Well this show have proven that the Bakugan Franchise should have ended with Bakugan Mechtanium Surge. Also whats the purpose of this reboot. If the reboot isnt on par or better than the original then why it exists? Warning: Spoilers for Bakugan: Battle Planet Bakugan: Battle Brawlers and Bakugan: New Vestroia. Just to clarified this show doesnt have any strengths other than the 2d animation. Unlike Teen Titans Go this show has become an unintentional parody of the original Bakugan Series. Even the characters are a joke of their original versions. Dan with Lia and Wynton are the embodiment of Jake Paul but with more sense of morality Magnus isnt the next Masquerade/Spectra hes just a missing character from My Animated Stories Channel Tiko is the copy paste of Naga Drago is pikachu etc. The others characters are just irritating pathetic boring full of themselves and many more. Also Ill love to include something about Lightning: Hes a French bulldog. Hes 18. The lifespan of a French bulldog is 810/912. How many proof should I write to prove that the staff members havent done any research or brainstorming for the show. Anyway in order for them to avoid creating character they just wrote a dog with human intelligence I think. Wait a second the show have told the line Adults cant activate the bakugans then how Lightning manage to activate one? Does that rule only applies to the humans? I need to know because that line is responsible for the exustence of a plot. Teen Titans Go knows what it wants to be an episodic parody nothing else. Which it would have work for this if it wanted to appeal to the younger audience. Yet this show doesnt know what it wanted to be. The only reason I brought it up is because I stumble upon some YouTube comments indicating: The staff or director I dont remember it very well wants to it to be different than the original. I hope those were nothing but lies. This show have taken characters and plots from the original and yet claims to be different? That is fucking insulting. Writing of plots. One of the aspects that piss me off is that its literally copypaste of the original. Unlike New Vestroia BBP have done it for the worst. It introduced its first plot in the first scene of the first episode and later its follow with a mixture of slice of life episodic episodes as introductions for the main characters and their partners the bakugans. Also some of its episodes are basically clones of its ancestors. Let me put some examples: The episode Bully for You is similar to Secret of Success. Both introduce a couple of kids losing a match to some random bully. So ones of our main cast helped them. In the original Alice teaches him about using the correct cards for his bakugans and selfconfidence. Of course Alice was giving him advice during the first battle but later on after Alice disappearance the kid manage to gain selfconfidence after his partner Juggernoid manage to talk and support him and finally winning the second and third battle. As a result the bully apologizes for being an a and became his friend. Meanwhile in BBP Dan doesnt teach them any strategies or finding the flaws in their battle tactics instead he just fights the bully himself and of course Cyndeous stops being his partner because he doesnt want to be a meanie head questioning myself of why he didnt abandon him before. Later on Dan learns that his attitude was wrong and told his friends about it force life lesson and simply doesnt really matter since his over the top attitude wasnt a big of a deal none of his friends cared about it. The episode Dog Daze is similar to Grandpas got a Brand New Bakugan. Both rely on Shun staying/returning with/to the team. In the original Shun didnt want to for personal reasons. So Runo and Marucho challenge him to a battle. If they win Shun will return. Spoilers they lost In consequences of their lost Shun doesnt return showing us that he sticks with his promises no matter if his opponents are his friends. And his morality keeps getting better. In the new show Shun wanted to stay because he feels being part of a family with his friends even though there wasnt any build up to it not a single scene of his parents not giving him any attention other than the dinner scene why should I care. So after a ridiculous battle where his 100 GPower Hydorous manage to beat an 850 GPower NinjaGan with one punch? He won. So yeah the original Shun doesnt want to return due to the fear of losing his gift that his mother gave him before she dies. Not surprisingly in episode 13 he confronted Dan Masquerade and Shun team up Masquerade is beating Danny boy so Shun decides to betray Masquerade. Whats funny is that episode 12 was a buildup for that episode. Meanwhile the new Marucho just has attention issues. Needless to write the new show replaces everything that made Shun compelling with a want attention character trope. Do you want me to continue? The whole Adults cant activate Bakugan is stupid. It only exists because the writers couldnt think of anything else other than overuse plots. When they manage to introduce new concepts that are breathtaking for the franchise they manage to screw over them. The biggest example is the concept of Bakugan affecting the modern world. The idea sounds amazing Imagining how the existence of the bakugan randomly appearing into the modern world could changefor a mayor benefit or harm the aspects of each country. But of course that requires brainstorming and to raise the maturity rating which means less money from the dead cow. Returning to the plot. Just watch the episodes where the characters are set in Pakistan I could be wrong about the name of the country. A fat bully is king because he has a bakugan so what? And how did he manage to convince the adults to force the kids to give up their bakugan? Also where are the criminals who coould take advantage of these kids? What about a rebellion? How come the poverty havent worsen with that fat bully in charge? And I dont care that its a kid show the writers shoukdnt even bother with it at all. Pathetic attempt at Worldbuilding. Now for the minor elements: 1. Gameplay Show 1.1 The Gate Cards were the ones that made it unique. But the reboot had gotten rid of them so the Toy Battling Game can be more complex for teenagers and adults. And the show suffers from it. 1.2 The Bakugans now has the ability to activate their moves without the BakuCores or anything else. For some reason... 