I read a lot of the reviews here and they all make fair points. I do have to say if you just started or maybe intersted, it's not going to give you every perfect detail.I rather not even call this a ripoff, it's supposed to sell it's product, and didn't all the other shows do exactly thatr? Bakugan battle Brawlers Season 1 does take elements from other series but builds upon itself overtime to create have good character development, and to bring something new or different that the other shows didn't particularry have. I give this show a 10 because I actually spent time watching it and found to be engaing and teach lessons. I enjoyed as a kid and I still do now, especially with the 2018/2019 Bakugan Battle Planet reboot coming up. By the way, I do suggest watching the sub version at least once because they do handle the show better and include better audio and voice acting. So in general, give it a chance and if you hate still then that's ok. It shouldn't be hated because it was trying to sell toys. Pokemon, beyblade, yugioh, yokai watch all did that too.

I actually liked this show as a kid. It was nostalgic to go back to this show, but I don't like it all that much anymore. There were three major card games in the late 2000s. Pokemon, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh. But I was into... Bakugan. I actually think the game surpasses Pokemon in many different ways. But the show doesn't.Problem #1: The Characters: They are all clichéd. Like, Runo is a brat, Dan is... well, the kid who wants to be the very best (sound familiar?), Marucho's the nerd and Shun is the stoic, quiet one.Problem #2: The Premise: The plot for this show is completely unoriginal. The plot resembles a fusion of Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon. I don't know a whole lot about Yu-Gi-Oh but I can still call it a ripoff of both, can't I? Dan wants to be the highest ranked Bakugan player in the world. Similar how Ash wants that too. I'm not gonna call this ripping off as I am gonna call it clichéd.Problem #3: The Animation: Anime can get away with cheap animation because the backgrounds look very detailed and well done. It's the same here, except much, much cheaper. The character designs are utter crap. I honestly think you could eat a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon card DVDs and crap out something far better than this show

This is one of those times when I loath being an uncle because I get to stubble across what is considered gems to the youth of today. I feel like this genre of anime is deeply reaching out by mixing/matching past ideas from shows that were cancelled (for good reasons) to create something that might sell if only for a little while. That is what this show is based off of and it's really bad, but hell the kids love it. I can only wonder the agony I must've put the adults through when I was watching Pokemon back in the late 90s.Basically if you list the shows before this one and mix them up in some sort of combination you'll receive this show. Pokemon(not cancelled), Digimon, Bayblade, Battle B-Daman, Medabots, Chaotic(not cancelled), then Cardcaptors, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Now pour those shows into a barrel, toss it down the cliff of unoriginal-shame and behold Bakugan at the bottom.I'm now seeing advertisements and merchandise of this franchise everywhere. I don't understand it because even for the shows I watched as a youth had decent writing and character development. I can say that the toys are quite unique and I was amused by the way each toy transformed from spheres (& now they have other shapes) into another form. Aside from that the show does feel like it compiled the interests that got people to watch the other cartoons into this on vessel and it's doing great.It does have poor writing and the characters are bland, but what can you expect from a youth show. It does feel repetitive from the start if you've seen the shows I listed, but if you're a kid and haven't seen them then you'll enjoy this show. No doubt if they had re-runs of the cancelled shows, the kids would may enjoy those more then again they were cancelled for a reason. As much as I find this show to be just as bad and should be cancelled, I can't deny the amazing success it has generated for itself. I feel sad for the kids, but they don't so I guess we should let them enjoy this.

This is exactly what this is. It seems to me as if the toys were made, and the writers weren't given a set of rules to work from to write the game-playing parts into the show.The rules of the game change from 'battle' to 'battle', with the sequence of play having no bearing at all on whose turn it is to play.This is not the way to advertise your product in a show, marketers. Not at all. The target market, likely children between six and ten years of age, are not as dumb as you seem to think they are. They understand that games have rules, and that rules are consistent. A game with good rules will sell. A game with rules they can understand will sell.Going from the show, the rules seem completely irrelevant, inconsistent, and pretty much unplayable. My 8 year old niece watched the show just once, decided the game didn't make any sense, and won't watch it anymore.Then, additionally, there's the plot of the show itself... if you can call it that.Right in the opening credits, the main character states 'My friends and I created this game', and shortly after that, in one of the very first episodes, the same character is saying 'I've never heard of that.' It's inconsistent, tries to steal elements from numerous other toy-selling shows, and fails to make them gel together with any kind of coherency.A very sad effort on all sides. At least they didn't make all of the characters chibis.