Insanity 2010 —2012... I remember in the years since 2010 – 2012, most of my friends were obsessed with this “standard” of the anime genre, watching it literally for days on a flight, while I did not understand how to watch such an abomination, especially when there is an ideological progenitor of this animated series – “Mokimons”, which, by the way, is better in everything. There was not so much flat and not funny jokes, a more pleasant animation, because of which I did not want to tear out my eye, but I did not come here to compare, although it can be done endlessly.
Well, as I said, at the time, this animated series seemed to me garbage, but recently, after hearing a lot of nostalgic feedback from my friends, I decided to watch it again, suddenly change my mind. But it's not like that.
Where does it start? From the intro, of course, and God, what a terrible impression it gives about the upcoming viewing, after “King of the Shamans”, the introduction here looks like a slide show in PowerPoint and all this dull mess is diluted by a terrible, ear-cutting and brain-drilling song, God, it’s even worse than the AK-47 (although in most cases it’s a problem of exclusively Russian localization, but in English listening is also disgusting).
So, having enjoyed the “Divine” opening screensaver, we plunge into the cartoon itself. And what can I say here... It looks terrible, but not in terms of drawing, it is really good here, but in terms of animation, which, again, is more similar to the presentation from PowerPoint. Yes, I know that for the anime genre there is a ragged frame-by-frame animation, but here it is directly cutting the eye, again compared to Pokémon. I really don’t know who the person who wrote so many positive reviews, in which he said that the animation is detailed, detailed. The narrative is stunted, and the plot revolves around one idea, a card game, and beyond this it does not go anywhere. Is it interesting to watch? Well, look at 10 chess games of kindergarteners in a row, I think you understand what I mean.
Characters... It's complicated. Most of them have personality, like the lawn mower with AlliExpres, just smells of plastic, and the grass does not mow. There are several truly revealed characters with their own characters, but given the anguish and despondency surrounding them, it is simply impossible to look at them. Well, there are also the Bakugans themselves, one of whom is soaking up right "very funny" jokes. I don’t want to talk about them, because again, the Pokies were better.
Conclusion: What attracted the animated series of my peers then I did not understand, maybe pathos, which is trying to create a cartoon, and in the end ashamed of the viewer, may be an abundance of gadgets and “friends on the Internet”, as it is said in the screensaver, well, honestly I do not know. To view is highly recommend, only if out of curiosity. Although there is an option to include his child as a plug, but it is better not to...