Anything with a decent story has bad viewership on the actual channels (older fans use online sources) so they focus on the toy sellers. All the cool shows we liked as kids were cancelled because they didn't sell toys enough, it's so dumb.
Fr and Baku Tech was so much better than this
For a toy anime, OG Dan’s character development is so good! I watched the whole thing up to season 4 Mechtanium Surge and he actually feels like a mature grownup at his 20s.
I missed the times where toy anime’s were serious with their plots.
And finally, there is no Earth type specialist. Earth types don't even exist. Removing them was a major mistake.
I fully agree with that- I always liked the original Bakugan type system, and It's what inspired me when making my own.
I will say, Beyblade has had like… 4 reboots now. They nailed it the first time, granted, but they were better at innovating the toys too. Going from plastic to metal saga is a massive jump, then we get burst saga which itself was very different, and now we have X saga which merges the metal and burst series while still having a unique flair. They have had several tries to get it right, bakugan only got one.
The hell is X saga?
Last time I had anything Beyblade related it was still Gen... 4??? Of Burst
@@mirzapramudya1580 Beyblade X, new series, new protag, new design. I’m just calling it X saga because I couldn’t think of a better name. It’s definitely similar to burst but it’s being advertised as the next “saga” so eh?
They’re not reboots, they’re new series
Well they had the advantage of the formula being simple enough that any mistep gimick or bad spin off can easily be brushed under the rug like it never happened cause the mainline toys and series can carry the brand confidently, im ngl i felt that the burst were too gimicky but not as bad as some of the other stuff the series tried however X combined the best aspects of both the metal and burst series by focusing on what makes battles exciting rather than gimmicky
@@hyperlink6547I just consider it the shogun steel of the burst saga. Kinda like how Shogun Steel introduced synchrome and a new part system while still being mostly metal, the new X show still has bursting despite adding more metal to the beys.
The original Villain masquerade (I think) was one of the coolest villains it being one of their friends and it was a female. It felt natural unlike female characters today. Honestly when it was first revealed I didn’t wanna believe at the time
Like that one woman from fortnite
Original Masquerade was male.
@@d.t.6072 so not a smash
the OG Bakugan did almost everything right until season 3 ofc
Masquerade being Alice is the first plot twist i ever seen on anime and it comes from an anime that aired on tv for 9 years old kid
Edit: i still remember they have an episdoe where Shun duel Dan and purposefully stall the match so his mom can lives longer in the hospital even by just some second. How is that being greenlit for kid show idk but its awesome
New Vestroia Ep 1 is my fav re-introduction to new season EVER! One thing they did right for series' like these : highlight the OG's exp and make them cool!
NV introduced a new brawling system, they have new characters who obv use the system, dragged Dan into a double battle with the new system he has no idea about, explained a little bit about the rules mid-battle, and Dan + Drago completely crushed BOTH opponents single-handedly!
Even without watching the 1st season, it hooks you right off the bat!
For real. After generic season 1, NV feels like a new anime IP. Quality went from average to well done.
The thing that always bothered me more than anything, (which is addressed in the video), is the lack of strategy in the reboot. Granted, it's important to realize that beginning in New Vestroia and ramping WAY up in the seasons following it, the original show was increasingly less about strategy and more about the Bakugan playing a random number of Ability Cards per turn, and someone won when the plot arbitrarily decided that their attack landed without being blocked or evaded. Seriously, there was no cap on the number of Ability Cards you could play, and that meant nobody ever had a good reason to STOP playing Ability Cards in a turn. That shit was ridiculous. It got so bad that by Mechtanium Surge, there were no G-power levels at all, and Gate Cards and Ability Cards only affected the action setpieces, not the game, because there was no game by that point. However, despite the show becoming less about strategy, we still have Season 1, where the show was ALL about strategy. While they didn't use any of the real-life cards, the game played in the show matched the rules of the real card game exactly, and every card had a specific effect. Card placement, Ability Card timing, the power of your shots, it all played a factor in Season 1, and that was what made it cool. So really, the problem isn't that the reboot has no strategy, the problem is that Bakugan hasn't been about strategy since Season 1 (Not counting Bakutech, which was easily the most strategy-based Bakugan anime) and the reboot did nothing to fix that existing problem.
