Tyson Granger

Japanese

10 (Beyblade)

11 (Beyblade: V-Force)

12 (Beyblade: G-Revolution)

English

12-13 (Beyblade)

14 (Beyblade: V-Force)

15 (Beyblade: G-Revolution)

Dragoon S (Former)

Dragoon F (Former)

Dragoon V (Former)

Dragoon V2 (Former)

Dragoon G (Former)

Dragoon GT (Former)

Dragoon MS (Former)

Dragoon MSUV (Former)

Dragoon MF (Former)

Dragoon Storm Wing Xtreme (Former)

Dragoon Fighter Gravity Variable (Former)

Dragoon Victory Sting Evolution (Current)

**Tyson Granger**, known in Japan as **Takao Kinomiya** (木ノ宮タカオ *Kinomiya Takao*) is the main protagonist from the *Original Series*, consisting of *Beyblade*, *Beyblade: V-Force* and *Beyblade: G-Revolution*. He is a member and leader of the G-Revolutions and the BBA Revolution. His Bit-Beast and Beyblade is Dragoon - one of the 4 Sacred Bit-Beasts.

## Appearance

### Concept

His first appearance in Jisedai Bēgoma Battle Beyblade was based on the main character of the first Pokémon games, Red, hence Tyson's similar appearance to Red.

Tyson himself is one of a number of video game characters from the 90's era who was loosely based on Red from the Pokémon games. Hudson had also made other Pokémon-like games besides Beyblade, as such Tyson was one of a handful of Hudson game characters based on Red.

### Beyblade: 2000

* **Manga: Volumes 1-6**

In *Beyblade*, Tyson has black hair, blue eyes, peach skin. He wore a backwards red, blue and white hat, an open red jacket (with white collars), yellow buttons, yellow shirt under it, brown fingerless gloves, blue shorts, long white socks and shoes that were red, white and yellow shoes. Tyson is 5' 0" (152cm) tall.

Tyson's hat originally belonged to his older brother, Hiro Granger who gave it to him after winning a beyblade match. In the manga he later passes it on to his son Makoto.

### Beyblade: V-Force

**Manga: Volumes 7-9**
In *V-Force* however, all the characters obtained a major redesign including, Tyson. Tyson's eyes turned to brown but kept the black hair, got lighter skin, but, still kept his backwards hat (except the white part turned red and the blue outline turned white), kept the open jacket, however the yellow buttons were removed but the collar was kept. He kept the yellow shirt but with longer sleeves, the gloves turned blue, his shorts were replaced with grey jeans and his shoes were red, grey and blue colored. Tyson is now 5' 3" (160cm) tall.

### Beyblade: G-Revolution

* **Manga: 10-14**

In *G-Revolution*, he received a minor redesign. His gloves turned a darker blue. His red jacket received short sleeves with white highlights; covering his yellow t-shirt, long sleeves which were removed. He obtained a blue and yellow Beyblade container on his left arm and received new red and white shoes. He also replaced his grey jeans with dark blue ones.

## Personality

He is the #1 Beyblader in the World, having won three world championships in a row, winning the first with the Bladebreakers, the second one with Max Tate and the third one with BBA Revolution.

Tyson was introduced as a cocky, confident, and fearless Blader who strived to be "Number One", even when he failed. Over the course of the series, Tyson matured and has taken his responsibility from being a beginner to becoming a professional Beyblader seriously.

Tyson is a strong-willed Blader who is not afraid to speak his mind and in doing so, he seems to get into more trouble than most kids his age but he handles those troubles very easily.

Tyson is famous for his sense of humor which declines with each passing season until he becomes a young man beyblading seriously.

Tyson is a really popular person inside the series. He had a lot of fans, even when he was an amateur. When he first won the regional tournament, many people picked up Beyblading just to be like him and defeat him. He has a lot of fans in his school as shown in Beyblade: V-Force, much to Hilary's dismay.

Although he is popular, he doesn't seem to have many close friends outside of his beyblading ones. Outside of Beyblade, Tyson doesn't make friends easily because of his competitive nature, but he usually leaves a profound effect on the ones he does, completely changing their attitudes and way of life.

