We continue on with the story of Beyblade. A narrative that seems to get more ludicrous with each and every passing episode.
But now we have a bit of a Twist. We're not just focusing on the main characters anymore; we're finally giving some characterisation to their opponents.
The weird Chinese themed Ninja Gang who really has it out for one of their former members Rei.
Or at least we're going to. First we have to contend with one tournament episode where are main group of kids has to compete against the Thai division of the Asian Tournament of Beyblade. It's one of those weird episodes in that it doesn't really provide anything, it just kind of waste time and it has little to no real story but the whole episode is structured in such a way that it moves incredibly quickly and might be among one of the more entertaining the watch.
At least on a spectacle level.
Because there's nothing that really comes about here. All of the protagonist win, The Thai division is kicked out and we move on to another day.
Now we move on to the actual story of these episodes. This kid Kiki really wants to prove himself to his local Ninja clan. So he decides to sneak over to the BBA (that being a protagonist group) in order to either defeat the clan's former member Rei or if nothing else steal something for his troubles.
He decides he's not going to battle rei because he's asleep (probably shouldn't have come at night time if that was the case.) But he still decides he's going to take something and lucky for him these people are really really open about their technological data.
Kiki swipes the data only to be confronted by the very person he wanted to compete against at the beginning. The two of them have something of a witty banter and then decide to have a dual as to who gets to keep the data. You'd expecting that Kiki would get his butt kicked given that he's kind of the weakest link of his local Clan.
But it turns out it's pretty easy to beat up Rei. All you have to do is accuse him of not being a good enough fighter and that he still has some sort of a motion to his old constituents and his magical Godlike creature will just leave his spinning top and go off into the ether.
This making him an average player with the game and being the only person in the tournament who isn't cheating.
But of course he can't really hold himself against anybody else anymore and decides he's going to leave the BBA so he can focus on reclaiming his god-like creature.
Oh and the kid Kiki didn't steal the data after all because the protagonist Tyson beat him in a duel afterwards. I mean it was a pretty dumb move on that kid. He's literally surrounded by 5 people each one of them could compete to get their data back and at the end they could beat the crap out of him if they were sore losers.
Also it turns out the clan didn't even like what he did. They didn't want the data and they considered it disrespectful.
And now Kiki's on a probation.
Oh well we can focus on one of the other idiot characters instead. Like Meo the cat girl.
At first I thought her name was some weird joke based on the Chinese revolutionary Hero Mao Zedong.
But then I realised that she was a cat girl whose name sounded similar to meow and concluded that it's just a word joke with nothing else to it.
Oh well I'm sure they could have added some extra flavor to the show strange references to communist General secretaries and the lake.
Anyways a fair bit of the third episode is just a conversation between Rei and Meo.
She has something of a crush on him and really wants him to come back to their old Clan. Rei share similar feelings but he's more hesitant about joining the group because he likes the free he possessed when he left the clan to begin with.
It's here that we get some little back story as to the existence of the clan back when people fought with actual weapons and they didn't just screw around of silly toys.
I guess you could call it progress as now no one's killing each or at least that is at the moment.
At the show progresses these toys get more and more dangerous and at some point you start to wonder if they should be highly regulated or allowed on aeroplanes given their destructive capability.
Most of the episode is just a Rei discovering that he can actually hold his own against other players even without his god-like entity as he realises that technique is more advantageous to him and he decides to go back to the BBA after this and the Rivalry between the two groups starts again.
And I feel kind of amused that I'm starting to like this show again. At first I was just watching it because it was utterly stupid.
But it's simple and amusing little story has been winning me over as of late and now I'm tuning in to watch the thing cuz I want to as opposed to just being something funny to do.
It'd be nice to think that he can maintain this energy but there's a couple hundred episodes to this thing so I suspect it's either going to start repeating real soon or it will just run out of steam ironically just like the spinning top in the game.
I almost debate if I should start reviewing these things one episode of the time. If I leave the show for more than 20 minutes most of it will go out of my head. Despite the fact that I kind of grown to like the show overtime it is very mindless.
Right now I'm watching Sam & Max and I'm retaining more information about that show that I am this one and it's literally just Mindless gibberish over in that show but I'll remember who Gary is tomorrow I probably won't remember anything about Kiki.
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