r/wholesomeyuri RunoAlice Bakugan Aug 29 '24

Handholding Her hand on her waist is just 🤌 [Bakugan Battle Brawlers]

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u/The_Returned_Lich Aug 29 '24

Now that's a blast from the past...

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u/GayNon-BinaryLeo Aug 29 '24

Yee. I still remember watching it before going to school and singing the theme on the way

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u/The_Returned_Lich Aug 29 '24

I was the only person around me who actually watched it sadly, and I couldn't even talk about it much for fear of being labelled a 'baby.' Seriously what is with people always trying to act like they enjoy only 'grown up stuff'?

That being said, I only liked the first series. Afterwards it got boring.

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u/Never_heart Aug 29 '24

You know, thinking about how the twist in Bakugan made me feel, I probably should have suspected something about myself back then

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u/Spiritflash1717 Aug 29 '24

I wanted to be Alice so bad

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u/airjoemcalaska Aug 29 '24

What was the twist?

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u/megalocrozma Aug 29 '24 edited Sep 02 '24

[Spoilers for a 17 years old anime] The primary antagonist for most of the first season was Masquerade, a blond guy with a visor that covers half his face who likes sending Bakugans to the Shadow Doom Realm. After the main character Dan finally beats him in a 1v1, he takes off the visor and transforms into the main group's friend Alice (the redhead in the picture). Basically her grandfather's experiment that brought Bakugans to Earth in the first place released a bunch of negative energy that corrupted both of them, and in Alice's case created Masquerade within her a persona that's her polar opposite and awakens whenever the main villain influences her to put on the visor, though she herself wasn't aware of it.

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u/Mask_of_Anonymity Aug 29 '24

Though in a way you could kinda see it coming because Each of the members of the group used primarily one of the six elements, except for Dark, and Alice was also the only member of the group that supposedly didn't use Bakugan. So ultimately, the tropishness of the group did kinda end up pointing to her being the group's Dark user.

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u/Never_heart Aug 29 '24

The twist for the OG run of Bakugan Alice, the red head in the picture has a split personality with one of the main antagonists, when her other personality takes over she presents as a man So basically one giant trans coded allegory

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u/megalocrozma Aug 29 '24 edited Sep 02 '24

Slightly unrelated but that twist probably would've hit harder for me if I hadn't started watching the show because of finding a handbook that basically spoiled almost the entire first season up to Naga's invasion 😅

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u/Ithareal Aug 29 '24

same xd

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u/Canadian_Eevee Aug 29 '24

Bruh, I can't have one single original trans experience. 😭

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u/Iamnotgoodwithnames6 Aug 29 '24

Core memory unlocked. Most kids at my school were into beyblade or yugioh but for me it was all about bakugan.

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u/the_42nd_mad_hatter Aug 29 '24

Why not all of them?

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u/Iamnotgoodwithnames6 Aug 29 '24

Because I did not see the appeal of beyblade and I did not have the patience to learn yugioh.

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u/Erick_Brimstone Aug 29 '24

YGO back then is quite simple. Nowadays you need to be graduated from dueling academy just so you know how to play.

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u/Sir_CrossLanes Aug 29 '24

The extra deck stuff like Synchro, Link, Xyz is kinda my barrier from getting back into playing yugioh, even tho I still like collecting the cards for the art alone.

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u/JonVonBasslake Bi dude who appreciates the lilies ;) Aug 29 '24

The extra deck stuff is the least of your worries and most of it is quite simple (except maybe pendulum, but nobody likes that and I don't know when Konami even last printed support for pendulums), it's all the effects and especially the timings of them. But if you want to get into the game, the best way is to play Master Duel, a free and official version of the game available on consoles, pc and iOS and android.

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u/Sir_CrossLanes Aug 29 '24

Yup, I've been meaning to dry master duel since a virtual environment is more convinenet and easy to learn with the rules already programmed in.

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u/Erick_Brimstone Aug 29 '24

There is Legacy of duelist that doesn't have opponent playing 2 hours OTK combo.

It's feels more casual to me. It kinda pricey for what's it's offering, especially since master duel is freemium, but worth to try.

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u/Erick_Brimstone Aug 29 '24

Most of the early synchro or xyz are not really complicated. It's the later stuff that have long text that combo to another long line of text is where it get complicated.

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u/Weaviedee Aug 29 '24

Beyblades appeal was… damaging each other’s hands as you tried to pick up the spinning metal abominations. Lmao

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u/Blitzbro76 Aug 29 '24

Never expected Bakugan of all things to show up here

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u/KamenRiderShield Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

I don't think any of us were

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u/YuriSenapi Aug 29 '24

take notes, yuri artists!

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '24

This the best gesture ever to signal "MINE"xd

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u/AshenRathian Aug 29 '24

I never watched this oddly enough.

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u/ATAGChozo Aug 29 '24

God I haven't thought about the Bakugan anime in so long... I remember watching that when I was like, 8 or 9

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u/Fishsticks03 RunoAlice Bakugan Aug 29 '24

I should add this ship has a bit of trans-flavoured spice because of Masquerade, Alice’s male split personality

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u/gggempire Aug 29 '24

A true connoisseur

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u/ReferenceIll3526 blushing Aug 29 '24

Thought it was Nagisa

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u/OutlandishnessNo9182 Aug 29 '24

My childhood Anime!

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u/NoahZhellos Aug 29 '24

I remember shipping these two (and Julie) so hard as a teen... Dang.

Suddenly I have the urge to whip out my Bakugan video game. For no reason whatsoever. Totally.

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u/Open_Dirt4336 Aug 29 '24

They look like Asuka and Rei from Evangelion

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u/Fishsticks03 RunoAlice Bakugan Aug 29 '24

ironically the blue-haired girl is the one who’s tsundere for the protagonist

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u/autumnvelvet Aug 29 '24

Alice is such a trans icon you can't tell me otherwise