Beyblade, Vol. 1

Beyblade #1

by Takao Aoki

Anime currently airing on ABC Family, Toon Disney, and YTV; also available on home video.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels Manga, Sports, Juvenile

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Takao Aoki (青木 たかお Aoki Takao) is a Japanese manga artist from Tochigi Prefecture.

Aoki went to Chiyoda Art school and took a special course in manga. He currently resides in Kamakura, Kanagawa. He works for Shogakukan. His new manga is called X-Zone. He has worked on character designs on several video games. He creates manga published in Shogakukan magazine. There are rumors that he made a Zoids manga known as "Tekkai!Zoids".

Aoki's best known work is Beyblade, which became a franchise around children who battle with spinning tops. He also made "Bakufu Slash;Kizna", "A War Story of Metal Walker" and "Mini-4WD Fighter V". Most of Aoki's manga revolve around video games or toys.

Bakuten Shoot Beyblade = Beigoma (a Japanese spinning top game)
Bakufu Slash! Kizna Arashi = Based on the PS2 video game. In this game, a boy named Arashi has a blue dragon as a monster partner which he controls with an item called the Demon Seal Nail. Arashi's element is wind as he has a white cloth on his arm as proof of his element. His rival is Enn, who has a dragon named Blade and has a fire element with a flame on his arm as proof of his element. His girlfriend is named Mika. This is an SCEJ game only released in Japan

Reviews

[Krystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

These kids today legit have no idea how awesome it was reading the manga and watching the cartoon back in the day. Sure, we didn't have our own fancy Beyblades and domes etc - most we could get was a beyblade-afied spinning top - but we had Kai and Ray and that weird blonde kid and so much fun. I fkn loved this series way more than I should have at my age and I have ZERO REGRETS.

[Tesutamento · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kutsal canavarlı topaçlar Beyblade!

Doksanlı yılların sonlarında piyasaya sürülecek olan yeni oyuncakların tanıtımı için hazırlanan bu manga tam olarak oyuncakların da hedef kitlesi olan küçük çocuklar için yazılmış. Karakterlerinden olay örgüsüne her şey küçük çocukların anlayabileceği şekilde hazırlanıp sunuluyor. Animesini hayal ederek başına oturmak yanlış olur çünkü anime bu kitaptan esinlenerek ama farklı bir yol çizerek hazırlanmış bambaşka bir hikaye anlatıyor. Bu kitap olabildiğince basit. Gerçi animesi de çok tekdüze bir ilerleyişe sahip ama burada hedef kitle kesinlikle çok daha alt yaş grubu. O yaşlarda okuduğumda sevmiş olsam da şimdi yıllar sonra okuyunca pek aynı hissedemedim.

[Yoyomaus Die Büchereule · Rating 3 out of 5]

Größe kann man auch mit kleinen Dingen beweisen.





Zum Inhalt:

Das absolut krasse Spiel einer neuen Generation!!Die irrsten Kämpfe jetzt als Manga! Lasst Euch die heißen Kämpfe von Tyson und seinen Gegnern nicht entgehen!



Cover:

Das Cover finde ich recht passend. Wir sehen hier Tyson, begeistert die Hand zur Faust geballt und im Vordergrund seinen Beyblade, mit dem er seine Abenteuer bestreitet. Das passt gut, hat mich jetzt aber auch nicht sonderlich vom Hocker gehauen. Freunde der gleichnamigen Serie werden hier sicher gleich zugreifen.



Eigener Eindruck:
Tyson ist begeisterter Beyblader – einem Spiel, bei dem man mit Hilfe von Kreiseln gegen andere Spieler antritt. Mit seinem Kumpel Kenny ist er stets bei Beybladespielen anzutreffen und während Tyson spielt, ist Kenny eher dabei das Verhalten der anderen Blades zu analysieren. Als die Gruppe der Blade Sharks auftaucht und anderen Bladern ihre Blades wegnimmt, greift Tyson mutig ein, muss aber selbst eine Niederlage einstecken. Um eine Revanche fordern zu können, bekommt Tyson einen Blade von einem unbekannten Mann geschenkt, der den Blade als „Dragoon Blade“ bezeichnet. Mit Hilfe des neuen Blades nimmt Tyson an einem Turnier teil und macht so den Anführer der Blade Sharks – Kai – auf sich aufmerksam, der seinen Blade besitzen möchte…



