Beyblade: Metal Fusion

Kenta Yumiya battles in a tournament and is later ambushed by the bullying Face Hunters gang, until traveling blader Gingka Hagane intervenes with his Storm Pegasus and routs them single-handedly.

Gingka becomes popular among Kenta's friends while Kyoya trains to surpass him.

Doji takes Kyoya and the Face Hunters to a mountain camp, then personally beats Kyoya with his Dark Wolf to send him off for further training.

Doji gives Benkei the new Dark Bull to seek revenge for Kyoya, while Madoka teaches Kenta's friends the four Beyblade type categories.

Gingka vows to stop a mystery blader scratching other kids' Beyblades on purpose, who turns out to be crab-obsessed bully Tetsuya Watarigani.

Wandering blader Hikaru Hasama arrives seeking tougher opponents and easily beats the Face Hunters, drawing Benkei's interest.

Devastated by his loss, Kenta accepts Benkei's unconventional, brotherly training to prepare for a rematch with Hikaru.

Doji sends Kyoya to complete his brutal training regimen at Wolf's Canyon while a French-voiced talking camera named Merci lures Gingka into a fake game show to secretly gather battle data on him.

Tetsuya's attempt to seize leadership of the Face Hunters ends when the returning, colder Kyoya crushes him and then disbands the group entirely.

A weakened Benkei begs Gingka to fight Kyoya and restore his rival's spirit.

After Gingka's win, Doji casually defeats an exhausted Kyoya with Dark Wolf before Benkei saves bystanders from falling debris.

Gingka's group fights through Merci's booby-trapped castle, including a conveyor-belt trap, a giant Beyblade, and rival twins Dan and Reiki Sodo, whom Kyoya defeats alone.

Doji explains Lightning L-Drago's fearsome history as Ryuga finally battles Gingka atop a hidden ocean stadium.

Shaken and listless after his loss, Gingka finally opens up to Kenta about his father Ryo, revealing the full story of Ryuga and Doji's attack on Koma Village years earlier.

Learning Gingka has left for Koma Village, Kenta, Madoka, Benkei and Kyoya set out after him through a rugged forest, their friendship fraying under exhaustion and bickering.

Kyoya catches Hyoma leading the group in circles and forces a confrontation, revealing Hyoma's true Beyblade, Clay Aries.

The group finally reaches Koma Village and meets Hokuto, a talking dog who reveals Gingka is climbing a nearby mountain alone, seeking a scroll from a "Legendary Blader" to help him defeat Ryuga.

Reunited with his friends, an apologetic Gingka renews his vow to defeat Ryuga, but old friend Hyoma insists on one last battle.

After Madoka accidentally swaps Kenta's and Benkei's spin tracks and performance tips while cleaning, the two discover the benefits of mismatched parts and become obsessed with part customization.

Doji introduces Ryuga to prodigy blader Yu Tendo in the desert, while back home Gingka's group learns of the WBBA's island tournament "Survival Battle," where the winner earns any wish.

The Survival Battle rages on as Gingka racks up easy wins and Hyoma challenges Kyoya, losing and cracking Rock Leone's performance tip.

Yu Tendo's Flame Libra proves unbeatable, having already downed Hikaru, Kenta, and Benkei, and its hidden Eternal Sharp tip endures both Gingka and Kyoya's assaults.

Yu announces his wish, the tournament Battle Bladers, open to the nation's strongest bladers, and Dark Nebula reveals itself as co-sponsor, with Doji naming Yu a member and setting a 50,000-point entry threshold.

As everyone grinds toward Battle Bladers qualification, Gingka meets Tsubasa Otori, a calm, perceptive blader traveling with a trained eagle who seems to already know Gingka's true mission.

Kyoya, restless without challengers, becomes the target of a masked vigilante blader called Captain Capri, revealed to be young Tobio Oike, who tracks him relentlessly across the city.

Tsubasa wins a Dark Nebula-linked tournament and publicly exposes a competitor as a Dark Nebula member, catching Doji and Yu's attention.

Doji sends undercover agents Tsubasa and Yu to test Gingka's friends at a two-track qualifying tournament.

Madoka reviews her friends' qualifying progress and notes Tetsuya's suspicious success.

Young blader Sora Akatsuki, self-proclaimed "Gingka's #1 apprentice," challenges Kenta, hoping to copy Gingka's signature move, but loses when his imitation attack misses.

In this thinly documented wiki entry, Gingka reunites with his friends upon arriving in a new city for a qualifying tournament.

Gingka and friends arrive late to a tournament where Yu reveals that Tsubasa has defected to the Dark Nebula.

The six semifinalists — Gingka, Kenta, Kyoya, Hyoma, Yu and Tsubasa — are thrown into a chaotic six-way battle royal after Doji changes the format.

With points now decided from the battle royal, Tetsuya disguises himself as a wealthy foreign collector to trick Gingka into handing over his Beypoints.

Gingka meets Teru Saotome, a former ballet dancer sidelined by an injury who found new purpose through his Beyblade, Earth Virgo, which he treats like a prima donna performer.

Ryuga tours the country racking up Beypoints for Battle Bladers, crushing tournament after tournament including former rivals Ryutaro and Tobio, who then join the Dark Nebula after their loss.

Ryuga nearly destroys Tsubasa in battle until Phoenix intervenes to save him, revealing himself as a new obstacle for the Dark Nebula.

Kenta arrives in a town whose stadium has been seized by the bully Busujima and his gang.

With everyone but Gingka having qualified for Battle Bladers, his friends volunteer to face off against Tsubasa so Gingka can rush to a last-chance qualifier.

Gingka rematches Phoenix, drawing on his friends' fighting styles and a vacuum trick to finally win, earning back the Beypoints he lost earlier.

Battle Bladers formally begins with sixteen qualifiers, most of them unknowingly facing Dark Nebula plants.

In the continuing quarterfinals, Kyoya and Tsubasa both advance easily, but the sinister Reiji Mizuchi reveals his Poison Serpent and psychologically breaks Hyoma before shattering his Bey with a brutal special move.

The quarterfinal matchups are announced as Ryuga continues absorbing power by defeating every loser from the first round.

Yu is found to have escaped his brutal battle with Reiji as Doji rearranges the quarterfinal order out of spite.

Yu tells the group how Ryuga steals the spirits of Battle Bladers losers, spurring an enraged Kenta to swap performance tips with Yu and challenge Reiji himself.

Tsubasa faces Ryuga alone in the final quarterfinal, studying his prior loss to find an opening.

Doji, confident in Ryuga's path to victory, has his elite squad ambush and kidnap Yu for failing his deal, while Kenta and Hyoma go searching for him and get pulled into a dangerous confrontation with Doji himself.

Gingka struggles against Reiji's transformed Poison Serpent, which has become a Medusa-like attacker that seems to petrify anything it strikes.

Phoenix's shattered mask reveals him as Gingka's father, Ryo Hagane, who rescues Yu and seven other captured bladers before recounting the deep history of L-Drago and Pegasus and the ancient battle between light and darkness.

Kyoya faces Ryuga in the semifinal, determined to defeat him before challenging Gingka for the title.

With Kyoya defeated, Ryuga effortlessly beats Benkei too before demanding an isolated, spectator-free final battle against Gingka atop a specially built skyscraper stadium.

As Ryuga fully transforms under L-Drago's dark power, Ryo explains that only the Blader's Spirit can save Gingka now.