40 Fun Facts About Beyblade: Metal Fury

Which Bey does Gingka Hagane wield in Beyblade: Metal Fury after a Star Fragment transforms his old one?

Cosmic Pegasus is born in the middle of a duel, when the light of a Star Fragment reshapes Gingka's Bey. He settles on the name only after learning he is a Legendary Blader.

Which blader, hailed as the Child of Nemesis, commands the God of Destruction's Bey in Metal Fury?

Rago earns the title by seizing control of the dark energy pouring from the newly revived Bey. In the final battle he goes further and fuses into Nemesis itself.

Which new Bey does Ryuga wield when Kyoya finds him at a volcano in Metal Fury?

L-Drago Destructor shrugs off every hit on that volcano, letting Ryuga beat Kyoya, Gingka and a third challenger one after another. He then walks away from the heroes' quest.

Which friend of Gingka inherits Ryuga's Star Fragment and becomes a Legendary Blader in Metal Fury?

Kenta spends much of the season trailing Ryuga and refusing to be scared off. The fallen rival's last act is to call him a friend and pass the Star Fragment into his Bey, Sagittario.

Which cat-loving villain hunts the Legendary Bladers with his Bey Beat Lynx in Metal Fury?

Johannes sends cats to spy on his targets, and Beat Lynx can change its height in mid-battle. That trick is how he keeps slipping away from Gingka's attacks.

Which young astronomer brings Gingka Hagane the story of the Star Fragment and Nemesis in Metal Fury?

Yuki watched the Star Fragment break apart in the sky. One of its beams struck his own Bey, Mercury Anubius, which makes him a Legendary Blader as well.

Kyoya Tategami's lion Bey evolves into which new form during his island duel with Gingka in Metal Fury?

Fang Leone can flip its metal frame to enter a counter mode, as the group's mechanic soon works out. Kyoya waves the discovery away and insists he can win without it.

Which sequel season, set seven years after the defeat of Nemesis, follows Beyblade: Metal Fury?

Shogun Steel follows Zyro Kurogane, who took up the sport after watching Gingka's final battle. It was the fourth and last chapter of the Metal Saga.

Which Legendary Blader wins Metal Fury's Destroyer Dome tournament and insists his unusual name is real?

King found his Bey, Variares, by following a shooting star one night. His hair changes colour when his legendary power wakes in the final, then returns to normal once he has won.

What colour do Gingka and his Bey glow once bladers worldwide lend their power in the Metal Fury finale?

Gold light covers them both once bladers everywhere give up the sliver of Star Fragment hidden in their own Beys. The charge that follows punches straight through Nemesis.

Which mechanic is repairing Gingka Hagane's Bey when a Star Fragment beam strikes it in Metal Fury?

Madoka mends Beys at the B-Pit, her father's shop, and was asleep there by the time Gingka came to collect his. On the quest she analyses rival Beys on her computer in mid-battle.

Which loyal follower partners Kyoya in a tag-team tournament with the Bey Dark Bull in Metal Fury?

Benkei wins their opening match with a single hit. Earlier in the season he helps Kyoya train by hurling whole trees at him for his Bey to smash.

Which Dark Nebula villain from Metal Fusion returns in Beyblade: Metal Fury to mock Ryuga as a mere tool?

Doji claims that waking Ryuga's dragon Bey and the Spiral Force crisis were both steps toward reviving Nemesis. The taunt enrages Ryuga enough to make him attack.

Which WBBA director, the father of Gingka Hagane, warns that Nemesis has been resurrected in Metal Fury?

Ryo was once the masked Phoenix of Metal Fusion. In the finale he explains that every Bey descends from the first Star Fragment, so any blader can lend Gingka power.

Which Bey does WBBA agent Tsubasa Otori launch while racing up the Tower of Babel in Metal Fury?

Earth Eagle carries Tsubasa to the top of the tower, where he loses to Ryuga. Later in the season it blasts open a sealed temple entrance to reach his trapped friends.

Which channel premiered Beyblade: Metal Fury in the United States, as it had Metal Fusion before?

Cartoon Network launched the season in October 2012, about six months after its Japanese run had ended. Canadian viewers got it on YTV early the following year.

Which Japanese toy company, alongside Hasbro, is behind the battling tops of Beyblade: Metal Fury?

Takara Tomy's tops came first. The manga was built around the game, and the anime was then adapted from the manga.

On which continent is Mist Mountain, the so-called Mountain of No Return, in Metal Fury?

Africa is where two old rivals from the World Championships, Nile and Demure, lead the group to the mountain. A maze laced with hidden traps waits in front of it.

Which villain performs the ritual that revives Nemesis with three Star Fragment Beys in Metal Fury?

Pluto claims descent from an ancient ruler named Hades and says he steered Hades Inc. from behind the scenes. He ends the season merged with the monster he raised.

Which Legendary Blader guards the Mist Mountain temple and tells Gingka the legend of Nemesis in Metal Fury?

Dynamis halts his own duel with Gingka midway to recount the legend. Moments earlier he had brushed aside a treasure hunter who jumped in to challenge him.