Der erste Band der Reihe „Beyblade“ erzählt genau wie der Anime die Geschichte von Tyson, der für die Beyblades lebt. Diese Liebe zu diesem Spiel kann man regelrecht greifen, aber leider war es das dann auch schon. Die Geschichte ist recht wirr und für mich hat einfach der Funke gefehlt, der mich weiter bei der Stange gehalten hätte. Statt dessen sehen wir halt Kinder, die mit Kreiseln spielen, dann taucht nebenher mal noch ein Ninja auf, der Tyson zu kennen scheint und ihm einen neuen Blade gibt – abgespaceter ging es wohl kaum?? – und dann haben wir halt diese Turniere… Das war echt nicht meins und wird es wohl auch nicht mehr. Für mich hat der Manga leider keinerlei Reiz, sogar noch weniger als die Serie.



Fazit:

Ich konnte der Animeserie „Beyblade“ schon nicht wirklich etwas abgewinnen, da war es eigentlich naheliegend, dass ich auch mit dem Manga recht wenig anfangen konnte und was soll ich sagen… der Manga ist noch verwirrender und für mich einfach verschwendetes Papier, auch wenn die Zeichnungen sehr sauber sind. Aber es spricht mich nicht wirklich an.



Idee: 4/5

Charaktere: 3/5

Logik: 3/5

Spannung: 3/5

Emotionen: 2/5





Gesamt: 3/5



Daten:

ISBN: 9783899216158

Sprache: Deutsch

Ausgabe: Taschenbuch

Umfang: 184 Seiten

Verlag: Planet Manga

[Дени ★ Проданова · Rating 3 out of 5]

Едно от любимите ми анимета е по тази манга! Арта е ужасен, а сканлацията която чета е още по-зле и не знам дали носталгията ме кара да съм толкова развълнувана или самата история. Когато си гледал анимето общо взето си си спойлнал яко, нооооо :) Томчето ни запознава не с 1, а с цели двама герои, които ще се окажат важни по-нататък (като не броим нашия протагонист Тайсън). На първо място е лошия, който е от тези лоши дето не можеш да мразиш - Кай (по който си падах страшно много като бях във 5-ти клас). Другия е американското присъствие Макс (това е спойлер :D). Абе общо взето продължаваме с пара (не пълна заради отвратителния формат) напред към по-интересните томчета!

[Mssk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good

[Pamela Obodoechina · Rating 1 out of 5]

All about the videos
From Beyblade

[By Book and Bone (Sally) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I kinda love this, even if it's for how silly it is.
I remember thinking the series was kinda dumb when I was a kid but I love the manga (vol 1 anyway). It's just so brash and campy.

[Rose_pearl]

i want to lean the comci is my fav

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book definitely making me feel nostalgic.

[Jareem]

This book was amazing for bladers, and a very good book overall. My favorite beyblader in this book is Tyson. And, my favorite beyblade is Dragoon, and he's very powerful. And, Tyson's rival also is Kai. He has a very strong bey as well. His Dragoon broke to bits, so he made a new bey. Then he put Dragoons center piece on it. He new beyblade is now just as strong. He found a new friend and his friend and him are going to the championship league. They both went to the next round in the semi finals. And, then the book stopped there.

[Holly Letson · Rating 3 out of 5]

My fiance' is obsessed with all things *Beyblade*, so I promised him I would eventually read this. I finally did, and I must say this: I am not impressed. This is not to say that I hate *Beyblade*. I just happened to have watched the anime years ago - long before reading this manga volume - so, I think that spoiled me on it. The anime series, *Bakuten Shoot Beyblade* (or as the US called it, *Beyblade*), is much better than this manga. (Except that I like like that Hitoshi Kinomiya shows up sooner in the manga than the anime.) Also, the *Metal Fight Beyblade* manga seems like a better read in my personal opinion.

A few issues I have........
1. Lots of pages were cut where much of a sentence was not on the page to read. This happened throughout this volume, and was very annoying. It made it difficult to read.
2. I have always disliked the name Tyson Granger being used for Takao Kinomiya. #SorryNotSorry. Reading "Tyson" as a name always makes me think of the company that makes frozen chicken. I also didn't like "Kenny/Kyojyu" being called "Chief" throughout this volume. That is also very annoying.
3. Takao/Tyson comes across as both stubborn and stupid for not realizing that Jin is his brother, Hitoshi, even though everything Jin says and does reminds Takao of Hitoshi. I did like that the VIZ manga used Hitoshi's original name, instead of calling him Hiro, like the dubbed anime, though.

