The Beyblade America Arc Was Perfect Sports Anime.

Get in the beystadium, Max, or Ray will have to do it again.
I did not expect Beyblade's American Tournament arc to echo story elements from NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, but here we are.
"It's like they say, Brad: only in America!" - A.J. Tucker
Beyblade Series 1 REVIEW Part Three
PART 1 REVIEW: THE FIRST ARC • The Original Beyblade ...
PART 2 REVIEW: RAY'S ARC • The Beyblade Asia Arc ...
PART 4 REVIEW: EUROPE • The Beyblade Europe Ar...
PART 5 REVIEW: BLACK DRANZER • The Beyblade Black Dra...
PART 6 REVIEW: FINALE • How Did Beyblade End? ...
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[@sirterry2444]

if you are going to cover all arcs from season 1, I CANNOT wait for you to cover the "Black Dranzer" arc.

[@Fightclub710]

Kids today will never understand how peak the original plastic gen beyblade was, and that's usually a shame. But you sir are making a change so that will not remain the reality :)

[@toolivecue9186]

Haven’t watched beyblade since I was a kid, I’m 33 now, I’ve loved this retrospective review you’ve done. Thank you my friend!!

[@Back2Bay6]

Hello me.

[@kingredpill5669]

Wait I’m 33 too lol must just be our generation

[@afroraykun]

Wow, 33 here, too. Got into Beyblade because my name is Ray and I thought his Tiger Claw stuff was the coolest shit ever. So much nostalgia for this series.

[@44dhm]

33 in 4 months 😂

[@AleksZimmermann]

33 in the house 😎

[@drag0nmistr3ss54]

"Just like the audience, Chief wants more Kai." Bruh, you don't have to call us fangirls out like that. 😋😆 But seriously, thank you so much for making such charming reviews!! All us OG Beyfans are loving them and can't wait for the next!! 😀😀

[@necrogon22]

Do NOT sleep on Max. I think if you take all of Max's insane feats in this first series, by the end he's arguably the second best blader on the team.

[@metis7534]

Honestly Max was a underdog but he was doing some crazy stuff

[@jordancampbell8597]

Now, that's a good question indeed--ranking the Bladebreakers!

[@shamikagaur8775]

Not forgetting how much of a badass he was in the Russian arc

[@punk979]

Just wanted to say I didn’t sub because you asked me to I subbed because you engaged with your audience and your videos are well made.

[@greenknight9000]

Max was, and still is, my favourite as a kid. I just really related to him and I was always thrilled when it was his turn to battle

[@jrgenvellesen7800]

I gotta say, Tyson's Grandpa was one of the highlights of this arc for me. His banter with the Bladebreakers and Mr. Dickenson is very fun. And Max's storyline with his mom is a very nice. While I do like the Asia arc more, the America arc is a good follow-up.

[@SimonLYW]

Thanks to this series I'm now 40 episodes in to a rewatch.

[@podgemac459]

I always felt Max's mom was cruel in this arc. Using her own son as an unwilling guinnea pig to forward her own career gains and berates her son and his team as "You are inferior to our scientifically cheated I mean created team." Then goes on to ask her own son to forfeit as he has little hope of winning... then says "We can go back to being mother and son after her team wins." Like she might have had nice moments but as a mother, she was horrible to Max and his friends.

[@milkystar8950]

For real! I feel like my moment of “ Wow, Max’s mom is kind of a [bleep], sheesh!”, after initially giving her the benefit of the doubt that maybe she’s just one of those people who takes their job seriously to a fault, was how she reacted when Max nearly got split in half by the glass wall in the lab (due to him setting off the security alarm running towards her). You’d imagine that at the very least she’d have a moment of motherly concern and panic because you know, she nearly watched her son get hurt (or killed) in front of her, right? But no - Judy just stares at Max (and the BladeBreakers), basically tells Emily “Welp, they have to find their own way out of the lab, I can’t help them.” [like she can’t be bothered with this right now] and leaves the room, while poor Max is banging on the glass, calling out to her.

