In Masquerade Ball, Dan then tried to get Drago to talk but to no avail. Dan was surprised hearing Drago talking to Fear Ripper and he decides that he was imagining that he was talking. After the vision was over, Drago and Fear Ripper appeared in the field and Drago was able to defeat him, giving Dan the victory. Drago tries to make him stop fighting with him. Later he was challenged to a rematch, which he accepts. When Dan first appears, he is seen riding his bike to the park, where he is supposed to battle Shuji. With the Switch code, he is also able to combine his key and Drago's gate to summon his Methogan, Zenthon and Zenthon Titan. He no longer has this after he clashes with Mag Mel during their battle on reverse world, which causes him to lose his link with him.
When he gain a switch code on Season 4, Dan always has mental link by Mag Mel which results he always gets a pain in his head whenever he heard his voice or gets haunted by a horrified vision even for a temporary, due the power of switch code not yet completed. On Season 2, he is shown to telepathically hear Spectra's voice to rematch their battle, and on Season 3, he has some visions about the Neathian-Gundalian war on episode 1. He has lost three brawls in Battle Brawlers, three brawls in New Vestroia, two brawls in Gundalian Invaders and eight brawls in Mechtanium Surge.īeside his Brawler skill, he has also shown to have some Psychic abilities, especially Telephaty and Clairvoyance. But in season 4, his brawling record isn't as great. Dan is a skilled brawler between Season 1 - 3. However, after he was defeated by Ryo, he start to learn being strategic to rematch and defeat him. After his first actual encounter with Mag-Mel, Dan finally realized his mistake and apologized toward the other brawler for his reckless actions.ĭan suffer a pain on his head after sense a sycn from Mag Melĭan used to play using raw power without any kind of strategy, often caring more about winning and not the consequences to come. After his return, Dan become very upset after the other battle brawler try to make him away from battlefield due his psychic-link to Mag-Mel, and feel that he already replaced. After he constantly have a horrible hallucination, nightmare and lose control of himself due being impact by Mag-mel hallucination, he temporarily leaves the battle brawler to have a training to control himself and Drago. He become more cocky and always ignore his friends advice because he always believe on himself. In Mechtanium Surge part 1, Dan personality almost at some point to be out-of-character. His partnership with Drago which make a bond called "Switch Code", which means that Dan is destined to be his partner and always being connected. And in Season 2 after he lose Drago once again by Spectra, He start suffer heavy fever and feel into deep depression.
Proved when Dan loses him after his battle with masquerade, he willingly followed Drago to go to doom dimension. He is shown to be extremely loyal to Drago, his Bakugan Partner.
Although in future seasons he grown more mature and calm, sometimes he still act impulsive and shown to be big eater.
By the third season Dan has outgrown that habit as he was telling Jake to help rebuild the second shield generator after they had a successful victory over the Gundalians. He is very eager for a brawl, thinking he can take on anyone, which causes him to complain a lot when he has to wait around in hiding, as shown in the first and second season.
He tends to act rash and impulsive which often leads him to trouble. His greatest ambition is to be the number one brawler to ever live, which is what he attends at the last episode of Bakugan Battle Brawlers.
Danma Kuso (空操 弾馬, Kusou Danma) (Eng Version: Daniel "Dan" Kuso) usually known as Dan (ダン) is the main protagonist of the Bakugan: Battle Brawlers anime series and franchise itself.