#beywarriors

The guy making the beywarriors theme song for some reason:

Doing a mini-comic copying the scene from ‘This is the End’ but featuring BeyWarriors characters. I should have read the original script before drawing this. I originally went by the image placed below the comic as a ref. 

Ref:

1.) I got around to finally watching the first episode. It does kind of make the show more interesting a pitch to watch and clarifies a lot of the extent of the unusual high concepts present in what was ostensibly a Beyblade franchise show. All in all, it’s not that different in general feeling from D.I.C.E. another merchandise-driven show with seemingly out of place high concept ideas. Whereas Beywarriors has energy politics, D.I.C.E. had the philosophical implications of physical immortality.

2.) All in all, the pilot was kind of likable and remarkably well-executed, outlining the main motivations of the characters, all while hammering home how most of the Beybattlers are motivated by an overarching ideology. Sunburst and Flame are driven by aspirations of hegemony with claims as rightful rulers of the entire planet. Stone wants to escape its crushing poverty. Lightning wants to expand into the deserts through terraforming.

3.) Given how innocuous the State of Lightning’s national ideology is (expand into the surrounding land that nobody else seems to want), it kind of hammers home that they’re clearly meant to be the good guy faction. And they are also farm folk, which explains their down-to-earth aw shucks demeanor.

4.) From the get go, there appears to be plenty of development from the initial set of battlers that aren’t the Bladebreakers Lite Lightning Crew.  Heck, even initially it seems that Sola and Al have more (albeit pigeonholed) character depth. Apparently, Al is the Tyson of this group, Sola’s the gadgeteer genius and practically Dr. Prost’s lab assistant, and Nico is a teenage everyman who takes care of his *workaholic grandpa.

5.) There might actually be a plot relevant reason why Nico is both bland and the hero. The Beywarriors (the bit beast thingamabobs) work best when synced, which reaches its optimum when the Beybattler is in an ideal mental state. Nico syncs that well with Dragoon the first time around specifically because he is level-headed from the get-go. 

6.) From my understanding, the greater scope villain is a Teslandian native while the human Teslandians are colonists who thought the planet was abandoned. If it were the case, it’d be fair to say that he thinks the humans are squatters that must be evicted. I stand corrected. The villains are planet-jackers.

7.) *Yeah, I’m starting to think the single-mindedness bit is genetic to the Prost family.

Metal Fury being shorter hurt it because it came out of nowhere. The anime staff couldn't plan for it. Sure, the final stretch of Fury may be one of my favorite arcs, but so many characters who felt like they would get more focus towards the end didn't (Tithi, Chris, Bao, the other Nemesis bladers)

Beywheelz and Shogun Steel are both very similar in how they handled being shorter. Beywheelz had a smaller cast (15 named characters only), while Shogun Steel made sure every character was tied to the main plot (unlike previous mfb seasons, where Teru, Sora, Lovushka, and Jigsaw weren't involved with it). I'd say it worked better for Beywheelz, but both still tried to cram too much content in too little runtime

After Beywheelz tried lightning-fast pacing, Beyraiderz decided to make the main cast even smaller: 7 bladers and 3 non-bladers (only 2 of which are important). The problem? It dragged on for longer than it should. Beywheelz wasn't fast because of the number of characters, but because of the number of plot points it has (face Dominators in 2v2, get more members before Judgement Bey, fight at Judgement Bey, stop the portal). Beyraiderz only has 2 of these (revive sacred beasts, defeat Kaiser Grey)

GT's first half presents a unique way of handling the shorter runtime by doing something only longer seasons dared to do: introducing characters and dropping them soon after. Is it a good solution? Not in the slightest. Joe and Lodin should've showed up at Battle Island. Fumiya, Pheng, and Lodin should've been more important after Arthur shows up. The second half is better about this, hyper-focusing on 4 characters (Dante, Arman, Delta, and Gwyn), with a handful of supporting characters who don't get much focus (Blindt, Aiger, and Arthur)

Sparking did the Beyraiderz thing with a larger cast. There are 10 main bladers (Ultimate Tag Series competitors), 4 non-main bladers (Wakiya and the rest of the Comets) and 3 non-bladers (Hanami and the MCs' parents). There are 2 tournaments, the Legend Festival and the Ultimate Tag Series. From the beginning of the season, we know where we're headed (Legend Festival). After that, we have a short time where beys are upgraded and they show off their new abilities before introducing the Ultimate Tag Series, that goes on for the rest of the season. Did this work? Kinda. It prevents the plot from feeling overstuffed and no characters are suddenly dropped, but the plot also has very little depth because of it

DB does something. It presents several barely-connected arcs and we go straight from one to the other. We go from challenging Bell at his house, to Bell meeting BC Sol, to the Great Aerial Tour, to the 3v3 match, to Ultimate Valkyrie, to Phenomeno Payne, to the finale and the transitions are all very jarring. When Cho-Z did this (Luinor Cup to Battleship Cruise to title matches to the Dread Tower), it gave us a narrative throughline for us to follow (corrupted resonance). Despite the transitions being jarring, we still have something showing us the plot progression, while in DB I couldn't tell you what the plot is about if I tried