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All of them?

Some I don't really mind like KaRe, but I can't stand KaiTaka because it's so mistaken in its own genre (and because the fandom are extreme cultists and that bothers me, but that's another issue...)

hmm...i dont seem to get MaxMariam but it doesnt mean i hate it but i just dont get it...HilaryKai is a big NO NO to me..

There was nothing to suggest a ReiMao relationship in the anime, I agree that far because there was nothing to suggest anything passed friendship between the beybladers anyway.

I'm sure some people have realised that relationships were only present in the Adult characters, even going as far as Judy/Romero in one scene...


Yuriy/Julia is wtf because I swear some people only base pairings on hair colour. Yuriy or Kai/Hilary is just no. She was shown to like Takao anyway.

Bottom line: I don't like child pairings in my Shonen, but I would accept them if they were actually evident.

i really agree on this one...if Kenny were to have feelings for one of those 3...i dont know how will they react...it is soooo disturbing...

Kai. And all of the main characters, really. They're 10 and 12 year olds in series 1.

Maybe Aoki Takao saw the Max thing that way, he and Kenny were the only BladeBreakers shown without children. It freaked them out enough when Makoto called them 'uncles'...

I'm not taking offence, I'm surprised no ones screamed at me yet, my opinion and belief on this is strong.
What I'm trying to say is, like someone once said, if there were to be actual formed relationships then you would see them. No reaching around in the dark looking for 'clues' that aren't there or are mistaken for friendships.

So let's assess these clues.

In series one, we see that Rei has a crush on a famous lady, he blushes when his friends find out he got her autograph. In his battle with Mao, it is hinted that they might be more than friends. Kai says to him, battles must be won with the head and not the heart. The younger bladers are only shown to be interested in battling, teamwork and friendship.

In VForce Max is shown to have an interest in girls but only to the point of being charming. Kenny says in one episode 'but Max doesn't have a girlfriend' when it is hinted he is fighting Marium.
Takao shows the typical love/hate interest in Hilary but this does not continue in GRevolution, they are shown to be typical friends who have known each other for a while. In this series, the only noticeable thing is Kenny is shown to have a crush on MingMing.

And that's all I recall of 'hints'. And does anything ever come from these short-lived crushes in the anime? No.

Timeskip towards the future in the manga. Rei has a child with Mao, what a surprise... and the two main rivals have one child, boys none the less, who are also interested in Beyblading and happen to be fighting each other. Pulled away from family life (not sure if Takao had a job) and work at Hiwatari Industries the two main rivals join up again, to what, declare that they always loved each other secretly? Have an adult conversation about how their lives are going? No, they Bey-battle, of course. It's what the young readers are delighted to see as closure for the series. "They're grown ups, but they still get to play with the tops I think are so fun!"

They are 12-14 year olds that are only beginning to discover relationships, thus why this Shonen only shows crushes. The responsible adults form relationships to breed the new generation of Beybladers. But that is shown to be a small aspect of the show.

This show is aimed at young boys. They don't watch it for relationship 'hints', they watch it for what you can't miss; the battling.

It seems young boys can see the true purpose better than anyone else.
Shonen are about friendship. Look at Naruto, the most that happens is Sakura and Ino have a crush on Sasuke, Naruto has a crush on Sakura and Hinata has a crush on Naruto. It's a triangle thrown in for some comic relief.
These pairings won't happen until much later or a special chapter at the end as we've seen in Beyblade.

If Beyblade was about relationships and Yaoi then it would be classified as another genre of anime, not Shonen, and it wouldn't be made to make 8 year old boys scream at mom to buy them those cool new battle tops that their favourite characters have.


After all those Bey-battles is there really any left...

It's a 2-Dimensional cartoon with poor character development, designed to be action-filled enough for parents' wallets everywhere to make undesired contributions to the Takara and Hasbro companies. We were given what was expected; a few 'crush' scenes to fill up the air time outside of battling.

I know most of the girls in the fandom watch it for the apparent pairing side of it, but to see the rest you have to see it in the point of view of a boy, I suppose. There's the actual Hobby side I like as well that completely disregards the characters beyond the product boxes and bitbeast stickers.

I suppose you need quite a good imagination to watch Shonen if you're not an 8 year old boy...

I want to make it clear I have no problem with people supporting pairings in Shonen, it's just when they take it too far that irks me, to the point where they get violent and protective of fake characters over real people etc. Also the way people ignore aspects to make their OTP 'better' than other people's, causing them to cause offense to others. I mean it's a show and some people treat it like a cult.



The second series does fill in that gap from what I've seen, at least for one aspect. Though it was a rather prompt change still between the first and second series. The first time we see him in VForce he says something like "I didn't know you knew such a pretty lady" (To Hilary) or something vaguely along those lines. That blends nicely into G Revolution the way we see he treats Emily in his first match. Moving back to America helped him mature in general.



That's one view and it depends on what type of person you are.
Beyblade is set, done, finished in its own purpose. It ran through the set amount of years, released a set amount of products, hosted the tournaments, websites etc. all on official terms. The other side is the unofficial fans that extended it and changed it. But unless someone is making a huge amount of money from something copyrighted to Beyblade, the officials don't exactly care.

It comes down to the fact I'm an extremely logical person. If something isn't in anime then why should I make it up, especially when other factors make it all the more unlikely (e.g second generations from het couplings as proof.)
It's just that Aoki Takao never struck me as the type of Mangaka that likes to draw BL or include anything more than proper couplings in adult characters. I understand Japanese Mangaka are catching onto the fact Yaoi and pairings are big business but even then, if Aoki Takao created this Beyblade for the show's products, and there was a large majority of girl readers instead of the young boys who were mostly meant to be the target audience, then perhaps the companies would consider changing the merchandise to plushies and changing it from a Shonen to something else.

But saying that, do people want what their respected author had in mind, or what he and the sponsored companies would possibly twist and create in response to getting more money from fangirls if they were the majority?