Beyblade V-Force | A Retrospective Of The Series

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It always made me laugh that Draciel is supposed to be a defense blade, but he's easily the most aggressive of the main beasts

I have been waiting MONTHS I’m hyped

It's so awesome to see someone finally see someone do a retrospective on the original Beyblade serie! I grew up with V-Force but G-Revolution is my favorite by far. Can't wait for your review. Great work!

Also. Without V-Force we would never have Underdog, Switchblade and Always keep your head in the game. 😍

I don't care what haters say. I enjoyed V-Force. New lore! Awesome new Bit-Beasts designs! Sickle Weasel, Tyranno, Cyber Draciel, Cyber Dragoon, Gabriel and Flash Leopard were sick! Mariam and Queen were Bae. 😍

Fun Fact: In the Japanese version of Episode 16: Tragedy of The Cyber Blader Yuya dies, the digital sacred beast version of Dranzer delivered a horrible shock to Yuya as it grew stronger in the battle with Dunga with Vortex Ape. (Poor kid passes away in Kai's arms) In the English dub it was implied that Wyatt (Yuya) "went insane" due to the shock.

I remember a couple people mentioning that Dizzi was a dub exclusive character. Makes me wonder how all her interactions were handled in the original

Until now I realize that the main four bit-beasts are the Four Symbols of Asian Mythology that guard the four cardinal directions. I have seen these four beast in other animes and games: Black Turtle, Vermilion Phoenix, Azure Dragon and White Tiger. I started to wonder why the BladeBreakers's bit-beasts were sacred, besides plot, and now I realize they are based on literally sacred guardian beasts of mythology.

nice cant wait for g rev retrospective

So a stupid in-joke at my job ended up going way too far over the past few months, and now I own several hundred dollars in high-end Beyblades and launchers and have a 23 & 4 W/L record in real life money matches. so this popping up right now confirms either we live in the Matrix, or I am destined to be a bey fighter on a professional level

I liked V force for the art change, the details in the Beyblade and the Saints Shields. The down parts though are early Hillary, Team Psychic as well as some of the other characters and lack of tournaments.

LOL XD The part where you called Kai/Hilary ship to be the same as Matt/Sora is hilarious. I actually can understand. A lot of people used to hate Hilary because she was just a bystander that was just inserted because she was a girl, but I always liked her. I always shipped her with Tyson because I felt that she was the perfect foil for Tyson, as he tends to get a very inflated ego at times, and Hilary helps reel him back and focus on the bigger picture. She's a great character to help balance out Tyson's more reckless behavior.

Been waiting on this one! thanks for putting the time in making this I really enjoyed v-Force

What I don't understand is that after V Force why did none of the new characters ever return during G Revolution? The Saint Sheilds would have been perfect for the tag team tournament and Zeo returning to help fight BEGA would have been awesome it just seems like they missed out on great character development.

