Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The countdown turns a toy top into a duel: three beats of held breath, then everybody lets go at once. It works as a call to commit, which is why fans shout it at the start of anything from a game of Beyblade in the playground to a first pitch at work. It outlived the series it came from because it became the real starting signal of the toy game, and every later Beyblade generation kept it.
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In context
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The countdown is the launch call of Beyblade, the spinning-top battle anime that began on TV Tokyo on 8 January 2001. Both bladers count down together and then shout the final phrase as they fire their Beyblades into the stadium dish. In Japan the last words are "Go Shoot!"; "Let it rip!" is the English version, heard from the first episode of the English dub, when Tyson launches his Dragoon blade against Billy's blade at a Beystadium. The call recurs in every battle of the three seasons, and it became the official starting signal of the real toy game.
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- Beyblade Wiki: Let's Beyblade! (English opening theme)Trivia sectionReference checked
- Beyblade Wiki: Beyblade - Episode 01episode summaryReference checked
- Beyblade Wiki: Bakuten Shoot Beyblade (anime)series infoboxReference checked
- Beyblade Wiki: Beyblade (toy)Rules sectionsReference checked
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