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What sets aside my review from the other (justified) negative reviews for this show is that I was the target demographic at the initial time of broadcast.

People compare Bakugan to shows like "Pokemon", "Beyblade" and "Yu- Gi-Oh" describing it as either ripping them off or following in their "terrible" footsteps. However this works for this show and the three aforementioned shows all had similar target audiences and were successful in satisfying them.

This puts these comparisons in a very favorable light for Bakugan.

The show itself lacks substance, depth and common sense when viewed through the eyes of an adult but for a child, these traits do not constitute a good show. They constitute a bad show that requires more brainpower to understand and enjoy.

Bakugan taken at face value is a very poor show clearly designed to push toys to children however, it does this extremely well.

I remember enjoying this show a large amount and would urge any parent or older sibling to allow a younger child who has rejected "better" animes in the past the chance to watch something they will enjoy.

This show on its own: 3/10

This show for children: 7/10 as it still falls short of other similar shows like "Pokemon", "Beyblade" and "Yu-Gi-Oh"

The pinnacle of Yugi-oh clones is this. An authentic demonstration of the progress our species has made. A box set of Bakugan: Battle Brawlers would be the one item I could save when the sun turns into a red supergiant and devours the earth.

The narrative centers on the maturation of a young man named Dan via the help of his friends and a plastic magnet dragon toy. It seems like a really fulfilling journey with an amazing conclusion.

The characters are so genuine and fully developed that you feel as though you could reach in and caress Dragonoid's scaled nipples. They are not just basic shounen clichés. Instead, they have transcended reality itself.

The animation perfectly captured the emotional impact of each situation, looking right out of a Van Gogh painting. Real excellence.

The soundtrack appears to have been pilfered from Ludwig van Beethoven's collection of unfinished works. Truly a wonderful collection of pieces.

All things considered, this show is one of the real jewels of the contemporary era, and I strongly recommend watching it so that others may share my red-pilled experience.

I recently rewatched this series, which I used to enjoy a while back. Overall, it was decent. The animation quality was mediocre, and the storyline centered around the typical theme of saving the world, which is common in most shounen anime.

I had a hard time finding the original Japanese dubbed version, but eventually, I found it, and it was definitely better than the English dub. The performances by the Japanese voice actors were compelling.

The opening and ending songs were okay, but not particularly memorable. The action scenes were basic, and while there wasn't much in terms of adventure, the world-building aspect of Vestroia was well done, even though it was only showcased for a short period.

Overall, I would recommend it.

OK so I watched like the first 2 episodes and this is what I understood: Cocky kid who thinks he's the best at some interdimensional game. He uses a mix of monster marbles and cards to fight against other kids in a different dimension. Amazingly this seemed to me like a mixture of Pokeballs and yugioh cards. What's even worse is that they take Yugioh's "It's more than a game... IT'S REAL!!!" trying to explain that Bakugan monsters are real and eventually even including a Doom Dimension which is basically the same as Yugioh's Shadow Realm.

The battles or "brawls" are not really interesting or "tactical" as it's basically which is monster is bigger and more of a badass; I say so cuz I noticed how most of the times the Gs don't even matter as any monster can defeat any with a little "heart" since they're "real".

Then, there are the dialogues. They're so used up as in many other shows and all the little sarcasm and "funny phrases" of the characters are annoying and yes even Ash from Pokemon is annoying now.

Overall this show is a thief that steals concepts from mainly Pokemon and Yugioh (and don't even make me bring Chaotic in here).

Unoriginal, boring, lame, and eventually annoying I don't recommend it to anyone to watch it. Heck don't even let ur children to watch this thrash. Shows like this will end up destroying anime shows...

1/10

This is exactly what this is. It seems to me as if the toys were made, and the writers weren't given a set of rules to work from to write the game-playing parts into the show.

The rules of the game change from 'battle' to 'battle', with the sequence of play having no bearing at all on whose turn it is to play.

This is not the way to advertise your product in a show, marketers. Not at all. The target market, likely children between six and ten years of age, are not as dumb as you seem to think they are. They understand that games have rules, and that rules are consistent. A game with good rules will sell. A game with rules they can understand will sell.

Going from the show, the rules seem completely irrelevant, inconsistent, and pretty much unplayable. My 8 year old niece watched the show just once, decided the game didn't make any sense, and won't watch it anymore.

Then, additionally, there's the plot of the show itself... if you can call it that.

Right in the opening credits, the main character states 'My friends and I created this game', and shortly after that, in one of the very first episodes, the same character is saying 'I've never heard of that.' It's inconsistent, tries to steal elements from numerous other toy-selling shows, and fails to make them gel together with any kind of coherency.

