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Okay, I would like to point out just how varied those scores are, i'll explain that as we go.

Bakuten Shoot Beyblade 2002 (Beyblade V-Force in the U.S.) is a tragic failure at a series.

Story-
Now, except for G-rev Beyblade fails at stories. This is the worst of it. There's more coherency in a drunk dad solo song at a wedding than in this. You'll never know where you're at in the story until the last 3 eps and other than that it offers nothing new or exciting.

Art-
Good, not butt ugly, it's passable and the CG blades look nice. The problem is consistency. Last season the characters looked 14 to 15. They look like 11 year olds here. There's just a lack of follow-through that hurts what could be a fun art style.

Sound-
Suffers from generic songs. The Japanese version has increasingly generic music that bores that they can put on for you to ignore while you watch a terrible show. Don't ask about the dub, it suffers from the Rap in anime plague.

Characters-
Let me get something straight. Beyblade has one of the better main character sets in anime; their main 5-6 I absolutely adore; however, I dock 4 points for this season specific characters. All the season 2 only characters here are badly designed, generic, annoying, and there's more of them than periods in War and Peace. Good luck keeping up with them.

Enjoyment-
Only if you're a sadist can you enjoy this. It's generic, you can't follow it, and you shouldn't try.

Overall-
I'm not giving it a 1 just because of the main characters, the fact that the art isn't in itself terrible and the sound isn't terrible. If it didn't have the mains, this would be unwatchable. read more

Ah Nadesico, how I love thee. Personally, this is my favorite anime for multiple reasons, so let's just take a look at what makes this show worth it. Nadesico follows a fry cook reluctantly turned pilot through his screwball life in outer space with multiple dysfunctional characters exploited a hysterical level. Normally, this spells generic, but Nadesico takes a different approach to it.

The show's most endearing trait is its ability to stay upbeat despite the fact that this show follows a war in space that threatens the extinction of the earth. You will never truly feel saddened by any major plot points except for a possible one or two that will be painstakingly obvious once you watch the show. This ability to stay upbeat keeps a viewer from wanting to stray away from the series out of depression or just plain seeing too much of the same sad story. Nadesico can hook you in. Yeah, there's some dark spots, but Nadesico has the ability to go straight from light to dark back and forth over and over like points on a heart monitor.

The next most important trait is Nadesico's characters. I've already noted that they're dysfunctional beyond belief, what more could you want me to say? Oh yeah, they're so likable it'll kill you inside. There's a strange ability that the writers gave this show that allows the characters to all grate on each other yet grow closer to you. The interactions always breed chaos and this just makes things like a trainwreck, impossible not to watch.

Clocking in at the bronze medal trait is the themes of the story. Yeah, I know I sort of talked about this at first, but you don't understand something. This is more about just how quickly your viewpoints change on things throughout the series. Your feelings towards everything just fly out of control and from then on it's just fun fun fun...

The honorable mention goes to the VAs. Normally, I do find subs to be slightly better, if it's close i'll watch it, but Nadesico's dub is at least equal to, if not better than the sub. You owe it to yourself to watch the dub and at least try it before immediately going sub.

There's alot more awesome stuff about Nadesico, what I said barely scratches the surface, but I can't write you a 30-page essay on it so take the scores and what's already been said to heart and watch/buy this. read more