Beyblade GRevolution or Bakuten Shoot Beyblade GRevolution (Japanese: 爆転シュートベイブレードＧレボリューション, Bakuten Shūto Beiburēdo G Reboryūshon; Bakuten Shoot Beyblade G-Revolution) in Japan, is the third and the final season of the Original Series, It is the sequel to the anime, Beyblade VForce.
This season introduces the Engine Gear tops, with the debut of the Hard Metal System tops in the BEGA arc. Also in this season, instead of the bit-beasts coming out of the Beyblade in a flash of light, they are always seen in special attacks used by the tops.
The series is available for streaming on Fubo.
Information
G-Revolution took a different direction to V-Force before it and returned to focusing on Beyblade tournaments, the change of direction was owed to the Director of Season 1 returning to direct G-Revolution. It had more manga tie-in content such as the introduction of Hiro Granger and Daichi Sumeragi and more closely followed the manga itself, including adding content later on such as the BEGA series when it had yet to appear in the manga itself.
It also had many more tie-ins with Season 1, though largely did not reference V-Force itself. The artstyle was different once again and while based on V-Forces artstyle, the characters resembled their ages more then in V-Force and it was overall well received as a season.
G Revolution started emphasizing each beyblader doing their respective pre-launch setups before a battle, such as Tyson's elaborate launch setup at the start of the anime. This is in stark contrast to the previous seasons where ripcord loading was shown rarely to none.
G-Revolution marked the change in the overall stance of Beyblade itself as a franchise and even the manga was impacted by this. It no longer was focusing heavily on Bit-beasts and instead focused more on the Bladers and the Beyblades themselves, especially on the attack patterns and their special attacks. This would explain why bit-beasts were no longer a part of the main plot. Soon after the anime ended, Beyblade would abandon the Bit-Beast focus almost entirely.
Reception
Despite the well reception, G-Revolution was released at a time when Beyblade as a franchise was losing popularity. Great effort was put into the series to help renew the franchise, but it failed to do so, leading to both anime and manga to end by 2004 and Beyblade to focus solely on its toyline. Eventually it stopped producing beyblades until 2008 when the franchise was rebooted.
Episode List
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Plot
First half (episodes 1-30)
After Tyson became the 2-time world champion, Max, Ray and Kai leave the team so that they have a chance to beat Tyson and become the world champion themselves (Kai leaves later after already winning a spot on the team). This leaves only Tyson and Kenny in the team, but a new character, Daichi Sumeragi, joins them.
The BBA tournament rules are changed to a six team round robin system, with each team having 2 players per match with up to 2 reserve players. Five successive tournaments are played; the United States, Italy, Spain, Egypt and Australia, each consisting of three matches. Matches are either 1-on-1 alternating best-of-3 battles (akin to the V-Force Championships) or singular 2-on-2 bouts. The three teams with the most losses are eliminated; the second and third place teams play each other, with the winner of the playoffs facing the first place team in the finals.
Second half (episodes 31-52)
Boris, the secondary villain from the first season, returns and creates the new Beyblade Entertainment Global Association, (BEGA) replacing the BBA. Boris tries to fool Tyson and co. into believing he has made up for his past, as he is apparently trying to help the future of Bladers around the world, while he is actually trying to gain control over all Bladers and Beyblading activity. After a while however, they see what Boris is trying to pull. The Blitzkrieg Boys try their hand at taking down Boris' Bladers, but they fail, as one of his strongest Bladers, Garland Siebald, damages their blades beyond repair and badly injures their team captain Tala to the point where he is put into a coma and brought to the hospital. Tyson challenges BEGA's best to a battle, and Boris decides to hold a 5-on-5 tournament in one month's time.
Tyson and Ray decide to have a Beybattle on their own, as Ray was the only one who didn't get to face Tyson properly in the World Championship tournament. The battle is intense, but Tyson eventually wins by a narrow margin. However, their blades are trashed and in no condition to be used in the tournament. If that wasn't bad enough, they have run out of spare parts to fix them. Even worse, BEGA has now taken control of all the Beyblade shops around, so they can't repair or rebuild their blades. Luckily, the group decides to make their own custom Beyblades since they have the experience and knowledge for it. To make things better, All Starz, F-Dynasty, White Tigers and Barthez Battalion show up to help and give Kenny a bunch of brand new parts. Kenny makes new Beyblades for Tyson, Daichi, Max, Ray, and Kai. However, Kai had decided to join BEGA to once again try to beat Tyson.
At the time of the tournament, Tyson still hasn't decided who should fill in for Kai, and they decide to wait for him, as nobody else is capable of controlling the new Hard Metal System Beyblades. Eventually, Kai, after losing a match to BEGA's stronger Blader, Brooklyn, rejoins the team. And so a new team is born; The G Revolutions.
The battle starts off poorly. Daichi loses against his opponent Ming-Ming, Ray also ends up losing to Crusher due to a bit of rotten luck. Max manages to tie with his opponent Mystel, which actually pleased Boris (before Max's match, Boris states that if his team swept the tournament, people might think that he was cheating). Kai has a rematch against Brooklyn, and barely manages to beat him. It is heavily implied in the Japanese version that the battle cost Kai his life. After this, Tyson defeats Garland. Boris was then caught in a tight situation, not seeing which of his Bladers could beat Tyson, but after Brooklyn learns to channel his power into his blade, he's sent back out. Tyson however, after being put through a life threatening battle in the skies and an alternate dimension of Brooklyn's making, defeats Brooklyn and changes Brooklyn's attitude towards Beyblading. People start to gain interest in Beyblading as Boris is deserted and ignored. Hiro leaves the scene to help re-establish the BBA, which reopens months after BEGA's dissolution. The series ends with Tyson and Kai having one last battle.