## Relationships

### **Hiro Granger**

Tyson's older brother, a wise beyblader with much knowledge to offer in Beyblade: G-Revolution. He also has a counterpart; **Jin of the Gale**. Hiro first taught Tyson how to play beyblade. In the manga, Hiro initially joined the BEGA League as Brooklyn's coach, but later assisted in helping to re-establish the BBA after proving to Boris that his organization was a way for Tyson and his friends to improve their skills. His Bit-Beast is called Metal Driger.

**Mr. Granger**

Tyson's father, an archaeologist who is dedicated to finding out hothey came from and why they are in beyblades themselves, and travels all over the world to find his answers.

**Yoshie Kinomiya**

Tyson's mother, he himself knows very little about her as she died when Tyson was only four months old due to an unknown disease.

**Ryu Granger**

Tyson's grandfather, a samurai dojo trainer, who raised Tyson in his early years in the absence of both parents.

**Makoto Granger**

Tyson's son in the manga. He appears in the chapter and is seen battling Kai's son, Gou and Ray's daughter, Lin.

### Teammates

**Kai Hiwatari**

Tyson is known for his relationship with his long-time rival and friend, Kai. From the beginning of the series, Tyson and Kai were arch-enemies, but as the series continued, they became friends, and both held a great and powerful bond that made themselves the Best Beybladers. Both Tyson and Kai mutually view each other as the one they want to beat. Whenever Kai leaves the team for his own reasons, Tyson is always around to take over the leadership in his place (though Tyson was always the team captain in the original dub).

Traditionally, throughout the Beyblade franchise, Kai has been set up to be Tyson's main rival even as team mates. This is owed to their joint design being based on Pokémon rivals Red and Blue. Kai has been known to hit Tyson and the two have very contrasting behaviours.

**Ray Kon**

Ray is someone whom Tyson sometimes fights with but seems to have a mutual respect. Ray tends to keep Tyson in line when he gets too impulsive without Kai around, and views him as his biggest rival.

**Kenny**

His closest friend throughout the series has been Kenny, with whom he goes to school. Kenny sticks by Tyson when the others leave the team and they even become blading partners for the World Championships.

**Max Tate**

Max and Tyson are good friends and will often help one another when the other is in danger, like when Max helps Tyson save a dog from falling off the edge of the town's river or when Tyson willingly went with Max to retrieve Draciel with the Psykick building about to collapse. Tyson forgives Max more easily for quitting the Japanese team than he does Ray. After the World Championships in G-Revolution, Max immediately rejoins Tyson's group upon returning to town.

**Hilary Tachibana**

Hilary is Tyson's classmate who seems to have a crush on him, though she tends to get annoyed with Tyson's habits. Hilary and Kenny stay by Tyson's side after Kai, Ray and Max join their other teams in the World Championships so they can battle each other.

**Daichi Sumeragi**

Tyson and Daichi are close friends who quickly become teammates and training partners for the World Championships. They have similar personalities, but this causes them to clash with one another. Daichi frequently attempts to one-up Tyson whenever he gets the chance, but ends up failing miserably

### Rivals

**Robert Jürgens**

Robert Jurgens is one of Tyson's biggest rivals. When they first met, Robert had defeated the amateur players by destroyed their blades. Tyson battled Robert and loses. He and Robert encounted each other again at Robert's family mansion.

**Tala**

When they first met, Tala was initially dismissive towards Tyson, who had quickly become a well-known skilled Beyblader. When Tyson defeated Tala in the finals of the World Championships, they eventually came to respect one another. In G-Revolution, the two of them were still to be on good terms and they even supported each other when they could to take down Boris's new BEGA organization.

**Ozuma**

Tyson first met Ozuma at the Sony's Supermarket Beyblading Tournament. Ozuma defeated Tyson on several occasions.

**Kane Yamashita**

Tyson and Kane notice that they have a lot in common (ex.: their spirit, their beyblading techniques, etc.) and they become friends during a beybattle. However, after the tie, Kane tells Tyson about the fact that they were recruited by Psykick and this leaves a bad impression on Tyson. When Team Psykick is defeated, Tyson and Kane become friends again.

