Now I know we've already come to terms with no more major B-Daman support, but surprisingly, for the first time in a multitude of years ,there is a pretty good chance of a new B-Daman series or spiritual successor.
Most of us already are aware of Bottleman, it's the spiritual successor to B-Daman. The major releases has stopped and the anime has finished airing. However, the franchise could be potentially stopping for good. Case in point: Corocoro Comic. Most popular Japanese kids toys are in it, and it's pretty essential to a series sales. This issue, has a Bottleman ad in it. Not suprising. But it was the same exact one as last time, with minor changes. If you are not aware, reusing ads is usually a sign of a franchise winding down for its ending.
Ok, so then what? Bottleman had it's run, the B-Daman franchise will most likely be winding down....right? Well, no. Bottleman ending is actually pretty surprising, because it's REALLY popular. I cannot put into words how popular Bottleman toys are in Japan, cancelling the franchise is just flushing a bunch of money down the toilet, no one does that. Why did it even exist if it's only running this long? Tons of money can be squeezed out of it, no doubt. Tons already has been made.
Well, consider this. I think it's a way to gauge whether the public still likes B-Daman. B-Daman is kind of a staple, wouldn't be surprising if they've already considered brining back a lot of times. But there hasn't been a series in a long time, so they had a plan. Launch a mini series that will run less for a year, a spiritual successor. If it does well, greenlight the idea of working on another series.
So, that was kind of long. But essentially, Bottleman seems to be winding down, but there is no reason to stop it due to how much money it makes. Not making another B-Daman series or spiritual successor to follow Bottleman is just flushing money down the toilet, evidenced by the insane sales of Bottleman. So, they will probably be making a follow up.
Ok, so does it have to be B-Daman? Nah. It can just be another spiritual successor. But there's a good chance they'll just do B-Daman. Might as well, they already had Bottleman, why creator another successor when they can just use that?
TL;DR The Corocoro Comic shows that Bottleman is most likely ending. This is not a good idea because it makes a insane amount of money, so they most likely will be creating another series so fully get in all of the income it could've made. It might just straight up be B-Daman, or it might be another successor, but Bottleman has proven there's way more money to be made.