Also, if you enjoy this manga, I recommend the Future Card Buddyfight manga series as well. It's actually pretty good. It's another series my fiance' is obsessed with that I kinda got into, because of him.

[Desire Manara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Beyblades, BeyStadium y Bladers...

[Mert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Beyblade Bakuten Shoot serisi; çocukluğumun muhtemelen en sevdiğim anime serisi, televizyon başında onu bekleyerek geçirdiğim yıllar, karakterlerini çize çize defter bırakmadığım yaratı. Takao'nun Dragoon(Mavi Ejderha) ile havayı kullanarak yaptığı kasırgalar, Kai'nin Dranzer(Kırmızı Anka Kuşu) ile ateşi kullanarak yaptığı patlamalar, Rei'nin Driger(Beyaz Kaplan) ile şimşek ve toprağı kullanarak yaptığı hız gösterisi, Max'in Draciel(Yılan(Kara) Kaplumbağa) ile suyu kullanarak yaptığı savunma duvarı... Hepsini ayrı ayrı severdim. Animeden arkadaşlığı, dostluğu öğrendim. Takao ve Max ile inanmayı, destek olmayı, ruhu, pozitif bakmayı, Kai ve Rei ile çok çalışmayı, bilginin gücünü, asla pes etmemeyi öğrendim. Her bir karakter bana çok şey kattı. Ha, ben ne kadarını barındırıyorum bünyemde o ayrı. Bir saha içinde çarpışan topaçlara yüklenen anlamlar çocukluğumun en özel yerinde kalacaklar.Bu sebeple bu kadar özel olan serinin mangasına da bakmak istedim. Animesine göre hikaye açısından farklılıklar gösteren mangayı; yer yer daha başarılı, yer yer daha başarısız buldum ama yine de severek göz gezdirdim sayfaları arasında. Ancak bir manga için çok başarılı bulamadım, o yüzden de bende yeri ayrı olan ortalama bir iş olarak kalacak aklımda.

[Ace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beyblader Tyson uses his special Beyblade Dragoon to take on friends and enemies alike in the first volume of Beyblade. Tyson battles the evil gang the Blade Sharks to keep his Beyblade, facing off against leader Kai after beating Carlos in a tournament. This series will remind readers of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Megaman: NT Warrior - and there are a number of similarities between Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh!: Kai and Kaiba's personality, the presence of a blue dragon, a main character with a magic blade/card, etc.

For readers who are looking for thought-provoking subplots and substance, this is the wrong manga - rated "A" for "All Ages," Beyblade features the simplicity common in kids' manga: the characters lack depth, like Kai, who is evil for the sake of evil. Readers looking for a fun, action-packed comic that doesn't ask for too much thought will be pleasantly surprised.

[Misa Niranon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This and the second one were manga that I read while I was spending some time in the library. I am not too big a fan of 'Beyblade' at the moment but that might change once I read more about it. So far, it's still just kids playing with tops. Like back then, my favorite is still Kai. HAHA. But I've come to like Max, too.
When I was little, my cousins and I would save up and buy some Beyblades, too. It was super exciting for a little bit but then it died down because the matches weren't nearly as long. It's sort of like 'Yu-Gi-Oh!'. Seems cool but without all of the legendary monsters coming out (we didn't really have an imagination) we soon got bored pretty quickly. HAHAHA.
I mean, I still read it and didn't have too hard of a time to get through it which is why I gave it a four.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Scrappy gamers confront each other tournament-style using crazy spinning tops that are enchanted by magical animal spirits. Frankly, for manga readers who favor more involved plot and character development of any kind...this is just not for them. it reads like something that was either based off a card game or was written with the express intention of spinning off a card game, but Yu-gi-oh and Bakugan crowd who are already accustomed and entertained by exactly those kinds of scenarios will eat this up.

[Pavitar · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you read the Beyblade manga volumes from the start you will really like them! I like these ones better than the Yugioh manga volumes.

[Emi えみ Takami 鷹見 · Rating 2 out of 5]

If it weren't for the dog rescuing scene, this would be 1 star...

[Nishita Sudhir]

awesome!

[Dony Grayman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Edición española, tomo 1. Eran 14 tomos en total pero en castellano sólo se editaron los primeros cuatro.

[Neko · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bit of light hearted fun.

[Kumail Bhatiya · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book

[Bronson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked when he got in a terment.