Beyblade

This article is about the manga. For the toy, see Beyblade
(toy).
Beyblade, known in Japan as Explosive Shoot Bey-
blade ( Bakuten Shto
Beiburdo), is a Japanese manga series written and il-
lustrated by Takao Aoki in order to promote sales of
spinning tops called extquotedblBeyblades extquotedbl.
Originally serialized in CoroCoro Comic from January,
2000 to December, 2003, the individual chapters were
collected and published in 14 tankbon by Shogakukan.
The series focuses on a group of kids who form teams
with which they battle one another using Beyblades.
The manga is licensed for English language release in
North America by Viz Media. An anime adaptation, also
titled Beyblade and spanning 51 episodes, aired in Japan
on TV Tokyo from January 8, 2001 to December 24,
2001. The second, Beyblade V-Force, ran for another
51 episodes from January 7, 2002 until December 30,
2002. Beyblade G-Revolution, the third and nal adapta-
tion, also spanned 52 episodes (the last two episodes were
released together as a double-length special in Japan) and
aired from January 6, 2003, until its conclusion on De-
cember 28, 2003. Nelvana licensed the anime for an
English-language release. Takara Tomy also developed
the Beyblade toy line.
1 Plot
1.1 Beyblade
A young boy named Tyson (Takao Kinomiya) enters the
Japan Regional Beyblade Qualifying Tournament. Tyson
encounters Ray Kon (Rei Kon) and Kai Hiwatari, and af-
ter defeating them, they organize a team, known as the
Bladebreakers, along with Max Tate (Max Mizuhara),
and Kenny tags along the bladebrakers as Chief or their
nancial and other matters manager. The Bladebreakers
tour China to register for the championships, while con-
fronting the White Tigers, Ray's former team. It is seen
that Ray's old team holds a grudge against him for leaving
them, but towards the end of the Chinese Tournament,
Ray and his ex-teammates make amends, and the Blade-
breakers win the tournament. After this, Tyson and his
friends arrive in the United States to ght the All Starz,
who are coached by Max's mother. After winning the
American league, the team nd themselves stranded in
Europe. In order to be in the beyblade championship they
must beat the Euro Team, which proves to be a challenge
but eventually defeat the Euro Team while also becoming
stronger.
1.2 Beyblade V-Force
The Bladebreakers have gone their separate ways, but
when Team Psykick and the Saint Shields attack the
Bladebreakers, and try to steal their bit-beasts for their
own reasons, the Bladebreakers assemble once again
to defeat the new enemies. Tyson's classmate Hilary
Tachibana (Hiromi Tachibana) joins the Bladebreakers,
but takes time to learn the fact that Beyblade isn't just
a stupid game as she thinks it is. In an attempt to steal
the four bit-beasts from the Bladebreakers, Team Psy-
kick creates four cyborg copies of the Bladebreakers' bit-
beasts and recruit four skilled bladers named Kane, Sal-
ima, Goki and Jim to control the bit-beasts and their
respective blades. These teenagers were actually pure
hearted and innocent bladers with high ambitions, but the
dark power of the cyborg bit-beasts gradually take over
their minds and turn them evil. The rst half of the sec-
ond season ends with the Bladebreakers defeating Team
Psykick. Tyson, Ray, Kai and Max battle Kane, Salima,
Goki and Jim respectively and defeat them. After the
cyborg beasts are destroyed Team Psykick come back to
their normal selves and regain consciousness. The sec-
ond half of Season 2 deals with the truth of why the Saint
Shields and Team Psykick are after Bladebreakers' bit-
beasts and about a rock that Max's mother found that con-
tains bit-beasts, which is stolen by Team Psykick. The
Saint Shields' reason behind attempting to steal the bit
beasts is because they wish to seal the Bladebreakers' bit-
beasts in a rock because they fear that the bit-beasts could
get out of control like they did in the past, the saint-shields
battle the Bladebreakers and manage to seal o Ray's bit-
beast Driger in a rock but later Ray reclaims Driger and
defeat all the Saint Shields in a team face o. Team Psy-
kick's reason in trying to steal the bit-beasts is because
the Psykick's leader, Dr. Zagart, wants the bit-beasts to
turn his android son Zeo (an exact replica of his actual
son who died in an accident) into a real human. After
defeating the Saint Shields, Tyson and co meets Zeo and
befriends him without knowing the fact that he is the son
of Team Psykick's leader. Zeo also is unware of the fact
that he is a cyborg and not a human and that his father
is behind all of Team Psykick's plans. Later Zeo nds
out about his past and decides to help his father in his
plans. Dr. Zagart gives Zeo a bit beast named Cerberus,
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2 3 MERCHANDISE
the strongest bit-beast sealed in the rock. Zeo enters the
world Beyblade tournament with the motive of defeat-
ing all the Bladebreakers members and stealing their bit
beasts. In the tournament Zeo defeats Kai and Max and
steals their bit-beasts Dranzer and Draciel. But in the nal
battle Tyson and Dragoon (Tyson's bit beast) defeat Zeo
and Cerberus. In the process Tyson and Max's team win
the world tournament. Dranzer and Draciel come back to
their original bladers, Kai and Max.
1.3 Beyblade G-Revolution
Kai, Ray and Max left Tyson and went their separate ways
to rejoin their old teams so that they have a chance to beat
each other at the World Championship. This leaves only
Tyson, Hilary, and Kenny on the team, but a new charac-
ter, Daichi Sumeragi, and Tyson's brother Hiro Granger,
join them. One week after the results of the World Cham-
pionships, Boris, the secondary villain from the rst sea-
son, says things will return to the way they were before.