1.3 In the show the ability cards are replace with Bakucores. Bad move. The reason behind it is: oStrategy isnt need: This can be the case for the absence of Gate Cards as well. The Gate Cards like Character Cards or Attribute Cards have the purpose of not only boosting the GPower of the bakugans but also can change the game. Including some ability cards. Which the players should use them carefully especially when confronting the villains. But of course they dont exist in the reboot. And the BakuCores are just power boosters. Nothing else. The reboot should be an improvement of the original not being the lame version. Sure they arent completely absent. But then again it isnt needed. 2. Bakugan 2.1 The mechanical designs just disturbs me. Theyre just robots with organic eyes tongues and teeth. It doesnt mix well. And the 3D just makes it worst. The 3D robotic bakugans from Bakugan New Vestroia looks a lot better it helps by the fact theyre all 100 mechanicals with no signs of organic parts from the outside. Thinking about it its really contradicting that all of the bakugans especially Drago are androids. 2.2 Theyre just pokmons but they can talk. When Dan and his gang encounters them they immediately befriends them. Because why not. And yes they love to battle and brawl and they dont care about their home. Its hilarious because... the original recieved a stupid criticism of being a pokemon ripoff and this reboot became it. 2.3 There are certain bakugans designs that were an improvement over the original and some the opposite. 2.4 Some of the designs for the bakugans are just lazy. For example: Trox: Hes a tyrannosaur. He has the height of a tyrannosaur. Therefore hes still a dinosaur. Which begs the question: why is he a monster? Being a robot doesnt automatically make him one. Same can be written about Trhyno. Hydorous: Hes just a lion a huge lion. Unless if some of you respond that hes based on the Lion of Nemea with evidence of one of the staff members saying so. He just follows the whole Abnormally Big Animal=Monster. Fangzor: I like this monster. But its still a giant cobra at the end of the day. Bear: ...look Im not gonna pretend that all the bakugans from the original shows are free of laziness. Just look at Serpenoid Rattlenoid Juggernoid and Lonewolf at least they have extra details to distinguish themselves from the animals theyre based on. Meanwhile bear is a fucking joke nobody tried. Should I continue? 3. Animation and/or Art Style 2D Animation: The art style fine. However it has its own problems static images animation errors stock footages reuse images for some battle scenes laziness of the ball forms. 3D Art Style: The 3D art style looks horrible. It wasnt incorporated properly due to the rest of the animation being 2D. And it sucks because: The 3D art style use for the robotic bakugans Hades Altair and many others from Bakugan New Vestroia doesnt look so bad. Which its funny because it was from 20092010 And thats not it. The 3D animation was use in terms of visuals it difference them from the organic bakugans to show how lifeless they are. And look at the bakugans from the Character Cards. Theyre also in 3D but they look very well. The 3D art stle from Trollhunters is also so good and its from 2016 So why they look terrible in this 2018 show? 4. Music and Sound Effects The opening song is a rap song and it sucks. I wouldnt have mention it if it wasnt use in every final battle of every single goddamn episode The roars and screams are pathetic its like a child was doing it. The roars of Drago have been use for some bakugans. Heck Magnus spider uses Skyress call. The voice acting dub is bland. Really. The majority of the bakugans can only be distinguish if it was male or female. The voices from the original are memorable not all of them so why are they lame in this reboot? The humans are okay even though there are times where the tone of their voices doesnt match up with the situation they are in. A problem that the original also had. Isnt a reboot suppose to not commit the same mistakes of the original? PD: This is one of those shows which introduces force life lessons except it later becomes hypocritical since some of the characters forgets the lesson they have learn previously. And it also has the whole Bakugan are our friends message thrown on our faces over and over and over Conclusion In conclusion I may have been missing something but I dont care. It seems that they made Season 2 and introduce the Battle Gears and later on traps... Its going to get worse and Im not going to bother watching them. In my eyes this is the worst reboot I have ever seen. Although it isnt the worst show that title belongs to Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid. Nevertheless I just want them to leave the franchise alone let it die. But then again they wont stop until they stop making money from their merchandising.