Tetsuya Watarigani

Biography

Tetsuya Watarigani is a crab-obsessed cheat whose comic exterior hides real pain: after protecting his best friend Echizen from a bully and being abandoned mid-beating, he turned bitter, vowing to make every blader suffer as he did. He battles Gingka repeatedly with dirty tricks using Mad Gasher and its Dark Nebula upgrade, Dark Gasher, eventually losing his spirit to L-Drago at Battle Bladers. Despite constant scheming and failure, he mellows by the finale, cheering Gingka's victory over Ryuga.

Tetsuya's hair is long, dark green and messily frayed at the ends. Over a long brown shirt he wears a small pale lavender vest patterned with dull blue circles and finished with a dull blue hem. A cape shaped to resemble a crab's shell hangs from his shoulders, and he completes the outfit with dark blue trousers and grey-and-white shoes.

Tetsuya comes across as irritating even to the people around him, and Gingka's group finds his manner outright strange. He cheats readily in battle, tacking "crabby" onto his sentences and reaching for crab puns, though his tricks rarely save him from losing. Despite modest battling talent, he is genuinely sharp and adaptable, switching tactics mid-fight against tough opponents and manipulating people off the field, convincing Hikaru that Kenta had lied to her and winning grudging trust from the Face-Hunters before Kyoya returned. He was gentler as a boy, devoted to his friend Echizen, until Echizen fled from Taraba in fear; Tetsuya then dropped every soft feeling, cheating and scratching rival Beys with his own Mad Gasher and working against Gingka at every turn, even joining Dark Nebula to take him down. After his spirit passed into Ryuga, he came away with real respect for Gingka.

Team

Dark Nebula (former)

Beyblades

Mad Gasher CH120FS; Dark Gasher CH120SF/FS

First appearance

Beyblade: Metal Fusion

Japanese name

渡蟹 哲也

Romaji

Watarigani Tetsuya

Also known as

Crab-Man

Occupation

Former Dark Nebula Blader

Gender

Male

First anime appearance

Vengeful Gasher

Voice (Japanese)

Ken'ichi Fujiwara

Voice (English)

Scott McCord

1. 1 Mad Gasher CH120FS
2. 2 Dark Gasher CH120SF/FS

• Signature Beyblades are Mad Gasher CH120FS and its Dark Nebula upgrade, Dark Gasher.
• Backstory: took a beating meant for his friend Echizen, who then abandoned him, sparking his obsession with crabs and cheating.
• Special moves include Six Crab Shake, Six Crab Sea King, and the fake-friendship trick Operation O.
• Joins Dark Nebula seeking revenge on Gingka, briefly working alongside Yu Tendo's captors.
• Loses to Ryuga's Lightning L-Drago at Battle Bladers, his spirit absorbed until Ryuga's defeat.
• Ends the series on good terms with Gingka, cheering his final win.

• Gingka Hagane — MF005 (Lose 1-2, cheated to win round two)
• Benkei Hanawa — MF007 (Lose)
• Kyoya Tategami — MF009 (Lose)
• Gingka Hagane — MF028 tournament final (Lose)
• Tsubasa Otori (tag) — MF035 (Lose)
• Ryuga (tag w/ Tobio) — MF042, Battle Bladers (Lose, spirit absorbed)

• CrabbaRabbaDingDong

• Hot hot hot...cold cold cold...hot cold hot cold!

• The Crabs not cooked yet

• Crab says wha-

• You should've listened to the words in my mind

• Now for a crabtastic finish!

• Crabby

• Oh yeah, what are going to do about it Crabcakes?

• Thank you, thank you. You have my sincerest crabitude.

• Operation O INITIATE!

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

• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 5: Vengeful Gasher 2009-05-03
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 7: It's Our Special Move! Sagittario 2009-05-17
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 9: Leone's Counterattack 2009-05-31
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 20: Begin! The Survival Battle 2009-08-16
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 28: Dark Gasher's Big, Crabby-Crabby Operation! 2009-10-11
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 33: The Oath of the Phoenix 2009-11-15
• Beyblade: Metal Fury episode 22
• Beyblade: Metal Fury episode 33
• Beyblade: Metal Fury episode 39
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 6
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 10
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 11
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 23
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 24
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 35
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 36
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 40
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 42
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 44
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 46
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 48
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 49
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 51
• Beyblade: Metal Masters episode 4
• Beyblade: Metal Masters episode 6

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• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 5: Vengeful Gasher First anime appearance · 2009-05-03

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• Beyblade: Metal Fusion episode 5 aired in Japan: Vengeful Gasher news item · 2009-05-03