Beyblade Burst

What to know

• First season of the Burst Series and eighth Beyblade anime season overall.
• Aired on TV Tokyo April 4, 2016 to March 27, 2017, Mondays at 5:55pm JST.
• Follows fifth-grader Valt Aoi and his Bey Valtryek as he pursues the National Tournament, inspired by prodigy Shu Kurenai.
• Streamed on Netflix 2017-2021; also available on Prime Video and Apple TV; previously on Disney XD/DisneyNOW.
• First letters of most main characters' first names match the first letters of their Beys' names (e.g., Valt Aoi and Victory Valtryek).
• First Beyblade season not localized in English by Nelvana.

Staff

• Executive Producers: Yuya Yokoyama, Naohiko Furuichi, Wataru Sato
• Series Composition: Hideki Sonoda
• Character Design: Toshiaki Ohashi
• Director: Katsuhito Akiyama
• Assistant Director: Kentaro Yamaguchi
• Art Director: Atsushi Yokoyama
• CGI Director: Dai Seo
• Sound Director: Yuki Matsuoka
• Music: Yusaku Tsuchiya
• Animation Producer: Isami Abe
• Animation Production: OLM Team Abe

Cast

• Valt Aoi: Marina Inoue / Sabrina Pitre
• Shu Kurenai: Junya Enoki / Adrian Petriw
• Rantaro Kiyama: Fumihiro Okabayashi / Matt Hill
• Ken Midori: Tsubasa Yonaga / Gabe Khouth
• Daigo Kurogami: Ayahi Takagaki / Antony Kim (eps 1-20), Zach LeBlanc (eps 21+)
• Xander Shakadera: Rikiya Koyama / Andrew Francis
• Wakiya Murasaki: Yu Kobayashi / Cole Howard
• Nika Aoi: Aoi Inase / Sabrina Pitre
• Toko Aoi: You Taichi / Sabrina Pitre
• Chiharu Aoi: Masumi Asano / Kelly Sheridan
• Ryota Kurogami: Haruna Sakurai / William Ashman
• Principal Shinoda: Nobuo Tobita / Richard Newman

Themes

• OP (Japanese): Burst Finish!
• OP (English): Our Time
• ED (Japanese): Believe
• ED (English, instrumental): Our Time
• Eyecatcher (English): Battle Above My League

Arcs

• Japanese National Tournament

In this season

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Claims We Could Not Check

Attributed, not verified by us

• Most main characters' first names begin with the same letter as their Bey's name, and the Bey names are themselves alliterative.
• This season's Beys are themed after figures and beings from mythology.
• Many characters wear an inverted-triangle motif representing the three parts of a Beyblade: Energy Layer, Disc and Performance Tip.
• The only Burst season whose Japanese title-card music is not reused in the international release.
• The first Beyblade season not localized into English by Nelvana.