Bel Daizora

**Bel Daizora**, known as **Bell Daikokuten** (大黒天ベル, *Daikokuten Beru*) in Japan, is the main protagonist of the anime/manga series, *Beyblade Burst QuadDrive*. He is known as the **Dark Prince**, or the **Demon King**(魔王, *Maō*) in Japan, and fought with his Beyblade, Destruction Belfyre Nexus Venture-2, until it was destroyed by Rashad Goodman. After Belfyre's destruction, he evolved it into Devastate Belfyre Almight-2.

In *Beyblade Burst QuadStrike*, he reclaims his role as the main protagonist, now fighting with Divine Belfyre Squadron-Q Guard-Q+Adventure-3.

## Appearance

Bel is a short boy with a multi-color hair: a red Mohawk and dark-purple hair with magenta rhombus-shaped highlights, pale skin, turquoise eyes, and black eyeliner. His attire consists of a gr

When Bel resonates with his Beyblade, the magenta rhombus highlights in his hair glow.

## Personality

Despite the title he gives himself, Bel isn't really sinister in any way. Rather, he's simply an eccentric and somewhat socially awkward boy with a taste for theatrics. That said, he's proud and mischievous and knows how to portray an intimidating persona that, coupled with his impressive natural skills and thirst for victory, helps to make him live up to his self-appointed title.

Prior to/during the b-hand ng of the season, Bel is shown to be more intimidating whenever he encounters a new blader coming in to challenge him. He is very proud of himself and can already tell victory even before the start of a battle.

Bel also likes to prank others. He pranked Bashara and his younger sister Hanna in Beyblade Burst QuadDrive - Episode 01. He also pranked Bashara, Hanna, and Ranzo in episode 03. He pranked Valt and Hanna in episode 04, and he, Jinemon, Valt, and Ranzo pranked Bashara, Hanna, and the others in episode 18 by acting as zombies.

Bel also causes trouble sometimes like when he and Ranzo filled up the whole house of the Suiro family with bubbles due to fighting over cleaning the dishes and when he messed up the whole training grounds of El Astro while trying to copy Free's training regimen.

Bel is also excited sometimes and wants to see new things quickly, like when he snuck into El Astro just to see the new Orbit Stadium. Due to this, Valt Aoialways thinks that Bel is hilarious.

Although Bel likes to prank others, he usually gets caught up in his grandfather's pranks, like when Jinemon pranked Bel, Bashara, and Ranzo when they want to see the Orbit Stadium.

Bel hates losing and always strives to win. Although he lost some of his battles, he declares every defeat as a ‘preparation for victory’. He can also be upset when he lost multiple times, mostly seen when he is walking down in Spain in dismay after being defeated by Bashara in episode 8.

Bel greatly respects strong Bladers, mostly those whom he knows, like Valt, Free, Shu, etc, still with a drive to defeat them. They mostly became his inspirations in upgrading Belfyre even further.

Bel also sports his mischievous side mostly when someone enters the Phantom's Gate, or when he feels like it. More of his pranks are shown during the Japanese ending credits.

Bel has a tendency to do whatever he pleases, even disobeying the rules. This is shown during episode 11, where he ran off to challenge Free despite the fact that the latter is about to battle Rashad, to which he decided to cancel. He even tried to do the same after being amazed by Lui's Guilty Longinus, but Lui declined his challenge.

Like Valt, Aiger, Dante, Hyuga and Hikaru, Bel also has a strong resonance with his Beyblade, notably by talking to his Bey and sensing Belfyre through telepathy.

## Biography

### *Beyblade Burst QuadDrive*

Bel made his debut to the series as a supposed ghost haunting the fabled Phantom's Gate. Bashara and Hanna Suiro decided to visit the mansion to meet the ghost, only to find out that Bel was an ordinary boy who had been attracting people to Phantom's Gate to battle with his unique Quad Bey, Destruction Belfyre. He was soon challenged by Bashara and his Lightning Bey, Demise Spellscraper, who was easily defeated by Bel. After streaming the battle with Bashara all across the world, Bel caught the attention of Lui Shirosagi, which he also defeated.

After the battle with Lui, Ranzo Kiyama soon arrived from Brazil to challenge Bel, resulting in his Glide Roktavor's destruction. Bel and his grandfather, Jinemon, soon allowed Ranzo to use the workshop to create his own Quad Bey, Cyclone Roktavor. After several battles between Bel and Ranzo, the World Champion, Valt Aoi, arrived to challenge Bel, who gave the latter more inspiration towards Blading. After learning about Free De La Hoya, Bel set out to Spain and met Free and BC Sol's new rising Blader, Rashad Goodman.