Yeah. The whole point of card games....is strategy. Without it, good luck lasting
Ill give legacy season 2 this, traps were better in the show than irl cause they were a workaround if your main bakugan got ability locked, attribute change irl is such an easy thing to do, especially with the number of special treatment bakugan that can easily change to the attribute that you need relevant to battle (not to mention ability cards)
Og Bakugan's OP had no right going so fuckin' hard
Saukyou no figh-
Fun fact: Bakugan was the first anime I ever watched, without even being aware it was an anime at all. I thought it was a regular American cartoon like everything else on Bulgarian kids television. It was way later into my life when someone asked me what my first anime was, when I had an "Oh sh*t" realisation XD
Same here, аз също съм българин (здрасти), and watched bakugan and Inazuma 11 thinking it was just a regular animated cool show
I think for me it was the Pokemon, there were also French ones and some other animes I watched 1-4y later after 10PM as a kid on some channel. Some monster anime(I thought it was Tokyo Ghoul but nope, it's some other anime about monsters in a city with a really depressing artstyle), a few episodes of Bleach and maybe something else I don't remember.
Thank you!!! Im a big fan of the original series, have been since highschool, but i watched it for the plot. Dan was always my favorite, so season 4 was interesting since he fell off his high horse. But i always liked the shows' gradual development and that it actually does have stakes that have consequences. ( im a huge yugioh nerd too so i liked the similarity, otherwise these shows are no fun. )
But i loved that they can interact with their bakugan and have connections with them. Even during a fight. Yugioh DM, Gx, and 5ds didn't do that very often. So there's the big difference.
And we got to see them in normal life more often, outside of battles. We know dans parents and runos parents and their personalities. Dans mom especially was cool to see her learn about the bakugaun being real and also interacting with drago and then the vestals. It's refreshing.
All in all, i loved bakugan battle brawlers. I've not watched much of this one due tooooo..... well, your vid explains it. Tried to, even skippped ahead in hopes of improvements, but yeah, that didn't happen.
Great to see someone go in depth with their feelings
I watched the show as a kid because I had a giant crush on Dan, Shun, and later Ren. (Also the buff guy with orange dreadlocks)
I didn’t need to know this was a thing. I could’ve gone my whole life happier with not knowing the reboot existed
For me , the peak of the series was New Vestroia, especially when things were getting somewhat serious and even many of the villains were dying, making it look like one of the few shows of its type that actually seemed to take itself seriously (i mean, just compare it to the first 2 seasons of Yugioh GX and bakugan starts to look in comparation like a seinen anime)
I like the fact that you say the first two season because you know from the third season it's more than serious but i don't think non of bakugan or yu gi oh close to looks like a seinen anime
@@kaitosama3766 the "Seinen like" comment was just an example, I obviously don't think that either of them go to such heights of maturity
Man Bakugan and effing Dinosaur King used to be my jam back then. Always wondered if anyone rememebered those shows
Dinosaur King was so fucking great, I remember spending my childhood obsessing over that show like hell. Thanks for reminding me it existed!
Yeah I remember the old bakugan and dinosaur king I love watching them but I hate the new bakugan it's so shit how them changed the complete story of the anime
@@RealZombieNinja Right!? Man I remember when the cardgame dropped. The first packs where sold only in a magazine back then. I still remember me and my friend grabbing several on day one.
As a bonus seemingly no one else bothered with those, so there was more for us. Oh and man there was the Nintendo DS game too
I see this got recommended to all of us at the same time haha.
It seems so
Yep
Indeed
I honestly despise how they never brought back the OG battle system. The 3x2 gatecard system where every brawler only had 3 gatecards to use and couldn't just blow them all if the opponent caught onto your strategy. Even if they didn't explain the system thoroughly, you can see its rules are consistent throughout every battle.
