Kyouya Tategami

Kyouya Tategami, also known as Tatekyou and Yo-Yo, is one of the main characters from the Metal Fight Beyblade series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kyouya is first seen as the leader of the Face Hunters, a group of people in Kenta's town that usually bully other bladers and steal their beypoints. In the first episode after Benkei, tells him about Gingka Hagane, he immediately grew interested in him and wanted to test his power. Soon afterward, Gingka was given the challenge, went to the warehouse and was suddenly surrounded by a hundred bladers with their beys ready to fight. Kyouya was sitting on a beam watching the battle with a smirk as he waited for him to show his strength. Not to his surprise, Gingka defeated them all easily, and now wanted to battle the blader himself. In a close battle though, Gingka wins over him with his bey Pegasus.
Some time later, Kyouya faces Daidoji, a powerful blader and an enemy of Gingka. He tells him that he could train him to become strong enough to defeat Gingka. Kyouya quickly grows suspicious of him and challenges him to a battle, only to lose to Dark Wolf. As a consequence, Kyouya leaves the Face Hunters alone and boards the helicopter with Daidoji. 
After boarding the helicopter, Kyouya was dropped off in Wolf Canyon and was given the task to climb to the top. Considering the height of the rocky cliffs plus the dangerous weather in the area, surviving it was guaranteed to increase one's strength. In the midst of being cornered from a pack of hungry wolves, he was able to unlock the beast in side of him and fend them off. This was when Kyouya starts to act violently, merciless and had completely forget who his allies were.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Metal Fight Beyblade
* Metal Fight Beyblade 4D
* Metal Fight Beyblade vs. Taiyou: Burning Invader Sol Blaze
* Metal Fight Beyblade Zero G
* Metal Fight Beyblade: Explosion
=== Manga ===
* Metal Fight Beyblade
* Metal Fight Beyblade Zero G
=== Video Games ===
* Metal Fight Beyblade
* Metal Fight Beyblade 4DxZero-G: Ultimate Tournament
* Metal Fight Beyblade Portable: Chouzetsu Tensei! Vulcan Horuseus
* Metal Fight Beyblade: Battle Fortress
* Metal Fight Beyblade: Choujou Kessen! Big Bang Bladers
* Metal Fight Beyblade: Explode! Cyber Pegasis
== Trivia ==
* Kyouya's last name, Tategami is a play on the word meaning "mane", like that of a lion. Kyouya's last name can also mean "divine shield", referencing Rock Leone's defense style.
* Both him and Tubassa came very close to defeating Ryuga, although they both used very different tactics. Tsubasa stored his energy until Ryuga used his dark move, and unleashed Counter Stance to defeat the Dark Move, thus leaving L'Drago seriously weakened. Kyouya on the other hand, taunted Ryuga to battle him using only his own strength, and therefore faced a considerably less powerful version of the Dragon Emperor. It is therefore debatable who is actually stronger between Tsubasa and Kyouya, as even their battle in Metal Masters only resulted in a loss for Tsubasa because the Dark Power completely disoriented him. It is also worth noting that the two have very different battle styles, with Tsubasa relying on strategies and skill, and Kyouya relying on his training and brute force.
* Kyouya, Ryuga and Kenta Yumiya are the only Legendary Bladers that don't use a 3-Segment Launcher.
* Even though his team didn't even come in the top 4 teams in the world championship, he defeated Damian Hart, the leader of Team Star Breaker who came in second in the world championships.
* Despite being Gingka's biggest rival, he has only defeated him once, on-screen allthough Gingka only lost due to Gingka losing control of Pegasus. However, after episode 32, all their subsequent battles(except for their final battle in episode 154) had ended with a draw. As Gingka's biggest rival, the final scene shown at the end of the last season (before the Shogun Steel spin-off) shows him facing off with Gingka (like Tyson and Kai did in the Original Series ending) and the episode ends.
* Kyouya also makes a debut in the Zero-G manga as he comes back with Gingka, his best friend, but it is unknown whether or not he has a new beyblade.
* Kyouya was the only Blader of the Four Seasons to not have a 4D bottom on his Bey until Kenta became a Blader of the Four Seasons.
* Kyouya is occasionally nicknamed "Yo-Yo" by the younger characters (Yu and Tithi) and he hates it if they do so.
* He also makes a debut in the Zero-G anime episode 26 "Bridge to the future" Japanese version, along side with his brother Kakeru.
* Adachi Takafumi explains that some fans overseas were asking him if Kyouya and Kakeru were working for WBBA and his answer is “No, they are working at a company of their own named 'TC' ”
* Kyouya's English voice actor (Peter Cugno) is same one who voiced Lee from the Original Series. Coincidentally they have an uncanny resemblance as they both possess lion Beyblades, a fang-shaped tooth that sticks out of their mouths, and long hair that's often tied up in a ponytail.
* In Zero-G / Shogun Steel manga only, Kyouya inherited his father's industrial company like Kai did in the end of the Original Series manga.
* At the end of Metal Fury he is seen battling Gingka hinting that he defeated rest of the legendary bladers. However, he was never able to fully defeat them since he did not battle Ryuga.
* It was revealed he got his scars protecting his brother Kakeru, from what is still unknown.
* Kyouya has a rival named the same as his brother who tried to take his position as the leader of the Face Hunters.
* He, Benkei, Hikaru, Tsubassa and Yu were the only members of Gingka's gang to be former antagonists.
* Apparently, he is very good at spotting little details, as seen when he knew where the moon was when going to Wolf Canyon and remembering all of Hyoma‘s lies.
* In Kyouya’s concept art, he was originally going to have one scar and an earring in his right ear, there was also art depicting him with large bunny ear like hair at one point.
* In the original concept for the series he and Kakeru were supposed to be a team and balance each other out.
* Kyouya apparently really dislikes potatoes, as stated by Benkei himself in Masters episode 6.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kyoya Tategami at Beyblade Wiki
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