[@podgemac459]

@@milkystar8950 I know right. Like she tones down after this arc but still. She just comes across as snobby and arrogant with no concern for her son who as he said something along the lines of "I just want her to see me." Even through all of it Max is super adult and mature to bite the bullet for her.

[@justdemi2585]

​@@milkystar8950 There's a scene that was cut off where Max basically yells aand calls out for his mom while hitting the glass wall while Judy just ignores him, I felt horrible watching that

[@jreprajanex5912]

@@justdemi2585 And given that she's never home, always away working on her team, for her to come off like that FROM THE VERY FIRST TIME WE SEE HER makes her stand out as not a good person entirely. She seems morbidly happy to ignore her own son only to give all her attention to kids that ain't even hers. We need more of Max telling her off for her own negligence, there really is no excuse. She showed her hand, she isn't doing this for her son in the slightest, and her being proud of him at the end seems more tacked on then anything because she never saw his growth or struggles to get to that point. Because she ultimately never cared.

[@arcbee007]

When you are done Beyblades. You should do Medabots if their enough interest of course.

[@supershmueli]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@Mikazuchireborn]

Oh hell yes Medabots. That show was amazing.

[@josiahvock5675]

He already has a video on Medabots.

[@chrishawkins3931]

This guys new

[@ikai21]

Keep up the good work, Digiknow! The Beyblade retrospective might be one of the most creative things on this channel

[@AVarghul]

Max is 100% the Joey Wheeler of this series. Dude's a regular joe in a larger-than-life world.

[@JayK07]

Joey always finished top 2 or 4 tho

[@yutogiovanna]

He's just as good as the other three. He just suffers from being soft towards his opponents which Rei also suffers from as well.

[@TheFLAMEXD]

Well no, because Max isn'r annoying.

[@TerraEmperor1]

Idk where this bayblade renaissance has come from but I'm loving it. Please keep this coming

[@luisgonzalez3595]

Never thought about the evangelion concept here, but it really does make sense 😂 “There’s no Kai in Team” killed me 🤣

[@arunsingla3452]

Can’t wait for part 4 royalty arc/european arc

[@thedigiknow]

'Get in the beystadium, Max, or Ray will have to do it again.' Pinning my fav comment in a week! Lemme hear your thoughts / jokes / whatever! :)

[@alfasilverblade]

Your thebeybknow now.

[@kaikudo5745]

You should also someday watch the show in sub. I would like to know what you think. I recently watched it in both. Even though the main themes of the arc are there, there are differences by just dialogues.

[@sinfulpotato7804]

Oh my god, when are the next arcs coming up ? I don't mean to be desperate but I am 😅

[@thedigiknow]

@@sinfulpotato7804 I’ve been on a two week vacation since this came out so not for another week or two at minimum.

[@sinfulpotato7804]

@@thedigiknow lol sorry for pestering so much. I have no idea what's got into me. Hope you had a great vacation! Thanks for replying

[@guillermosierracuellar9812]

I really miss when beyblade was so over the top thst made me love the show so much

[@ToaArcan]

I think it's interesting that the way the American institutions work in this show is later reflected quite darkly in the Russia arc. Sure, Judy's facility is overly focused on the science of making the perfect blade and blader combo, while excluding the spirit that the boys represent, but at least they indulge their bladers' other interests and hobbies. But when we get to the Russia arc, we see them training a creepy abbey that seems designed to strip away the trainees' individuality, and they go as far as turning Tala into a cyborg after their initial plan- get Kai to wield the incredibly powerful Black Dranzer for them- goes off the rails. The Russian team indulges in similar dirty tactics to the All-Starz, giving themselves the home field advantage on every fight, but they go even further and pull shit like stealing Max's Bit-Beast ahead of the battle so that Kai will be forced to take his place, and _then_ forcing Kai to fight on a water-based field against a water-elemental opponent. And even that might be a double-layered scheme on Voltaire's part to put Kai's back against the wall and force him to accept Black Dranzer again in order to overcome his opponent.

