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Character file · Metal Saga
Teru Saotome
Saotome Teru · 早乙女輝
- First seen
- Beyblade: Metal Fusion
3
series
8
episodes on record
1
Beyblade
4
special moves
3
cards
Biography
Teru Saotome is a calm, disciplined former ballet dancer who channels that same grace into blading with Earth Virgo GB145BS. He idolizes Gingka Hagane, loses to him in a tournament final, and later reaches the semifinals of a WBBA tournament before falling to Yu Tendo in a stadium-out finish. His special moves, Pirouette Tour, Allegro Entrechat, and Grand Jete, are all built around real ballet techniques, and he's respected enough to rank ninth among Japan's top ten bladers.
Appearance and personality
What They Look Like, and How They Behave
Light-skinned and of average height, Teru is a Japanese teenager with wavy blond hair falling over one of his two dark blue eyes. His wardrobe leans formal and expensive: a white dress shirt set off by a blue ribbon at the collar, a deep red cummerbund, and a red jacket trimmed in ornate gold. Black slim trousers and white boots complete the look, with his jacket and boot cuffs turned back to show red linings edged in gold. A grey belt worn at an angle carries his Bey and launcher holster.
Teru carries himself with calm discipline rather than bravado. He battles with genuine enthusiasm but keeps a clear goal in view — building a name for himself in the Beyblade world. Sparing with words, he makes the ones he does use count, and outside the arena his tastes run toward ballet.
On file
The record
- Beyblades
- Earth Virgo GB145BS
- First appearance
- Beyblade: Metal Fusion
- Japanese name
- 早乙女輝
- Romaji
- Saotome Teru
- Occupation
- Blader Former Ballet Dancer
- Gender
- Male
- First anime appearance
- Shine, Virgo!
- Voice (Japanese)
- Nobuhiko Okamoto
- Voice (English)
- Scott Gorman
Beyblades
Teru Saotome's Beyblades
Special moves
Called shots
Briefing
What to know
- Former ballet dancer who fights with Earth Virgo GB145BS.
- Idolizes Gingka Hagane, who later defeats him in a tournament final.
- Reaches the Metal Masters semifinals before losing to Yu Tendo.
- Special moves Pirouette Tour, Allegro Entrechat, and Grand Jete are all ballet-inspired.
- Ranks 9th among Japan's top bladers with 210 points in the selection event.
- Gives his power to Gingka during the final battle against Nemesis.
Notable battles
- Hikaru Hasama — TV broadcast, before meeting Gingka (Win)
- Gingka Hagane — MF034 tournament final (Lose)
- Ryutaro Fukami — MF040, Battle Bladers (Lose)
- Yu Tendo — MM001 semifinal (Lose, stadium-out)
- Helios (tag battle) — Sol Blaze crossover (Lose)
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
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.
- Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 34 aired in Japan: Shine, Virgo! news item · 2009-11-22
Cross-references
Teams, places and more
Attributed, not verified by us
Claims We Could Not Check
- His surname 'Saotome' is an anagram of 'Otomesa' (乙女座), Japanese for the Virgo constellation.
- He shares his surname with another Virgo-themed blader, Spica Saotome, from the Metal Fight Beyblade video game.
- He's one of only three Battle Bladers competitors (with Benkei and Ryuga) who suffered no misfortune after losing there.
In the card games
Teru Saotome on cardboard
The character 1
The Blader Profile is our own reading of how the character performs on screen or on the page, not a figure from the makers.