**Zeo Zagart**

When Tyson first met Zeo, he saved him from a four on one battle with the Saint Shields. Zeo idolizes Tyson and was glad to get the chance to train and/or battle with him. Their friendship becomes strained when Zeo learned the truth about himself from his father and that Tyson's team had the bit-beasts needed to change him into who he should be. Tyson confronts Zeo to try and find the kid he once knew and was friends with, but fails. When Zeo defeat Kai and stole Dranzer away from him, Tyson was starting to lose sight on Beyblading after Zeo has become ruthless, but everyone manages to keep him in line. However, after Tyson defeated Zeo in the World Championship finals, they became friends again and Zeo accepted himself for who he really is.

## Skills

### Other

While academically not so good, he is trained with use of the Kendo sword. His family own a dojo where he trains. In fact, being left-handed is a nod to upper hand that Left-handed swordsmen have over their right-handed counterparts. Tyson's family specialise in Kendo swords and are traditionally descended from swordsman. This is why his bit-beast or "Fighting spirit" was in his family sword.

## Beyblades

Like his teammates, Tyson's Bey/Bit-Beast is based on one of the Four Saint Beasts in Chinese

Even though the Beyblades of the F-Dynasty and the HMS beyblades can spin left, Tyson's series of Beyblades are the only ones which exclusively use the left-spin gear (except for his first Beyblade, Grip Attacker). Like Tyson also being left-handed this is a nod to the upper hand of which swordsman who are left handed have against right handed swordsman.

In each season, Tyson starts out with the latest series of Beyblades, while the rest of the Bladebreakers use their previous models, with the exception of Ray in V-Force, who uses Driger V in his first beyblading appearance. In V-Force, Tyson and Ray start the series with Dragoon V and Driger V (Driger F was seen briefly once however), while Kai and Max do not get V series beyblades until later in the series. In G-Revolution, Tyson starts out with Dragoon G, while Kai, Ray, and Max use their V2 beyblades until the World Championships start (again, Ray can possibly be excluded, as he first uses Driger G in the Asian qualifying tournament, while Kai and Max use their V2 blades for the Russia and America qualifiers respectively). Daichi also gets Strata Dragoon G later on in the series.

### Appearance

Dragoon is essentially a combination of the European and Chinese dragons, with it's legs large and long enough to enable it to stand up in an intimidating manner and a long neck which is always arched when standing up. Dragoon also has two arms ending with claws on both the hands and elbows, along with several spikes along its back and tail, giving us an idea as to why Dragoon's attack rings are always spikes. Dragoon's design has changed time to time in the original series. In the first season, Dragoon along with the other bit beasts were designed to look like spirits, being given monochrome colors. In this Dragoon's color was a ghostly electric white. In the second season, Dragoon was updated to look like it's picture self when coming out of the beyblade. In G Revolution, there were glimpses of Dragoon only during special attacks, sometimes interspersed with the shape of Dragoon being shown in it's wind attack moves.

Dragoon can also sometimes talk, though mainly it's only Tyson who can always hear him. Also, like the other bit beasts, Dragoon's pose always changes with each beyblade upgrade.

### Attacks & Power

Since it is the wind spirit, Dragoon's moves are mainly wind based. The most common and most powerful among those moves are giant tornadoes, created out of the surrounding air(though at two points in the first series, the tornadoes are created by the beyblade spinning at high velocities). Tyson has used this power to literally blow opponent's beyblades out of the stadium.

### Initial System

* Spin Dragoon (Jisedai Begoma Battle Beyblade and manga)
* Dragoon Grip Attacker

### Spin Gear

* Dragoon Storm - Storm Attack, Ultimate Storm Attack
* Dragoon Fantom - Phantom Hurricane

### Magnacore System

* Dragoon Victory - Victory Tornado
* Dragoon V2 - Hyper Victory Tornado, Vanishing Attack, Wave Attack

### Engine Gear

* Dragoon Galaxy - Galaxy Storm, Twin Tornado Attack (Only with Daichi).
* Dragoon GT - Galaxy Turbo Twister, Dragoon Tank (Only with Daichi)

### Hard Metal System

* Dragoon Metal Storm - Evolution Storm
* Dragoon Metal Storm Ultimate Version - Ultimate Storm
* Dragoon Metal Fantom - Fantom Evolution Hurricane

### Burst System

* Dragoon Storm Wing Xtreme - Storm Launch, Dragoon Tornado
* Dragoon Fighter Gravity Variable - Ultimate Dragoon Tornado, Ultimate Rise of the Emperor

