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A fun fact about the cartoon: The show literally had a total of 5 voice actors. Each voiced one of the five leads, and were all spread out amongst the various antagonists and supporting characters, except for Karen Strassman. Since Jinja was the only girl on the team, that also meant she voiced literally every other female character in the show. It's quite a testament to the whole cast's talent that they were able to showcase that much range. Methinks a lot of the budget went into marketing and merchandising, so condensing the show's cast helped save costs where they could
A lot of gundam series under ocean dub like wing or 00 while having a decent sized cast had their main actors speaking lines for a lot side characters such as brad swaille Sam Vincent and of course Scott McNeill.
That will always be ninjago to me. The new waves are great, but it could have been better if we didn't keep trying to slap ninja on themes way out if their league
I loved this show I remember the first time I got to see a monsuno was on my best friend party, his cousins had a monsuno battle and I was so amazed that I eventually made my own with a PVC pipe, a plastic bottle tap... A spring...A candle as soldering for Plastic and my monster was made of paper... I'm so proud of that craft
remembering that those became a lot popular here so we decided to use solid glue bars as a copycat and imagine those had the monsters inside, so you could enter one class and have like half of the kids spinning glue bars like that
I do like how each faction is aesthetically different Blue are really natural looking with crystals growing out of them Red look hyper aggressive covered in spikes Black look really militaristic and have geometric shapes Orange there cyborgs I’m sad they weren’t released in the west they were cyborgs Green? Eldritch monsters not sure if they were monsuno
@@JettKuso from what I remember I thought they were mainly spring loaded so when they shot out they shot out as a there complete form, but guess memories hazy
16:43 your words here are exactly what I needed to hear today. I've been struggling a lot lately with some complicated relationships and this is what I needed to hear reignite my motivation to keep moving forward and on to something new and better for me. who would have thought I could find such sage advice from a monsuno retrospective of all things. that being said, thank you jett kuso ❤️
I remember watching the monsuno show when I was younger, I think more than Bakugan the more I think about it. I just found the little marbles cooler I guess. A real shame that this line died the way it did. Maybe the new Bakugan reboot will possibly make Jacks Pacific think of making a reboot of the toy line themselves.
I remember watching the show but thought that some episodes did better than others when it came to the monsters themselves given that they were just seen as that and no real connection was made with the humans like other shows of this genre. There was also the antagonists where I though the yellow team was the more interesting faction compared to the reds since they were a organized military unit which created the monsters for warfare. Last episode I watched was when the main lead had the detonator to purge the monsters along with the crystal that made them from there world which would prevent the destruction of earth as a whole. With him just chucking it in the water saying that there's possibly another way to prevent that without ending the monsters.
That's neat I think air Monsuno again is a good Start, the animation is pretty solid actually I even compare it to Avatar the last Airbender... It's not as groundbreaking but sure keeps an amazing quality and the plot is really solid I say it's even better than first season of Bakugan and I grow up with the first seasons of Bakugan... I still find the show great
Honestly, of all these old toy lines that failed, the one that saddest me the most is Medabots. It was such a cool concept! And yes, I'm aware it's still going decently strong in Japan.
Man, yeah, Medabots was the best, and the designs were super memorable So disappointed they aren't even trying to bring it back to the West after all this time
Thanks Jett for making me feel super old 😂. Not only do I remember ninjago starting out as card/spinner game, but I remember collecting a bunch of the monsuno cores. Unfortunately none of my friends got into monsuno, so my cores just collected dust.
Monsuno is my hidden gem!!! The opening of the show was a banger! The show itself, while not the best, was very entertaining to watch. The toys and game could have been better developed in my opinion. Very good overall. I personally still love this franchise and hope they do something with it in the future. Doesn't need to be a full on reboot, perhaps a side-game or a 12 episode season to experiment a little bit.
