“Sixth-grader Bashin enters a sky arena where Battle Spirits cards become real, seeking his missing father's truth.”
Battle Spirits: Shounen Toppa Bashin
バトルスピリッツ 少年突破バシン
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Synopsis
Sixth-grader Bashin enters a sky arena where Battle Spirits cards become real, seeking his missing father's truth.
Energetic and thrill-seeking sixth grader Toppa Bashin has his mind set on only one thing—the card game Battle Spirits. Bearing a ruby pendant inherited from his missing father, Bashin heads to school every day with excitement: not for academics, but for card battling, much to the chagrin of his peers. One day, Bashin encounters J, the child prodigy champion of Battle Spirits, who bears a similar pendant. Star-struck, Bashin challenges J to a battle. However, the battle he gets is one he did not anticipate; the two are teleported to a mysterious arena in the sky—the Isekai World—where Spirits from the game become real. Feeling that his dream is finally within arm's reach, Bashin dives headfirst into the Isekai World, encountering other card battlers with extraordinary pendants. While making his way to the top, he slowly realizes that there is more to Battle Spirits than he ever imagined.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.47 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.80
Running avg · Aug 2010 → Jun 2024
- 9 “Battle Spirits Shounen Toppa Bashin is a very cute show, I'd say it's card game Medabots. Like there's this very down to earth element among the sheer supernatural of it all. And also it's a very...”
- 8 “I would not recommend this anime unless you're already familiar with the card game. They don't explain the rules of the game in this show so I expect it would be fairly confusing for a newcomer....”
- 8 “This series has no reviews, so I figured I might as well write one, as it's a favorite of mine. Story: Admittedly, not the strongest part of this anime. It's very much a slice-of-life series, and...”
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- Format 50 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 19h 10m all episodes
- Aired Sep 2008 – Sep 2009 Fall 2008
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-3945 catalog
Produced by
- Toei Animation Producer
- Sotsu Producer
- Nagoya Broadcasting Network Producer