Since detailing the differences between anime and manga for V-Force was a giant tangled mess due to how the adaptation process flip-flopped events around and added a lot of fluff between the major story beats, I’ll just leave a neat and hopefully succinct timeline of the manga’s events. Here goes: -two months after Tyson defeated Tala and Wolborg 2 with his new and improved Dragoon Victory, Tyson goes to meet Tala for a rematch he offered as a show of good will -upon reaching the site for battling Tala, Tyson is instead witness to Tala getting handily beaten by Ozuma, a new blader he’d never seen before -Tyson challenges Ozuma immediately and wins in convincing fashion by ring out after being initially overwhelmed -Ozuma has his Flash Leopard re-enter the arena to drag the battle out and is joined in attacking Tyson by his three allies, the Saint Shields -as Tyson is beaten down four to one, the other Bladebreakers race in to warn him of the Saint Shields but find Dragoon about to be stolen by their combined powers; Ray sacrifices Driger to save Tyson and Dragoon -after the Saint Shields leave victorious, Tala reveals to the Bladebreakers that both he and Ozuma work under Doctor Zagart; online searching by Kenny uncovers more information on the enigmatic scientist including that his lab is actually an office building in town -the Bladebreakers elect to storm the building later that night in hopes of challenging the Saint Shields once again -while desiring to prove himself useful to the Bladebreakers, Kenny wanders alone with his laptop and comes across Doctor Zagart -when Kenny ends up being a no-show to the Bladebreakers’ meetup before the storming of Zagart’s lab, Tyson decides to press forward without him; the Bladebreakers go as high as they’re able and come across the Saint Shields in a corridor -the Saint Shields, Ozuma now armed with Flash Leopard 2, challenge the Bladebreakers to a full team battle but only Tyson and Ray (the two most aggrieved) take the challenge -while Tyson and Ray are overwhelmed at first by being undermanned and outgunned, they’re able to cover one another well enough to stay competitive; when the Saint Shields combine powers in a bid to steal Dragoon, Tyson and Ray combine powers to break the sealing technique and defeat all four opponents at once (Ray gets Driger back in his blade at this point) -after the Saint Shields are defeated and their true allegiance against Zagart is revealed, Zagart himself enters the scene with both the Psykicks and, to the Bladebreakers’ shock, Kenny in tow -Kane breaks Ozuma’s blade and Tyson throws out a challenge to him; Dragoon V is faced with Cyber Dragoon, a blade designed by Kenny to structurally counter Dragoon in addition to possessing an artificial reproduction of its namesake Bit Beast -in truth, Kenny is still on the Bladebreakers’ side and the Cyber Bit Beasts he creates were merely a way to push his friends’ limits, complete with putting a secret restraint in to cap their adaptive properties and power output -Zagart and Kane, who’s extremely proud of his high IQ, then reveal that they knew about the kid gloves Kenny put on the Cyber Bit Beasts and unlock them across the board so that Cyber Dragoon can utterly destroy Dragoon V2 with its full power -Kenny runs off frantically with Tyson trailing behind while Max, Ray, and Kai have no choice but to face down Jim, Salima, and Gouki together on the spot -Kenny reaches his lab in Zagart’s facility and reveals to Tyson that he was working on a new Dragoon blade with Zagart’s resources that’s near completion -Kane enters the private lab and has Cyber Dragoon wreck the computers around the room to torment Kenny as the new Dragoon neared completion but spent so long doing so that the new Dragoon was completed anyways; Tyson then rescued the fabled blade with a diving save once Kane finally elected to attack it directly -Tyson and Kane take their rematch to the building’s roof from Kenny’s lab and square off, with Tyson ultimately winning after a heated bout that pushed both sides to their limit -back inside the lab, the Bladebreakers sense that Tyson somehow defeated Kane up above and defeat their cybernetic knockoffs with teamwork and unity -business with Zagart settled, or so it seemed, the Bladebreakers go their separate ways in preparation for the upcoming world championships; meanwhile Doctor Zagart secretly has one last ace in the hole for defeating the Bladebreakers and claiming their Bit Beasts at last -some time later, a green-haired stranger challenged Tyson in the middle of training to a friendly bout; after a back and forth that rivaled the battle with Kane in intensity, the battle ends in a draw and Zeo, the stranger in question, takes his leave -it later turns out that Zeo held back considerably against Tyson to gather more combat data for a final confrontation -at the qualifier to represent Japan in the world championships, Tyson is met once again by Zeo and Zagart but Kai challenges Zeo first -Zeo gives Kai the full Super Trunks vs Perfect Cell treatment (complete with Kai overextending on his power output and Dranzer crashing into a fountain for being too slow to hit Burning Kerberus) but is stopped from stealing Dranzer by Tyson -Tyson bets Dragoon double or nothing for a rematch against Zeo, which the Zagart family accept -in a much more back and forth battle than their previous, Tyson and Zeo give their full effort only for Burning Kerberus to snatch Dragoon from his blade to ensure an easy victory… or so Zeo thinks as Tyson pressures him unimpeded by the loss of his Bit Beast with raw skill, proclaiming that they make one another stronger -Tyson also learns about the real aim and motivations of Zeo and Zagart; the real Zeo died long ago, the Zeo we know is actually said Zeo’s younger brother raised to take Zeo’s likeness and become a perfectionist, and Zagart seeks the Bit Beasts of the Bladebreakers to bring the real Zeo back from the dead with their unified wish-granting power -because Leon’s Burning Kerberus still has a Bit Beast while Tyson doesn’t, he simply attempts to blast apart the weakened Dragoon V2 only for Dragoon to break out from within Kerberus mid-attack and return to Tyson -Dragoon V2 evolves into Dragoon Galaxy and defeats Burning Kerberus’ strongest attack in a final clash of power -out of tricks to claim the Bit Beasts, Zagart is forced to accept the loss of his son with finality while Tyson convinces Leon to assert himself as his own person, leaving the former villains to walk off and pick up the pieces of their bond as father and son -Kai develops an extreme chip on his shoulder from his humiliating loss to Zeo and rescue by Tyson, which defines who he is for the upcoming world championships -in the qualifying tournament proper, Tyson and Kai are placed into the two separate brackets to decide Japan’s reps on the world stage -Tyson sweeps the competition with ease in his division while Kai has similar luck in his own bracket until, as revealed in a later side story, he reached the Finals and battled newcomer protagonist Daichi… who pushed Kai to his limit despite a commanding lead in their battle, which causes Kai to snap in fear of losing and defeat Daichi’s Gaia Dragoon in a fiery rage -insert G-Revolution here

Not so fun fact, Wyatt actually died. This was toned down in the dub as him "just losing his mind", but he legit dies in Kai's arms

I think one of the things I feel like criticizing in V-Force the most is the constant villain of the week battle they get. The previous Team Psykick battlers, the Bit Beast users, were all just randos that attacked the Bladebreakers but you literally never see them again afterward. They are just fought once and that's the end of that, which honestly made the power of those sealed Bit Beasts feel less of a threat until the tournament arc where we had Zeo and his partner take the stand.

Great video. I can't wait for your G-Revolution retrospective

It did take me awhile to get used to the animation for this season. But I feel once you get past that its a pretty good season. This season was packed with so much plots. Hilary did slowly get better similar to Daichi in the next season. Feel this season could have done with a few more episodes or cutting some of the filler fights for more scenes of King, Queen, and eo being a robot. Was surprised to find out Dizzi was a dub only character, will miss Dizzi. The OSTs were too good in the dub.