our endless journey continues.

and they actually acknowledge his hair doing all that stuff LOL

"your hair sort of exploded and your entire aura changed" - ranjiro

hair exploding is such accurate wording👌 fubuki adds on to that by saying that it happens whenever achilles gets a speed or power boost and that it's a kind of side effect whenever aiga and achilles resonates.

i've been very curious to see how they would do the resonance arc in the manga, at first i thought maybe it would not be a thing since aiga's arc in the manga is not that long, but that didn't make sense since its such a key part of the anime.

i just completed vol 11 and there's just been a couple of small convos abt the bey and its owner resonating. the one occasion where it was focused on wld be after aiga's first loss to phi, where he says he looks forward to crush achilles and aiga once they have reached better resonance, which i'm guessing will end up becoming one of the main factors that makes him curious about the entire thing.

it's been a while since i've done anything bbb, i could say i didn't have the time but honestly that's not exactly the case either.

i still have 2 new volumes wrapped up and ready for me to read but i just haven't found the motivation. my main purpose for reading the manga was to see shu and valt's arc and if the manga gave a better explanation, which i'm done with, so i just haven't felt like moving on from that part.

while i know that i want to finish what i started someday, especially since i've heard that the manga's plot diverges from the anime and it would be interesting to see how it goes, i'm still waiting for the right time until i actually feel like doing it.

so yeah, this is just a bit of a rant!

i hope that i can randomly come back after a few months like this again and share some scenes that i liked in the manga.

just as i had expected and hoped for, shu's character arc seems more complete. post-finals, ashtem (all my homies hate ashtem) calls shu over and says that he can only leave the snake pit for good if he defeats norman tarver (this is the one and only place he appears in the manga).

during the battle, shu thinks about how he was actually jealous of valt and how he was able to improve so much in such a short time due to his attitude towards beyblade and how it drew the people around him to valt. shu knew that that was something he couldn't do, so he resorted to the only way he thought he could grow stronger, which was to 'turn into a monster'.

right after this, he recalls how at the very beginning (even before season 1, around the time shu had just gotten his bey, after valt had), they would just have fun trying to win each other, and thinks how wrong he was. he realises that he could have just improved by having fun in beybattles, just like what valt did.

anyways of course spriggan is op and instantly defeats norman lol but thats not even the point of the chapter right.

i'm so glad we managed to hear more from shu about what happened. in the anime, it seemed like it was purely ashtem's doing, which is definitely true, but there had to be a vulnerable part of shu for ashtem to exploit in the first place, which is his jealousy and negative emotions(especially breaking his promise to valt) that he didn't know how to deal with. i felt that this part was kind of vague in the anime, but tbh its not like they didn't do anything good either. the entire part with everyone wanting to try shu's carbonara but how he let valt cook instead (ADORABLE PLS HELP) is like entirely original and that part was really wholesome so :D

honestly since burst has officially ended i didn't know what to do with this blog so i just left it alone for a bit lol

but in the meantime i've actually been collecting the manga slowly to relive the story again. also because i know that the anime actually diverges quite a but from the manga, so it'll be nice to see what other different plots the manga introduces.

but one of the main reasons i picked it up was because i really wanted to see what the manga did with shu's red eye arc and valt and shu's making up afterwards. it always felt too sudden for me in the anime, and that we didn't really get to hear much about shu's thoughts after valt beat him.

lean's flare is purple, hyuga's is red and hikaru's is blue

blue + red = purple

well its just that instead of shu themed its valt themed now

and the header hasn't changed! because that pic is so important i'm never changing it ever

never have i imagined that valt would make such a smug face lmao, while he has matured over the seasons when he talks to his friends in s1 (beyclub!!) you can still see parts of his personality we all fell in love with pardon me while i go and cry in a corner.

the ep starts of with sisco scaring the asahi brothers into stop wasting their time fighting lol my first thought was that damn thats so in sisco's character he says the right shit without holding back lol, but looks like im proven wrong later on in the ep lol

then its drum and lui discussing their tactics for the battle! these two get along well and i think we all enjoy it coz its kinda unexpected? lui like this angry short stack lmao while drum's this wholesome cinnamon roll but i realise what brings them together is the intense way they deal things related to blading HAHA like please lui for real sent a heli after drum and brought him back to the his island JUST to ask him to team up LOL that was too much for me. my personal favourite was when lui squatted down to talk to drum lol like please would the?? shirasagijo?? lui?? squat down to talk to anyone? nah man i dont see it. but its really these little details throughout the show that shows us glimpses of how the legends that we use to follow so fervently in the previous season have changed and grown, just found it rlly sweet.

