This review is focused on Metal Fight Beyblade: Baku the second season of Metal Fight Beyblade This review has spoilers. Today Im writing a review on one of my all time favorites as theres currently zero review out there for it. Ill split this review up into sections and then give my overall thoughts on this at the end. Story: 6 If youre watching this series for the plot what are you doing? This season in particular is the world tournament arc. I absolutely enjoy most training arcs I watch so that helped but it was nothing special. There was a underlying plot under this with the whole Toby and Ziggurat deal and I thought it was cool but whats really to be enjoyed about this part is the world tournament. Art: 6 The character designs are okay some of them being standout Ryuga in particular but I think its just decent. The beys and how they visualize the spirits in battle are actually alright. But with how anime is today its not something particularly special. Sound: 8 The soundtrack is actually something standout in my opinion. They did a pretty good job here selecting tracks that contribute to that feeling of intensity. Id be on the egde of my seat sometimes to the tracks. The opening and ending themes for English are some of my favorite ever but the JP ones are just as good if not better. On top of this the original JP version and the english dubbing of it are pretty good. At times in the english dub it gets too kind of cringy and you can tell its pandering to the audience but for the most part they did a good job. The JP cast is very good. It features the voice actors of fan favorites like: Rengoku Daichi Sai Satoshi Hino for Kyouya Shimizu Hagakure Kaori Nazuka for Yu Shouya Minato Sugawara Miyu Irino for Tsubasa Nanami Chisaki Joker Kenjirou Tsuda for Ryuga All Might Scar Kenta Miyake for Benkei Sasuke Uryu Shirou Noriaki Sugiyama for the Blader DJ For a rewatch in JP the voice cast can actually contribute to liking it more which it did in my case. Characters: 7 The characters are pretty basic. I obviously like the main character but the cast of characters is alright. Ryuga Kyoya Kenta Masamune and other mains carry the cast. However this season in particular does better than the rest on characters as it introduces characters of many different nationalities each having different motivations for why theyre apart of this tournament. You come to like most if not all of them by the time the series ends. Enjoyment: 10 I dont think there is anything Ive enjoyed as much as this franchise so it scores a 10 in that category. Overall: 10/10 I would recommend to watch this season and the rest of the franchise to anyone who had enjoyed some of it as a child. The reason why this achieves a 10 to me isnt because of story art characters or the soundtrack. Ive seen about 100 anime and have read a decent amount of manga and this pales out a LOT in comparison to the others. Its not a series with nuance or a series with visually stunning fights. So why do I give this a 10? Its a pretty simple reason: I had fun If you go into this expecting a story like One Piece or philosophical conflicts like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or anything else of the sort youre quite mistaken. This series is extremely simple. But I think that with that it manages to be the most fun thing Ive set my eyes on. The tops spin and the characters get riled up and in the end watching the battles are fun. If you just sit back dont put your head too much into it and just enjoy what youre presented youll have a very good experience watching this. Just because youve gotten older and mature doesnt mean you cant appreciate a fun time.