After being defeated by Free, Bel created the F Gearfor his Belfyre. With Bel's upgrade and second face-off with Free, he inspired Valt to evolve his Brave Valtryek into Salvage Valtryek and after seeing Bel continuing to evolve, Bel, along with Rashad, also encouraged Bashara to evolve, with him replacing Spellscraper with Roar Balkesh.

After losing to Valt and Bashara and witnessing the former face-off with Rashad and his very own Salvage Valtryek, Bel created the V Gear and his own Power Custom BeyLauncher LR and set off on the Great Aerial Tour, where he got the inspiration from Shu and Lui to complete Belfyre's Perfect Form by creating the S and L Gears. Annoyed over losing the role of the Great Aerial Tour's MVP to Rashad, the two battled to decide the Tour's true MVP, resulting in Rashad shattering Destruction Belfyre. Not only did Rashad destroy Belfyre, but he also gained the attention of Bashara, who went with him and Ilya Maoback to Spain and Rashad is now being claimed as the High Prince.

After weeks of depression from Belfyre's destruction, Jinemon soon encouraged Bel to get back on his feet and evolve his shattered Destruction Belfyre into Devastate Belfyre, in which he returned to Spain to get his rematch with Rashad and his brand-new Glory Regnar, only to be entered into a 3-on-3 team battle to see if he was worthy to face-off with Rashad and Regnar, with the battle resulting in his team's defeat and Salvage Valtryek's destruction from damage that was produced from a practice battle between Bel and Valt. After discovering that Salvage Valtryek's destruction was similar to Destruction Belfyre's destruction, Bel allowed Valt to use Phantom's Gate's workshop, where he created the Valtryek to top all Valtryeks, Ultimate Valtryek. Unable to defeat Valt's new Ultimate Valtryek, Bel decided to improve his launching power and created the Full Custom BeyLauncher LR, but was still defeated.

With the creation of Rashad's new team, Nexus, and the attention that he had gained since becoming the High Prince, Rashad re-encountered Phelix Payne, who held a grudge against him for mocking his Blading style and vowed to take everything from Rashad by defeating all of his allies and rivals, including Bel. After defeating Bashara and Ilya, Phelix arrived at Phantom's Gate to defeat Bel and succeeded, creating a new rivalry between the two. After Phelix defeated Valt, Bel reforged his broken Gears from Destruction Belfyre and followed Phelix to his uncle's cabin where the two created a new friendship.

## Beyblades

* **Destruction Belfyre Nexus Venture-2**: Bel's Quad Beyblade in *Beyblade Burst QuadDrive*.
	+ **F Gear**: An attachment to Destruction Belfyre's Dynamite Blade, inspired by Free De La Hoya's Vanish Fafnir.
	+ **V Gear**: An attachment to Destruction Belfyre's Venture Tip, inspired by Valt Aoi's Salvage Valtryek in the anime, and Rashad Goodman's in the manga.
	+ **S Gear**: An attachment to Destruction Belfyre's Nexus Disc, inspired by Shu Kurenai's Astral Spryzen.
	+ **L Gear**: An attachment replacing Destruction Belfyre's 2 Armor, inspired by Lui Shirosagi's Guilty Lúinor.
* **Destruction Belfyre Nexus Venture (Perfect Gear)**: Bel's upgraded Quad Beyblade in *QuadDrive* with all Evolution Gears attached, until it was destroyed by Rashad Goodman.
* **Decay Belfyre Nexus Venture-2**: Bel's upgraded Quad Beyblade in the first special chapter of the *QuadDrive* manga.
* **Devastate Belfyre Almight-2**: Bel's evolved Quad Beyblade in *QuadDrive*.
* **Devastate Belfyre Almight (Perfect Gear)**: Bel's evolved Quad Beyblade in *QuadDrive*, with all Evolution Gears attached.
* **Divine Belfyre Squadron-Q Guard-Q+Adventure-3**: Bel's evolved Quad Beyblade in *QuadStrike*.

### Launch Styles

* Overdrive Launch: Bel launches Devastate Belfyre at a high spin velocity, which allows the Belfyre Core's burst stopper to be activated and reduces Belfyre's chance of bursting, while the Almight driver's sharp tip is withdrawn and fixed, causing the Beyblade to move faster.

