Off-Topic Again

I just had a wonderful thought of Link from The Legend of Zelda singing 'The Night is Young' form Robin Hood: Men in Tights to Zelda... then I realised that Link actually wears tights. So now my brain imagines Link singing 'We're Men in Tights'.
Urgh...

"We're men,
We're men in tights,
We roam around the forest looking for fights!
We may look like sissies,
but watch what you say or else we'll put your lights!"

... It's a nightmare vision but sickly amusing.

Oh, yeah, in correspondence to my last post about Kenny's geographical knowledge of the UK in the dub I remembered that it gets worse when he mentions that Johnny's of the world famous McGregor clan from the High Lands... er, excuse me but I believe Johnny is from Glasgow and Glasgow is way too South to be in the High Lands. It's not short hand for all of Scotland. Damn you, Kenny.

I suppose I should point out that I, Bijou-chan, am apart of the McGregor clan myself (not a direct descendant like Johnny is, though).

Bloody Dubbers!!

In the episode where the boys arrive in Southampton in season 1, Ray asks where the White Cliffs of Dover he's heard about. Kenny replies that they pasted them during the night.... HOW?! They came on the ship from America to the south of England. Dover is on the East coast, so unless they sailed all the way round Scotland they can't have pasted Dover!

Beyblades

I love the series for the characters. That's it. I know Beyblades are important for the series but in my mind a good story is made with good characters. I deem it a good story if I'm infatuated with a character or fancy one. Beyblade as well as Karin and Pokemon fit into both catagories.
I realise without the Beyblades the series has no storyline for characters to emerge from but I'm lost to the point of the technical side of them. I know what they do, about the main structure, BitBeasts, the game's rules, blading styles... but don't confuse me with the in depth bits!
This may explain why Kira Kira has no in depth Beyblade content. Venus G isn't a blade which is well known like Takao's etc, but then again I could just ASSUME like I always do. FYI, Kira Kira is a CHARACTER shrine thus its content is about the character.

Pairings

I reckon Beyblade should have pairing names like Pokemon does. You know, like 'Rocketshipping' (JessiexJames) and 'Pokeshipping' (AshxMisty). It'd be fun and creative! ... actually... I retract what I've just said. the '__shipping' pairing name format is apart of Pokemon fandom. It'd be wrong to spread the idea!
I stand by the creativeness of the names but each anime and manga should remain with it's own fandom.

Off Topic

I must recommend watching Tom & Jerry to you. I recently re-watched my VHS of my bumper collection and relived some memories of my childhood. I don't like slap stick comedy much but I've found myself laughing at it.
I've picked up on one thing I never did as a child. And that was the music. The classic T&J theme, the musical pieces in 'T&J in the Hollywood Bowl' and 'The Cat Concerto'. It's just amazing and genius.

Long live Tom & Jerry!

Metal Fight Beyblade

I was happy to read that a new series of Beyblade was due to release but after seeing that the characters are different I became disconcerted. I mentioned that it's upsetting that Makoto, Gou and Rin aren't the new main characters but I was told that it's a different series because Metal Fight has 'Beyblade' behind their season title while the others have 'Beyblade' before them.... eh? Ojamajo Doremi's 3rd season has 'Ojamajo Doremi' AFTER the season name unlike the rest of it's seasons. So what?
I really wish the next generation was in Metal Fight. Everyone was wanting and expecting it. True the anime and manga is a spin off the the original since Aoki-san isn't drawing the manga. Thus his character's wont be carried on. Still, I really want to learn more of Takao's, Kai's and Rei's children.

Stereotypes

Beyblade has characters from many different ethnicities. So the poor souls are stuck with stereotypical personalities. Aoki Takao and co. have portrayed the characters - I think - unfairly. For instance the Majestics are all Europeans to it's tantamount for them to be snotty rich kids. The All Stars - though not obese tourists as the British think - are jocks. The Blitzkerig Boys aren't Russian stereotyped at all and nor are the Japanese characters (the reason for that being because Aoki is Japanese himself).
I always thought it bothering that some characters have no obvious ethnicity, however most of these characters are so bland it obvious to the point that they're Japanese.