Beyblade X

As somebody who grew up with the original + the Gingka era and the Burst era, I feel inclined to give a review. (Oh if only Yugioh put for this level of quality..)

Beyblade X is actually pretty good. First the animation is SUPERB. It's really well done which isn't shocking because Beyblade has always had great animation.

The plot revolves around a group of 3 bladers who are determined to climb the "X tower" where the best of the best blade it out. The tower is the main setting of the show.

first you have Bird, an amateur blader who has no talent for beyblade..like ... at all. I think the writers flat out hate Bird. They originally play him off as THE protagonist. Like the underdog but he becomes comic relief very quickly. He's a really pathetic character. His Bey also doesn't suit him at all but they keep pushing it on him. You want to keep rooting for him but by episode 17 you just feel sorry for the guy with how bad he is at Blading.

Secondly you have [Kamen] X, whose identity is revealed within the first episode He is the main protagonist. Why nobody can figure out his identity is a complete mystery given how many similarities he has with who he actually is (his actual name is literally pronounced X)..he's a fun wacky character who is BFFs with Bird. He is obsessed with blading and feels like Gingka mixed with Valt.

Third you have Multi, basically a Tiktoker/Streamer girl. She's a beyblade pro and also a master Bey crafter. She has multiple persona and beys she uses in battles. She's cute and reminiscent of real life streamers/vloggers with how her online persona is nothing like her real self. Out of the 3, she's the one who doesn't really have much development, solely relying on her cuteness and knowledge to boost her character.

X and Multi basically carry the team like a WOW raid team consisting of two level 200s and 1 lvl 20. The show even makes fun of this fact constantly.

Other characters include:

a former beyblade pro who works at the Sushi place that X loves.

A old man midget sushi chef who is arguably the best boy of the show who once had dreams of climbing the tower but realized he sucked at beyblading. (But also is terrible at sushi and cannot just make normal sushi)

A young girl who idolizes Bird and is his only fan

And the usual reoccurring teams of Bladers who come and challenge the pro tags.

There's a central antagonist as well but he doesn't appear till around ep 18 or so.

The show itself is actually pretty entertaining and doesn't feel like it drags on as of ep 20.

It has solid humor, usually involving weird sushi like chocolate anzu bean sushi or banana mint sushi.

Interesting enough, the bey matches themselves involve more realism then before. The Beys are more like their real world counterparts and they even use a VR program to show the Beys "attacking" each other.

I really like this series more then the original, Metal and Burst era. It has more charm and doesn't feel like a typical Shonen. The characters actually have development.

My only complaint is the lack of new characters. You'll see the same enemy teams by ep 20. I get that its cheap to re-use the same VAs + designs but battling the same group of people over and over again gets old.

I really recommend this if you're wanting to try to get into Beyblade or are a returning fan. It's very entertaining as mentioned HOWEVER there is no English dub yet, so if you don't like Subs you're out of luck.

*This story does introduce new ideas.
*The Animation is a big downgrade compared to the previous Beyblade Series before it (Burst Franchise).
*So far my only favorite character is Multi. I do not think the characters are well rounded enough IMO. Bird just loses and X feels like a battle crazed idiot for Beyblade but not in a charming sort of way. Besides Multi the other characters don't feel realistically well rounded enough to my liking, they need big turning point to change my mind.
*I heavily dislike this series as of the moment. Needs a big turning point because 22 episodes in and the supposed main ... character bird hasn't won a battle. To me that is a big turn off otherwise they better give him the biggest character development in the world.

*I get very bored watching it, reminds me of beywheelz. at least shogun steel got me excited but this is snooze fest. Bring back metal and Burst series for this crap. they better have a big turning point otherwise this will be the most hated beyblade series.

****** IMO, lucky im a huge beyblade fan otherwise i would drop this show.

In the shows current state, it is absolutely the worst series this franchise has produced. Bird manages to be a worse main character than Aiga by being so laughably useless. There's zero stakes at all since you know he's always gonna lose, but Multi and X will ALWAYS win. This show took the great formula set up by burst, and completely mangled it. They kept the sports anime angle, but added so much unnecessary filler and social media BS that it's such a slog to sit through. In 9 episodes, this series manages to have less content than every other show before it. I am ... giving it a 1/10 for the time being as the current quality is unacceptable especially following Burst, but I hope that by the end this could AT LEAST be a 4 or a 5. In its current state however, there's just no meat to this.