#beyblade va

I’ve decided to go for a bit of groaner on the titles for what is hopefully an interesting series (Could we call it a series? Who the heck knows. We’ll see, I guess). 

If the reference isn’t clear, then first of all, sorry. Second of all, hold on to your pants, it’s coming.

Y’al know this guy? 

Of course you do. 

He’s an angel. 

Recently, some of you learned for the first time that the aforementioned sweet li’l bean (the one and only Rei Kon) is voiced by Daniel DeSanto, who plays this less sweet li’l bean - Jason “The Muffin Butterer, Allegedly” from Mean Girls.

Someone in this God send of a fandom created an edit with the BBA boys and this exact scene, but I can’t remember who you are, nor can I find it :(. 

Now, what someone you didn’t know, is that you can also hear the vocal stlyings of Daniel DeSanto AKA Rei Kon in the every classic Magic School Bus as none other than the pun maker-face palm inducer-all around funny guy, Carlos Ramon.

If you’re looking for an embarassig piece of trivia about moi, I had a heck of a crush on Carlos AND Rei....so this, as you can imagine, blew my 11 year old mind out of the water.

Note the Rei-esque colour palate, as well as his purple clad companion (Dorothy-Ann). I’ll let the shippers conspiracize (Is it a real word? Who knows. Not me).

If you’re still looking for a Rei-Voice fix and aren’t opposed to ingesting some potentially obscure but still iconic Canadian 90′s television, you can also see a bb Daniel DeSanto in Dudley the Dragon (He is in this very episode as a tiny, tiny, boy). This also blew my 11 year old mind, and I then took to watching episodes of this (despite being a healthy 5-6 years out of the target demo) because my dumb li’l 4 year old brain didn’t yet know Beyblade when I watched it the first time. I was also really weirded out that ACTORS COULD BE IN OTHER THINGS? ALSO HE HAS A PHYSICAL BODY?

Here he is dressed as kind of detective in aforementioned show: 

 Watch at your own risk. I have a nostalgic memory of this, but I also remember being afraid of it.....specifically of the episode where our boy and co stumble upon THIS SMOKING LEPRECHAUN. Why a leprechaun? Who knows. Why a smoking one? Double don’t know. My sincerest apologies to the great nation of Ireland. Tá brón orm, gach duine.

If you’re looking for some spooky time, though, the first big role that we can see the voice of our favourite long locked blader is as Tucker in Are You Afraid of the Dark?, a show that I am still too scared to watch (even though I’m fairly sure it’s not meant to be overly scary). 

Other notable mentions include Brock from Braceface and Blaine from my personal favourite Totally Spies!, all the episodes of which have now been uploaded on their official channel and was at one point on at the same time as Beyblade on another network (I emailed both networks at the time, asking them to consider changing the time. They both refused). 

Brock from Braceface

Blaine from Totally Spies!

That’s ya boi for you.