Future Card Buddyfight Triple D

This season has a good plot, it's about the trying to stop Kyoya for controlling all dragons from all worlds. I like how Gao got the Buddy, which is Bal, in a different way which is a egg, and honestly Bal is one of my favorite Buddy Monsters, because I like the way how he want to be Buddy Champions with Gao, but sometimes he acts recklessly, but he has a passionate personality, and my opinion I think he's cute in a good way. But there's some characters that I hate, these are Doctor Gara and J Genesis.

At this point, there's some spoilers, so don't ... read if you didn't watched the episodes or series. I hate Doctor Gara because he tried to control Bal to turn into a unstoppable monster by drugging him, and J Genesis for the way he defeated Gaito and Abygale in a single turn 2 times.

Hey, look, it's Not YuGiOh!

This show feels like it combines the character designs - well, the Dollar Store knock-off versions of the character designs - from the original YuGiOh, with the general setting of GX and a card game that feels like EDH Magic the Gathering and Duel Monsters had a baby, then lobotomized it.

And that's really the issue here: the card game at the heart of DDD just doesn't have enough meat to it for the games themselves to be interesting. Where YuGiOh continually invented contrived nonsense to make its games more dramatic, this game sticks to a fairly faithful adaptation of ... its rules, wherein the game frequently ends after a player takes his third turn. The players just huck cards at one another, with the rules making Turn 0 wins perfectly easy to conceive of. The MO of every player boils down to 'blitz and win through overwhelming force,' with the closest thing to a deviation being the third opponent, who has a gimmick for how he buffs his monsters to apply said overwhelming force.

Episode structure is conveniently divided into two halves, with the first half being character interactions and the second half being a card battle. The only characters of note are the protagonists, Gao and Bal. Bal behaves as Gao's kid brother, if said kid brother also happened to be a baby dragon, and winds up right on the line between endearing and obnoxious. Gao is only really a character insofar as how he plays off of Bal, to the point where he can be best described as taking a generic Shonen Anime Protagonist archetype and giving him an extremely realistic relationship with his kid brother (who is also a dragon).

Ultimately, this show fails because it follows a very obvious formula. Gao and Bal (or whomever the episode is focused on, if they wind up branching out) have some kind of fight, learn their lesson before the match starts, have some kind of solidification of what they learned mid-match, and then decide things by throwing cards at the opponent until they die. While this happens the commentator will insist that he won't be surprised, then immediately be surprised by whatever happens next, complete with over-the-top reaction shot. Only one thing happens to break this cycle in three episodes, and it amounts to the anime flat-out ignoring the game's rules after pretending it was going to stick to them, just so that Gao wouldn't be accused of being invincible.

Once more unto the breach. After Hundred ended with a somewhat satisfying conclusion to the story, I was actually intrigued at what new ideas and storylines Triple D could introduce into the show to prevent me from banging my head against a wall. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be. The way this season comes across, it feels like it was written by someone who not only didn’t work on the first two seasons and someone whose only knowledge of the first two season’s plot comes from highlight clips on YouTube, and if you look at the writer’s filmography, that feeling that Triple D gives ... you suddenly makes a whole lot of sense. The plot is so intergalactically stupid that even watching it in Japanese as background noise gives you a headache. I mean for example, when villains introduced this season get arrested, it’s actually shocking because for some reason previous season villains like Kyoya are still free and still plotting evil. The character development and plotting is so beyond childish, it feels like it is insulting the intelligence of any children actually watching this. In fact, it contains such childish nonsense as Kyoya being allowed to roam free by authorities when he keeps obviously getting up to evil and Gao’s future wife keeps drooling over him. Honestly, just when I thought I couldn’t keep getting angry about it, because it was running out of things to aggravate me, it just gets on my nerves again. I have watched nearly sixty nine total hours of the Buddyfight series, totaling over four thousand minutes culminating in one hundred and sixty five episodes. If they could’ve just cut the three seasons down into three seasons of thirteen episodes, it would make it so much better.