Which Legendary Blader first appears as a masked monster that Kyoya sets out to hunt in Metal Fury?

Tithi turns out to be a shy boy behind the mask, and his Bey, Death Quetzalcoatl, beats Yu in their first battle. Kyoya promptly demands a battle that the boy does not want.

Which Legendary Blader wields Phantom Orion and sides with the villains for a time in Metal Fury?

Chris is a blader for hire who fights for the villains until Gingka beats him in battle and persuades him to switch sides.

Which tag-team tournament in China do Aguma and Bao win against Gingka's team in Metal Fury?

Gateway to Success is fought on a hidden arena floating on a river, with a maze of walls for the final. The winners fly off by helicopter before the award ceremony.

Aguma's Bey Scythe Kronos is billed in a Beyblade: Metal Fury episode title as the god of which planet?

Saturn fits the myth, since the Greek Titan Kronos was identified with the Roman god Saturn. In that episode Aguma's Bey is the only one left turning at the end of a tournament final.

Which season does the owner of Phantom Orion represent among Metal Fury's Bladers of the Four Seasons?

Winter matches the real sky, where Orion is most prominent on winter evenings in the Northern Hemisphere. He is the last of the original four to be found.

Which upgraded Bey does Masamune Kadoya debut at the Destroyer Dome tournament in Metal Fury?

Blitz Striker can switch between a barrage mode and an assault mode. The Star Fragment left his old Bey untouched, so he has it modified while training hard to become a Legendary Blader anyway.

What does Nemesis create in the sky to rain lightning and disaster on the world in Metal Fury?

The Black Sun hurls lightning at parts of the world on command and wipes out the WBBA headquarters. It drops out of the sky and vanishes once Nemesis starts to lose power.

Beyblade: Metal Fury aired in Japan as Metal Fight Beyblade followed by which short suffix?

4D completed the Japanese title, Metal Fight Beyblade 4D, taking the place of the Baku that had marked the season before. The series was first announced in CoroCoro Comic magazine.

Which company made the English version of Metal Fury, as it had for the original Beyblade anime?

Nelvana localised all four seasons of the Metal Saga. When the English run of Metal Fury came up short, it ordered a 13-episode spin-off to fill the gap.

Which Japanese broadcaster first aired Beyblade: Metal Fury, as it did every season of the Metal Saga?

TV Tokyo showed 52 episodes over a year, yet the English version counts only 39. The later episodes were half-length, so they were joined together in pairs.

Which seal do the Bladers of the Four Seasons form to restrain the power of Nemesis in Metal Fury?

Zeus' Barrier fails at the first attempt, because Ryuga steps out of the circle to take the dark power for himself. The four complete it later, only for a shard of a villain's Bey to pierce it.

Which spin-off series was ordered to fill the gap left by the shortened English season of Metal Fury?

BeyWheelz swaps tops for wheels that are turned on their side, and it runs for 13 episodes. Its story stands apart from the Metal Saga in a continuity of its own.

Which rare ability does the Legendary Bey Variares share with Gravity Destroyer in Metal Fury?

Spinning either way, to the left or to the right, is rare enough that the heroes suspect Variares was the model for Gravity Destroyer. They notice it during a tournament final.

In which country is Zarkan Island, the first stop on the hunt for Legendary Bladers in Metal Fury?

Indonesia is where the group finds Ryuga on a volcano. The islanders hide from anyone carrying a Bey, because he had blasted a path up their sacred mountain.

Which constellation's shape, hidden in a ring of stones, opens the Mist Mountain temple door in Metal Fury?

Cygnus is spotted overhead by the group's astronomer, who fires his Bey through holes bored in the stones until the whole pattern lights up. Only then does the door swing open.

Which self-styled treasure hunter joins Gingka's group in the Mist Mountain maze with the Bey Omega Dragonis?

Ryuto first takes Gingka for a rival after his treasure and fights him in the dark. He then finds the route through by reading the eyes of the maze's statues.

Which studio animated Beyblade: Metal Fury after taking over the Metal Saga from Tatsunoko Production?

SynergySP began life in 1998 as Synergy Japan, a breakaway from Studio Junio. It went on to make the Metal Saga's later seasons and its spin-offs.

Which Canadian actor voices Gingka Hagane in the English dub of Beyblade: Metal Fury?

Robert Tinkler had worked on the franchise before, voicing Brooklyn in Beyblade G-Revolution. He also plays Crimson Rubeus in an English dub of Sailor Moon.

Which Japanese actor voices Ryuga in Metal Fury after playing Seto Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters?

Kenjiro Tsuda voiced the dragon blader throughout Metal Fight Beyblade, from 2009 to 2012. A later wave of anime fans knows him as Kento Nanami in Jujutsu Kaisen.

Which anime director was in charge of Beyblade: Metal Fury, as he was of every other Metal Saga season?

Kunihisa Sugishima arrived with another game-based anime behind him, having directed Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. He also made the Metal Saga's 2010 feature film.