[@axels3188]

This was a good arc Kai being Secretly a nice Guy here Giving Max his time to shine was nice and seeing Max’s story with his mum and seeing the Science vs Spirit was a cool concept.

[@sol6287]

Ah yes a digimon and beyblade channel. Never have I clicked subscribe so fast

[@thedigiknow]

Thanks & welcome !!!

[@NiiRubra]

1:09 I do adore how the building is shaped like a top, the world needs to know that this is where _top science_ is being made. Also 1:29 I wish that instead of a bunch of kids in this shot, we had a bunch of grumpy military men hovering over big bowls with battle tops made for children in their hands. You know, for the sake of national security. 3:16 I guess the sub lore could be stretched a bit to find a middle ground, by saying that the beasts were artificially created in a lab. 6:48 It is amazing to me that he doesn't shoot his beyblade out of a _finger gun_ launcher, given what censorship was like. The idea of launching a beyblade with gunpower is pretty hardcore not gonna lie, it reminds me of how some fiction works have like a katana be shot out of its sheath via a gun-like mechanism for a cool fast sword draw, you can't go wrong with shooting impractical non-bullet things out of guns. 10:07 So if they overcame that and they are that strong now, does that mean that this time the antagonists are 25 times stronger than our heroes were back then? Or is everyone consistently just 5 times stronger? Maybe the crew needs to get 5 times stronger themselves, then a lot of these problems will be avoided. 12:18 That is indeed such a sweet line, love her for it. Max's arc is very good. This was a fun one, looking forward to the next and your other videos!

[@jreprajanex5912]

a sweet line, yes, but i still don't like her xD also, the 5 times stronger thing is hilarious.

[@dramonmaster222]

Thanks Digiknow for doing this retrospective on Beyblade.

[@captainsmiffy7029]

Loving this review series. I grew up watching Beyblade - still love it to this day. Came for the Beyblade, but stayed for the Digimon, another childhood love

[@dracone4370]

I found that outro amusing, I know it was TheDigiKnow's spin on the expression "no I in Team," by using Kai's name. But the letter Kai is the Roman character that looks like an X. Also, back in the time this series was running, back in the early 2000s internet days, I also learned that the name Kai means "Fiery" in Celtic; while most people these days, and probably back in the early days, just took it as a Japanese name that wasn't changed for the dub, I like to think of it as the creators of the series keeping the multicultural aspects of Beyblade, with Kai having what looks like a common Japanese name that also has ties to an older western language; especially with Dranzer having a Fire element to it.

[@Polychromatic8]

The "no Kai in team" is a snarky line Kai actually says in a previous arc

[@dracone4370]

@@Polychromatic8 I forgot that was a line used in a few episodes, so I completely missed that reference :P, but my points still stand.

[@wingedspear1]

Thank you for this, i love beyblade, used to tune them up and work a lot on mines, even my friends requested me to upgrade theirs. The most vivid memory i have, and also the last time, was a tournament that an store within my city held, to be honest i am from a poor country so only 4 people registered in the tournament, and 2 of those were me and my sister, my sister decided to join with a unmodified beyblade Wolborg 4 (Tala's beyblade), i went with a modified bayblade, a mix up between dragoon, draciel and custom weight disk, among the other 2 players i spotted a guy from my same school, i noticed he was also using an original default beyblade and was going against me, so since i didn't wanted him to feel bad for joining i did gave him an extra weight disk i had with me, which gave his beyblade enough power to beat me one round, but then i beat him the other 2 rounds, he still had fun and did thank me for giving him the weight disk. Unfortunately my sister, who refused to use any of my disk's got crushed by him for the second place xD, but it was a nice experience, i wish those tournaments could had happen more officially within my country, or i wish i was born in US to attend to the big ones...

[@Jphw-]

Loving these reviews. I remember watching this as a kid. Looking forward to the next arc.

[@robwayne]

I don't know what took me so long, but I finally subscribed with this one! Best of luck on the road to 50k.

[@dln_b]

Man I love that you're going over these! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE cover the rest of the show!

