Beyblade: Metal Masters

A mysterious new blader, Masamune Kadoya, arrives in Japan demanding to fight Gingka, casually beating Yu's Libra along the way.

Masamune repeatedly challenges Gingka to battles, but Galaxy Pegasus's wild, untamed power keeps knocking Ray Striker out before Gingka can find real satisfaction in winning.

After childish rivalry antics, Gingka and friends are invited to a Chinatown temple where a Chinese team challenges Gingka and Masamune to a tag battle.

Japan holds qualifiers for the World Beyblade Championships, with Masamune, Tsubasa, Yu and Kyoya reaching the semifinals.

Kyoya and Tsubasa face off after intense training, with Tsubasa's dark side briefly seizing control mid-battle before his Eagle spirit frees him.

With Kyoya declining his spot, Yu and Tsubasa battle for the final team slot; Yu wins by cleverly shifting his special move's frequency, securing his place.

Team Gan Gan Galaxy arrives in China and, after sightseeing, meets members of Team Wang Hu Zhong at their mountain temple, including team leader Dashan.

Team Gan Gan Galaxy receives the World Championship rules and squabbles over who should lead.

Struggling to overcome his loss to Chao Xin, Masamune trains under a stranger's guidance to focus his strength.

Tsubasa faces Chiyun in round two, and while Eagle initially struggles to damage the defensive Lacerta, the fight shifts once Tsubasa's dark side resurfaces mid-battle.

In the deciding match of round one, Gingka faces team leader Dashan, whose Rock Zurafa absorbs light hits, forcing a harder strategy.

Team Gan Gan Galaxy travels to Arabia and befriends the local Desert Blaze team before watching them face EU representative Julian Konzern, who battles alone against all three at once.

Traveling by train to Russia, Gan Gan Galaxy meets scientist Aleksey and his team Lovushka, who secretly steal Bey data from Madoka's computer while pretending to lose practice matches.

With Masamune still missing, Gingka battles Nowaguma inside a steel cage rigged with an electric field that blocks his special move.

With Masamune still absent, Yu insists on taking the next match and defeats Aleksey to advance the team.

In Greece, the team rescues an archaeology-minded blader named Sophie before being denied entry to the exclusive Festival of Warriors for not being EU representatives.

After their loss to the EU team, Gan Gan Galaxy tries pairing up for teamwork training but keeps bickering until Madoka nearly quits in frustration.

Kyoya, dragging a coffin across the desert, enters a brutal African qualifier tournament alongside new bladers Nile, Marcus and Demure, where winners must then defend their team bracelets from each other for 24 hours.

Gingka wakes from a troubling dream about Kyoya's growing strength as Team Wild Fang faces Team Chandora for the right to play Gan Gan Galaxy.

Team Gan Gan Galaxy returns home to Japan to open their match against Team Wild Fang.

Gingka and Kyoya finally face each other in an epic, evenly matched battle, each pushing the other to their absolute limits with a barrage of special moves.

With Gingka and Kyoya both unconscious after their draw, the deciding match becomes a tag battle: Tsubasa and Yu against Demure and the Masked Bull.

With the series tied, the WBBA schedules a final team battle to decide the match.

Tsubasa's hospital recovery takes a dark turn when a taunting reflection claims to be living inside him and he shatters a window in agony.

From his hospital bed, Tsubasa watches newcomer Klaus dominate Chiyun Li in the World Championships' second round, a loss that eliminates Team Wang Hu Zhong and is framed by Chiyun's flashback to first meeting Dashan Wang.

Five days after vanishing from the hospital, Tsubasa turns up near Julian's estate half-consumed by dark power and demands a battle; Wales and Sophie's interference lets the darkness take him over completely.

Team Gan Gan Galaxy denies rumors about Tsubasa's condition just before Italy's A-Block finals, and Gingka discovers Ryuga with an unconscious Tsubasa, agreeing to battle Ryuga personally.

