Beyblade: Metal Fury

Beyblade: Metal Fury (original version: Metal Fight Beyblade 4D) is the sixth anime series of the Beyblade anime and the third season of the Metal Saga created by Takafumi Adachi. It is the sequel to the anime and manga series, It is preceded by Beyblade: Metal Masters (Metal Fight Beyblade Explosion/Baku).

Metal Fury was revealed through the March 2011 issue of CoroCoro, showcasing the new season along with it&apos;s plot. As revealed from it, Fury was revealed to be based heavily on the then-new 4D Beyblade System. In which the Beyblade toys featured "Different Material", "Divided Wheels", "Dynamic Moves", and "Deep Custom". As evident by it&apos;s Japanese name, 4D 

The premise of this series is of the new 4D System created by Takara Tomy. Along with a new story, which involves the series&apos; main protagonist, Gingka Hagane being discovered to be a Legendary Blader. Legendary Bladers are Bladers that have a piece of the Star Fragment enchanted in their Beys. They are the only people, who have the power to defeat the God of Destruction, Nemesis from ruling the world. Gingka and Co. will have to travel the world just like in Metal Masters to find the remaining Legendary Bladers and destroy Nemesis once and for all. As with all seasons of the Metal Saga, Fury is separated into various story arcs that are connected with each other.

Beyblade: Metal Fury aired on Sunday morning, April 3, 2011 in Japan at 8:30 A.M. on TV Tokyo. The English Dub premiered on October 13, 2012 in USA on Cartoon Network at 8am.

Metal Fury is also the first Beyblade anime series, to be cut from 30 min. to 15 min. This started with it&apos;s 27th episode, The Lion Going Into the Wilderness in which it shared it&apos;s 8:30 timeslot with Cross Fight B-Daman. Now, Metal Fury airs at the 8:30 - 8:45 timslot, with Cross Fight B-Daman taking the rest. Nelvana is going to air ALL episodes of Metal Fury. But starting from episode 127 to the last episode of Metal Fury Nelvana will be putting 2 episodes into the 30 minute timslot which will add up to 39 episodes but airing all of the episodes.

Summary
In the Cosmos, a strange phenomenon has occurred.

One day, Gingka and Co. help Yuki, a boy who is attacked by Johannes, a mysterious youth. Even though Yuki is a boy genius and an astronomer, he is a Blader who owns “Anubis”. Yuki says that he has come to tell Gingka and his friends about the voice of the Star Fragment. He witnessed the Star Fragment (a meteor) fall from the sky one day. That single light dwells within Anubis and he says that he heard the voice of the Star Fragment that evening. A great evil is trying to revive "The Black Sun” and "Nemesis", the God of Destruction, by using the unknown power of the Star Fragment and with that.... Gingka and Co.&apos;s new adventure begins!!

Other
The Star Fragment: The meteor that created the original Pegasus and L-Drago had another meteor fall from the sky. A single light of it dwells inside of Yuki&apos;s Beyblade, Anubius and it&apos;s unknown power could be used to revive the Black Sun and Nemesis.

DVD release

 * See: List of Metal Fight Beyblade 4D DVDs

Unlike it&apos;s past seasons, Warner Home Video owns the DVD rights instead of Sony Pictures Entertainment, thus each volume of 4D contains two episodes. Once it reaches The Lion Going into the Wilderness, the 15 minute format for those episodes in the TV version changes back into a 30 minute format for the DVD version. This is confirmed on the back of DVD Volume 14.

Music
Japanese opening theme 1: Kokoro no Yuki Japanese opening theme 1: Destiny English Opening Theme 1: Beyblade: Metal Saga Theme Song
 * Performer: YU+KI
 * Episodes: 2-52
 * Performer: YCHRO
 * Episodes: 1-52
 * Episodes: Entire Series

Metal Fight Beyblade 4D (manga)
After the epic battle against Damian and the victory of the Big Bang Bladers world championship, Ginga Hagane, the #1 Blader in the World is revealed to be a Legendary Blader and must enter the new "Ultimate Bladers" tournament and gather the remaining nine Legendary Bladers who are competing, in order to stop the ultimate evil, Nemesis from awakening to destroy the world.
 * See also: Metal Fight Beyblade 4D chapter listing

Videos
thumb|left|400px|Nelvana English Dub Teaser

thumb|left|402px|Beyblade: Metal Fury English Opening

Resources

 * http://www.Beyblade.jp/ Splash Page
 * http://Beyblade.d-rights.com/index.html.