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Benkei Hanawa: our photograph of the Battle Card Collection card #034, Dark Bull

Pictured: Battle Card Collection #034 · Dark Bull

Character file · Metal Saga

Benkei Hanawa

Hanawa Benkei · 花輪ベンケイ

Supporting Team Wild Fang (formerly Face Hunters) Beyblade: Metal FusionBeyblade: Metal MastersBeyblade: Metal FuryBeyblade: Shogun Steel
First seen
Beyblade: Metal Fusion Episode 01 - Pegasus Has Landed

4

series

86

episodes on record

2

Beyblades

4

special moves

8

cards

Biography

Benkei Hanawa is a core member of Gingka's gang across the Metal Saga, introduced as Kyoya Tategami's loyal second-in-command in the bullying Face Hunters gang. After losing repeatedly to Gingka and being humbled, Benkei reforms, mentors Kenta Yumiya, and eventually reunites with Kyoya as true friends rather than boss and lackey. He fights with Dark Bull, a gift from the villain Doji, competing as the masked wrestler "Masked Bull" on Team Wild Fang during Metal Masters. Loud, big-hearted, and endlessly devoted to Kyoya, he supports the group through the Dark Nebula, Spiral Force, and Nemesis story arcs without ever quite matching the top-tier bladers.

Appearance and personality

What They Look Like, and How They Behave

Benkei carries a big, heavyset frame with a prominent belly and famously oversized feet. His short purple hair usually disappears under a white beanie stamped with a red bull's skull, and his eyes are a reddish brown. He typically wears a red-and-black jacket with a red stripe down the front, zipped over his torso, white wristbands, grey shorts and black shoes, with a brown belt and holster hidden under the jacket to carry his Bey gear. As the wrestling persona Masked Bull he swaps this for a full wrestler's costume. By the time of Shogun Steel his look has matured: brown laced boots, green cargo trousers, a black jacket with a puffy white collar and yellow-striped sleeves and pockets, and a beard he didn't have before.

Underneath a burly, bullyish exterior, Benkei is soft-hearted and quick to well up, especially where Kyoya is concerned — he even embraces him the moment Kyoya awakens. He trails after Kyoya with stubborn devotion, absorbing rough treatment without complaint, and he rarely quits when a battle turns hard. That loyalty wasn't always aimed well: as a Face Hunter he bullied smaller kids, a pattern that only broke after he befriended Kenta, the same change that got him thrown out of the gang. He is loud, easily riled into squabbles with friends, but never holds a grudge, and his overconfidence occasionally outruns his ability, as when he rated his own chances against Ryuga far too highly. Despite the occasional naivety, his friends value him deeply.

Blader Profile

Benkei Hanawa, rated

  • Attack 8/10
  • Defense 6/10
  • Stamina 5/10
  • Technique 4/10
  • Spirit 8/10

beybladewiki.com editorial rating — based on on-screen performance, not official stats.

Dark Bull's head-down charges hit hard, but he loses to every top blader he meets; his loyalty and heart are what keep him in the fight.

On file

The record

Team
Team Wild Fang (formerly Face Hunters)
Beyblades
Heat Cetus 125FS; Dark Bull H145SD
First appearance
Beyblade: Metal Fusion Episode 01 - Pegasus Has Landed
Japanese name
花輪ベンケイ
Romaji
Hanawa Benkei
Also known as
Ben-Ben (By Yu Tendo and Tetsuya) / The Masked Bull / Benny (By Tetsuya; Latin American Dub)
Occupation
Former Face Hunter / Gingka's gang / Former Member of Team Wild Fang (as the Masked Bull) / Owner of Bull Burger
Gender
Male
First anime appearance
Pegasus has Landed
Voice (Japanese)
Kenta Miyake
Voice (English)
Jason Deline

Beyblades

Benkei Hanawa's Beyblades

  1. Heat Cetus 125FS
  2. Dark Bull H145SD

Special moves

Called shots

Bull UppercutRed Horn UppercutTornado Bull UppercutMaximum Stampede

Briefing

What to know

  • Former second-in-command of Kyoya's Face Hunters gang before both reformed.
  • Never learns that Dark Bull was originally a gift from the villain Doji.
  • Mentors Kenta Yumiya through "secret training" that helps Kenta beat Hikaru Hasama.
  • Competes anonymously as "the Masked Bull" on Team Wild Fang in Metal Masters.
  • Runs the fast-food restaurant Bull Burger and works as a WBBA coach by Shogun Steel.
  • Gives up his own power to help Gingka defeat Nemesis in Metal Fury's finale.
  • One of the few members of Gingka's gang, alongside Kyoya, Tsubasa, Hikaru, and Yu, who started out as an antagonist.

Notable battles

  • vs Kenta Yumiya and Gingka Hagane in MF001 — Lose
  • vs Kyoya Tategami (flashback, many times) in MF004 — Lose
  • vs Kenta Yumiya in MF007 — Win (many times)
  • vs Tsubasa Otori in MF031 — Lose
  • vs Ryuga in MF050 — Lose
  • vs Tsubasa Otori in MM001 — Lose
  • vs Kyoya Tategami in 4D002 — Lose
  • vs Ryuga (tag with Toby, Zeo, Johannes, Bao, Beylin Fist) in 4D035 — Lose

Sightings

Episodes they appear in

From our own episode records — the cast, Beyblade and debut lists we compiled show the name here.

Also on record

Episodes that mention them

The name turns up in what happens in these episodes rather than in their cast lists, so read them as leads, not as a credit.

Also on record

Where they first appear

Resolved against our own episode records, so the pointer the entry carries as text is a link you can follow.

Cross-references

Teams, places and more

Bit-beasts & avatars 1

Places 2

Teams 2

Attributed, not verified by us

Claims We Could Not Check

  • Famously stutters "B-b-b-b-b-b-bull!" before launching, in the English dub.
  • The only Wild Fang member not using a regular 145 Spin Track or a Defense Type Bey.
  • Along with Yu, Tsubasa, and Hikaru, his Bey never evolves across the saga.
  • He, Teru, and Ryuga are the only Battle Bladers losers who suffer no bad consequence for losing.
  • Early in Metal Fusion he oddly seems to already know Bey names before officially learning them.

In the card games

Benkei Hanawa on cardboard

All card games
Battle Card Collection · #034 Dark Bull Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #035 Dark Bull Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #036 Dark Bull Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #037 Dark Bull Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #038 Dark Bull Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #126 Dark Bull Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #147 Dark Bull Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #154 Dark Bull Beyblade · series 1

The Blader Profile is our own reading of how the character performs on screen or on the page, not a figure from the makers.