Film:
DVD:

Directed by Toshifumi Kawase
Character Design by Takahiro Umehara and Park Ki Deog

Features:

• Bonus sixth episode

Dindrane's Anime Warnings:

• Inexplicable excitement
• Pointless quasi-mysticism
• Gang warfare

Released by: Pioneer
Rating: 7+
Region: 1
Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 format

My Advice: Skip it.

Young Tyson dreams of being the best Beyblader in the world, and he thinks he's almost there. But when his duel with a local expert Beyblader gets interrupted by a mysterious stranger named Kai, Tyson may have bitten off more than he can chew when he challenges Kai to a battle. Kai, it seems, is the leader of a Beyblade gang, known as the Blade Sharks, and they're undefeated. How can Our Hero hope to defeat their special techniques and deep knowledge of their blades?

Before you watch this disc, you need to understand that "Beyblades" are tops. Most of them have some little jagged blades attached to them, but these blades don't actually damage anyone else or even other tops. So when a character references their "blade," they mean their top. And the Blade Sharks gang is a top gang. A gang. Of top-players. Tops. Each top is supposed to be sort of possessed by a sentient spirit called a "bitbeast." We don't get to see much of these spirits, but they are related to the player's ancestors and get more powerful as the character learns to properly respect and learn about his ancestors.

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