[@C.buddha34]

Another great video. It sucked seeing Ray do so poorly but this arc taught us that everyone in the bladebreakers is legit and we're not supposed to powerscale but rather consider beyblade a real sport where intagibles and matchups matter

[@inconemay1441]

The bey launchers based on sports equipment is so over the top it's awesome.

[@ryleeevans6211]

aw yeah part 3 baby, keep em coming. i started rewatching this thanks to these vids

[@GoodKidband]

man i love these reviews, keep it going!

[@alvaroguzman5350]

These videos bring back a lot of good memories

[@djkakakarot]

Damnn It's been so long. I remember watching this on Toonami. These videos are nostalgia treats :')

[@ritochi]

Loving your content so far, I live in a country where not every arc of Beyblade has been localised and I'm loving your videos. Keep up the good work!

[@thetdbj8535]

Please do this retrospective up to G-Revolution. OG Beyblade needs more love on KZbin

[@profiesx]

Max was my favorite character growing up so it's always nice to see him get some of the spotlight

[@Gevanni7]

can't wait for the european arc, these videos are amazing

[@thedigiknow]

Glad you like them!

[@Chariking13]

You mean the Russian arc?

[@Gevanni7]

@@Chariking13 no they travel in Europe before going to Russia

[@AliceHobbes]

Man the European Arc was so cool with the bit beast and gimmick

[@Gevanni7]

@@AliceHobbes yeah both the rival teams are great for different reasons

[@ThomasFrasier]

Looking forward to the next two. The euro blader arc and the world championship were my two favorites. I was so happy rewatching this first season for OG beyblade like 6-7 years ago when I was 24-25 lol. Good video

[@bigman52100]

Mannn i love these reviews. you gotta cover V-force & G-Revolution too🔥🔥🔥

[@danielkong6767]

Recently discovered ur series on this topic and i love it so much! Such nostalgic, funny and feelgood feeling that i havent really felt since i was a kid. Keep up the good work, i hope this series continues!

[@Chaoskingdonovan]

The reason I love this arc is because like max im also mixed in half native American and a member of the Choctaw tribe and also half Dominican and I don’t get to see her a lot because she work as a researcher over sea so I connected to max more than anyone seeing her and maxs relationship grow and go through these loops was her meaning full for me cause it reminded me of mine It only helps that like max and his moms conflict in difference in ideals it’s same with me and my mom my mom wants me to be a researcher but I just want to be a vet I love animals I want to help them and that’s what I want to do to help part of the world but she dosent believe that’s a good way to but I am going to prove her wrong may not be know but it’ll be soon

[@crazykey217]

Please keep this series going!

[@tahamohyuddin8793]

I'm loving these retrospective videos, keep it up! This arc is the most nostalgic for me because we had this on DVD and I would constantly rewatch this before finding out I can watch the rest on the internet. Really hope these retrospective can get to V-Force or even G-Revolution.

[@mitch_universe4058]

Im so excited to receive my orange Digivice Color Evolution later this year. Even more excited for the tags and crests that come with them supposedly!

[@thedigiknow]

Same!!

[@shockdiesel3470]

Excluding episode 18 where they return to japan and help some random kid that we never actually see again, and the clip show filler episode 29 Play It Again Dizzi, I gotta say my two favorite arcs are max with the american arc and tyson with the european arc

[@zerogranger]

As someone who loves the original beyblade trilogy (as you can see by my profile pic) I love these reviews your doing. Hope you decide to do V-Force and G-Revolution too.

[@andifer4541]

Can't wait for next parts! Really hyped to hear your thoughts on Demolition Boys arc! Thanks for making these, Love em!

[@kaiserfp2037]

Gosh, how I love this videos, glad they put some love to OG Series, since is the most Underrated Gen compared to rest, can't wait for the Majestics Arc

[@ILockhartI]

God I hope he eventually does Monster Rancher. That shit defined my early years.

