B-Legend! Battle B-Daman

I watched this when I was like 11 or 12 i think. It is similar to beyblade and stuff like that. The story is about a happy and hyperactive kid who is always up for a challenge. He also happens to be the one who gets to have a legandary b-daman called cobalt blade. Bassicly It's a small robot-like figure that can shoot marbles with a special effect. The type of effect will match the type of bdaman you have and you can go to tournaments and battles and such. And yamato wants the be the best "b-daplayer" there is of course. Along the way he makes lot's of friends and teammates and also enemy's of course. I really enjoyed it and watched it multiple times. I liked the rivalery and the fights, I also bought a lot of stuff back then(you could buy your own b-daman in toy stores) and pretty much everyone around my age was playing it. It was one of the things that brought me closer to anime when I was younger. I also like that they keep adding new stages and features to the game so it's like you see a different game everytime.(in the tournaments and stuff) story 7/10 I like it, there's the good guys and the bad guys, but it's not all that black and white, most of the bad guys seem to have a reason for it. And your worst enemy's may become your best friends in time. That what I liked about it, it shows you everyone's background. It was very uplifting and funny at times, with a good chunk of drama in it. A bit cliché sometimes, but hey what can you expect with such a young age group. Art 8/10 I personaly don't like the style of the main caracter yamato, but for the rest i found it very original and nicely done. The battles are very well put and you really get sucked into the action. sound 7/10 The soundtracks and such I think their good, but in the sequel they have some kick ass background battle music. The sound effects for the shooting bdaballs made it a lot more interessting and realistic. Character 7/10 The characters each have their own story and different personalities. They each have their own strenght and that shows in their bdaman too, you'll see the cool and calm ones walking with the control type bdamans and the more bigmouthed fired up people with the power type. Friendship and loyalty are very important and almost every character will show that regardless off wich side their on (good or bad). enjoyment 9/10 I really really enjoyed it! It's funny and exciting, and of course you'll learn a thing or two about life, even in a world that evolves around a childs game, you'll be able to relate to their problems. It just was one of my favorite series when I was little so that why I gave it such a high score. Also enjoyment is really the most important part of an childrens anime and smart, complicated plot twists and all that stuff is less important in this case.(in my opinion at least) overal 8/10 It's fun and easy to follow and I think it was a smart way of making us buy a lot of shit. Haha, but most importantly I think you must keep in mind that this was ment for an younger audience. So if your as old as me right now (17/18) I don't think you'll enjoy it, if your younger like 11 to 14, it might be something for you.

Battle B-Daman is Beyblade. Battle B-Daman is Medabots. It's Yu-Gi-Oh! It's Bakuman. It's every other anime that was made to sell toys! I may be being too hard on this anime since it is for kids, but the biggest problem I have with this anime is it doesn't offer anything new. It's nothing, but a collection of cliches and character tropes I have seen been used in these previously mentioned anime and more! Now, don't get me wrong, I like anime like Yu-Gi-Oh and Beyblade and the others, but the problem with this anime is there is NOTHING that sets it apart from the others. Story 4/10 The first problem I have with the story is B-Daman doesn't look that fun of a game. Half the battles they fight and the games they play are stuff like "who can knock over the most pins with their B-Daman" or "can you hit the target" which just isn't as exciting as when it's one player fighting another directly. Plus, I have a tough time imagining kids in real life playing B-Daman. Also, the story could not be more simpler. What I liked about other anime like Yu-Gi-Oh and Medabots was at least there was a much more interesting and complex story arc and characters had better motivations. Here it's just "I'm evil because the script says I'm evil". Characters 3/10 Take the most annoying parts of characters like Goku from Dragon Ball Z and Naruto from Naruto and be sure to leave out what made them cool and then you have Yamato. There isn't anything cool or funny about Yamato. He's just annoying, gives speeches about friendship, and wins all his battles with his main character deus ex machina powers. The villain isn't much better, either. Marta-B was a generic and forgettable villain that wanted to destroy the world because...oh right, his only motivation is he's evil. There were some characters I did like, however. Bull, with his multiple personalities, was fun. Yamato's mom was funny whenever she got mad. However, neither of these characters get as much screen time as Yamato, unfortunately. Art 6/10 The art would have to probably be the best part of this show. It's cool how the show is set in this world where you have characters that are giant talking cats, robots, and sort of humans like Lee. What is with his eyes?! There's no white, it's just black! Is he an alien? Also, there is a large variety of B-Daman and each one is pretty well and uniquely designed. Overall 4/10 Battle B-Daman is pretty forgettable anime. There's nothing memorable or worthwhile about the characters. The story is about as bare bones as you can get. I'd recommend Medabots or Beyblade over this.

