wait remember Bakugan during The mid-2000s Craze of cartoons and card games going hand
inand everyone was in line to develop the next big hit that can rival or at least capture some of the
space that the biggest out there at the time were occupying Bakugan was no different wanting to hit
the market hard with A New Concept that Blended a card game and rollable transforming action figures
together and of course there would be a cartoon to go alongside all of that as well today we are
going to take a look at Bakugan Battle Brawlers see what it was all about and ultimately what
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inventor aldri saier funny enough when he was on a trip to Walmart looking through the toy aisle and
sparking up the idea of action figures that would be inside of a marble and jotting down the idea
and coming up with what that would initially look like he took his concept for whatever this would
be to Spin Master meeting with the executives there who just happened to be trying to rethink
the marble for the Modern Age what else can be done with a spherical concept suffice to
say they were pretty into it quickly after this a prototype of the toy would be designed and then
brought to sega's toy division in Japan and Sega saw the vision of what to do combining the use of
the toys themselves with a card game designing how it would all work after putting this all together
and flushing it out into a full-on game to play Canada became the test Market to help them see
that there was enough appeal here for Spin Master to start bringing Bakugan around the world since
2006 with the test bed in Canada the game would start to take off becoming pretty popular over
the next few years as the other parts outside of the the game itself were coming out and making
an attachment with audiences the game would make use of metal cards that would activate
the magnetic spring-loaded figures so you get that satisfying feeling of a ball rolling and
coming to a transforming stop when it landed on the card yeah it was kind of cool the goal of the
battle or brawl was to capture your opponent's three gate cards and in the anime you'd get a
fun slowing down of time when these battles enter into the playing field they Brawl on
and yeah that's also pretty cool honestly now of course there are a lot more mechanics to the game
overall but I really want to speak more more so on the show rather than the physical card game cutu
Ronin herrer the co-founder and co-ceo of Spin Master seeing the larger picture of what Bakugan
could be thinking that a cartoon in conjunction would be perfect for the landscape to make this
a reality though he reached out to the president of Sega toys Esau kokuban and offered $6 million
to get an anime in production TMS entertainment and Japan VTEC would be tapped to produce what
would become Bakugan Battle Brawlers the anime hitting the airwaves in April of 2007 in Japan
and Nana jumping in to bring the show to North America specifically first to Canada in July of
the same year it wouldn't be until February of 2008 that Bakugan would be syndicated to the US
on Cartoon Network and Bakugan was now out there in a bunch of different markets the first season
of the show would have 52 episodes in total and follow the main character of Dan kuso a kid who
happens upon a deck of cards that fall from the sky like light finding the Death Note stick around
for more Bagon Battle Brawlers now back to Bagon battle problem through this him and his friend
really began to develop the whole card game out of this something that him and a group of other
online friends all get into now and through this they find themselves at the center of something
much bigger than a random toy and card game now fighting against the threat of the Doom beings
for the fate of the Bakugan home Dimension vroa which is where the Bakugan themselves come from
as their world is merging with our world and others Stan and his friends eventually come
across Naga the evil Bakugan who stole the silent core which once was his prison pron now seeking to
complete the perfect core only needing the other half of it which is the infinity core to use its
power to conquer the universe Dan cuso is the main protagonist of the show with his Bakugan partner
being Dragonoid or Drago for short he's just obsessed with the game of Bakugan and aspires to
become the best brawler to ever live which is like me inventing something and saying I'm the best at
it like yeah no duh but at least there are now a bunch of other players involved and technically
he isn't the best yet so I guess there's something there for him to really aspire to be he's a pretty
impul Ive character you know main protagonist syndrome leading him to be a little overconfident
sometimes but as the show goes on we meet the rest of the main characters that we will deal
with throughout the show like shun who is his best friend and helped him develop the game there's
Runo who is always ready for a challenge and can be a little hot-headed as a result there's marucho
who is a pretty smart character and comes from great wealth and can spit out tons of knowledge
when needed and is also shown to be pretty generous Julie is a bit all over the place but
always brings a positive attitude in bad moments and then there's Alice who who is very into the
game of Bakugan but doesn't play it herself wanting to always provide the knowledge of the
game and support her friends instead even if this annoys some of the other characters her comments
or advice are usually pretty helpful and often times correct each brawler builds a connection
to one of the Bakugan that they use for battles essentially making them their partner Bakugan
being able to speak with them and throughout the show develop and explore their relationships as
partners in the connection of battle brawling and wanting to help the Bakugan with their own world
issues like I mentioned Dan has a very deep connection with Drago working together with
him as well as he is shown always taking great care of the sphere that Drago is to him when not
triggered to come out in battle we get to see how that relationship develops as they start off at