Klaus collapses from exhaustion after beating Masamune, and Tsubasa pairs with Yu against Wales and Sophie while Gingka's battle with Ryuga carries on.

In the A-Block final, Gingka draws on lessons from his fight with Ryuga to counter Julian's reverse-rotating Gravity Destroyer, realizing that fully trusting his Bey unlocks its true potential.

Team Gan Gan Galaxy sails to Rio de Janeiro to face Brazil's Team Garcia, reuniting with Kenta along the way.

Team Garcia proposes a continuous four-on-four format for their match against Gan Gan Galaxy.

Gingka struggles to pin down Selen's evasive Ray Gasher, only for her to deliberately withdraw once Pegasus's power is drained, keeping her unbeaten streak intact by design.

Argo ambushes a celebrating Gingka, and Tsubasa steps in to face him, confident after conquering his own dark power.

In New York, Masamune searches for his old friend Toby and instead reunites with Zeo Abyss, now trained at HD Academy and far stronger than before.

Masamune and Toby reminisce about first meeting Zeo at a local Bey-gym and the rivalry that followed with Team Gold-Bank after Zeo's invitation to a new Bey-park.

While the team trains at Dungeon Gym, Ryuga easily defeats HD Academy trainees with Meteo L-Drago's spin-stealing power, then privately battles Zeo, whose tall-track Flame Byxis resists the theft before falling to Dragon Emperor Supreme Flight.

Zeo endures brutal pain in the arrangement system as Dr. Ziggurat pushes him for Toby's sake, then sends him after the escaped Ryuga.

With Tsubasa and Yu hospitalized after Damian's attack, Ryo declines to suspend Team Star Breaker and Gingka insists he and Masamune can cover for the injured pair.

Damian proposes a two-out-of-three match to test both of Gravity Destroyer's spin directions.

With Tsubasa and Yu out, the team debates a substitute, but a friendly scrimmage among Kenta, Team Wang Hu Zhong, Gingka, and Masamune is interrupted by Ryo in his Phoenix disguise, who wants to join himself — ruled illegal by Hikaru since he is WBBA Director.

Before the final round, Dr. Ziggurat threatens to end Toby's treatment if Zeo loses, pushing Zeo's arrangement toward 100% mid-battle against Masamune.

With Masamune's arm broken, Ryuga crashes the second round as an eligible last-minute substitute and takes Gingka's place against Jack.

Ryo and Hikaru brief the team on Dr. Ziggurat's company, Hades Inc., and its ties to the Dark Nebula, revealing that Ziggurat engineered HD Academy's bladers, including Zeo and Jack, who had never won before joining.

Gingka draws on memories of first meeting Pegasus to break free of Hades Gate's underworld trap, resisting Damian's claim that Bey spirit means nothing against science.

At the team's victory party, Dr. Ziggurat crashes in with Team Star Breaker, Team Garcia, and Julian, revealing the tournament was research for his energy-harvesting Spiral Force and that Toby has been transformed into the emotionless Faust to wield it.

Ryo initially forbids the team from confronting Hades Inc. but reverses course once Hikaru explains the danger inside its tower.

The group fights through HD Academy's defenses to reach the tower, with Sophie briefly neutralizing Gravity Destroyer's gravity trap.

Splitting up inside the tower, Tsubasa, Yu, and Madoka stumble on the arrangement system where Jack emerges to challenge Tsubasa, while Yu accidentally gets trapped inside it.

Cornered in a dead end, Gingka and Masamune escape through a hole Kyoya blasts in the wall, leaving Kyoya to face a freshly re-arranged Damian alone.

Gingka and Masamune reach Faust at the Spiral Core, but their combined attacks can't dent Twisted Tempo's defense as the Spiral Force climbs toward release.

With Hades City crashing and minutes from meltdown, Gingka and Madoka race to shut down the Spiral Core while Zeo defeats a fleeing Dr. Ziggurat.