A very sad effort on all sides. At least they didn't make all of the characters chibis.

I enjoy watching anime. The story may not be the best but the battle scenes make up for it. The show is meant for younger children around 7 or 10. I got interested in it when I was 17 and I am now 21. I find it funny that the majority of reviewers on this show are made my old people not children. Spin Master has a reboot planned sometime in 2016 or 2017. It may be interesting to watch.

PS: I had to add all of this random stuff to make a post: Cap the jar with a tight brass cover. The couch cover and hall drapes were blue. A speedy man can beat this track mark. Fruit flavors are used in fizz drinks. He ran half way to the hardware store. The vane on top of the pole revolved in the wind. The loss of the second ship was hard to take. Torn scraps littered the stone floor. Cut the cord that binds the box tightly. It's easy to tell the depth of a well. The source of the huge river is the clear spring. No doubt about the way the wind blows.

I could write an entire novel on how utterly atrocious Bakuguan is, but instead I'll confine it down to the big ones.

5.The animation. The reused frames are much more noticeable then other anime. Even without it the animation is sloppy and cheap. The character designs are putrid.

4.The voice acting. Either version, they both suck. Trite, phone in performances in an epic battle of who can make the most clichéd voice imaginable.

3.The plot. Top player and friends join together to stop some evil, something about a dimension, thinly layered crap is what it boils down to. No attempt to distinguish itself, no creativity employed at all.

2.Humor. It makes "Epic Movie" look like "Monty Python" in comparison. Stop trying to be funny, you just make me cringe. Puns and cowardly monsters don't make funny without somekind of effort. At least try.

1.Characters. Can you get any more trite then this? There is no development, at all. The characters are more thin then the paper they draw on. They're all one note characters, defined by a single trait and never expanding upon it.

Now for the grand daddy of all reasons: The game makes no sense at all. The rules are non existent. The outcomes and such are almost entirely random. Since the series is based entirely around this game, that will kill it dead. I mean BeyBlade was bad, but you could at least be able to tell when someone was on the winning or losing side rather easily.

Better left to rot.

I enjoyed the show. It's logical and it's great.

The characters are interesting and childish which makes it funnier, and best of all, what I probably enjoyed more than the story is the brawls. The rules of the game are awesome, you can look them up online. They make the game about strategy which means you have to predict your opponent's next few moves.

The plot is cool, it adds to the show and is creative.

As for People on here saying it's inconsistent are making ridiculous claims, and their reviews should not be taken seriously as most of them themselves have hardly watched 2 episodes.

If you carry on in the show, these "inconsistencies" will start to become clearer on what the characters meant at the time of saying it.

This show is mundane and pointless. And you can tell that it was made on the cheap by how poor the animation is. Just terrible all around. Every episode comes to a pointless Bakugan Brawl which is never enticing. Many of the shots are from the back or of robots so that they don't have to animate the facial expressions. It's completely riding on the back of Pokemon fans, hoping to bring them into this terrible, boring world. Oh, and they love love love the word "huh?" They say it every three or four lines. If I was a kid, I would never watch this, and I urge you to stay away. Yuck! I wish all the characters would just fall in the Doom Dimension and stay there. HUH? HUH? HUH?

when i first saw this anime i thought it was alright but could improve i am pretty damn sure that this show wouldn't last a year summery One day mysterious cards fall from the sky and are picked up by hundreds of kids. The kids then develop a game know as Bakugan. However, there is more to the game then they thought. The Bakugan come from another world known as Vestroia, where the evil Naga is trying to conquer the world by finding the Infinity Core. Now the kids and Bakugan must team up to stop this threat

Bakugan Battle Brawlers is an anime series based on a strategic card game which is played with magnetic, spring-loaded marbles. The series debuted in Japan on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2007. Then, it was dubbed into English and began airing in Canada on Teletoon during the summer of 2007. In the United States, an English dub version of the series made its debut on Cartoon Network on February 24, 2008.

Characters: The main characters range from ok to pretty bad. The best characters are the villains or the side characters.8 The protagonist, Dan, is far from the worst protagonist I've seen but he does not make this show any better

Plot: It exists, it's not too convoluted. It's also not that interesting. The lore is vague and not elaborated on enough

Action: The main selling point of most shows like Bakugan (including Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and Beyblade). Bakugan's battles are bad. The animation uses repeated frames and not in a good way (Beyblade has resued animations for launches, but Bakugan reuses frames for almost everything). The rules of the game are never properly explained, which means there is no tension because you don't know who has the upper hand or what is even going on. The focus on numerical power levels instead of different strategies makes it somewhat easier to follow, but not any more entertaining to watch.

