Beyblade (2000) | A Retrospective Of The Series 

Hi folks - this video is a pretty long one, I appreciate all of you whom stuck around to watch it. What are your thoughts on the first season overall? ~Ray~

I really miss the concept of Bit-Beasts

Beyblade and yugioh what a childhood

The original Beyblade is where it all started. Tyson was one of my most favorite protagonists. I really think people sell him short because they are too much in love with Kai, but Tyson also has some incredible development in the series.

One of my favorite things about the first season was all the unique launchers and bey stadiums.

I was living in Okinawa when Beyblade came out and trust me, EVERYONE under 15 were for sure letting it rip

Yooo cover the rest of the show this is fantastic to watch

There was such an emphasis on bit beast in season 1 and 2. It's basically a nonexistent concept in GRevolution, just the name of the beyblade and visuals of the bit beast for familiarity but only for the viewers, not for the characters

ray is one of my favorite fictional characters of all times his design and personality are great

such a fire show and the sound track for season 1 still goes crazy today!

I forgot how much this show has major G Gundam syndrome with it's bizarre and hilarious stereotypes. The American team all play American sports and they go up against a guy called the mayor in a beyblade dish that's a tiny replica of the white house. Perfection.

Out of all seasons, the most liked season is the first one ❤

Mark Dailey as Brad Best makes the beyblade tournament event episodes feel more like an official sports broadcast. voice that's smooooooooooooooooth like butter!

Came for the Digimon, Stayed for the Beyblade. Such a hype trilogy, I miss Bit Beast'

Digimon fans 🤝🏿 beyblade fans Great work, looking forward to the metal series review

I loved this anime, and even have the movie on dvd. I remember watching a documentary, i think it was on the movie dvd as an added content, and it said that they published 2 stories in each issue, and the readers used to vote which story would get adapted into an episode. They also changed the office building very often because of fans.

I use to own soo many beyblades especially the hard metal system from G revolution. Galaxy Dragoon, Black Dranzer, and Meteor L Drago are my all time favorite beys

Oh my God😲! I remember this show. I first saw it in 2002 when my family took me and my siblings on a trip to the UK from Nigeria. I was 9 years old back then and the folks we were visiting had kids my age too. One morning, as we were watching TV with them, this show came on and the boy and I were so excited. I had never seen anime before that time and I had no idea what the show even was but it was a cool cartoon with action and that was all I needed. He even had the actual Beyblade spinner toy and I had so much fun with it😂 Eventually, we returned back to Nigeria after the trip was over and I never saw the show again cause anime wasn't readily available in my country back then and only a few aired on cable and internet was still expensive to own but it always lingered in my memory😌

W video. people seem to forget the GREATNESS of the original first beyblade series. I love the metal series but the original was just OOOOO WEEE

Can't wait till you tackle V-force

Damn, the first anime I watched before knowing what was anime, was a Mappa. I was eating good, unknowing though it may be.

Nah Ray was better than all others

the music was top notch

all the main chara bit beast base on 4 sacred beast...suzaku,genbu,byakko and seiryu

Lol this was the Beyblade I grew up on

Such a nice show...Nostalgic...

The original series of Beyblade will always be amazing

What a great video! Gave me such a nostalgic feeling I might have to go get my Beyblades out the loft 😂 please do a retrospective of season 2!

Max is the heart of the team. Without a doubt.

this was a great summary of the first season, would love to see the same for V Force and G Revolution!

I'm super glad that RU-vid showed this in my recommended Videos 🙏🏻 Absolutely love the plastic Gen series! As a professional athlete, I still See how relevant some of beyblade's projected morals and topics are. The Show aged beautifully! It has a special place in my heart since it's the show that shaped me during my childhood the most

chubby tyson best tyson, also O hope you can go with the rest of seasons, speciallu g revolition

this is how I discovered I love the name kai XD also ray is one of my favorite characters

Finally someone talking about how amazing the original beyblade series was man I love beybalde all the characters are awesome . And it was presented in such a good way it felt like you were watching the playoffs of an actual sports with a commentator and everything. The matches and art style were awesome. Too I think it’s seriously underrated like it was popular cause of the toys and still is to a degree but coming up when bigger anime were out such as Pokémon and yugioh really hurt it’s popularity.

First season is the best. Rivals teaming up. Asian and World Tournaments. Bit beast battles. Makes you hype to buy one and play with elementary friends. Good times.