and then comes sisco and free talking while they ride the lift to go to the stadium. sisco opens first with saying "that was kinda out of character for me" which had me thinking wait isn't it actually like you?? but then i realised that i think evo sisco wouldn't even have bothered to talk to the asahi brothers, and he was actually helping them out in his own way, which was really cute haha. then he goes on to say that he didn't expect them to grow so much and that he was looking forward to battling them. when he asks free whether he felt the same free just went "hmm maybe, maybe not" (ISTG THIS CLOWN🤡🤡) and sisco laughed and went "acting all cool as per usual eh" UGH so nostalgic i can't take it

AND THEN the actual epic battle comes and the animation was great, they really know when to do it right. the way lui and free use the same lines against each other gave me chills man i'm really happy they explored their rivalry from evo more in sparking, from pairing them up together in the legend festival and stating that they were a legendary pair up, to making them face off against each other now, all their moments really delivered.

CHILLS MAN CHILLS

i actually didn't remember who had won this one and to me i realised it doesn't really sit well with me if either free or lui won, because their rivalry is so neck to neck i couldn't even imagine any of them winning. and i was right thankfully, because they knock each other out of the stadium at the same time, (they showed the audience watching with anticipation in slo-mo right before the beys touch the floor simultaneously, i was literally at the edge of my seat ahhh) with satan still standing after they do so, slowly coming to a stop. so glad to see sisco win after his entire arc earlier in the season.

and finally we have the lead up to the asahi brothers vs rantaro and valt (ok side note but i finally figured out why it felt so weird typing out rantaro i realised no one uses his name in the show HAHA its always kumicho, also this season is just an excuse to give us the most epic battles of all time lol i remember in the previous set of match ups when it was valt and rantaro vs lui and drum at the end it was just lui and valt facing each other which gave me deja vu of the nationals back in s1 :') but surprisingly they didn't put much emphasis on this one as compared to other legendary face offs, hmm i wonder whyy, do yall got any idea?)

OK that was way off tangent but tbh they didn't really start that battle this ep and i didn't watch 42 yet so i don't have much to say, except for how pumped rantaro was for the match, he even said that he was the most pumped amongst all of them and the bombers was like shookt about how hyped he was, sisco even called him an idiot for grinning so much LMAO (but sisco was also smilling ur ass of when u were saying that hMMmMm) can't wait to see how that battle goes because i have short term memory and forgot who won👌

anyways thats my review of sparking ep41! when i was looking through my posts around the end of last year and realised i said i would analyse this i thought nahh i probably won't be watching that ep anytime soon, so i'm really glad i did! and since this is probably my longest post(or maybe the one on rantaro that i posted recently now that i look at it, but these two are def my longest) i wanna thank yall for reading through my stuff! i'm not sure if yall like this kinda content and honestly i started this blog so i could read through my own favourite moments in bbb, because it's something that's really close to my heart, but i decided to tag it anyways since i realised we don't have content anyways, so i wanted to contribute some myself too? either way, thanks so much for sticking around!

the bc sol tag match really got me in the feels man :')

(btw this is valt & free vs sisco & rantaro! in case yall forgot because i sure didn't rmbr this match that well)

GUYS HE DID THE THING HE DID THE THINGGGGG

ok but fr they always give shu the most epic intros whethers its cho z or sparking (sorry forgot what happened in db LOL) he always appears at the end of the ep and its unexpected like i've already watched it and know he appears in lui's arc somewhere but i was still shook lol

also lui is so fun to watch this season! ngl when he does his maniac laugh i end up doing it too coz its so funny but laughing like that is so relieving lol i see why he does it. so nice to see his character dev from s1

i may or may not have started rewatching sparking 👉👈

and i don't want to be that person but can i just say whenever valt says "yo" it's taking years off my life he's so cute :")

also he's sounds so starstruck whenever he talks abt shu HAHA when he caught hyuga trying to copy hikaru's shooting form he went "it's okay to copy, i also started off by copying shu!"

and then well hyuga went "who's shu" and man literally just did this

not to mention valt has a closeup photo of shu doing his cool hair thing whenever he wins HAHA even after so many years his admiration for shu has stayed the same thats so adorable