Yu perfectly embodies the "Boss when you fight him vs when you unlock him as a playable character" meme

Yu still got more screen time than other characters like why was characters like sora even introduced he completely got forgotten

What’s crazy is his win loss ratio is still better than Masamunes

Yu's comeback in metal fury was good though. He helped in the final battle and he held his own against 2 legendary bladers. As for forgotten characters from fusion it's because most of them were meant to serve as episodic villains. As for larger antagonists that didn't come back like Regi or Damian it's a pretty safe assumption that they just quit beyblade. They did beyblade for all the wrong reasons and they never gave a crap about "true beyblade" so when their ideologies were defeated they quit. Redemption is not for everyone and the characters that got it like Chris, Julian, Zeo, and even Jack to a lesser extent, did originally have the blader's spirit.

Yu was definitely my favourite character

Yu was so powerful they had to keep destroying his Beyblade just so he couldn’t battle lmao

bro went from defeating Kyoya and Gingka to losing to masamune 💀

Bro got done so dirty. I could name 4 different times where Yu got knocked out 💀. Not only that, bro got clapped in every match he was in.

I remember in Metal Masters treated Yu as an utter joke such as how he hasn't competed in the world championship as much as Gingka, Masamune and Tsubasa even when he and Tsubasa were hospitalized in the US cause of Damian

Yu is probably one of my fav character

Yu still won more battles than masamune though

I think the world tournament should've include a tag team match by default so yu can have more involvement + his defeat especially on the hands of sophie was bs because he didn't have any issues battling hyuma in fusion despite the stadium being surrounded by water

0:54 you are forgetting the fact that Damian also suffered this fate. And he got it way worse than yu. Damian suffered through this the worst. He was last seen on a boat escaping with jack. It is unknown what even happened to him. At least we know what happened to yu when the series ended

I agree with your pick but another character I feel was forgotten is Hyoma. He made his debut in episode 15 of Metal Fusion and continued to appear regularly. I’d say he was in about 20 or episode in Metal Fusion. Then in Metal Masters it went really down hill for him as I’d say he only appeared in 3-4 episodes. Yeah the season focused on the world tournament but I a feel like he could of been shown a bit more like Kenta. In Metal Fury he is only shown in one clip for about 3 or seconds in one of the final episodes. I think they could have done a bit more with his character after Metal Fusion.

I feel like it goes without saying that Yu is undoubtedly one of the strongest bladders. However, Metal Masters doesn't treat Yu like that and often bends itself to hurt Yu narratively which makes him look weak by default unfortunately. It doesn't help that by Metal Fury legendary bladders are pretty much gods, so anyone who isn't one is pretty much hurt by default. Although I will give credit and say that Metal Fury did try and give Yu some justice by making him hold his own against Tithi and Kyoya and even broke through Nemesis' barrier.

I always thought yu should’ve battled argo and won and he also should’ve battled nowaguma instead of aleksey. Tsubasa had that dope ass battle literally the match before it kind of felt like yu needed redemption throughout the series. I’d rather see Yu use final inferno blast in this match than in metal fury to show that he also has grown with the rest of the team

He wasn't forgotten he was just done dirty

Yu's f*ck you to Jack was elite.

Wouldve been weird narratively because of the seasonal thing, but Yu 100% could've gotten Orion. Phantom Libra B:D is really a spiritual upgrade to Flame Libra T125ES.

Yu got nerfed and powercrept for NO REASON. 😐😑😐

Like... it could have been easy to make Yu the last one standing in the Garcia battle. Tsubasa got his spotlight (and would later get it again when he battles Jack in the Hades City arc). Yu was the one who got jumped so he had a grudge to settle. The battle could have been. Enzo

Yu may not have done anything battle-wise against Sophie and Wales, but he did knock some sense into Tsubasa, so there's that

Yu was my fav character as a kid until tsubasa showed up ofc. Dude was silly and OP!!!! I could never find a flame libra when i used to beyblade hunt and they did him so dirty. A1 vid bro

I feel the problem is Yus abilities would be to hard to write around I mean the guy can creat shields, shot sonic waves, turn the stadium to sand, and has a Aoe type of special move, plus his hyper intelligence. In any battle he is the focus of his abilities would be hard to create tension.

