Trivia / B-Daman Crossfire

• Acclaimed Flop: Despite the show's good story and well-developed characters, it did not do well in sales for selling the toys and advertisement for it was little to none. Not to mention the premise of the show, which many will view as another Mon series, came out during the time its sister franchise was still ongoing. Most likely due to Takara Tomy favouring Beyblade due to its wider success in the west, and Hasbro's Totally Radical Gross-Out Show marketing.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: A few examples...
  • Mona Marshall (who also voiced Bull in the original Battle B-Daman) is voicing Riki.
  • Samuru is voiced by Wendee Lee.
  • Kaito’s voiced by Erin Fitzgerald
  • Simon is voiced by Katie Leigh
  • Rudy is voiced by Dorothy Elias-Fahn
• Dueling Shows: With Beyblade: Shogun Steel. Interestingly, during its run in Japan, it was this to Beyblade: Metal Fury. This despite being based on another product from the same company, basically resulting in self-competition. This almost certainly led to the toyline's failure in the West, besides Hasbro's Misaimed Marketing.
• Misaimed Marketing: Hasbro's advertisement of the franchise is about as 2012 as you can get — a combination of the Totally Radical slogan "Be da Man! B-Daman!" and gross-out humor. It felt like they were aiming it at young kids as "the cool thing the older kids like", but it didn't particularly appeal to either. Fans of Battle B-Daman weren't even that excited, since it tried to be "hip with the kids" instead of showing off some of its admittedly improved features.
• Missing Episode: Episodes 20, 21, and 22 were accidentally skipped in favor of Digimon Fusion arriving in January. Luckily, Vortexx place the missing episodes on their website.
• The Other Darrin: Returning characters from Crossfire got new VAs in due to studios switching. Fireblast being voiced by the The Ocean Group and their sister studio, Blue Waters.
• Playing Against Type: Bryce Papenbrook who usually voices Nice Guy characters, voicing the not so nice Basara Kurochi.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Johnny Yong Bosch would've voiced Kamon in Fireblast if it weren't for the studio change.
  • The anime was going to head Cartoon Network in the west but ended up in Vortexx, the last kind of Saturday morning cartoon block.

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