My strongest Bey was my original Drigger. I did have a bootleg Drawnser with a Heavy Duty Metal Ring that would literally spark and destroy regular Beys but my first Bey was a Black Beyblade with a Red Bottom that it’s Bit Beast looked like Maildramon from Digimon.

A BEYBLADE Retrospective!? Thats amazing

Crossing field in the bg of the Tyson / Enrique match caught me by surprise

Fantastic coverage of an amazing oldie that holds a place in my heart! Keep up the phenomenal work!!!💯💪🤓

Ray was my favorite character

this anime was my childhood next to Pokemon. I absolutely adored this growing up. Thank you so much. I had a massive smile watching this and remembering exactly where i was when these episodes aired. Just like you, I had Beyblades battles with my friends at school. I can't wait to see you do videos on V-Force and G-Rev. especially G-Rev. I feel like rewatching this again now but i wanna watch in both dub (i grew up on) and the Sub. the JPN Openings were amazing when I looked them up a few years ago

damn bro I just rewatched the first season of beyblade for the first time since my childhood and now im on v-force, amazing timing for this video!

S1 was GOATED

Dj Jazzman and commentators were the best

Great job on that. I would like to see some metabots!

Thanks for this retrospective, was curious where the franchise went as i loved this overly complicated spinning top drama as a kid i remember when the craze was on & kids were bashing their tops together in recess there was this one kid that owned a cheap bootleg beyblade that won all his maches as it was hevyer than all the official ones, truly a "pay less to win" game

Glad to see some love for Beyblade round here! Good video as well!

Thank you for making this. Great recap and narration. Enjoyed every minute of it!

Tbh I'm still surprised this franchise is still alive. Its pretty impressive. And while some will say the anime series isn't as good as the original, which I can understand, I'm still they are still making anime for em. I will say I have been enjoying the Burst series a good bit.

This was a pretty comprehensive recap of season one. As someone who never watched the anime but played with and built the beyblades themselves and had the card game thus was really nice ^_^

I stumbled upon your channel through your Digimon 02 video, and both that video and this video is great. Long analysis/retrospective videos have always been things I like to just relax and watch, and this video was just that. I just hope you can make videos like these for the other Digimon and Beyblade series.

Love the Anime Lofi being played in the background

This video is not only a good retrospective (though I could offer that maybe a couple parts are a bit... slow paced), this whole video is just a punch right in my childhood. In a good way of course. Season 1 of Beyblade is still one of the best anime (dumbed down intentionally for kids) I have watched as a kid. Not counting stuff like Dragon Ball Z , Yu Yu Hakusho, Ronin Warriors, etc.

I kinda wanna see Gyro Zeppeli in that Show, would be one hell of a Fight with the Golden Ratio and Ball Breaker

One more comment, did anyone else watch Beyblade 2000 in Canada? I've never seen the Europe Tour! Our broadcast station "YTV" didn't buy these episodes! They completely skipped all of those episodes, in Canada it skips from the US Tournament directly to the Russia World Championship! And it's such an interesting arc as well! I can't believe they skipped all of these episodes, it really adds a lot of interesting characterizations and landscapes. I can't believe our station was too cheap to buy these episodes, wow. I never expected to learn something new about the show. Did anyone else experience this?

I love how you phrased the “human spirit is better then science alone” because it really drives home the point the team was making to Judy: she’s smart and can do great things but she ignored the idea of making her players have the drive to individually get better beyond getting better equipment, which is a really sweet thing to show in an anime for kids who might not always feel right having not the best Beyblades or sports goods or whatever, they still have the ability to get better just like people with better equipment or beys or whatever it might be, an awesome show with awesome messages

I remember being around 4/5 year old the first day Beyblade was aired on Cartoon Network, the first episode. I finished watching it and i remember the gang were down by the river at their neighbourgood, i thought what a great show, then i went out and played with my friends. Im 27 now. I miss those days a lot.

This was the best show at the time on tv. Until the reboot

My brothers and I would challenge each other all the time and we still have each Beyblade arena that was designed for the individual Bladebreakers beyblades. The series had me hype as a kid so thank you for covering it here 😊

I just recently went back and rewatched the first 3 seasons of the original beyblade. Such a nice trip down memory lane :)

please do v force and g revolution would be so good

can't wait for the vforce and grevolution videos :D

You've got some good taste in background music. I had completely forgotten how much I enjoyed this show as a kid so listening to this retrospective was interesting and brought back some great memories. You earned one sub, my friend.

The nostalgia rush you gave me from this video you will always have my respect. Great channel Great Contant. To me this is the definitive Beyblade Series. Thank you for all the work you put in.

