Kikura Gen

Biography

Kikura Gen, also known as Gen Kikura, is a minor Shogun Steel antagonist who disguised himself as a seaweed-covered 'Sea Monster' to scare beach litterers at Midsummer Beach, secretly enjoying the fear he caused. Kite Unabara challenged him over his behavior, and after a long stamina standoff Zyro Kurogane exploited Kikura's habit of blurting out his own Beyblade's weakness to beat him with Samurai Ifrit. Humiliated, he later resurfaced in Metal Bey City seeking revenge on Zyro, lost again to Takanosuke Shishiya the same way, and entered Neo Battle Bladers before drifting into Benkei Hanawa's training camp with other defeated bladers.

Dark brown, cocoa-toned skin sits alongside goggles and eyes that resemble Tetsuya Watarigani's. Curly white hair streaked with red, reminiscent of a jellyfish, tops his head, and he pairs a dark green suit and brown shoes with a black, white-striped shirt underneath. At times he swaps in a white sleeveless vest patterned with red and blue, again echoing a jellyfish.

Instability runs through Kikura much as it does through Tetsuya, and a backstory sits behind both his choices and his motives. He carries a habit of blurting out sensitive details, his Bey's weaknesses included, straight to opponents, and rarely notices the slip until it has already cost him the match.

Beyblades

Pirate Kraken A230JSB

First appearance

Kraken Attacks

Japanese name

木倉ゲン

Romaji

Kikura Gen

Also known as

The Sea Monster / The Prince of the Beach / The Dangerous Blader / Wood Ear Mushroom / The Fairy of the Beach / The Super Blader / Mushroom / King Oyster Mushroom / Mushroom Boy

Occupation

Blader / Environmentalist

Gender

Male

First anime appearance

Kraken Attacks

Voice (English)

Drew Nelson

1. 1 Pirate Kraken A230JSB

• Wears a Kraken-based disguise made of seaweed to scare people off a beach he wants kept clean.
• Owns Pirate Kraken A230JSB, a Defense-type whose Armor 230 track can only be beaten by an attack from directly above.
• Habitually blabs his own Beyblade's weakness to opponents mid-battle, which costs him.
• Lost to Zyro Kurogane at Midsummer Beach after a tide flooded their first 'Rock Stadium' battle to a no-decision.
• Fled to Metal Bey City to target Zyro again but was defeated there by Takanosuke Shishiya using the same above-attack trick.
• Entered Neo Battle Bladers but was quickly eliminated by Shinobu Hiryūin.
• In the manga he is eliminated from Neo Battle Bladers when Yoshio Iwayama's Bandit Golem destroys his Beyblade.
• His name is a play on 'kuraaken,' the Japanese pronunciation of 'kraken.'

• vs Shinobu Hiryūin in ZG013 — No result
• vs Zyro Kurogane in ZG013 — No result
• vs Kite Unabara in ZG014 — No outcome
• vs Zyro Kurogane in ZG014 — Lose
• vs Takanosuke Shishiya in ZG022 — Lose
• vs Tournament Bladers in ZG029 — Win
• vs Shinobu Hiryūin in ZG030 — Lose

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

• Beyblade: Shogun Steel episode 7: Kraken Attacks 2012-07-01

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

• Beyblade: Shogun Steel episode 7: Kraken Attacks First appearance · 2012-07-01