Bakugan? BAKA-gaijin!!!

clipped from ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com Last week while taking the train home, I saw a kid with his head buried in some kind of Bakugan guide, and it got me thinking. The first thing was that it reminded me of when I used to sit on the same train with a printed Pokemon pokedex, pouring over move lists and trying to imagine new movesets in strategies. It filled me with a sense of nostalgia. The second thing was that it got me thinking about the future of anime. clipped from static.squidoo.com clipped from ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com Bakugan, one of those collecting and battling game franchises designed to separate kids from their money, has an anime to act as a half-hour commercial for the product. It’s one of the latest in a long line of merchandising engines, from Pokemon to Digimon to Yugioh to Beyblade and so on. The shows can still be pretty decent; there’s no illusion about their true purpose, but it doesn’t mean they can’t be entertaining.

Bakugan è uno di quei franchises architettati per separare i ragazzi dai loro soldi.

E' il più recente di una lunghissima linea di merchandising da Pokemon a Digimon a Yu-gi-oh a Beyblade e così via.

Gli episodi (talvolta) possono perfino essere decenti, ma non ci si illude mai su quello che è il loro vero scopo: vendere figurine, pupazzetti e carabattole varie.

Che tristezza.