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Max Tate: our photograph of the Collision card #063, Max, Team Player

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Character file · Original series

Max Tate

Max Mizuhara · 水原 マックス

Ally BladebreakersPPB All Starz Beyblade: 2000Beyblade: V-ForceBeyblade: G-Revolution
Bit-beast
Draciel · Water · Black tortoise (Genbu, the Black Tortoise of the North)
Style
Defense
From
Japanese-American (Japanese father, American mother)
First seen
Beyblade Fighting Tournament (August 2000); manga Volume 1, Chapter 5

3

series

147

episodes on record

7

Beyblades

7

special moves

13

cards across 4 games

Biography

Max is the sunny, hyperactive defender of the group, the son of a Bay City hobby-shop owner and an American research scientist, and the only Bladebreaker of mixed parentage. His turtle bit-beast Draciel turns matches into endurance tests: opponents throw everything at his wall and wear themselves out. Behind the grin is a boy split between two parents on two continents, which comes to a head when his mother Judy turns out to coach the data-obsessed All Starz. His sportsmanship is the real trait — beating the Blade Hunters and leaving them with nothing, he hands over his own old Beyblade so they can keep playing. In V-Force he is the first Bladebreaker to fall in the Battle Tower and the first to win his bit-beast back from the Saint Shields; in G-Revolution he blades for his mother's team in the tag format and faces Tyson as an opponent.

Appearance and personality

What They Look Like, and How They Behave

Blond, blue-eyed and fair, and the only Bladebreaker of mixed parentage — a Japanese father and an American mother, which the Japanese scripts lean on by calling him the American one. He starts in orange dungarees over a green shirt with broad green wristbands. V-Force darkens the blond towards orange, greys the dungarees and adds a star-print shirt and red fingerless gloves. G-Revolution lightens the hair again and puts him in a green and cream raglan with an orange M on the chest, a sweater knotted at the waist and a Beyblade holder at the back of his trousers.

Cheerful to a fault and almost never down. Max takes whatever happens and finds the joke in it, and he is close enough to Tyson to read as a brother. His sportsmanship is the real trait: after beating the Blade Hunters and leaving them with nothing, he hands over his own old Beyblade so they can keep playing. He is patient, enthusiastic and, by Kenny's account, a flirt. Two running gags: in the Japanese script he scatters English through his sentences, and he eats mustard on his noodles and presses the habit on everyone — mayonnaise, in the original.

Blader Profile

Max Tate, rated

  • Attack 6/10
  • Defense 10/10
  • Stamina 8/10
  • Technique 7/10
  • Spirit 8/10

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

The best pure defender in the series; wins by absorbing pressure rather than dealing it.

On file

The record

Blading style
Defense
Nationality
Japanese-American (Japanese father, American mother)
English voice
Gage Knox
Team
Bladebreakers / G-Revolutions (later PPB All Starz)
Beyblades
Draciel S; Draciel F; Draciel V; Draciel V2; Draciel G; Draciel MS
Bit-beast or avatar
Draciel
Voice (English)
Gage Knox
First appearance
Beyblade Fighting Tournament (August 2000); manga Volume 1, Chapter 5
Japanese name
水原 マックス
Romaji
Mizuhara Max
Occupation
World-Class Blader
Gender
Male
First anime appearance
Take It To The Max!
First manga appearance
Meeting With Max!!
Voice (Japanese)
Ai Orikasa

Bit-beast & Beyblades

Draciel, form by form

  1. Draciel Metal Ball Defenser S1 · ep 3
  2. Draciel S S1 · ep 5
  3. Draciel F S1 · ep 45
  4. Draciel V S2 · ep 8
  5. Draciel V2 S2 · ep 47
  6. Draciel G S3 · ep 16
  7. Draciel MS S3 · ep 40

Special moves

Called shots

Aqua ShieldHeavy Viper WallViper WallFortress DefenseGravity ControlMetal Ball DefenseUltra Gravity Control

Story by season

Where the seasons take them

Beyblade (2001)

Bladebreakers

A chance meeting over a puppy pulled from the river introduces Max to Tyson and Kenny, and a Draciel win in his father's hobby-shop stadium gets him folded straight into their training for the regional qualifier. He wins his block outright, loses a gracious semi-final to Kai, and becomes a founding Bladebreaker once Tyson takes the national title. The American Tournament turns personal: his mother Judy coaches the opposing All Starz, and proving himself to her drives him through to Lake Baikal, where an upgraded Draciel holds off Black Dranzer itself long enough to keep the Bladebreakers alive. The Demolition Boys strip Draciel from him during the Russian finals, and it only returns once Tyson beats Tala for the title.

Beyblade V-Force (2002)

Bladebreakers

Moving back to America to help his mother's research puts Max in the open when a cloaked Mariam ambushes and beats him cold, the first sign that Team Psykick has the whole team in its sights. He loses Draciel twice more before the season is done, once to Psykick and once to Zeo Zagart, getting it back only when Psykick falls and when Tyson finally beats Zeo. Through the team's worst infighting Max plays peacemaker more than fighter, and an unlikely bond grows with Mariam even after their battle, before he and Tyson close the World Championships by taking the tag-team title together.

