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Character file · Metal Saga

Eight Unabara

Unabara Eito · 海原エイト

Protagonist Beyblade: Shogun Steel
First seen
Beyblade: Shogun Steel (Penalty Lesson)

1

series

24

episodes on record

2

Beyblades

Biography

Eight Unabara is one of the main protagonists of Beyblade: Shogun Steel and the devoted younger brother of Kite Unabara. A whiny, sore-loser skateboarder who nonetheless battles skillfully, he idolizes his brother much as Benkei once idolized Kyoya. After losing his opening penalty-game battle to Zyro, he and Kite form the combined Beyblade Orochi-Leviathan and its Spiral Crush special move. Eight competes through several tournament arcs, including the Neo Battle Bladers tournament, mostly losing to stronger opponents like Kira Hayama but always supporting Kite from the sidelines.

Appearance and personality

What They Look Like, and How They Behave

Scraggy blue hair and green eyes give Eight a scruffy look, paired with an orange-and-white jacket and matching orange trousers. Headphones hang around his neck, and his shoes run white and blue. He's frequently pictured with a skateboard, either riding it or carrying it along with him.

Complaining comes easily to Eight, who reads as obstinate, disagreeable and more than a little whiny. Strength in battle doesn't stop him being a sore loser, earning him the label of a cry-baby, and after beating opponents he likes to draw on their faces with a pen just to rub the loss in further. His battling style echoes his skateboarding, and a relaxed, confident calm carries him through matches, letting him size up an opponent's chances almost on sight. He bristles when a crowd turns against him, as spectators do ahead of his match with Zyro. His devotion to his older brother Kite runs deep: Kite looks out for him, and Eight repays it by cheering him on, standing in for him in battle, avenging his losses, and following him around with constant praise.

Blader Profile

Eight Unabara, rated

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

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

Skateboard-bred movement gives him real stadium sense, but he gloats, underestimates opponents and loses to Zyro, Yoshio and Kira alike.

On file

The record

Beyblades
Pirate Orochi 145D; Orochi-Leviathan 160SB
First appearance
Beyblade: Shogun Steel (Penalty Lesson)
Japanese name
海原エイト
Romaji
Unabara Eito
Occupation
Blader
Gender
Male
First anime appearance
The Blazing Special Move
First manga appearance
These are My Flames!!
Voice (Japanese)
Yuuki Kodaira
Voice (English)
Stacy DePass

Beyblades

Eight Unabara's Beyblades

  1. Pirate Orochi 145D
  2. Orochi-Leviathan 160SB

Briefing

What to know

  • Younger brother of Kite Unabara; the two are extremely close, and Eight constantly praises him as 'the best.'
  • Fights with Pirate Orochi 145D, later fusing it with Kite's Leviathan into Orochi-Leviathan 160SB.
  • Loses his first on-screen rival battle to Zyro Kurogane after gloating and underestimating the stadium's mechanics.
  • Uses skateboarding tricks to inform his battle strategy and stadium movement.
  • Disguises himself as 'Yoshio Iwayama' while investigating a mysterious bey-destroying blader, only to be beaten badly by the real Yoshio's Bandit Golem.
  • Is eliminated from the Neo Battle Bladers tournament by Kira Hayama's Berserker Behemoth.
  • Shares personality traits (whiny, complaining, devoted) with Yu Tendo and Benkei Hanawa from earlier Metal Saga entries.

Notable battles

  • vs Beypark Competitor in ZG003 — Win
  • vs Zyro Kurogane in ZG003/ZG004 — Lose
  • vs Kite Unabara in ZG015 — No Outcome
  • vs Sakyo Kurayami (tag w/ Kite) in ZG015 — Lose
  • vs Yoshio Awayama in ZG019 — Lose
  • vs Kira Hayama in ZG029/ZG030 — Lose
  • vs Zyro Kurogane in Chapter 2 (manga) — 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

Named elsewhere on this site

Tournament reports, testing threads, rules announcements, news and fake or leak checks carrying this name. Each link opens that section with the name already searched for.

Cross-references

Teams, places and more

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Attributed, not verified by us

Claims We Could Not Check

  • He is noted as the first Beyblade character interested in skateboarding, with Quon Limon (Beyblade Burst) cited as the second.

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