### Special Moves

* Destruction Wrecker: Utilizing its speed, Destruction Belfyre strikes its opponent Beyblades with the Destruction Blade at full force, dealing massive damage.
* Daring Launch: The Venture Driver tip gains an increase in rotation speed, allowing Destruction Belfyre to accelerate at increasing speed and bombard the opposing Beyblade with swift strikes.
* Daring Flash: Destruction Belfyre builds up speed by circling around the edge of the Beystadium and rams into the opposing Beyblade with the Destruction Blade, delivering either a power slash attack or ram.
* Destruction Counter:
* Devastate Wrecker: Utilizing its speed, Devastate Belfyre strikes it's opponent Beyblades with the rubber blades on the Devastate Blade at full force, dealing massive damage.
* Devastate Launch: The Almight Driver tip gains an increase in rotation speed, allowing Devastate Belfyre to accelerate at increasing speed and bombard the opposing Beyblade with swift strikes.
* Devastate Flash: Devastate Belfyre builds up speed and rams into the opposing Beyblade with the Devastate Blade, delivering either a power slash attack or ram.
* Devastate Dive: After launching itself in the air, Devastate Belfyre flies into the air and uses gravity to increase the speed and power of its fall to inflict massive damage on the opposing Beyblade.
* Devastate Recoil: When in fixed mode, Devastate Belfyre uses its S Gear and the spring-loaded part of the Almight Driver to perform a bound attack on its opponent.

## Official Description

### Beyblade Burst QuadDrive

Bel Daizora is known as the Dark Prince and Phantom’s Gate is his kingdom. Just like any pampered prince, Bel hates when things don’t go his way. That’s why he works extra hard to make sure he always wins. Armed with a rich imagination, Bel invented the Quad System all on his own. But it’s not all bursts and Beys; Bel often focuses his “creativity” on pranks and booby-traps for anyone unfortunate enough to stumble upon his lair.

### Beyblade Burst QuadStrike

When someone nicknames themselves the “Dark Prince,” you know they’ve got to have both the confidence and the ego to back it up. And with Bel Daizora’s willingness to pull out all the stops to bring his ideas to life, perhaps he’s earned the name. This Dark Prince lives by his own code of justice, pulling pranks left and right. But given that they fail most of the time, who could really hold that against him?

## Anime Appearances

### Beyblade Burst QuadDrive

* *Episode 01 - The Dark Prince! And Destruction Belfyre!*
* *Episode 02 - Graveyard of Beys! Phantom's Gate!*
* *Episode 03 - Changing Modes! Highs and Lows!*
* *Episode 04 - Theater of the Abyss! Bel vs. Valt!*
* *Episode 05 - To the Skies! World Domination!*
* *Episode 06 - The Other Valtryek!*
* *Episode 07 - Flipping the Script! Belfyre vs. Fafnir!*
* *Episode 08 - Dragon's Howl! Roar Balkesh!*
* *Episode 09 - Lift Off! The Great Aerial Tour!*
* *Episode 10 - Novas Collide! Bel vs. Rashad!*
* *Episode 11 - The Dark Prince Strikes! Bel vs. Free!*
* *Episode 12 - Dark Prince One Day! Minion the Next!*
* *Episode 13 - Knight of Dragons! Guilty Lúinor!*
* *Episode 14 - MVP! Great Aerial Tour's Landing!*
* *Episode 15 - The Dark Prince Returns! Devastate Belfyre!*
* *Episode 16 - Ring of Light! Glory Regnar!*
* *Episode 17 - Reversal! Reversal! Great Counterattack!*
* *Episode 18 - Disbanded! The Dark Prince Goes Rogue?!*
* *Episode 19 - Regnar's Wrath! Glory Pendulum!*
* *Episode 20 - Reckless Panic! Bag of Tricks!*
* *Episode 21 - Rekindled Flames! Prominence Phoenix!*
* *Episode 22 - Scarlet Flurry! Prominence Shaker!*
* *Episode 23 - Aurora Bound! Chasing the Phoenix!*
* *Episode 24 - Disturbing Disturbance! Phantom's Gate!*
* *Episode 25 - Ultimate Collision! Devastation and Ring of Light!*
* *Episode 26 - Prince vs. Prince! Darkness and Light!*

### Beyblade Burst QuadStrike

* *Episode 01 - Thunder and Lightning! Elemental Power!*
* *Episode 02 - The Rebirth! Divine Belfyre!*
* *Episode 03 - Rise Up! Gambit Dragon Soars!*
* *Episode 04 - Depths Below! Abyssal Tournament!*
* *Episode 05 - Dragon vs. Pandora! Rising Tides!*
* *Episode 06 - Howls of Terror! Kerbeus Returns!*
* *Episode 07 - Theater of the Dark Prince! Monstrous Missions!*
* *Episode 08 - Peerless! Xiphoid Xcalius!*
* *Episode 09 - Striking Flames! Ferocious Battle!*
* *Episode 10 - Dark Devotion! Mighty Sword!*

## Relationships

### Jinemon Daizora

Jinemon is Bel's grandfather. Both enjoy pranking each other and Bel enjoys Jinemon's food, too.