## Quotes

* *"Battle Blade!"*
* *"I won't abandon Dragoon."*
* *"I'm uncouth?!"*
* *"Uncouth means uncivilized, crude, unrefined. Stick around Robert, and maybe you'll learn something."*
* *"You know, I wish that sometimes I would stop and think some of my plans through."*
* *"Don't you know you have to earn a bit-beast?"*
* *"We're all one big team, and that's the only way to come out on top!"*
* (to Max after he commented on how big the Arc de Triomphe was) *"You're kidding, right? Even I knew it was huge."*
* (to Brooklyn) *"Dude, this isn't the real sky. It's not gloomy, it's big and blue."*
* (to Enrique) *"If you treat your bit-beast like dirt, they're bound to bite back."*
* *"Daichi, my brother's bigger than an ant."*
* *"I can't believe it's finally down to one battle, and it's all up to me. If I lose, then that's it for the BBA, and that means Boris and his creepy BEGA organization has free reign over Beybladers around the world. I can't lose! It would hurt too many people: my friends and my fans, and it'd destroy Mr. Dickenson. Even for Kai, and especially for Tala. This is the most important battle of my life. I'm counting on you, Dragoon."*
* *"Well, here's a surprise I didn't need, especially before the biggest match I've ever had to fight. But it doesn't matter who Boris sends out to face me. I'm not going to back down. I'm not going to let my TEAM down. Not after everything Kai went through to get us here. To this final match. Just as Kai fought risking everything, I will risk everything too."*
* *"No. It wouldn't be right to blade at 100%. I'll show you 1000%!"*
* *"Any blade takes a few spins to get right. I'm sure this won't be any different."*
* *"Boy, someone's having a bad mood day."*
* *"Forget it! I'm not leaving until this battle is over. ... I can't just give up, Hil! I've got to try my best, no matter what! I can't leave Brooklyn here!"*
* *"I know we all think Brooklyn is our enemy, but we are all Beybladers, and if we fight with...all of our strengths, we will finally be able to understand each other! This freaky dimension of his is completely make-believe anyway. But, if this is Brooklyn's mind, this is too sad."*
* *"GO, DRAGOON!"*

## Etymology

His Japanese name, Takao is named after Takao Aoki, the creator of the Beyblade manga series who in turn is named after a Japanese heavy cruiser-class battleship with same name.

## Trivia

* Tyson is the only member of the Bladebreakers who has a sibling, prior to Bakuten Shoot Beyblade: Rising.
* Tyson is the only member of the Bladebreakers to never temporarily lose his Bit-Beast to someone else in the main Anime.
	+ The only exception being in Beyblade: The Movie - Fierce Battle.
	+ In the manga, he temporary loses it and reclaims it in battle against Ozuma (much like how Ray got Driger back in V-Force).
* Tyson has had a couple of characters based on him.
	+ The character Captain Arrow from Beyblade: Shogun Steel is based on Tyson.
	+ A female counterpart called "Tatsumi Ryou" made an appearance in the two part manga Beyblade Battle Saint Lolita alongside female counterparts to the other Bladebreakers.
* Tyson originally starts off in the English dub of Beyblade 2000 as a 12 year old, but turns 13 in the seventh episode Thirteen Candles. The "Birthday Party", however, was originally a pre-battle celebration to give him support. In Japan, Tyson is 10 years in most media in Japan, with the anime aging him up a year each season. In fact he did not age officially until Bakuten Shoot Beybade: Rising as this was the first official time gap in the manga storyline being that os a year since his last battle with Kai at the end of Bakuten Shoot Beyblade.
* In Japan, Tyson is the most popular character, along with his Bit-Beast and Beyblades. In the West, however, it was Kai.
* Tyson's mother is briefly seen in the manga when his grandfather is thinking of her. His father appears in the anime but his mother is only mentioned once when Max is introduced.
	+ This, however, was not the original intention. In Jisedai Begoma Battle Beyblade one of the first characters to interact with Tyson is his own mother. Since the game was based on Pokémon, this simply mimicked the role of the child's mother in these games being one of the first character to speak to the main player. His mother in this game did not look the same as his mother in the manga.
* Tyson is the only character to appear in every episode.
* Tyson's all battles in finals of international tournaments were either in another dimension or against an inhuman being in every season.