If you rewatch a lot of stuff from your childhood, you’ll find after a while that half the stuff you watched as a kid was really bad, whilst the other half is surprisingly still quite good. However, considering the amount of excitement you likely felt for these works as a kid, even if you still like it, a lot more than half the stuff you watched as a kid is not as good as you remember it being. I personally have only experienced a couple pieces of media from my childhood that I liked better as an adult, simply because I am capable of appreciating what makes it good on a deeper level. Even rarer, though, is when you revisit something from your childhood and, despite the fact that you have changed considerably since your younger years and your taste in media has had the opportunity to change beyond recognition a multitude of times, you still feel the exact same way about it you did back then. This is the situation I found myself in upon rewatching this old favourite of my childhood, where I didn’t just like it as much as I used to, I even felt very similar about what the show was and was trying to do. B-daman is about a world where society almost revolves around B-daman: plastic marble shooting toys that, in the right hands, are powerful enough to smash rocks. What’s interesting is the presentation of these toys. They’re not just some toys that people have arbitrarily decided to deem important, B-daman very much take this world’s place of guns. In fact, the whole world is made to suit that, with most of the world consisting of desert and most of the characters dressed up as cowboys and renegades with B-daman kept at their sides, like revolvers. The whole show has a lovely western aesthetic to it, mixed in with some human-animal hybrids of various levels of anthropomorphism. There’s also robots, but, with a couple of exceptions, they’re never remarked upon. I do find it very charming, though, to see robots walking around dressed in cowboy outfits. Overall, I am just so thoroughly charmed by the presentation of this show, especially of the world, but even of the character designs, which are a little more shaky, but still quite good. Speaking of the characters, though this show is by no means a paragon of character writing in a post-yugioh world, I do still quite enjoy a lot of the principal cast and think most of them have pretty solid designs. Yamato is very similar to other shounen protagonists of this nature and suffers a little from the fact that as the main character he has to be broadly relatable, but I still quite like him and I laughed quite a few times at his antics. I grew pretty fond of his mom who he was always fighting with and who had the bright idea of starting a fish food restaurant in the middle of the desert and a lot of Yamato’s friends and rivals were fun too. Gray was a really aesthetically cool character and Armada is a funny goofy cat. I’m not as big of a fan of Terry, but he had his moments. The true MVP has to be Bull though, who has a whopping 3 personalities inside of his thick skull. The switching between these personalities during all kinds of moments could frequently amplify an exciting scene or undercut the tension of a serious moment and was pretty much always a fun way to shake things up. I really got to like that goofy son of a gun, which is why it’s a shame his presence tends to be undercut throughout a lot of the show. On the bad-guy side of things there’s the evil organization ‘The Shadow Alliance’, which is initially shown to be lead by a talking cat with a third eye, but later turns out to be lead by Sauron. Yes, Sauron. Sauron doesn’t have much of a motivation in this, nor are his goals terribly clear, other than that’s he’s trying to take over the B-daworld(Yes, the B-daworld) but he’s menacing enough. I don’t think his organization is very interesting and I generally only think the shadow alliance work as antagonists because they contain members who are great individual bad guys, but not because they work well as a unit. Wen and Li were pretty Menacing when they first showed up, but lost that pretty quickly, but are still pretty fun to watch even later in the show and Gray’s dynamic as a member who was forced into the organisation was pretty interesting. Enjyu was the real star of the show, though, being almost lovingly evil, but also being an edgy dork who I can’t help but love. Watching him makes me understand on a very visceral level why good girls always fall for bad guys. Yeah, if this is what bad boys have, us good guys simply can’t compete. This is the type of show where all the bad guys eventually turn over to the good side and Enjyu is far too embarrassed to actually approach Yamato and his gang, so prefers to tail them in secret and protect them from the shadows. God he’s such a stupid dork. I love him. Very few of the characters in the show have interesting arcs and even if they do they tend to be extremely short and come a bit late, but despite that, the characters do a pretty good job keeping the show fun for 50 episodes. I never got tired of any of the characters and generally thought they were fun to watch for the duration of the show, but I can definitely see some people getting a little tired of them near the last stretch of episodes. I personally think they do their job to keep the show fun, though, which is all I could ask of them. Another thing that might bother some people, is their appearance. I personally think their designs are pretty solid, but I also remember near a decade ago when I watched this show for the last time I was a little bothered by the fact that most of the main cast consists of three foot tall dwarves. I didn’t feel bothered by this as a kid and I only started noticing it as I grew older. I feel some people might be bothered by their short appearances, but I personally have started feeling quite amused at this fact. Seeing an adult male putting up a fighting stance against these dwarves or having to use a table made for toddlers always looks really off and makes for some amusing shot composition. This is one of those things you just gotta have fun with, for sure. Aside from the very solid character designs and the wonderfully crafted world that they populate, I think most of the visuals in B-daman are sufficient. My personal philosophy involving what I like in anime visuals tends to be a little different from other people, so take my words with a grain of salt, but I personally was pretty visually engaged by this show. The shot composition was really solid and there was a decent amount of animation for a long running kid’s show and there were lots of moments I recognized during my rewatch because they were memorable enough to stick with me for over a decade. One interesting part of the visuals is the usage of CG. This is before anime started cramming CG everywhere it could and so its usage was limited to the toys. Not that the B-daman are always 3D rendered, not at all. During fights the B-daman are often traditionally animated. It’s before a fight when they’re shown off from all sides that they use CG and the models they use here are surprisingly good looking for being from the mid 2000s. The B-daballs they shoot are usually CG as well and that allows them to have a glossy texture. I remember later in the show there is a very pretty looking B-daball that is shown both in CG and hand drawn and even as a kid I could tell there was something weird about it, but it took until I was older for me to be able to put to words what the difference was. One of my favourite parts of watching old cartoons from my childhood is noticing the usage of CG where as a kid I would either never have noticed it was there, or I would have felt there was something weird about it, but would never have been able to put to words what it was. It makes me realize just how much I’ve grown over the years in my understanding of media. One thing I did notice as a kid was B-daman’s best feature: th…

This anime is my childhood. When I revisited the series some years ago I thought my enjoyment of the show would change, but it didn’t. I still love it. I love the b-daman toys, I love the opening it’s just a classic, I love the main cast’s adventures, I love the drama and conflict. Yes, it can become a bit too dramatic, the voice acting sometimes feel too exaggerated, the villains/antagonists are a bit too much (tho Enjyu and Cain are great), but at the same time it is sooo goood. I hope anyone will get the amount of enjoyment I do watching this.