[@HeyHeyChey]

Max was my fav growing up. Sadly he went a bit underused (or missused) after this arc. At least for this season, I havent watched the others. But a fave in my heart regardless

[@guitaralex0515]

You got me to rewatch the series and been loving it. Did vforce and g revolution years ago but never rewatched season 1 and damn was season 1 way better than i remembered

[@L.L.MacRae]

Loving these Beyblade arc recaps!! Can't wait for part 4 (and if you do V-Force and G-Revolution after) - always loved Beyblade but it was never super popular where I was. Clearly it is an underrated & hidden gem of an anime :D :D

[@bboymuggshott]

I’ve been WAITING FOR THIS!!

[@Pantalaymo]

Never watched Beyblade for that long but recently stumbled over your reviews and I enjoy them a lot :) Keep it up!

[@msgames6889]

This show makes me miss my gen one beyblades so much, going to try and go to Japan next year and see if I can find any of the old models just for nostalgia

[@aaronarroyo403]

Thank you for continuing the quality BeyBlade content 😊

[@stephvondames6369]

You did it you called him Kenny. And Izzy even though they served the same role so it can't be helped.

[@stephvondames6369]

Also, they got better at the upgrades in future seasons. This is season 1 after all.

[@metis7534]

Izzy is literally Kyouju in the Japanese version. All her lines are really his which is interesting because they cut out the frog bit beast Kyouju uses in later seasons

[@luxlucky9247]

I really didn't mind that Ray lost to basketball guy he just needed to a match in this arch and I would be fine, but no. My baby was done dirty, so I was there waiting for his get back. Get ready for next arch, sir.

[@Deoxy360]

I'm excited to revisit the Black Dranzer arc. That was the coolest thing when I was 11 years old.

[@dark3rthanshadows]

i LOVED how original the blade blayders were in the original eries, i'm not even talking about the visuals. but the beyblades and the stadiums. later on they became super generic but on the originals u had stadiums with buildings, trees etc etc very cool for the animators. Also they drew most of the time instead of going full cgi like later on

[@CRANTIME]

making me wanna go rewatch this something fierce lmao

[@Cleansup]

Really nice videos; the recaps are quite well done and serve to bring back a lot of good memories. Would like to see more! Regarding subscriptions, mentioning them once in a single video is sufficient; otherwise, it appears as if you are forcing it on your fans.

[@NinPossible]

Subscribed! And I'm looking forward to the next one! :D Thank you so much for making this!

[@FlyingNimbus]

The idog reference made this so much more nostalgic 😢

[@ZephyrBW]

The best stuff from the day 90s early 20s

[@shekharsingh4822]

Max is one of my favourite Beyblade characters Thank you for creating this special video on Max

[@wongie96]

Loving these videos! You’ve got me rewatching the series myself and I’ve just finished! Looking forward to your videos on the next arcs!

[@OfLaSoul]

Kai's been a bad ass leader thus far, more so than I remember tbh.

[@samdavis1128]

Please keep the vids coming my man! 👌🏿👌🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@PacoTaco_1002]

I’m going through these videos as I just finished beyblade g revolution. I hope you cover all the way to g revolution.

[@steamedbuninvasion5792]

Man, OG Beyblade was the bomb.

[@WayloHGA]

Great review bro! My boy ray definitely was slept on in this arc especially after the upgrade. Look forward to the next review.

[@alexcva7050]

Omg just watched the first 2 videos and now one hour later here is a third, keep it up man you do cool stuff and you are super funny

[@supportmain8509]

Commenting for the algorithm, so that you’re gonna do all arcs in the whole series

[@0xFluke]

I’m all in on this series dude

[@JoseDorda]

So from the American team only 2 beyblades from the american season were released as real world products, Tryagle and Trypio, and both came with unicque gimmicks, Tryagle came with a spining gear and base that allow it to jump (which is a gimmick that had been remade in future beybalde generation and apperantly isnt really bad when it comes to gameplay), and Trypio to "fly" (or better say glidea little bit when launched) in it takara tommy version, the hasbro version of Trypio was just a very big beyblade. Later when the football player ger replaced by anohter character this new character was realeased and it was called Rock Bison while Emily bey, Trygator, only had it 2.0 upgrade release as a random piece from booster packs in japan.

