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Character file · Metal Saga

Ren Kurenai

Kurenai Ren · 紅 蓮

Supporting Beyblade: Shogun SteelMetal Fight Beyblade: Zero-G (manga)
First seen
Episode 05 - The Strength of a Bond

2

series

21

episodes on record

1

Beyblade

Biography

Ren Kurenai is the only female Blader in Beyblade: Shogun Steel, fighting with Thief Phoenix E230GCF and a battle technique she openly copies from series lead Zyro Kurogane. Confident and eager for every fight, she debuts by defeating three Bladers on the Cyclone Beystadium platform before losing to Zyro himself, then joins his group in Metal Bey City. Benkei later warns her that her overreliance on Thief Phoenix's flashy physical tricks won't hold up outside the Cyclone Beystadium, a lesson she painfully confirms when Takanosuke Shishiya's Archer Griffin shuts her down.

Appearance and personality

What They Look Like, and How They Behave

Ren has light skin, amber eyes and spiky blonde hair tied back into a ponytail. Her regular outfit is a black leather jacket trimmed in pink over a lime-green tank top, burgundy shorts held up with a black belt, and thigh-high socks split vertically into pink and lavender halves with black trim at the top, finished with black boots, black fingerless gloves and two belts carrying her Blader Gear. In one Shogun Steel episode she instead wears a pink sleeveless collared shirt with a Bull Burger apron and baseball cap, and in another she appears in a maroon one-piece swimsuit with a front zipper.

Ren shares Zyro's outspoken confidence in her own ability, throwing herself into every Beybattle with enthusiasm and refusing to back down once she's committed to a fight, backed by an unshakeable fighting spirit. In battle she stays relaxed rather than rattled, and she pays close attention to technique, even pausing in her debut match to work out how to use one of Zyro's moves.

Blader Profile

Ren Kurenai, rated

  • Attack 7/10
  • Defense 4/10
  • Stamina 5/10
  • Technique 5/10
  • Spirit 7/10

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

Eager and aggressive with a borrowed technique, she leans on Thief Phoenix's gimmicks and Takanosuke shut her down, though she later avenged her loss to Genjuro.

On file

The record

Beyblades
Thief Phoenix E230GCF
First appearance
Episode 05 - The Strength of a Bond
Japanese name
紅 蓮
Romaji
Kurenai Ren
Also known as
The Crimson Challenger
Occupation
Blader
Gender
Female
First anime appearance
The Strength of a Bond
First manga appearance
Win! Battle Royale!!
Voice (Japanese)
Kanae Oki
Voice (English)
Bryn McAuley

Beyblades

Ren Kurenai's Beyblades

  1. Thief Phoenix E230GCF

Briefing

What to know

  • Only female Blader across the Shogun Steel anime and manga.
  • Fights with Thief Phoenix E230GCF, a Synchrome System Beyblade.
  • Her signature technique is explicitly modeled on rival Zyro Kurogane's own move.
  • Defeats three Bladers in a row on debut before losing her first real fight to Zyro.
  • Benkei warns her that her style depends too heavily on Thief Phoenix's physical gimmicks outside Cyclone Beystadiums.
  • Loses to Takanosuke Shishiya's Archer Griffin, which is unaffected by her signature technique.
  • In the earlier Zero-G manga cameo, she's eliminated in the Neo Battle Bladers quarterfinals.

Notable battles

  • vs Beypark Bladers in Beyblade: Shogun Steel episode ZG009 — win
  • vs Zyro Kurogane in Beyblade: Shogun Steel ZG009/ZG010 — lose
  • vs Shinobu Hiryūin in Beyblade: Shogun Steel ZG011 — lose
  • vs Takanosuke Shishiya in Beyblade: Shogun Steel ZG011/ZG012 — lose
  • vs Zyro Kurogane (with Shinobu) in Beyblade: Shogun Steel ZG022 — win
  • vs Genjūrō Kamekaki in Beyblade: Shogun Steel ZG028 — lose
  • vs Genjūro Kamegaki in Beyblade: Shogun Steel ZG040 — win

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.

Cross-references

Teams, places and more

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Attributed, not verified by us

Claims We Could Not Check

  • Only female Blader to appear in the Shogun Steel anime and manga.
  • Fails to reach the finals of the anime's Neo Battle Bladers, but reaches the quarterfinals in the manga version before losing.
  • Shares her surname with Shu Kurenai of the Burst series.

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