But he declares that all the Beyblade shops must sell Bey-
blades and their parts to BEGA associated Beybladers
only, otherwise they will not be allowed to run the shops.
Tyson and the team nd some parts at Max's father's
store, which are insucient. Then after sometime Kenny
comes with the solution, he makes newtype of Beyblades,
using dierent type of parts. But they still needed one
more blader, that's when Kai, who tried to join BEGAbut
lost severely to Brooklyn, rejoins the team. Daichi and
Ray lose the rst two matches to Ming-Ming and Crusher.
Max ends the third match with Mystel in a draw. Then it
was Kai's turn to face the unbeaten Brooklyn. Kai then
defeats Brooklyn in a match. Then Tyson beats Garland.
Brooklyn becomes insane due to his loss to Kai and con-
fronts Tyson. In the ensuing match, Tyson and Brooklyn
would battle it out in the tie breaker match. As the -
nal ght rages on, Tyson was able to absorb the powers
of every single Bit Beast and with a nal attack defeats
Brooklyn's beyblade Zeus. And the BEGA corporation
had fallen thanks to the eorts of the Blade Breakers (G-
Revolutions). The nal episode ends with Tyson and Kai
about to have one nal match.
In the Japanese version the episode ends with a special
ending showing every major character from the series.
2 Media
2.1 Manga
The chapters of the Beyblade manga were written and il-
lustrated by Takao Aoki. It was serialized in CoroCoro
Comic from 2000 to 2004. The manga was licensed for
an English-language release by Viz Media.
2.2 Anime
Main article: List of Beyblade episodes
A three season anime television adaptation was adapted
from the series. The rst season, spanning 51 episodes,
was produced by Madhouse and aired in Japan on TV
Tokyo from January 8, 2001 to December 24, 2001. The
second season, produced by Nihon Animedia and titled
Beyblade V-Force, ran for another 51 episodes from Jan-
uary 7, 2002 until December 30, 2002. The third sea-
son, Beyblade G Revolution was also produced by Nihon
Animedia. It spanned 52 episodes and ran from January
6, 2003 until its conclusion on December 29, 2003. All
three seasons are licensed for English adaptation, broad-
cast, and release in North America by Nelvana.
A new Beyblade anime series entitled Metal Fight Bey-
blade was produced by Tatsunoko and Synergy SP, and
is based on the aforementioned Metal Fight Beyblade
manga. It premiered on April 5, 2009.
*
[1] Nelvana has
licensed the series, which was released in North Amer-
ica as Beyblade: Metal Fusion.
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[2] It premiered on Car-
toon Network in June 2010 with showings on Saturdays
and Sundays, and has lasted four seasons, including Metal
Fusion, Metal Fury, Metal Masters, and Shogun Steel.
2.3 Spin-os
Beyblade inspired two spin-o series, BeyWheelz and
BeyWarriors.
3 Merchandise
Beyblade developed a cult following when the series' pop-
ular spinning top toy was launched worldwide. Now
with the released fourth season of the Metal Fight Bey-
blade series, Metal Fight Beyblade Zero-G, aka Beyblade
Shogun Steel, a toy line which consists of Beyblades from
the anime including Samurai Ifraid W145CF, MSF Shi-
nobi Saramanda SW145SD, MSF Pirates Orojya 145D,
Thief Phoenic E230GCF, Guardian Reviser 160SB,
MSF Archer Gryph C145S, Pirates Killerken A230JSB,
and many more are being released in Asia. Beyblade, Let
It Rip! The Ocial Album was released in the UK to co-
incide with the show's popularity. It featured the anime's
opening theme, as well as songs by various artists includ-
ing Nickleback and Busted.
3.1 Toys
Main article: Beyblade (toy)
Originally developed and manufactured by Takara Tomy,
rst released in 2000. The toys include a 'launcher' a
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device for bringing the spinning top up to speed in a plas-
tic arena known as a Beystadium, with a slightly dished
base, where they subsequently strike each other. The last
top still spinning wins. Beyblade is largely a game of
power and angle, although many players believe a par-
ticular launch style can inuence the outcome of a game.
4 Reception
Beyblade was popular among people, especially due to its
toys and accessories. It gained notoriety in school play-
grounds all across Australia, Israel, North America, Latin
America and the United Kingdom during the early 2000s
and in Pakistan during 2004-2006 and its popularity was
replaced by Blazing Teens. It was popular in India be-
tween 2004 - 2007, its toys were liked by many. The
show was aired by Jetix and Cartoon Network in Amer-
ica as well as in parts of Asia, Europe, and Australia. It
has had renewed popularity in the last two years.
There have been many ocial Beyblade tournaments
held across the world, just like in the anime. At ocial
tournaments hosted by Tomy, Sonokong, Mani, or Has-
bro, their companies advertise themselves as the World
Beyblade Battle Association (WBBA) instead of their
company name, similarly to how the BBA and WBBA
handle Beyblade tournaments in the anime.
The show was criticized for being one long, repetitive
commercial.
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[3]
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[4]
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[5]
5 References
[1] TV Tokyo's Metal Fight Beyblade page
[2] AWN article announcing Nelvana's acquisition of Metal
Fight Beyblade
[3] Beyblade: Let It Rip! : DVD Talk Review of the DVD
Video. Dvdtalk.com. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
[4] Beyblade Hidden Tiger (Vol. 3) : DVD Talk Review
of the DVD Video. Dvdtalk.com. Retrieved 2012-06-
16.
[5] http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/
beybladehiddentiger.php
6 External links
Ocial Website
Beyblade at Internet Movie Database
Beyblade (anime) at Anime News Network's ency-
clopedia
Beyblade blog
Author of the BeyBlade logo - George Peter Gatsis
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