It's cool how most battles also explained the strategies and the drawbacks that occur. My favourite is Alice vs. Klaus and Alice wastes all 3 gatecards on creating stalemates. Once she used them all up, she had no choice but to play on Klaus' terms and ultimately lost because he still had his signature gatecard. Definitely didn't make much sense as a kid, but looking back it was so in-depth and the creators actually cared for the game.
Dude I'm from Zimbabwe and we had a whole league for bakugan in school lol. We even did the whole lose your bakugan is you lose the game. Every vendor street to top specialty shop sold them and we were up to date even when New Vistroya came out. I have 6 versions of Drago lying somewhere at home 😂😂. So yeah, Bakugan was also an insane hit here in Africa too😅
Bakugan was the shit back in rhe day. Battles in school were on par with beyblade and yu-gi-oh
Now it’s just shit
The main problem is that bakugan ditched actually trying to show the characters playing a game (like the yugioh anime) and instead became pokemon but simpler and worse
Old Bakugan was just different,it's crazy how it had a opening that sounds like korn made it
As a Bakugan fan, my love for Bakugan has shifted to Transformers. Far better toys than whatever G3 is doing with that halfbaked bind system, cringe thin plastic, gag-worthy designs and insulting “TCG”. Just stick with the old TCG, it was the one of the best TCGs I’ve played
The Wii Game's music had no business going as hard as it did and I respect it greatly lol
Also, Aquos used to be my favorite element and Preyas my favorite bakugan, but now I think I'm more partial to a mix of Ventus and Darkus with Harpius being my favorite Bakugan now.
I played the DS version, and can safely say that soundtrack is _amazing!_ The Aquos theme is still my favourite!
My favorite gotta be the ventus arena theme
The old Bakugan main cast had an even number of boys and girls, but now it’s just one girl, and I HATE that
Yeah i was surprised how often i was rooting for the female characters in bakugan cause how competent they were and their motivations, mostly season 2 mira and season 3 fabia, but julie, runo, and alice were also compelling, moreso than some of the characters in the metal series of beyblade who actually battled, i can only think of a generic antagonist one from masters and someone who got the cant battle anymore trauma treatment going from fusion to masters
Starting from season 2 New Vestroya. Seems they thought to have mixed target audience, but boys dominated so they left only one girl. In season 4 If I remember right they have 0 girls in team.
In the first bakugan the mc is actually sickly designed. Also, his aspirations and personnality, although, of course kind of childish, but I'm not complaining cuz it is a kid's show, are very very likeable. Bro will fight anyone to get better he doesn't care and that's why he's the best.
I remember the hype of New Vestoria, and it delivired the hype, Dan's character got better, new characters were awesome, plot was decent too, and villans were pretty cool too, especially Spectra (knowing they bring him back in S4 cuz he is that cool).
Lets not forget they made a dog one of the brawlers who actually battles which takes away any even remotly seriousness of it
The fact that they Rebooted the reboot still perplexes me
There’s a reboot before this one? Wha
@@besihodja393 Well there is the bakugan reboot, then they rebooted it a second time but rebooted the reboot for some reason
The ability cards made more sense for me than the hexagon cores because in the end we all are just going to admit that we loved and would always cherish the original Bakugan series
OG Bakugan was a fucking vibe.
this made me wanna go rewatch bakugan and new vestroia. god i miss how well thought out and planned shit like beyblade and og bakugan were.
I had no idea Bakugan had a reboot. And they chose to keep the main character's name. Woah.
i propably didn't regonise it was bakugan until now even though it was stated in the show
I’m in the same ball park. 5 seasons and not once did I know it existed lol
Surprisingly the main character has a different name, it just sounds like the G1 Dan's name, while his last name was changed to sound like how English speakers pronounced the old one as little joke.
Yo, that English intro was fire, the same for the intro for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
Fax I loved bakugan and yu gi oh 5d's openings
5ds is fire theme and show too.
YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR WHATS RIGHT
BEFORE IT'S GONE, GONE, GONE. THIS IS BAKUGAN.
I'm genuinely happy that when I saw my younger brother watch this shit I told him to stop watching it, watch the old one, AND HE FUCKING AGREED IT BEING WAY BETTER!
Now that's a great young brother right there
I still cant believe it was so bad that they REBOOTED A REBOOT
They didn't do it because it was "bad", they did it because after 5 years they realized most kids who were into would be getting their teen years and losing interest (especially with a barely playable TCG), so they rebooted to take in fan feedback while also attracting a new generation of kinds.
aint no way... what happened?
@@BoYo275and what did we get the same battle system from the first reboot,different characters design they pulled a shun with the blue hair girl by giving a different design,may drago worst than he was before and they have the balls to call it Bakugan generation 3
@@randomt800kiddo2 Basically, the TCG died shortly after release as it the reboot launched before Covid, after things calmed down SpinMaster still refused to put any effort into making more cards, so they unofficially killed it of which caused most older people to leave to fanbase. I then went on pretty strong/well, growing a fanbase for 5 years, but SpinMaster felt the kids from 5 years ago would've outgrown it, so they rebooted it to take in fan feedback & attract a newer gen of young fans..
@@GodFusionShiro It keeping a similar battle system as Gen2 isn't too bad of a thing, since compared to a lot of other "Kid universally have these mosters and battle with them" series where they just stand around yelling orders, or the humans aren't needed almost at all for their monsters to fight on their own, it is pretty unique and interesting.
I don't think they tried to "Pull a Shun" with Mia with blue hair being a lot like Lia, I think it just kinda accidently happened. But while I 1000% miss Lia & the rest AO , I personally like Mia a lot so far.
Yeah, Drago's new design isn't the greatest, but I wouldn't call it bad or worst. I just think it'll take some getting used to over time.
Bakugan was big in Turkey. We had a massive black market in our school where we gathered in our cliques and traded off brand Bakugan.
same for Bulgaria! one day when i was on a trip in 2019 I saw someone selling Helix Drago, and i haven't seen him since 2012
Bakugan BRAWL! Bakugan STAND! Words I remember fondly and cherish forever. Bakugan was the GOAT back when I was a kid in the early 2000s. I remember wanting the cards and monster balls so badly. This show is my childhood. I’m glad that a new generation can enjoy this series, even if it’s not the best looking animation.
Bakugan's style was the perfect bridge between 90s anime style, and early 2000's anime style.
how come so many people found this video st nearly the exact same time
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It got the Beyblade G-force treatment...BUT IN REVERSE!
Old animation -> lets make ghese chafacters as cool as possible
New animation -> let's make these characters as goofy as possible
I get that is a children’s franchise of toys, but they’re anime for Bakugan and Beyblade back in my day had emotions,story and characters you wanted to see in recent years both series lost magic they had
Yeah they wanna make every TV show as goofy as much for the kids and kill every emotion. they think kids should watch *fun* stuff
Not beyblade burst its actually pretty decent
@@miyamoto_mu2837 yeah it's one of or maybe the best of the new shows rn
Fuck I remember watching and Bakugan as a kid...
But to be honest Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Bakugan Battle Brawlers and Dragon Ball Z Kai were my whole introduction to anime as a kid
Same here along with Transformers anime like Cybertron and Energon and of course Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh!
I came to learn of this reboots existence from a Twitter post comparing the reboot design of Dan to the original, saying:
*"These is not the same N!gga."*
And everyone in the comments saying "the Drip, the Swag, the Sauce, it's all Gone, they violated my guy😭"
fr though they took all his swag
As a former bakugan fan, i am upset at the quality of this anime, however, as a person who wished to have bakugan as a child, i am more sad that i can't find the old bakugan in stores. I just like the old designs and the new feel too detailed and it makes me feel sad that i didnt get it when they were still out.
wow you reminded me I asked for an Elfin one for YEARS and now I'll never get her 😢
Used to be too expensive for me as a kid back in the day, now it's too expensive because the toys are old and people overprice them on Ebay. Reminds me of those Bionicle dreams people keep having, where even in their dreams they can't afford the toys lmao.
