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Character file · Original series

Judy Tate

Judy Mizuhara · 水原ジュディ

Mentor All Starz (coach)PPB research labPPB All Starz (coach) Beyblade: 2000Beyblade: V-ForceBeyblade: G-Revolution
From
American
First seen
Beyblade: 2000, Episode 19 - Under the Microscope

3

series

39

episodes on record

Biography

Judy Tate is Max's mother, a BBA research scientist who runs the PPB centre in New York and builds the All Starz around measurable data rather than instinct. In the first season that puts her on the opposite bench from her own son: the friendly tournament she arranges is really a data-gathering exercise, and the numbers she trusts are what fail her when Max beats the statistically favoured Michael. Her cool professionalism reads as coldness until that final. She is also one of the sport's best engineers — her lab upgrades Dragoon before Moscow, and in V-Force she runs the research into the ancient artefact carrying a bit-beast and helps clear Max's friend Alan. In G-Revolution she recruits Rick Anderson and fields him with Max as a tag team.

Appearance

What They Look Like

Shoulder-length blonde hair held back by a purple sweatband, blue eyes, a lavender undershirt and purple dress shirt under a white lab coat, and a coaching headset.

On file

The record

Nationality
American
English voice
Susan Roman
Team
PPB All Starz
First appearance
Beyblade: 2000, Episode 19 - Under the Microscope
Japanese name
水原ジュディ
Romaji
Mizuhara Judy
Occupation
Coach of the PPB All Starz / Director of the PPB Educational Center
Gender
Female
First anime appearance
Under the Microscope
First manga appearance
Arrival of USA's Ace, Michael!!
Voice (Japanese)
Emi Shinohara (2000) / Yumi Tōma (V-Force & G-Revolution)
Voice (English)
Susan Roman

Story by season

Where the seasons take them

Beyblade (2001)

All Starz (coach)

When Max turns up on her research floor instead of the college she thought he attended, Judy is more unsettled than proud, and she uses the reunion to run the Bladebreakers through a rigged exhibition against her own trainees so she can log their data. Through the American rounds she keeps entering numbers into a laptop rather than cheering, and when the final comes down to her son against Michael she tries to keep Max out of the match entirely because her own statistics say he'll lose. He plays anyway and wins, undoing her model in front of her, and only once the tournament ends does she let herself be his mother again instead of his subject. Before Russia, her lab reworks Dragoon for the fight ahead.

Beyblade V-Force (2002)

PPB research lab

Her New York lab becomes the season's turning point once she shows the Bladebreakers a mysterious carved stone her team has kept secret for years, only for it to be stolen within the same visit. She throws herself into recovering it and clearing the name of the culprit once he's revealed as Max's old friend Alan, pushing an investigator off the case so Max can settle things through a match instead of an arrest. What her research eventually confirms is that the stone holds a bit-beast, and that the man responsible for its original disappearance is her one-time colleague Dr. Zagart, a discovery that pulls a decades-old mystery back into her work.

Beyblade G-Revolution (2003)

PPB All Starz (coach)

She writes to Max herself this time, plane ticket included, asking him to come home and blade for the All Starz rather than watching from New York. Recruiting Rick Anderson to fill out the roster, she coaches the reshaped team through the tag-team World Championships, and for once her pride in Max isn't buried under a research agenda — she's simply glad to see him and Rick do well.

Briefing

What to know

  • Mother of Max Tate (and later Charlotte Tate) and head coach of the PPB All Starz.
  • Works as a scientist at the BBA research center in New York.
  • Secretly collects battle data on the Blade Breakers under the guise of a friendly tournament.
  • Her predictive data proves wrong when Max defeats the statistically favored Michael.
  • Oversees research into an ancient stone believed to house the oldest known bit-beast, in V-Force.
  • Helps clear the record of Max's friend Alan after a stolen-artifact incident.
  • Recruits Rick Anderson to the All Starz for the G-Revolution World Championships.

Key episodes

Watch these first

  1. S1E19 Under the Microscope Beyblade (2001) · American Tournament · May 14, 2001
  2. S1E28 Bottom of the Ninth Beyblade (2001) · American Tournament · Jul 16, 2001
  3. S1E50 New and Cyber-Improved... Beyblade (2001) · Russian World Championship · Dec 17, 2001
  4. S2E28 Hot Rock Beyblade V-Force (2002) · Zagart's Rock · Jul 22, 2002
  5. S3E07 Take Your Best Shot! Beyblade G-Revolution (2003) · The Bladebreakers Split · Feb 17, 2003
  6. S3E24 Down Under Thunder Beyblade G-Revolution (2003) · Tag Team World Championship · Jun 16, 2003

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

Where they first appear

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Rivals & bonds

Known associates

  • Max Tate son
  • Taro Tate estranged husband
  • Emily protege
  • MichaelEddySteveRick Anderson All Starz
  • Mr. Dickenson As a BBA researcher and coach, she answers to Dickenson's association without ever losing her independence, running her own lab and her own team while staying one of the people he trusts to keep the sport's science side honest.

Cross-references

Teams, places and more

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