Tournaments
- Japan Qualifier
- America Qualifier
- Russia Qualifier
- China Qualifier
- Europe Qualifier
- World Championships
- Justice Five Tournament
DVDs
- Volume 1 - Beginning Of The End? (Episodes 1-3)
- Volume 2 - The Revolution Begins (Episodes 4-6)
- Volume 3 - Take Your Best Shot (Episodes 7-9)
- Volume 4 - It's A Battle Royale! (Episodes 10-12)
- Volume 5 - Picking Up The Pieces (Episodes 13-15)
- Volume 6 - Same Old Dirty Tricks (Episodes 16-18)
Songs
OP Theme
- Go Ahead (Japanese)
Lyrics: Uran
Composition: MASAKI
Arrangement: MASAKI
Artist: Motoko Kumai
- Identified (Japanese)
Lyrics: Mika Watanabe
Composition: Tomonori Ikeda
Arrangement: TATOO
Artist: Springs
- Let's Beyblade! (English)
Lyrics: Arlene Bishop & Blair Packham
Composition: Martin Kucaj
Arrangement: Martin Kucaj
Artist: Sick Kid featuring Lukas Rossi
ED Theme
- Oh Yes!! (Japanese)
Lyrics: Uran
Composition: Kaoru Okubo
Arrangement: Kaoru Okubo
Artist: SISTA with YUKA
- Kaze no Fuku Basho (Japanese)
Lyrics: Makiyo
Composition: YOHEY TSUKASAKI
Arrangement: YOHEY TSUKASAKI
Artist: Makiyo
- Sign of Wish (Japanese)
Lyrics: Hiroo Ooyagi & Shinichi Kawai
Composition: Hiroo Ooyagi
Arrangement: YOHEY TSUKASAKI
Artist: Makiyo
- Let's Beyblade! (Instrumental) (English)
Lyrics: Arlene Bishop & Blair Packham
Composition: Martin Kucaj
Arrangement: Martin Kucaj
Artist: Sick Kid featuring Lukas Rossi
Insert Songs
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Gallery
Teams
- BBA Revolution
- White Tiger X
- PPB All Starz
- Blitzkrieg Boys
- F-Dynasty
- Barthez Battalion
- BEGA Team
- G Revolutions
Trivia
- Excluding the Dark Bladers (apart from the Japanese exclusive ending), all Bakuten Shoot Beyblade teams make a return.
- Many of the teams in the initial tournament had a theme:
- Tyson and Daichi had a "western and eastern" Dragon theme.
- Kai and Tala had a "fire and ice" theme.
- Ray and Lee had a "ying and yang" theme, due to Driger being white and Galeon being Black as well as being a "King of the Beasts".
- The Barthez Battalion had a "heraldry animals" theme like the Majestics before them and were based upon family crests of Europe.
- The BEGA team had a mythology theme.
- F-Dynasty had a "Twin" or "matching" theme due to their identical beyblades and similar bit-beasts, as well as being twins themselves.
- Unlike the last two seasons where loading in ripcords was rarely done, this season emphasizes the characters doing their respective elaborate launch sequences before launch. For example, Tyson's pre launch checklist in the first episode of the anime.
- In the official Japanese Beyblade ending, episode 51, Carlos, the Saint Shields, the Majestics, the Dark Bladers, Team Psykick, Zeo, King, Queen, Steve and Ian reappear amongst other characters.
- Carlos is battling Rick in an alley.
- The Saint Shields pose in their cloaks.
- Johnny and Enrique are with Miguel, Claude, and the Dark Bladers (In actuality, only Sanguinex and Lupinex are seen, Lupinex is only seen from the face down).
- Robert and Oliver battle against Mathilda and Aaron.
- The members of Team Psykick are stepping out of a plane.
- Zeo, whose face is unseen and with shorter hair, is playing his violin by his window.
- King and Queen are battling Raul and Julia in a two-on-two battle.
- Steven is with his team in a hospital with a broken leg, explaining his absence in the season, with the other members of the original All Starz team visiting him.
- Ian, the reason for his absence in the season remains unknown, is back with his team, the Blitzkrieg Boys, in the Moscow Red Square among their fans. The manga, however, gives the reason that he lost to Kai in a battle for the remaining spot on the team.
- Kenny, along with Crusher and his sister, are seen at Ming Ming's concert
- Garland is seen training at his family home along with Brooklyn, who seems to Beyblade and sit outside most scenes.
- Kennosuke, Hikaru and Tenmaru are seen despite being manga only characters.
- Hilary, Romero and other parents are seen in Kenny's family's noodle shop.
- The final scene shows the members of the G Revolutions (Tyson, Kai, Ray, Max, Kenny, and Daichi) posing on their team logo, with the words "Thank You!" on the bottom right hand corner.
- An official Japanese d-rights website existed, on the page here.