I loved these when I was little, I would play all of the Bakugan rip offs and love every second of it. The designs and way the toys expanded legitimately is the reason I became a mechanical engineer
I hope Monsuno returns one day. maybe jakks pacific will try to apply the strategy he did before. wait for the bakugan to be at their lowest point then take his place without worrying about the skylanders killing him again
This was such a distant memory! I remember when this first came out seeing it and thinking it looked cool but I never knew anyone who had it or who knew how to play so I never picked any up and now after your video as someone whose already a die hard Bakugan fan and now learning there were only ever 101 Monsuno released I thought better late then never c: I'm excited to see where this new journey takes me. So thank you Jett, can't wait to see more amazing content in the future, keep up the amazing work. CX
Seeing Ninjago mentioned as a spinning top game on here brought back a lot of nostalgia. I absolutely loved playing that game with my brother and I wish that they kept it up!
I still have to finish the video but I was excited when you mentioned the "Gormiti", I come from Italy the homeland of these characters, I grew up there and I still keep beautiful memories and many gormiti, especially of the first series, and news, soon they will release a "reboot" of the first historical characters, with new figures and colors! I love your videos you also made me rediscover Bakugan (Google translation)
Monsuno made my childhood i never missed any episodes when i was young i always went to streets shops that were happening in greece and we called them μπαζάρι i remembered my first monsuno was quickforce i always got them on those street shops and toy shops i was having huge collection but i dint had the stadium But sadly i don't have them anymore man monsuno was the best show i watched back in the day hope u read this jettkuso love ur vids
Sometimes when RU-vidrs talk about stuff that failed they rip it a new one (pun intended). I think this is the first time I've seen someone respectfully lay something back to rest like burying a baby bird you found on the sidewalk.
God this hits hard because i was just wondering what the hell happened to monsuno and now i know. Rip monsuno i will allways remember you as toy that made spend hours on none stop laughing you and having blast ❤
I actually remember this. Monsuno hit my small group of friends like a storm and while we couldn't get many, we really thought this was gonna work out. I also remember the show having a super catchy theme, for some reason. XD
This honestly takes me back sad to see the franchise die out but think of it like they learned to crawl so skylanders could walk. Most of my memories come from the anime the openings just being fire, and first discovering it as a nickolodeon web game not knowing what it was until the anime which kid me genuinely thought the show was based on the game XD and use to draw the monters, put them in the tiny kinder surprise capsules and just launch them
Man I remember seeing the commercials and stuff as a kid but ignored it cause of lego and bakugan, it really is sad it died quick since products like these really can be fun if they're improved, guess it came out too late 😰👍🔥
The fact I remember those good days of collecting bakugan toys and I remember when monsuno was taught to become the next big thing. One of the reasons why I'm so glad similar franchises are making a come back. The bakugan relaunch was great aside from the lack of variety like they had in the past , but the idea of chasing around to find these cute and awesome little figures is just the best. Thanks again for the awesome content! Loved it back in the day and still love it!
I remember myself being small and watching monsuno with my best friend after its stoped being popular. You couldn't find it anywhere basically (and I was living in a somewhat bad country, so things like Bakugan arrived to my pretty much late. REALLY late. Shame, but hey, on the bright side it's not forgotten. Maybe we will even see the remake one day.
Damn i totally wasn't expecting skylanders to be in this, and what you said about skylanders is definitely true, for like 3 years I kept asking for them and now I have a box full of them that I'm looking to sell lol. I'm only keeping a few for the memories and for their sculpting, like Spyro and Cinder, but damn yeah looking back on it, skylanders must have killed a bunch of franchises
This is possibly the best retrospective on Monsuno I've seen so far. This is so well written. And it gave me a new perspective on my favourite little series Funnily enough, I didn't take much interest in it when the cartoon first aired. It seemed alright. I could tell it was mimicking Bakugan. Years later, I vaguely remembered this show and seeked it out. I found it again and fell in love with it. The cartoon is a hot mess, to be perfectly honest, but it's just right amount of ridiculous and cool to be fun
This video just made want to play the first bakugan video game because of the desert field theme playing when the monsunos were spinning in the Battle arena
Really liked and appreciated that ending statement about plans, something I’ll have to remember. On a different note: SKYLANDERS GAAAH! I loved that franchise but I still haven’t finished it because my hand-me-down Wii is busted :( at some point I’ll get a new one or figure out some way to play it on PC.
