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Tsubasa Otori: our photograph of the Battle Card Collection card #058, Earth Eagle

Pictured: Battle Card Collection #058 · Earth Eagle

Character file · Metal Saga

Tsubasa Otori

Ōtori Tsubasa · 大鳥翼

Supporting Team GanGan Galaxy Beyblade: Metal FusionBeyblade: Metal MastersBeyblade: Metal FuryBeyblade: Shogun Steel
First seen
Beyblade: Metal Fusion, Episode 24 - The Beautiful Eagle

4

series

68

episodes on record

1

Beyblade

7

special moves

6

cards

Biography

Tsubasa Otori is a top-tier Metal Saga blader and secret WBBA agent who infiltrates the Dark Nebula to investigate L-Drago before becoming the third member of Team GanGan Galaxy. Composed, tactical, and guided by all five senses in battle, he wields Earth Eagle 145WD and eventually the finisher Shining Tornado Buster, but is plagued through Metal Masters by a Dark Power awakened after his first loss to Ryuga. He overcomes it using Ryuga's own advice to embrace rather than resist it, later helps defeat Nemesis in Metal Fury, and succeeds Ryo Hagane as WBBA President by Shogun Steel.

Appearance and personality

What They Look Like, and How They Behave

Tsubasa stands tall for his age, with a tan complexion and long silver-grey hair worn in a low ponytail, loose bangs falling over golden-brown eyes that flare red under a purple shadow when the Dark Power takes hold of him. Through the first three seasons he wears a sleeveless brown shirt trimmed in lavender that bares his midriff, paired with loose white trousers, brown boots and brown fingerless gloves reaching his wrists, with his Beyblade kept in a storage box strapped to his right forearm. By Shogun Steel his hair has been cut back to neck length and his wardrobe turns sharply more formal: a black button-down shirt under a red suit top, white khakis, a black belt and black shoes.

Tsubasa is composed and level-headed, a tactician who reads a battle as it unfolds and adapts on the fly, drawing on sharp instincts to outthink opponents. He carries himself as an honest, kind-hearted wanderer, ready to help anyone he meets, which makes his stint with Dark Nebula look like a betrayal until it emerges he infiltrated the group as an undercover WBBA investigator rather than joining it for real. Once he throws in with Gingka's group he stays loyal to them, forming a lasting battle partnership with Yu Tendo. A darker instinct later creeps into his blading and shakes his self-belief, and only Ryuga's advice, to stop resisting that side of himself and accept it, brings him back to form. He also quietly resents never being named a Legendary Blader, even as he gives everything to their final fight.

Blader Profile

Tsubasa Otori, rated

  • Attack 8/10
  • Defense 7/10
  • Stamina 8/10
  • Technique 9/10
  • Spirit 8/10

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

A composed tactician who reads battles with every sense and counters cleanly, though the dark power born from losing to Ryuga costs him control for a season.

On file

The record

Team
Team GanGan Galaxy
Beyblades
Earth Eagle 145WD
Voice (English)
David Reale
First appearance
Beyblade: Metal Fusion, Episode 24 - The Beautiful Eagle
Japanese name
大鳥翼
Romaji
Ōtori Tsubasa
Occupation
Agent of the WBBA / Gingka's gang / Former Member of Team GanGan Galaxy / President of the WBBA
Gender
Male
First anime appearance
The Beautiful Eagle
Voice (Japanese)
Miyu Irino

Beyblades

Tsubasa Otori's Beyblades

  1. Earth Eagle 145WD

Special moves

Called shots

Metal Wing Smash (Special Move)Shining Tornado BusterDiving CrushStream SlashCounter SmashSmashing ClawEagle Great Feather Reflection

Briefing

What to know

  • Secretly a WBBA special investigator who infiltrates the Dark Nebula to study L-Drago's power.
  • Becomes the third member of Team GanGan Galaxy alongside Gingka, Masamune, and Yu Tendo.
  • Wields Earth Eagle 145WD throughout Metal Fusion, Metal Masters, and Metal Fury without changing Beys.
  • Develops a Dark Power after his first loss to Ryuga, which destabilizes his battling until he learns to embrace it.
  • Signature finisher is Shining Tornado Buster; earlier moves include Metal Wing Smash and Counter Stance.
  • Becomes WBBA President in Beyblade: Shogun Steel, succeeding Ryo Hagane.
  • English voice actor David Reale also voiced Kai Hiwatari in the original series.
  • The only non-Legendary Blader to defeat a Legendary Blader (Kenta) during Metal Fury.

Notable battles

  • vs Gingka Hagane in MF024 — Lose (on purpose)
  • vs Ryuga in MF045 — Lose
  • vs Kyoya Tategami in MM005 — Lose
  • vs Julian Konzern, Sophie and Wales (tag w/ Ryuga) in MM026 — No Outcome
  • vs Argo Garcia in MM033 — Win
  • vs Ryuga in 4D013 — Lose
  • vs Kenta Yumiya in 4D013 — Win
  • vs Nemesis (tag w/ Legendary Bladers, Yu, Masamune) in 4D050 — Eliminated

Quotes

In Their Own Words

  • Let's go Eagle!
  • Boom baby!
  • The future of Beyblade has been assured.
  • If you fight force with force, you cannot win against it.
  • Don't rely only on your eyes. There's sound, the feeling of the wind, scent. Use all of your senses. It's the same with Beyblade battles.
  • I am myself! I am Tsubasa!

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

Episodes that mention them

The name turns up in what happens in these episodes rather than in their cast lists, so read them as leads, not as a credit.

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.

Cross-references

Teams, places and more

Bit-beasts & avatars 1

Organisations 1

Teams 2

Attributed, not verified by us

Claims We Could Not Check

  • His name (Tsubasa = 'wing,' Otori = 'great bird') plays off his Bey, Earth Eagle.
  • The demonic Dark Power inside him is a pun on the Japanese kanji for his Bey's name, which contains 'Aku' (evil).
  • First blader to break Ryuga's dark move, even before Gingka managed it.
  • English VA David Reale also voiced Kai Hiwatari, another bird-Bey wielder.
  • Fans briefly speculated he was romantically involved with Madoka before the show clarified she is his assistant.

In the card games

Tsubasa Otori on cardboard

All card games
Battle Card Collection · #058 Earth Eagle Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #059 Earth Eagle Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #134 Earth Eagle Beyblade · series 1
Battle Card Collection · #181 Earth Eagle Beyblade · series 2
Battle Card Collection · #182 Earth Eagle Beyblade · series 2
Battle Card Collection · #235 Earth Eagle Beyblade · series 2

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