Beyblade G-Revolution (2003)

PPB All Starz

News of the tag-team format reaches Max first, and realizing it could put him across the dish from Tyson, he leaves to team with Rick Anderson under the All Starz banner instead. He and Rick tie White Tiger X for fourth place, and along the way Max fights Tyson directly in a round-robin match both of them clearly enjoy despite the stakes. Daichi latches onto him as a new rival to chase once he tires of measuring himself only against Tyson. When Boris's BEGA takeover threatens the BBA outright, Max drops the All Starz colors and rejoins the reformed G Revolutions, beating Mystel in the Justice 5 on the way to taking BEGA down.

Briefing

What to know

  • Known as Max Mizuhara in Japan; called 'the American Max' for his mixed heritage
  • Son of Taro Tate (Japanese hobby-shop owner) and Judy Tate (American Beyblade researcher/PPB All Starz coach)
  • Loses Draciel more times than any other Bladebreaker: to the Demolition Boys, then twice more in V-Force
  • Leaves the Bladebreakers in G-Revolution to team with Rick Anderson under the PPB All Starz banner
  • Considered the weakest attacker of the team on paper but repeatedly out-endures stronger opponents
  • English dub gives him an added playboy streak and a hair-dyeing joke not present in the Japanese original
  • Has never had an official 'Black' variant Beyblade released, unlike Kai, Tyson, and Ray

Notable battles

  • vs Kai Hiwatari in Episode 5 — Win then Lose (best of multiple rounds)
  • vs Emily Watson in Episode 19 — Lose
  • vs Michael Summers in Episode 28 — Win
  • vs Mariam in V-Force Episode 2 — Lose
  • vs Zeo Zagart in V-Force Episode 50 — Lose
  • vs Tyson Granger in V-Force Episode 34 and 49 — Draw, then Lose
  • vs Kai Hiwatari in G-Revolution Episode 16 — Lose
  • vs Mystel in G-Revolution Episode 44 — Draw

Quotes

In Their Own Words

  • We're a team!
  • With Tyson around, he'll have those chefs working overtime.
  • You two really crack me up!
  • I hope the hot sauce didn't spoil his blood.
  • You're such a wet blanket. You should loosen up and have some fun. Tyson's got the right idea.
  • I'd rather not.
  • Everyone looks like ants down there.
  • Hey don't forget about me! I want a battle with the world champ too you know.
  • Probably. He's got everything else down there.
  • Oh look, it's all so fake.

Key episodes

Watch these first

  1. S1E03 Take It to the Max! Beyblade (2001) · Japanese Regional Tournament · Jan 22, 2001
  2. S1E15 Going for the Gold Beyblade (2001) · Asian Tournament · Apr 16, 2001
  3. S1E28 Bottom of the Ninth Beyblade (2001) · American Tournament · Jul 16, 2001
  4. S1E46 First Strike Beyblade (2001) · Russian World Championship · Nov 19, 2001
  5. S2E22 Max Takes One for the Team Beyblade V-Force (2002) · The Battle Tower · Jun 10, 2002
  6. S2E37 Beybattle at the Bit-Beast Corral Beyblade V-Force (2002) · Saint Shields Showdown · Sep 23, 2002
  7. S2E47 Deceit from Above Beyblade V-Force (2002) · World Championship Finals · Dec 2, 2002
  8. S3E07 Take Your Best Shot! Beyblade G-Revolution (2003) · The Bladebreakers Split · Feb 17, 2003
  9. S3E25 Max Attacks! Beyblade G-Revolution (2003) · Tag Team World Championship · Jun 23, 2003
  10. S3E45 Max to the Max Beyblade G-Revolution (2003) · Justice 5 · Nov 17, 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

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

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.

Rivals & bonds

Known associates

  • Judy Tate mother and rival coach
  • Taro Tate father
  • Tyson Granger best friend and eventual opponent
  • Rick Anderson tag partner
  • Mariam Mariam beats Max cold the first time they meet, and the rematch that follows leaves a real, if complicated, affection behind it despite the two staying on opposite sides.
  • EmilyMichael All Starz

Cross-references

Teams, places and more

Bit-beasts & avatars 1

Places 3

Teams 2

Tournaments 2

Attributed, not verified by us

Claims We Could Not Check

  • Max's dub voice deepens in G-Revolution because Gage Knox went through puberty
  • A female counterpart of Max appears in a spin-off called Yuyama Gesoki
  • His Indonesian dub name was mistranslated as Mark Mizuhara
  • Early Season 1 promotional art shows him in blue overalls rather than orange
  • The final manga chapter, set 15 years later, has Max running a USA development center

In the card games

Max Tate on cardboard

All card games

The character 3

Rare #063 Max, Team Player
Promo Foil #138 Max, Bladebreaker
Cards Inc. · #07 Max Character

Their bit-beast 2

Cards Inc. · #08 Draciel Bit Beast
Kidys · #26 Draciel 1650 Ataque · 2000 Defensa

Their Beyblades 5

Rare #004 Draciel, Max's Beyblade
Cards Inc. · #49 Draciel S Top
Character Card Game · 013 Draciel Shield ドラシエルシールド
Character Card Game · 014 Draciel (Metal Ball Defenser) ドラシエル(メタルボールディフェンサー)
Character Card Game · CN-040 Draciel Shield (Perfect Defenser Ver.) ドラシエルシールド(パーフェクトディフェンサーVer.)

Their moves 3

Character Card Game · 065 Metal Ball Defense メタルボールディフェンス
Character Card Game · 182 Fortress Defense フォートレスディフェンス
Character Card Game · 233 Fortress Defense (2002 Ver.) フォートレスディフェンス(2002Ver.)

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