### Belfyre

Belfyre is the personification of Bel's bey. He is there for Bel when he's thinking of ways to evolve Belfyre or when he's sad.

### Bashara Suiro

Bel first met Bashara when he got inside Phantom's Gate, where Bel resides. In the first episode, Bel himself challenged Bashara in a battle. Without hesitation, Bashara accepted and introduced his Bey, Demise Spellscraper. Bashara scorned out about Belfyre being all lightweight when suddenly it was able to endure the attack. He was astounded with Belfyre's endurance, and with Belfyre delivering the final strike, the match ended with a Burst Finish, with Bashara losing. This prompted him to always visit Bel. Even though later in the series he defects to Rashad’s team, he doesn’t harbour any resentment for Bel.

### Lui Shirosagi

At first, Lui did not see Bel as a worthy opponent, openly calling him a disappointment after he lost to Ilya's Ifritor. However was impressed by Bel copying Luinor's power with the L Gear but was disappointed when he could not use it full power. Lui eventually became impressed with Bel after helping him unlock Belfyre's true strength and expresses joy for being able to fight him to his fullest.

In the *DB* Manga, Jinemon took Bel and his friends to Ogre Island so that Bel could battle Lui. Bel eventually secured Lui's respect after defeating him Lui gave him the L Gear to complete Perfect Belial.

### Rashad Goodman

Initially, the 2 were on neutral terms, but over time Bel’s personality started to rub Rashad the wrong way and vice versa, which culminated in Destruction Belfyre’s destruction at the end of the Dynamite Battle Tour. However, episode 36 showed the 2 of them getting along, implying that they don’t purely hate each other.

## Quotes

* "Tremble and fear the shadows gather aside the Dark Prince!" - to Ranzo as he enters Phantom's Gate.
* "You've awakened... the wrath of the Dark Prince!" - to Ranzo after the former insulted him.
* "The Dark Prince has returned now witness the dawning of Devastate Belfyre" - To everybody watching the broadcast of Ranzo and Bel's Battle.

## Trivia

* Bel is homeschooled.
	+ He's the only character known to do so.
* Bel shares the same Japanese voice actress as Laban Vanot.
* Bel is the first *Burst* protagonist since Valt Aoi to make their Bey sometime before the first episode of their season.
* Bel is the first of four *QuadDrive* characters whose initials are the same as their Bey: **D**estruction **B**elfyre/**D**evastate **B**elfyre, the others being Rashad Goodman, Ilya Mao, and Phelix Payne.
	+ He is also the first of two *QuadStrike*characters whose initials are the same as their Bey: **D**ivine **B**elfyre, the other being Pri Forsythe.
* He is also the first main protagonist whose initials are the same as his season's Japanese name: **D**ynamite **B**attle.
* Bel is the second *Burst* protagonist to destroy a Bey, the first being Aiger Akabane, but unlike Aiger, Bel accidentally destroyed Ranzo's Glide Roktavor.
* Bel is the first *Burst* protagonist to not have a tattoo on his face.
* Bel's Zodiac is Cancer.
* Bel is the first *Burst* Character to have three Launcher upgrades.
* Bel is the second main *Burst* protagonist to be an only child after Dante.
* Bel is the third Burst protagonist to not use a Whip/Slash move, following Hikaru and Hyuga Hizashi.
* Bel is the first protagonist to repair older parts after they were destroyed, as he reforged his old F and L Gears in *Aurora Bound! Chasing the Phoenix!* after they were destroyed by Rashad in *MVP! Great Aerial Tour's Landing!*
* Bel is the only *Burst* protagonist where neither one of his parents appear in the series, but instead, his grandfather, Jinemon Daizora, takes their place.
* Bel is the second *Burst* protagonist to be the main protagonist of more than just one season, following Valt Aoi.
* Out of any character in the *Burst* series, Bel has had the most upgrades and evolutions in a single system, with a total of 3 evolutions and 8 upgrades.
	+ The first evolution took place in *QuadDrive* with Destruction Belfyre's evolution into Devastate Belfyre. All of the upgrades were made to his Beys in the season.
	+ The second and third evolutions took place in *QuadStrike* with Devastate Belfyre's evolution into Divine Belfyre, which was later evolved into Destined Belfyre.