Tribe Cool Crew, Brave Beats Recommendations
Brave Beats is the spiritual successor to Tribe Cool Crew. Both are kids' shows which have dancing as the main focus. Several voice actors are shared between the two shows, as the shows were made in very close temporal proximity to one another by a lot of the same staff members. Furthermore, Brave Beats actually has several references to Tribe Cool Crew within it, including such easter eggs as a tea brand with the name and face of one of the Tribe Cool Crew characters on it.
Tribe Cool Crew is aimed at older children than Brave Beats is, and has a variety of episodic
plots in a larger dancing tournament-based storyline. Brave Beats is aimed toward a younger audience than Tribe Cool Crew is, and adopts a "Team Rocket"-style antagonist duo for the main characters to defeat in a dance battle each episode.
I firmly believe Tribe Cool Crew to be the better show, largely due to its better cast of characters and an absolutely stellar soundtrack. The side characters in Tribe Cool Crew are what really allow the show to shine, with the Yuji from the Ba9on Machineguns and Lui and Moe from LuiMoe being particular standouts. The songs are awesome too, with such tracks as Crazy Burst ~ROLLIN BA9ON MACHINEGUNS, CREST HOUSE, GET READY, and WORLD END. A few songs are a bit of a miss though, including the often-used remix of Heartbeat, the main opening theme. This song in particular is why Tribe Cool Crew's opening few episodes are so weak, because they reuse this song and dance almost every episode for the first 15 or so episodes--so, if you don't like the song like me, it can be really rough to get through.
Brave Beats, on the other hand, has side characters that are not particularly important. I don't actually remember any of them. Brave Beats does have an interesting set of three main characters though, with the typical shounen protagonist archetype, the typical female sidekick to that shounen protagonist archetype, and then very strangely a well-meaning rich kid as the final member.
Tribe Cool Crew does have some of its own problems, including the evil dance "Crowd High" being based on a dance historically invented and performed by an ethnic minority group (as far as I know). Brave Beats also has things to like--I enjoy some of the songs in Brave Beats, as well as the mascot character "bunny." However, both shows face similar problems in terms of representation for young girls, with both shows only having one type of female character within them--that being a very feminine one.
Ultimately, Brave Beats is closely intertwined with Tribe Cool Crew due to the shared production staff, voice actors, easter eggs, and more. If you liked Tribe Cool Crew, I could tentatively say it might be worth watching the first few episodes of Brave Beats if you so choose. If you watched Brave Beats, I HIGHLY recommend watching Tribe Cool Crew.
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Both involve dancing as the main device of the show. Both share the same producer and company. Both feature a teenage male and female character who appear to work together in dancing.