odds but Drago warms up to him as they begin to understand one another the Doom beings are what
the main villains of the first season of Bakugan Battle Brawlers are referred to as this is all
led by Naga with the main objective of ruling Earth and vroa he has no Legions and breaks out
of his captured seal in vroa causing the other core that he is after the Infinity core to end
up on Earth making Earth's World in just as much trouble as du Bakugan World aiding in this for
Naga is Hali and he is this altered transformed state of a human now turned into whatever he is
now after messing with the silent core and leading him to be a follower of Naga and really this boils
down to a personality SL Alter Ego split from who he really is which is Michael Alice's grandfather
and to continue on to that there is masquerade another brawler who wants to banish the other
Bakugan to the Doom Dimension through the use of his Doom card all in the efforts of taking his
hydranoid to the next level wanting it to become the ultimate Bakugan being that he is the now top
ranked brawler out there but there's something more interesting with this mysterious character
other than being this random rival character who has some sort of evil plot that is aligned with
the other bad guys and at first it seems that this character tries to break through to Alice to try
and mess with Dan and his group of brawling friends but similar to Michael who has this
Alter Ego masquerade is an alter ego as well and this time it's a closer person to the group than
just a character's grandfather but I'll let the show kind of reveal that one to you this double
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the usual Fair of things we see cut down anyway but oddly enough Bakugan would go on to be a
massive hit in North America combating the best of them out there hitting huge sales numbers thanks
to the toys and it grew so much here in comparison to Japan that the show itself began to be favored
here first before Japan would get the following three seasons of the show the next season of the
show is titled new vroa and it would bring with it another 52 episodes and release in 2009 not
making its way to air in Japan until early 2010 we get to start seeing the evolution ution of Bakugan
here though as there was an emphasis put more so on the tactics in battle and adding in more
types of Bakugan and as the seasons would go on we'd also get introductions of new bad guys and
good guys that raise the stakes like most anime or just properties like this in general do so that
new things can come out of the property physically the show overall would last up until 2012 with its
fourth season in North America before it would finish its overall run but for the final season
Japan wouldn't even get it until September of 2018 the show was received pretty well by the
fans in North America but the physical aspect of it is what was dominating the cards mixed with the
toys were a huge hit contributing to a massive 1.6 billion in earnings from the merchandise by just
2010 stick around for more Bagon Battle Brawlers now back to Bakugan battle brers at this point in
my life when Bakugan was becoming a thing I never really paid it too much attention putting my focus
elsewhere on things I already had like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh but I did originally give the first
release release of the products and the show a try only to fall off of it pretty quick it was never
because I thought the show or toys and cards were bad or anything but more so that I never really
connected with it and just didn't give it any real Focus revisiting the series now I can see why it
became so popular the mechanic is cool and flashy and perfect for the main demographic it was aimed
at so of course they would buy in and even when it was stopping some things in 2012 there was
still a lot of love there for the franchise that has led to more from Bakugan happening in more
recent years like Bakugan B planet and the full-on 2023 reboot of the property that is making a new
comeback that seems to carry on the brand further as far as Japan falling off from the initial
series there would be some Japanese exclusive continuations of the anime so that's at least cool
to see but Bakugan had a strong grip on the toy Market mostly but it did leave a good impression
with the original anime as well it's not half bad either and I'm surprised how well it held up and
how much fun it can be gripping you to watch the next episode after you finish one I think
there are a lot of cool things that the property introduced both in the form of the show itself
and with the physical side of things it feels weird or something that this big would happen
and go past me and be this big well I thought it slowly fell off and died or something but it
was just me not paying any attention because I'm sure if I did I can see myself really being into
something like this at the age I was back then and probably still enjoying it even more now
once I find myself with some more free time I may personally dive further into Bakugan especially
with the newer stuff that is more recent and who knows I could really get into the actual physical
game as itself the initial anime pushes really hard into bringing more lore into the show and
I appreciate that it's looked into more than just being context that is given and never really shown
so if you decide to give the original series a try I'd still recommend it just don't look for it to
really help you in playing the game itself most card game based shows have that issue but that
doesn't harm the fun action that's on screen plus yes the theme song absolutely slaps it's
been stuck in my head for a while now and I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon but let me
know your thoughts on Bakugan Battle Brawlers if you ever got into the series or fell off from the
series or are still into the series with what they are doing now with it in the comments below the
fandom for this series is strong here and I love seeing a thriving community of fans expressing
their love for it I've been Jordan Fringe thanks so much for watching like And subscribe [Music]
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