[@ashlirabid9614]

Trygle.

[@weirdomon]

Love this videos! Cant wait for the next one

[@gudakoalter]

I love that one of the lauchers is a straight on revolver 😂😂😂 'Murica

[@unclefred3128]

Keep this up! I made it to G-Revolution (also top tier) before adult life started taking over. I remember V-Force sucking though and feel it can be skipped

[@Vkr0101]

The Europe arc let’s goooo. The majestics are way too overlooked and their bit beasts are the most unique of the majority of the series.

[@KBKILLA52]

Thank you sir

[@pawankhathuria3151]

Loved your video keep it up Beyblade s1 is my most fav, can't wait for final arc review

[@ricovdcafda]

ray turned into the wiping girl in this arc

[@ivaniz3157]

Since you're going to be covering the rest of the og series, does that include everything after V-Force, including the movie? Because I'm reaaaally curious what you think of that!

[@thedigiknow]

Right now I’m only 100% committing to season 1, but I do want to revisit the other two seasons AND I’ve never seen the movie!

[@pokeadam115]

I feel like this is a random moment to focus on, but when they go and watch Michael's debut match he says "what are the Breakers doing here, being spies?" I'm just like dude, your team literally has data on all your competitors, them watching one of your matches shouldn't be a big deal. Idk, I always just thought that was a little strange.

[@ashlirabid9614]

I just take it as him being a hypocrite (at the time).

[@-_-_Ye_BOI]

The og is backkkk!!!!!!!

[@jacksonreynolds7433]

Been looking forward to this. This is the peak of Beyblade imo

[@mitshah9869]

Personally I preferred the previous arc to this one because Ray is much better of a character than Max Also Ray’s dynamic with Driger was better But my favorite arc of this series is definitely the last arc(the one after this)

[@TheLonelySoulja]

Man 4 weeks went by like that.

[@fu3985]

I would love to see you cover black dranzer ,dranzer and kai

[@payotimeRamsYT]

Another great summary and reflection video. Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts. I completed my rewatch of the series and really enjoyed it! In terms of rival teams I think the white tigers characters were developed better then the all stars. But the all stars goals and Beyblade philosophy was maybe easier to understand. Side note I recall as a kid there were huge months long breaks between these arcs on TV. 😂 so glad that’s not a thing anymore

[@roosgambino]

Ray comepletely losing to Eddy after upgrading is like Gohan losing to Majin Buu after having his potential unleashed.

[@wwe682]

Honestly, for me, the US Arc was my least favorite but looking back at this review I appreciate it more. The Neon Genesis Evangelion references popped me though😂

[@Dusxio]

They really did handle Max's arc surprisingly well. I particularly love how they gave Max a defensive win, something that often gets overlooked in conflicts like this. And while I agree, it might seem that the 'custom launcher' is what the Semi-Secret Government Funded Research Institute seemed to focus on, I took it as more a 'America's Bey-culture focuses on bladers finding a focus interest and putting their blades into it'. The project just gives them Extremely Optimized versions of it XD

[@xblade149]

Dude keep it up. And thank you for zeningtg

[@SetsunoKai]

If you could believe it, Max's mom was even colder in japanese. Her inner monologue is pretty much "Give up Max and save yourself the humiliation, there is no chance you can win". She never believed in him until they lost which makes her even less likable.

[@thedigiknow]

dang!!!

[@georgecoman8448]

I think you forgot that last arc people were also using improvised launchers. I distinctly remember one guy fighting Tyson with a Kickboxer launcher, where his strike launched the Beyblade

[@ashlirabid9614]

He had a Muay Thai launcher.

[@geothemaster]

Please keep them coming!

[@devinuzumaki9032]

Every time I watch Beyblade I get a little sad because I know the original characters are gone forever.

[@Jiiy]

Glad to see a new Beyblade video and already looking forward to the next one! I definitely miss how ridiculous Beyblade was, but ridiculous in the best way.