I found a petition for signing if anyone wants another season from classic.

It's nice to see people show love to the original trilogy. I love the original trilogy as you can tell by my profile pic. I was 10 when it started and enjoyed all 3 seasons. Can't wait for your retrospective on V-Force and G-Revolution

This here sir is a god damn classic thanks for the vid makes me feel 8 yrs old again

Absolutely amazing work. This series was my childhood and it brings back so many memories. Collecting beyblades and battling my friends. Good old days.

With regard to Ray and Max getting less in the later half. I think that makes sense all of them got an arc where they were the focus and the last one was Kai's. Funny I didn't notice as a kid.

It's amazing for an anime about playing with competitive tops, to be actually interesting.

I never really put too much thought into the "artificial bit beasts" concept of the PPB Allstars. Given their beasts really don't seem all that different from the rest in the show. "They are still glowing animal/mythical creatures which energize Beyblades. "

really enjoyed watching this

This show had such a unique vibe to it. I dont remmeber much since i was way too young when i watched it, glad these kinds of summary/retrospective videos exists

Man i forgot how much this was a part of my life, loved Beyblade, Ray was always my favourite lol had the best design and he was just too cool to me lol and he pulled through when it mattered most. Can't believe the whole series is up on RU-vid, this was a great retrospective, would love to know more behind the scenes stuff, like i had no clue the logos for each team were all created for the english dub only thats so cool.

I will always love that the protagonists team name was the BladeBreakers. You’d think that be the name of the villian team or something

In my opinion a bit beast is the manifestation of the spirit of the blader. Kai is truly like a phoenix, he is reborn several times. Tyson truly is a dragon in every way. Ray is agile, powerful and collected, a master strategist like a cat. Max is solid and dependable and the heart and soul of the team, like Draciel, he doesnt quit when the chips are down

that was a nice ride down the memory lane of my childhood and joy i used to had while watching the show on TV

We need the other seasons too♡

You just earned a sub for a fantastic retrospective of the OG Beyblade series.

I got grounded one time for using my moms branded new tub as a bay blade arena and chipped the tub to hell.

Very much enjoy this vid and all your work

Very well done video sir, you've earned a sub ❤

Thank you for this. Always wanted in thorough summary of the show. Can't wait for the second and third season 🤩

Need a vforce and g revolution vid

Amazing video, thank you! Great background music as well. I found myself from time to time recognizing which anime they were from.

This was such a good listen. Can’t wait for season 2 and 3 of the OG beyblade!

I cant believe this show got me hype about tops.

really liked this video, im a fan of beyblades so it was really enjoyable to watch, brought back memories too. hope to see videos of the next 2 seasons

Superb video.please do Digimon Tamers pleaseeeee

Came back to once again say, well done. I sat down and watched it this time and it was even better

I enjoyed this video,it brings back memories.😁

Great Video! I feel like your channel has a lot of potential, I subscribed. keep it up! And was that "Aoi no Sora" as the music theme in the background!!!

I've watched all of the Beyblades up to the one with Gingka, but nothing else hits like Beyblade 2000. I really liked the 2D beyblade animations over the 3D beyblade animations. And the cast of characters is extremely likeable and I really enjoyed how they explore different parts of the world and go into each character's background in such detail. It genuinely felt like a grand story. I know a lot of the show was cheesy like saving the dog, but much later iterations of the show were over the top like showing someone parting the sea using a beyblade. Some scenes were so sad like Ray (which I now realized that's how they localized Rei) vs Bryan, so sad because they actually showed someone clearly breaking sports rules but not getting punished due to the referees making bad calls, which happens a lot in real life. I was always so surprised to hear this was just the first season, to me it felt like each arc was a season but in my country they took a while to buy all the episodes. And the bitbeasts were very creative and a really good business decision, it drew a lot of kids to what was just a simple spinning top toy.

Dude! Awesome video. Hope this comment gives some motivation. You're really good at this and was a good watch. will start to binge your other videos. Keep at it!

An awesome show

This anime got better after the third season and then the other iterations did better. The ost is pretty barebones and it is definitely of it's time. The story is competently made for the multi tournament trope.

I always thought it was pretty unique how they would travel to different countries to fight their battles, it’s pretty unique compared to normally where a series takes place in Japan solely. It’s pretty cool

Salute to the incredible efforts and hardwork you have put in this video.

It is never explained how they control the blades, which is funny. Tbey basically mind control these

This is the first time I hear people calling Takao as Tyson