All the new designs look cool except dragonoids and a few snake bakugan, legacy definitely did snakes a bit better even if it were repetitive and every roboot dragonoid design looks like blitz or battalix dragonoid which is easily the worst main drago designs from legacy
“20 bucks…a year…in monopoly money”😂😂😂😂
OG Bakugan : "Characters actually relevant and important to the show, the fact that the world in danger and I love how it actually feels intense at times."
Reboot Bakugan : "Stupid cash grab without a real soul or effort put into voice acting and the show is just plain boring in general."
so true, it was and is a waste of time to be made. It is only a cash grab that was made for a 1 year promotion, i lost interst the first time i bought one an quit after episode 3 it was so not worth it.
OG bakugan and Digimon were so fucking good
This show makes the Ben 10 reboot look good
In the summer between my 5th grade and 6th grade year i found myself living in a spouse abuse community home. Just that year i had begun playing and collecting Bakugan. Me and another boy really connected with each other there for the first time because we both played Bakugan. He was a few years younger than me. We traded a bit, he loved the game as much as i did Yugioh when i was his age. Eventually i ended up walking about 2 hours (there and back) from Walmart. I was young and this was not smart but i would go to the toy section. Stuff my jacket pockets with as many Bakugan that would fit. On the walk back i was always so excited to share the new awesome Bakugan with that kid. His eyes would light up! I did this several times while living with him in that house. Even on My second to last day i did it as a parting gift as well as giving to him my entire collection. I quit Bakugan but passed on my passion for the game to him. Wish i could talk to him again! It’s been 17 years i think? Anyway that’s my fondest memory of the silly card game that is know by Bakugan haha
Calling yu gi oh a cash grab Anime realy hurt my soul
Yea the show is actually great. It's like Pokémon. The shows actually feel like shows with character development and growth
Yeah some of this guys verbiage is weird
I can't say for the latest seasons, but even if it's just to market the card game it's at least good anime
@@reallyhimongod mostly talking about the manga adaptation
I didn't know Bakugan got a reboot again. The og show was my jam and this just feels like they watered it down. A shell of its former self.
Bakugan in 2009 was so cool! The first season was sooooo good! Joe defeated Masquerade!
As a kid that twist blew my mind
It was shocking when Alison was the imposter
Who else was loving the og intro music only to get upset when it was cut off and replaced with... the other one.
ME.
I ABSOLUTELY hate how Digimon Reboot put some sexual harassment, instead for example, another vocal remix of Butterfly and Brave Heart. I always had to put Brave Heart at the fighting scenes and Butterfly for opening.
The Anime uses the Easy rules of the version of the game where its just "Roll on hexagon, add damage, highest attack wins, win 3 times to WIN."
Bakugan was so popular at my school among the boys the girls started getting into it. Bakugan faded away when i moved away to another school after 4th grade, thats when Bakugan also fell off after New vestroya.
Whoever tf that blonde boy is, he will NEVER be Shun
A moment of silence for subterra attribute
I miss the old bakugan anime, it was visually stunning
Also, Dan shouldn't even exist in Bakugan Battle Planet. Your right, that boy is not Dan.
I'm flabbergasted at how this man mispronounced Bakugan as a child when everyone in the show says it every five seconds.😂
Bakugan since its origins has been a mixed production of Japanese animation with Canadian animation. Starting with the second season called New Vestroia, its episodes began to be released first in Canada and after in Japan. Still Bakugan Planet remains a mixed production since the studio TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd., abbreviation for Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., Ltd., is involved.
The orinignal bakugan and beyblade metal fusion will always be apart of my heart in a special place i always had to make sure i watched the next ep on cartoon network before going to school. My og legends with the oringinal yugiog
I've been saying it and I'll say it once more. They should put the original Bakugan on TV. I think the small kids would love it.
