Battle Spirits: Saga Brave

Before people doubt my scores, I must say I am biased about my own review, this is because I have literally waited almost like 9 years for a followup after watching the whole Bashin Dan series. After watching the ones before (100 episodes, I dare you to do it), you will understand why these three episodes are essential and just a good wrapup for people who have waited for ages for their Battle Spirits salvation.

I would like to note that when watching this series, keep in mind that it is imitating the style FROM 2010, meaning that there will be some things that you should judge with a 2010 mindset. Honestly, watching it now, I still think this style is already better than most modern creations.

Finally, I would like to add a point which I really am sad to say is how I don't think that it manages to give closure, it depends on how you view it as it does put a great end to the whole storyline, but some things aren't exactly cleaned up properly I would say, it really depends on what kind of ending you want, as everyone has different expectations for closure. So when watching this, keep in mind that these are simply episodes to satisfy the OG fans, just treat it like fanservice but thank the creators for actually putting an ending (however you think it is) to a great story.

*Edit*
I am not sure, but I just realised that there is another ONA that is the sequel of this, therefore I might be wrong about my views on the story, but if it did end here, that is what my opinion is...

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I'd just like to start by stating: This is a direct sequel to Brave, which is itself a direct sequel to Dan. I can guarantee that the enjoyment of someone who hasn't seen the 2 prior series would be limited.

After having watched Dan and Brave, I heard of Saga Brave, and wondered how they could add to the story. Well, this was a perfect closure for the series. It revisits the most important characters from Dan and Brave, and how they adapted to society after the events of those series.
As a series all it's own, it still has it's own plot. It's not very developped, as expected for 3 episodes of 20 minutes, which revisit prior characters, and include a card game in each. But it serves it's purpose well, and ties everything together nicely. If plot=story, I'd give it a 7.
I can't comment much on art or music, but I can say that animation wasn't bad at all, and that the soundtrack didn't stand out much. I'd give 9 for animation and 8 for sound, but anyone could argue that they deserve somewhere between 5 and 8, and I wouldn't disagree.
The new characters don't do much, and the older character don't develop much. However, since there's a time skip between Brave and Saga Brave, we see how they changed to live in the new society. If this was to review the characters as established in the previous series, I'd give between 7 and 8. But with what Saga explores, I give a 10.
I'm rating a 10 out of enjoyment. I was annoyed that the new planewalkers and saga brave (as a game mechanic) weren't explained at all, but this series was so interesting that I looked it up afterwards. I was happy the whole watch through.

Overall, I believe this series to rate a 9 out of 10. I would assume the low rating are either from people that didn't watch the prequel, or would have preferred a status quo to the world after Brave.
Or maybe I was just so overjoyed to come back to this series after the dissapointments of Zero and Burning Soul.

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