Susumu Hiwatari

Biography

Susumu Hiwatari is Kai Hiwatari's father and Voltaire Hiwatari's son, serving as Director of the BBA in the Bakuten Shoot Beyblade manga. A loving father who enjoyed engineering Beyblades and playing with young Kai, he was forced by Voltaire to choose between running Hiwatari Enterprises and his hobby; choosing Beyblades devastated Kai, who mistook it as rejection and became obsessed with destroying Beyblades. Susumu later stops Voltaire from halting Kai's championship battle with Tyson, and returns years later in Bakuten Shoot Beyblade: Rising to give Tyson Dragoon Fantom Gravity Variable.

First appearance

Bakuten Shoot Beyblade manga

Japanese name

火渡進

Romaji

Hiwatari Susumu

Occupation

Director of the BBA

Gender

Male

First anime appearance

Guess Who's Back in Town? (Mentioned)

First manga appearance

Fierce Battle Again!! Takao Vs Kai

• Manga-exclusive father of Kai Hiwatari and son of Voltaire Hiwatari.
• Serves as Director of the BBA.
• Chose his love of Beyblade engineering over inheriting Hiwatari Enterprises at Voltaire's ultimatum.
• Kai misread the choice as rejection, sparking Kai's early Beyblade-destroying rebellion.
• Steps in to stop Voltaire from halting Kai's regional championship battle against Tyson.
• Returns in Bakuten Shoot Beyblade: Rising (chapter 5) to give Tyson Dragoon Fantom Gravity Variable.

What is on record for Susumu Hiwatari is thin, so we went looking elsewhere rather than padding this page. These are the collections we searched, and none of them had anything to add:

• our toy database of every Beyblade and part
• every episode of every series
• the World Beyblade Organization's archived forums and Beywiki drafts
• Takara Tomy's and beyblade.jp's own pages
• Wikipedia in English and Japanese
• beyblade.com
• collectors' measurements of the parts
• the tournament, testing, news and fake-check records already on this site