Thanks for making inciteful videos like this one

In all honesty, I don't think that metal masters ruined Yu's character. Yu being the sub member did make sense considering that Gingka surpassed him during battle bladers, Tsubasa was arguably stronger than Yu since they battled in metal fusion, and Masamune did beat Yu in a difficult battle. Even as a sub member, Yu was still skilled and strong in battle, only losing to strong bladers or to the treachery of the Garcia family. I like Yu Tendo throughout all of the metal fight beyblade series.

I wish the dark tsubasa storyline evolved eagle

They should have made it that he was destroying benkei and demure but then tsubasa turned on him because of the dark power but it took them having trouble to even trigger the dark power in the first place . Which is impossible because both of them can solo benkei and demure . They put themselves in a logical bind plotwise with this one . Also he shouldn't lose to sophie but he didn't know her special move yet so .

I hate how weak they made Yu in Masters. In Fusion, he literally fought Ryuga. In Masters he's a joke. I'd like to see Yu vs Jack. Imagine Jack just carving the arena while Yu turned the arena into sands. But at least Yu was a beast in Fury, holding his own against Tithi, a Legendary Blader and managed to destroy Nemesis' barrier

That powercreep for you, once relevant characters are now to weak to carry on in the story. Take Tien from dragon ball as an example, they had a similar role in the originals dragon ball series that Yu had, but in Z and super there mostly forgotten about.

While Yu did loose a lot of focus between seasons, at least he was there and still helped. So many characters from the first season that had potential were kicked to the curve afterwards. I mean look at Rutero for example, he had pretty crazy abilities. So imagine him in Metal Masters. I can easily see him pulling a Kiyoya and being on the Russian team. Or Captain Caprihelping the Garcias

Nostalgia purposes yes dark tsubasa storyline is cool fun and liked but all it did was to bring ryuga back and get tsubasa stronger and they couldve done both w/o the storyline tbh and still used Yu and masamune better

I would have had the Garcia's be a foil to Yu. Let it be his moment to have an arc with the characters, as he gets jumped by them, and then ultimately beat Argo. Have the match order be Masamune Vs Enzo, Tsubasa vs Enzo, Tsubasa Vs Selen, Tsubasa vs Ian, Gingka vs Ian, Argo getting the jump on Gingka and Yu beating Argo by creating his own new special move, maybe something close to his Final Inferno Blast but maybe more directed at a beyblade as opposed to the sky. Tsubasa didn't really need that fight with Argo

At least in metal fury he gets a new special mouve that was equel to kyoyas special move and then against rago he helped destroy the dome

Yeah, I really felt sorry for how much he's fallen. I still like him

Realistically Yu could have defeated every non leader blader except the American team and maybe Nile. He has both sharp eye sight and good hearing and is his own genius.His bey has Amazing stamina, his infernal blast is unstoppable unless you have a direct counter or have a attack of a giant scale that can match him.

You know they nerfed him when he could end the battle against Benkey and Damur by throwing that green energy move he has… but he didn't use it 🤡

Beyblade since it's original first season unfortunately has a pattern of introducing new characters with awesome power and victories against the mainliners of the show and then after they get beat by them, they fall pretty hard. In beyblade we see robert of the majestics whooping tyson's ass and he a few episodes later he joins kai and more bladers to fight tyson alone for the tala battle. The saint shields in vforce win a few times and even steal driger and thej they all get swept. Tala per se is the perfect example of a super powerful blader that turns into a sideline losing character (i kinda be mad at the writers for that although tala in the burst bladebreakers manga whoops tyson's ass badly so im fine with that lol) and in metal series we have Yu as you said and think that in fury, agoma made a stand in the tournament and then starts losing to everyone. Still for me the biggest bs on the metal saga is the fact that kyoya was not able to defeat gingka one time, specially because he was almost defeating ryuga and he only lost because the dark powerd took ryuga over. Great video!

He was 5th in Metal fusion after Gingka Ryuga Ryo(Phoenix) Kyoya and Tsubasa. Should have stayed that way or he should have gotten better. Yu lost to Masamune but Masamune felt weaker than him considering all the time Masamune lost later on.