I loved this reminder of Monsuno, it was a cool concept for a game similar to Bakugan(even though I never played it), and the show was awesome, even though it had nothing to do with the actual card game it was still cool with a kick-ass theme song that I still love and jam too. Also in the show the catchphrase was Launch, but they usually said the Monsuno’s name for example,” Lock, Launch” that was what the main character said
I'm actually sad that I only heard about Monsuno from yours and Kohdoks really old Monsuno videos way back then when I was a kid. Because I literally don't ever remember seeing them in stores besides being only at a few Chuck E Cheeses to win them with tickets.
i do remember monsuno, i remember getting some of the toys back then when it was going on, also i remember trying drinking from the monsuno capsule by pouring some juice in it,(i was a bit off an odd kid back then), the only reason i wanted the monsuno toys at the time because those looked cool to me, also i do remember collecting the transformers bot shots toys, i was kinda obsessed with those because they looked really and i collected them but sometimes i would unscrew them because why not, also i also remember watching Kohdok's video on monsuno and it was really good, the way he talked about it was amazing and entertaining, and now lost forever, i don't own any monsuno toys anymore, lost to obscurity back in my old house, so overall, they way you talk about it was also pretty good Jett, 10/10 on the video
I remember playing the ninjago spinners game exactly one time, it was some kids birthday in elementary school and he gave everyone who was invited a spinner + mini figure, played exactly one game before I was "eliminated" from the tournament they were doing, But I still have the spinner somewhere deep in one of my Lego bins.
Something funny is that I had a stadium like that and thought it was a weird beyblade stadium for years till now and I’ve only had the stadium and not the toy
I played the Ninjago spinner game. My favorite card is Jay’s Throwing Star. During the spin phase, you can THROW THE CARD AT YOUR OPPONENT’S SPINNER. I love that you can attack your opponent physically, imagine if you could do that in Bakugan! You can defend with proper placement sure, but image throwing a metal card at a Bakugan mid-roll.
I remember when I found out about Monsuno as a kid. Me and a friend both decided to get one each thinking to ourselves, "This is the gonna be the next big thing after Bakugan." We brought them to school once, realized how finicky they were, and that was about it. I think it also didn't help that as far as I know the show never came out over here
Your videos never cease to entertain and amaze me Jett. You are the golden standard for comedy, editing, script writing, and all else needed to make a fun and informative video! I cannot wait for more uwu Ps. I wonder if the market for toy based card games will ever be ripe enough for a brave soul to attempt to capture the hearts and minds of those who just want a monster based adventure!
I LOVED this series as a kid! the concept of spinning, chimeric monsters hit so many switches in my brain. I still have my alt-colored Spiderwolf and I think Whiplash's core sitting on my desk... it's a shame the series utterly died, since the show felt totally different from other ones
Wow, you just unlocked a fleeting memory of my childhood. I met Monsuno thanks to the series, and I remember watching the toys commercials from time to time, but never actually seeing them in toy stores. Maybe the distribution back then here in Argentina wasn't that great, but I remember wanting at least one to try them out. Amazing video, I finally got to know what Monsuno was about.
2:55 XEVOZ MENTIONED⁉ I JUST got into that toyline earlier this year and while I only have one 100% complete Xevoz figure (Inferno Fury, which has some gorgeous translucent parts, the missile launcher for mine still works, and I got the sticker sheets + manual that were still mint!) I absolutely love the world-building and intricate species lore for this forgotten toyline! 💕 I'm still so surprised that my 20~ year old Xevoz figure still has super firm joints and I saw how other collectors with their own Xevoz figures have also equally aged well with their joints! There still is a very small but passionate collector base for Xevoz figures and stumbling across their niche review blogs are so much fun to look into, but it truly breaks my heart to see how such a well made Stikfas-adjacent toyline failed so badly 😭💔 EVEN THE ELUSIVE TIE-IN COMIC FAILED AFTER ONE ISSUE 😫
when you play Monsuno, you can call out the name of your Monsuno, example: Backslash, Lock or any of there names Launch, I still have my monsuno cores back than and its still cool back in the days
I honestly loved this anime and the toys literally gave me so many memories to the point I bought $300 Worth of sealed boxes and untouched sealed packs of singles for a collection
Yes, I indeed did try to play the ninjago top game Edit: I loved skylanders as a kid, and it’s still fun to pick every now and then, but I had no idea that that’s what ended up killing the toy battling monster games.
my older brother and I got the starter set of this when it came out. I still have fond memories. I got Lock and my brother Evo. I lost the cards almost immediately but I remember watching the show on sketchy sites online and bringing it school to show how cool it all was. 10 year old me was devastated when it stopped airing. Since then I've been periodically rewatching the show and looking for videos online, and well, here I am. Thanks for making such a good video on something so obscure!