Amazing story and amazing to watch. The story made me cry at the end.

This is one of those times when I loath being an uncle because I get to stubble across what is considered gems to the youth of today. I feel like this genre of anime is deeply reaching out by mixing/matching past ideas from shows that were cancelled (for good reasons) to create something that might sell if only for a little while. That is what this show is based off of and it's really bad, but hell the kids love it. I can only wonder the agony I must've put the adults through when I was watching Pokemon back in the late 90s.

Basically if you list the shows before this one and mix them up in some sort of combination you'll receive this show. Pokemon(not cancelled), Digimon, Bayblade, Battle B-Daman, Medabots, Chaotic(not cancelled), then Cardcaptors, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Now pour those shows into a barrel, toss it down the cliff of unoriginal-shame and behold Bakugan at the bottom.

I'm now seeing advertisements and merchandise of this franchise everywhere. I don't understand it because even for the shows I watched as a youth had decent writing and character development. I can say that the toys are quite unique and I was amused by the way each toy transformed from spheres (& now they have other shapes) into another form. Aside from that the show does feel like it compiled the interests that got people to watch the other cartoons into this on vessel and it's doing great.

It does have poor writing and the characters are bland, but what can you expect from a youth show. It does feel repetitive from the start if you've seen the shows I listed, but if you're a kid and haven't seen them then you'll enjoy this show. No doubt if they had re-runs of the cancelled shows, the kids would may enjoy those more then again they were cancelled for a reason. As much as I find this show to be just as bad and should be cancelled, I can't deny the amazing success it has generated for itself. I feel sad for the kids, but they don't so I guess we should let them enjoy this.

If you want your kid learn something, not this show. Ninjiago has more about friendship and trust, way more.

I read a lot of the reviews here and they all make fair points. I do have to say if you just started or maybe intersted, it's not going to give you every perfect detail.I rather not even call this a ripoff, it's supposed to sell it's product, and didn't all the other shows do exactly thatr? Bakugan battle Brawlers Season 1 does take elements from other series but builds upon itself overtime to create have good character development, and to bring something new or different that the other shows didn't particularry have. I give this show a 10 because I actually spent time watching it and found to be engaing and teach lessons. I enjoyed as a kid and I still do now, especially with the 2018/2019 Bakugan Battle Planet reboot coming up. By the way, I do suggest watching the sub version at least once because they do handle the show better and include better audio and voice acting. So in general, give it a chance and if you hate still then that's ok. It shouldn't be hated because it was trying to sell toys. Pokemon, beyblade, yugioh, yokai watch all did that too.

For starts I don't get why so many people just start hating on this because it has similarities to Pokemon.

I haven't watched Bakugan for a few years nor I was able to watch the other serse after it because I lost track due to only having cable TV for a whole year.

But I remember watching when it first came out. Both me and my sister used to enjoy it. Even my dad found an abandoned Bakugan toy at a chinese restaurant once and gave it to me.

Believe it or not I even had a fantasy of Pokemon and Bakugan having a crossover.

Straight to the point doesn't matter which came out first. If you enjoy it thats all that matters.

I am only giving this TV series 10 out of 10 because I am shocked. How can people give it such low ratings? It's fun, entertaining. The show is meant for kids, of course the dialogue is childish. The characters are likable and the battles are interesting enough. The show is good enough to keep your attention for the 20 minutes that lasts. Of course, the main aim of the show was to promote the toys and all, but it's just as good as Pokemon and Beyblade. In some moments it makes you laugh, and others are just to fill in episodes, but it's easy to follow and harmless. I'd rather have my kids watching this than the shows that are now on TV, filled with inappropriate jokes and stupid characters. In conclusion, I do think it is worth giving a chance.

My Top No. 1 favourite, Sci-fi and Fantasy Anime Shows of all time since Childhood. I even made Shun Kazami my fantasy husband to hehe.

Haven't watched this show since I was a kid, but I can still clearly remember many of the main big moments in the show and the main characters of it. And man was it good, such a blast to watch, an easy 10/10 everything you could want in a kids anime show it has. AND THE OPENING, BRO DOES IT STEAL GO HARD ASF! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO! THE ODS ARE STACKED AGAINST YOU! YOUR BACKS AGAINST THE WALL GOTTA GIVE YOUR UH UH UH UALL! Damn it's such a bop, and the designs for the Bakugon were so good, peak monster designs, transformations, weapons, gear, and all. Obviously a part of why I give it such a high rating is due to some amount of nostalgia, but I'm fairly confident just going off of what I remember from back in the day, that it defiantly still holds up as a solid show.