#If you've ever seen MFB -- it's starting to literally become a plausible theory that Burst is a PREQUEL to that series

[crystalkleure]

I finally saw s1 of Beyblade Burst, and have several thoughts on it, tho idk where to start, there's Shu with his shoulder problem, results of the bey tournaments, etc; so many things I have to say

Oh, you’ve just now seen s1, after God? That must’ve caused some major mood whiplash dsfgfdxcfc the s1 tone is SO different – BeyBurst started out as like, a slice-of-life type thing and it was even super dubious as to whether or not the beys were even supernatural at first, like the beyspirits/avatars could’ve just been a visual metaphor that only the audience on this side of the 4th wall could actually see. It was considered Extremely Odd by the other characters that Valt talked to Valkyrie, like maybe he was just crazy lmao. But Valt speaking to his bey was the first seed of “maybe Something’s Not Quite Right in this world that looks otherwise completely mundane at first glance”, and I love how, over the seasons, Burst has kept dropping more and more hints that Something Is Supernatural Here, and they just get progressively harder and harder to ignore or explain away. Like in s1, it could’ve been argued that Valt was just nuts and the beys were just plastic toys, and then in s2 Free existed and was…Like That…

And then later in s2, not only does Shuu go apeshit and it’s actually confirmed that he can literally SEE Spriggan, Lui also confirms that he can also communicate with Longinus, meaning that back in s1, when he called Valt incompetent as hell and said he felt sorry for Valkyrie, it wasn’t just some quirky way of saying “You’re playing with that toy SO WRONG that I’m just cringing at how bad you are at this game, noob”, he was being completely literal and was aware that Valkyrie was sentient, had feelings, and was probably frustrated with Valt. Indicating that Lui must have been communicating with Longinus way before s1 even began, because not only was Lui aware that beys COULD be communicated with, he was also incredibly experienced with understanding them. [Oof, I’m prone to going off-track on Lui Tangents at the slightest provocation, bahaha – sorry about that]

Now in s3, we have explicit possession/resonance confirmation and some sort of Mystical Energy Warfare going on and somehow Phi can survive a meteor strike and walk through a forest fire unscathed and yeah there’s no way to explain this shit away as just being a visual metaphor or something anymore lmao.

I’m just so impressed with the overall writing tbh, with how Burst started out LOOKING like a quaint slice-of-life anime, and it progressively buried itself deeper and deeper into the fantasy genre, and then in hindsight you look back and see it was ALWAYS setting up to turn out this way. S1 just tricked us. I’m not even sure that my unintelligible screaming here has done it any justice sdxfcgvhbdf it’s So Good

So that’s what I have to say, or it’s the REALLY Short Version at least, haha. What all do you have to say about s1? 👀