Bladers Forever

Takara-Tomy have done a press release for the new line of Beyblade products, Metal Fight Beyblade.
The link to this press release is below:
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/company/rel ... 080708.pdf

Can anyone translate what it says? Thanks!

Arigatou gozimasu, Kei-san! You did your best. Thanks a lot for translating what you could. It really helps. It's a shame these new blades are not new Dragoons, Dranzers and so on as you said.

Yes, the first four Beyblade are Bull, Sagittario, Pegasus and Leone. Pegasus is an attack type, Bull is a balance type blade (since this is a new line of Beyblades, they've renamed some of the types such as this one so it's logical to assume balance is equivalent to the combination type blades we know), Sagittario is a stamina type (equivalent to endurance) and Leone is a defence type. I got this info from beywiki.com and you can find out more there in the Metal Fight Beyblade article.

Kanji is difficult to read and memorise and I really appreciate the effort you made to translate the pdf file so thanks again! Yeah, it would be a great idea if you could get your Hiro-san to translate the rest of it.

These blades might mean totally new characters in the fourth season but we won't know till it airs in Japan anyway so we can only speculate.

It's still possible that the original cast will be kept for the new season of the anime since if you look at photos of the four MFBs they do bear a resemblence to Dragoon, Dranzer, Driger and Draciel, especially Leone which looks a lot like Max's blade. The fact that they have kept the four different types of blade that were in the G-revolutions team (Attack, Endurance, Combination and Defence) but changed the names slightly suggests Tyson and the gang could return. Here's hoping our old favourites come back as the main cast! Even if they don't, I hope they'll at least be cameos/make some appearance.

Pegasus is an exact match to Makoto's Dragoon Beyblade at the end of Volume 14 in the Beyblade manga so that could mean that the Bladebreakers' children will appear in season four.

Yeah, the blades are smaller. I'm hoping the launchers can be customised too, that'd be cool. Your handgrip launcher with the spring attachment...where did you get it? Is there anywhere on the internet you can get it and Kai's launcher Hard Metal System launcher?

With international distribution for 2010, it means the products going worldwide not the anime. Or was it the other way around in the article? Because to my knowledge, it's the product line that's going global in 2010.

The merchandise looks good but most Bladers and fans like you and me are wondering if Bit Beasts will appear again in the anime since some of the graffiti style faces (lol I almost put Bit Chips myself, these new names for parts are going to take some getting used to!) don't have creatures on them. I hope Bit Beasts stay in the anime and on the product line! To me, Beyblade wouldn't be Beyblade without them.

I agree - if the kids did appear in the anime, there'd have to be, as you say, some kind of explanation of who their parents are and who each Beyblade boy married (like Ray and Mariah. Mao could mean rabbit in Japanese? Interesting. Mao means cat in mandarin Chinese, funnily enough.) I mean, they might get away with not showing Tyson's or Kai's wives by saying one of them died. They'd have to show Hilary though and who she got married to.

I've got to say, I'm not that keen on the graffiti style images on the faces. It's a shame there are no pictures of creatures. As for if Bit Beasts will stay on, we'll have to wait and see.

With the Bit Beasts in the Japanese version of Beyblade not really having names, you have a point. I don't think it's off topic because the English distributors of the anime and products will prolly name the blades (and Bit Beasts if we get any) differently like they've done for the past three seasons.

So it's definitely Jan 2009 for teh first release of teh anime?

Yes. Check out www.beywiki.com. That's where I got the info from.