I miss 2011 alot. it's so hard to find a fun yet engaging and a tinsy bit complex game that doesn't involve a screen these days. beyblade,4wds,bakugan,bdaman or whatever was a simple fun thing, but it was a thing. and i really do miss them. cause there's nothing that will ever feel as crisp as pulling that cord or pushing that trigger or taking your mini 4wd to the local track that you got to go to once a week.
Didn't expect a very heartwarming message at the end there Jett, it's exactly what I need. A good heap of food from Hello Fresh to pull me out of this dumpy mood
Glad to see attactix get a brief shout out! I loved it as a kid. Me and my buddies had a bunch and would battle after school. It was a great way to introduce kids to the concept of wargames
Ninjago spinners was such a genius idea, i would mix in old lego to make OP combos. I even used lego technic to turn it into a motorized lego beyblade.
I feel that the price point they were asking for Monsuno also hurt them, but I do know I liked them. However, the best item in the entire line is one that came during Combat Chaos, or in other words, after the toyline had died. The Multi-Bomb. While I'm not entirely certain on its function, it had a spinning top that could be loaded up with 8 Monsuno that would launch while it turned, and you were supposed to strike a pad at the base with your own core to pop the top open until all four panels opened up. Honestly, I still hope Jakks has the molds around and reuses it as a 'boss' for the Sonic line they've got going, but I doubt they will.
Man, I remember watching this show and recording the episodes. When I could, I’d watch the new episodes first release. Loved the show so much. It sucked finding out it got canceled when I was young.
Jettkuso: for some reason no one remembers that Ninjago started out as a battling top card game. Me who still has all his old cards and spiners: I mean I do but yeah. After the pilot "season" I don't think anyone cared much even with the new releases up till the end of the serpentine season. And yes I did play it.
I briefly played the original Ninjago spinner game. You get your character card with stats that dictated which support cards you were allowed to use. One such card gave you a two block high wall to protect your ninja from your opponent's attack.
Wow! What a journey for something I vaguely remember hearing about and didn't realize tried to unite the holy trinity of toy based battle games into one and came so close! Thanks for sharing this!
I very wividly remember me and my friends in when I was about 7 drawing a big chalk circle on the schools playground and playing with our ninjago spinners,it was lit as hell
I actually remember someone at school brining a few of these and showing them to the class we were in during break. I completely forgot about this stuff.
This was a fun little deep dive. I think the only thing I would have liked to know a little more about were some of the rules? But that might just be me as whenever I see older games like this I can't help but wonder how they work.
I was /close/ to diving into the gameplay more, but like… with three different versions of the game, and me never having gotten to play, there wasn’t any space for it. Maybe some day!
Max Steel figures and TV Show, LEGO and Star Wars Toys killed everything here at Mexico. Sadly we never got to hear about ninjago, Monsuno or Skylanders. But Medabots, Pokémon, Bionicle and beyblade were also kings at some point, I miss those times.
THANK YOUUUUU I WATCHED MONSUNO WHEN I WAS LIKE 7 AND THEY REMOVED IT FROM HULU AND ALL THESE YEARS LATER IVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF MY FIRST ANIME AND NEVER FINISHED IT THANK YOUUUUUUU
11:25 Am I the only one who digs how you portrayed the "Multi-Launcher", with screams and fire sounds, scary slow-mo and "One-Winged Angel" (not even the Advent Children, Remake or Crisis Core versions, but the original "One-Winged Angel") playing in the background to really sum up its sinister presence.
I remember when I was a kid, my friend's cousin (a city kid) visited him. We were playing cards, and I noticed something in the corner of the living room along with his luggage. It was a frekin Monsuno Case! Lots of cores+monsters inside, and I only managed to borrow like 1 or 2 of em that day...
I played the Ninjago Spiner game, was very into it to, I collected every Jay Figure up until the ZX lines, I couldnt keep going because being a kid with no job, Lego being expensive and my family not being supportive of my hobbys