Loving Yu is a loosing game 🎶

I personally fantasized if a series in which sora is the main character. Kenta is his mentor and Yu us his rival/freind. Yu is a good sidecharacter . And the antagonists would be hades henchmen but not johannes .

Yu is a great character but the fact is he was never supposed to be a main one and it's a gift we got so much of him instead of kenta .

To this day, I wish they did more with Sora. His episodes were really fun to watch since it simultaneously showcased his development of going from a cocky underdog to someone who stands up for the innocent and also Kenta's by putting him in a mentor position which was interesting since Kenta himself was the "newbie" among Gingka's friend group. Even his bey was great, easily my favorite from Metal Fusion.

Yu Tendo is literally my fav character & Libra was my fav beyblade I believe Yu went from 3rd most OP (Survival battle) to finishing the season as 7th / 8th overall in the season ( behind Gingka Ryuga Kyoya Phoenix Reji Tsubasa & Doji ) Metal masters story arc for Yu was relatively expected as by process of elimination Yu was so OP in the qualifiers, yet got dogged on by Masamune n Tsubasa ( Yes my guy lost like 3 decisive matches just within the first few episodes ) Where I hoped to see more importance was when Yu & Tsubasa goes more 2v2 I wanted to see Yu actually dominate his opponents by just solo-Ing with inferno blast & taking over in small lapses Tsubasa went crazy ( like don’t just be screaming at him to snap out, you’re there to fight n show ur power too ) Only bright side for Yuu in metal fury was Final Inferno Blast & actually being included to fight nemesis, my fav bey n relatable character got dogged on the whole series Personally looking back at it, Yuu n flame libra has its limit as a character ( as Libra is just a scale and there’s not much constellation animation able to fight), if I could change the story is that I won’t let him get beat down as much, the show literally paced Inferno Blast like a special move every freaking Bey could break through just with sheer power. Man has the most broken bey counter in beyblade at like 5-6 times man it hurts

getting yamcha'd so hard man

Yu is easily the most screwed over character.

Sora 💔

Yu sadly is the original victim of the renji effect

In Metal fusion when Yu tried to use his sand moves against Kyoya he wasn't able to escape that trap, But in Metal fury when Yu made his New Final Inferno blast against Kyoya he was able to use all his power and survive Yu new move

Strength-wise for Yu: Metal Fury >> Metal Fusion >> Metal Masters. If you were to put the Metal fusions/Fury versions of Yu in metal masters? He’d dominated a major of the characters(Masamune, the twin jewels, and the Garcia’s).

Yeah his character took a backseat

I think its because yu never trains

You haven’t talked about his battles against Kyoya and Tithi in season 3

They should've made Yu stronger in Metal Masters

The reason why his fall from grace was noticeable is that all his fellow strong bladers have gotten more powerful gingka acquired galaxy pegasus ryuga & kyoya left to do their respective training arc coming back even more powerful than ever & tsubasa got his sub plot of beating the dark power & makes it his own he swiftly defeated both sophie & wale who were un movable before later he defeated an opponent leader in full power & masamune beating yu was a huge disservice to the character because masamune lost for over 20 times against beginner galaxy pegasus & now he defeated yu that's so bad for him yu didn't get any stronger it felt like he actually regressed he no longer can survive underwater & he don't have any notable battles of his own he got destroyed twice leaving him out of commission which didn't help his case either

I feel like Yu was introduced to us in Fusion as “too strong.” Ngl him beating Gingka off rip should’ve lead to something more down the line but it never did. Idk maybe he should’ve drew with Gingka in the survivor final battle so that it could give them a reason to having the battle bladers tournament as a tournament to really decide who is the strongest amongst the 2 (and all the others). Just an idea

I'm still bitter of how Yu was treated in metal masters. They put him aside in favour of Masamune who was the worst player of that team and lost all of his battles, but one maximum two if I remember correctly.. 🤪

Nah you have to talk about Hikaru. She had so much potential man…she definitely had it the worst.

Yu should of replaced Kinta

Yu wasn’t even top 5 💀

Before I watch this video He was not top three in fusion gingka , kyoya , ryuga , reji and tsubasa beat him from. What I remember .