Anime Profile: Beyblade
Fields |
USA Info |
Japanese Info |
Image |
|---|---|---|---|
Title |
Beyblade | Bakuten Shoot Beyblade(爆転シュート ベイブレード)("Explosive Spinning Shot Beyblade") |  |
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Explosive Spinning Shot Beyblade | ||
Released |
51 TV episodes | 51 TV episodes | |
Dates |
June 21, 2002 | 2001 | |
Company |
Nelvana | Nippon Anime/TV Tokyo | |
Creator |
Takao Aoki | ||
Director |
Toshifumi Kawase | ||
Genre |
Action, Shounen | Action, Shounen | |
Related |
Beyblade V-Force(season 2) | Bakuten Shoot Beyblade 2002(season 2) | |
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Beyblade G Revolution(season 3) | Bakuten Shoot Beyblade G Revolution(season 3) | |
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Beyblade: Fierce Battle | Bakuten Shoot Beyblade The Movie | |
Characters |
-- listed below -- | -- listed below -- |
Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon, and on VHS at Amazon.
The above info came from Who Wants To Know?, and was edited by yours truly (contact me). The image came from epguides.com.
Anime Characters: Beyblade
English Name |
Japanese Name |
 |
English Name |
Japanese Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJ Topper | --?-- | Kevin | Kiki | |
| Boris Balkov | Borcloff | Lee | Rai | |
| Brad Best | --?-- | Mariah | Mao | |
| Bryan | Boris Kuznetsov | Max Tate | Max Mizuhara | |
| Driger | Doraigaa | Michael Parker | Michael Parker | |
| Eddy | Eddy | Mr. Dickinson | --?-- | |
| Emily York | Emily York | Oliver | Oribie | |
| Enrique | Giancarlo Tornatore | Ray Kon | Rei Kon | |
| Gary | Gao | Robert Jurgen | --?-- | |
| Grandpa Granger | Ojiisan Kinomiya | Spencer Petrov | Sergei Petrov | |
| Ian | Ivan Papov | Steven | Steve | |
| Johnny McGregor | Johnny McGregor | Tala Valkov | Yuri Ivanov | |
| Kai Hiwatari | Kai Hiwatari | Tyson Granger | Takao Kinomiya | |
| Kenny | Kyouju |
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Anime Description: Beyblade
The latest craze, the hottest kid sport sensation, an international event: Beyblades, the spinning, fighting tops where the objective is to knock out your opponent's blade.
The story of Beyblade is the story of the aggressive Tyson, the quick-thinking Max, balanced Ray, and experienced Kai. Four boys whose paths came together and eventually saw them form a team called the Bladebreakers.
Along their path towards new challenges and achievements, this team of bladers are gonna find out that there's a lot more to Beyblading than they originally thought.
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Flag[admin]#7 - Posted by mahanoor waheed on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 2:31pm:
brooklyn is the best of all!!!!!!!!kai rocks!!!!!!
Flag[admin]#6 - Posted by PenaltyKillah on Sunday, September 13th, 2009 at 9:38pm:
If you're a fan of Beyblade or any other Japanese ani-mercial, please take some time to read the comment just below this one. It's just a little, well, really detailed analysis. Thanks!
Flag[admin]#5 - Posted by PenaltyKillah on Sunday, September 13th, 2009 at 9:14pm:
The original series/season of Beyblade was a breakthrough in the explosion of American-dubbed animé at the turn of the century.
On the animation side, we've got characters that look a lot more realistic than those of the series' competitors, and you can thank Takao Aoki, the creator of the original manga, as well as animation studio Madhouse for this. Wouldn't it be hilarious if the characters sported eyes that are jelly-shaped or resemble long vertical ovals, or pointed chins that made their faces resemble a triangle? (I decided not to list the animé series that has each of those facial features. My intention is not to insult the others; however, you'd probably have figured out which is which soon - they're all from the same 30-minute merchandising ani-mercial genre!) Instead, you've got circular opals for eyes, as well as round heart-shaped faces (less round for the more well-built characters), which is a tad closer to the anatomy of young people in real-life than any other series. (Can’t say the same for their noses, to be honest, though it’s way better than the triangular shadows, dots, or angle brackets (“<”) that the other three series exhibit!)
Unfortunately, the animation studio (Nihon Animedia) that took over for the latter series/seasons of Beyblade made little to no effort in replicating the artistic semantics of the first: the characters actually looked younger in V-Force, and what can be described as 'typical animé Bishounen' made their appearance in G Revolution, Brooklyn being one of them.
On the dubbers' side; the main characters are voiced by actual teenagers - most of them weren't even working in the voice-acting industry when they started! The VAs for Tyson, Kai, and Hilary were 16 at the time of recording, and Max and Kenny's were only 12! My hunch is that Nelvana, the Canadian company which was licensed to dub this series, intended to create a sense of further realism for the show. And that I am very thankful indeed. Instead of hearing women voicing characters that are clearly too old to not have grown an Adam's apple, or vice versa, which is grown men voicing those that are too young to have one, we could now relate with the characters closer than before, especially back when we first watched the show as teenagers ourselves. Ah, the memories. ... show more »
Flag[admin]#4 - Posted by PenaltyKillah on Sunday, September 13th, 2009 at 7:49pm:
The best half-hour merchandise-advertising ani-mercial by a clear MILE! This is the only one where plot, character, and dammit, ANIMATION is taken seriously! (Hear that, Dinosaur King?)
Flag[admin]#3 - Posted by JustMe007 on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 4:58am:
Beyblade is what got me hooked to anime. I luvv this anime, and Takao Aoki is a genius for creating it!
Go Beyblade!
P.S.: I hope there's a fourth season out too ...
Flag[admin]#2 - Posted by SakuraRox on Friday, August 28th, 2009 at 9:13am:
Ain't is amazing?????
First Pokemon. then Digimon then this???
Top most shows on CN....
Naruto and DBZ are no exceptions either
Flag[admin]#1 - Posted by bbgirl on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 2:11pm:
beyblade is so awesome!i luv the characters and the bitbeasts.the story is excellent and well-polished!