I watched the first like 2 minutes of the show. When "Dan" and Drago started talking like old pals. like they were the ones who went through all the crap og dan and drago went through i was like nah you haven't earned this show,and dropped it immediately.
Lyrics: BAKUGAN BRAWL! ITS A BIG BRAWL! BAKUGAN!
Me: BAKUGAN BALLS! THEY GOT BIG BALLS! BAKUGAN!
Beyblade gets a cool reboot because beyblade has always been cool. There has never not been a cool beyblade show.
Burst really isn't that good
Cuz there's a hot dragon
I guess not. At best i'd say the worst one is *Beywheels*. Anyone remember that they tried? Just me? Okay-
@heavenlystarboi2697 I remember it. Thought s2 would come out, but it didn't. Also, it just dropped out of nowhere.
@Dbzking654 I watched that all the way up to the end with phi vs aiger. I just didn't care that much. I'd rather just watch something else at that point. Shogun was pretty alright.
The irony now of the line “You gotta fight for what’s before it’s gone.”
What they should Have done was bring back the original but with better quality and more special effects
Massive respect to the singer of Battle Brawlers. He did NOT have to hit high notes like that for a kid's TV show opening, but he did anyways.
facts
Bakugan was a genuine masterart
Thanks Old CN.
Who else bought the toys when was little fool like me?
that intro brought back deep memories
that "TWO WORLDS COLLIDE" drop was so unexpected but its exactly how its played it my head and im so thankful youve let me experience this
I play Pot of Greed. This card allows me to draw 2 more cards from my deck
I draw two Pots of Greed
I draw two pots of greed
I wouldn't warrant comparisons if the reboot was anywhere near the original's level; but since that's obviously not the case I don't see why we can't fault the new show for what the old show did better
Who remembers monsuno?
Yeah I’ve still got cards from it in a bag here somewhere
Imagining a proper reboot of the first two seasons with updated animation, seems like a dream! As a kid, I always wanted a high quality posable figure of the dragonoid evolutions, I still do!!
The OG bakugan season 1 was just perfect
damn, this really hit the algorithm
I think I'm grateful I only saw the OG Bakugan
They did my boy dirty 😭
The original series is one of my childhood favorites.
The intro song alone was better than the entire reboot.
And when I saw what it became years later, I hated it and now I am so sorry for the original series' creators that have to be associated to this in any way, shape or form.
The new animation and voice acting legit feels like a Crunchyroll original series with a brand new team putting out their first product, not something from an animation studio that's been in business for years...
This Bakugan would've been better received had they not rebooted it with some of the same characters of the original. Should've had a new protagonist instead Dan/Drago 2.0.
Old Dan rizzed up every girl, new Dan likes throwing bullshit in a battle.
Imagine them coming out of nowhere with a fuckin fossil fighters show 💀
I’d just be glad they acknowledged the series even if the show would be dooky
@@late6542 same, I miss it desperately 😭
That, and Pokémon Ranger
Glad they still remember it but I doubt it’s be good tbh
I played this one Bakugan game for the Wii so much. I put so much hours into it and I got into Bakugan anime after I beat the game. I really liked it and I collected the toys and cards. Idk what happened to Bakugan 💀
That wii game was so damn good.
@@saltyralts fr, I had everything maxed out, collected every bakugan, every card, every character. I invested so much time into it. Im sad bakugan itself died 😔
Why do they look 8?! Like I always liked how in cartoon animes, the characters looked to be in their mid teens cause it gave me people to look up to and aspire to be when I was older as a kid. The characters don't have to look the exact age of the target demographic
I know its not fully related to bakugan. But you sent down the speed racer rabbit hole for the last hour. Never expected to see something so unhinged yet amazing, so chaotic but natural.
Thank you
(takes a sip of coffee) Ahh, the OG Bakugan opening, this takes me back to my childhood mornings and afternoons. Loved the OG show and that opening was dope.