Beyblade: Shogun Steel S1 E1

## Plot

A new season, new characters, and basically a new show also means a new theme song! I like it. It sounds like hip hop or rap. Seven years have passed since the world was almost destroyed by Nemesis. Beyblade is heading towards a new age. We see our new protagonist, Zyro Kurogane, run to a Beyblade park when he realizes that he's late. He's already won 96 times, and is the undefeated champion of his hometown. His bey is Samurai Ifrit. He uses the special move Shooting Star Crush to defeat his final opponent, making it his 100th win. He announces that he's going on a training journey, now that he's accomplished his goal of a hundred straight wins. He'll perfect his skills and become the number one blader in the world, because that's what he promised the person who gave him his Ifrit shortly after the Nemesis crisis. It's obviously Ginga, but no one else realizes it until later in the episode. Tsubasa is the new director of the WBBA. Madoka basically serves Hikaru's role now. It's kind of weird seeing the teenager characters as adults now. I'm mostly just upset that Tsubasa gave up his Tifa Lockhart hairstyle. After Nemesis almost destroyed the world, bey battles weren't really possible for awhile. Things are finally getting back to normal. They should have another world tournament as soon as possible. Their friends are encouraging new bladers all around the world. Madoka also runs the B-Pit now. Zyro finally reaches the city. A kid tells him that the strongest blader here would be Shinobu Hiryuin. The strong bladers all practice at the bey park, which, ironically, is inside. Zyro has never seen a stadium like that before. It's called a Cyclone Bey Stadium. A little girl named Maru serves Madoka's old role of collecting data on beys. Zyro decides to battle the other guys waiting in line all at once. The force of the beys' performance tips kicking against the stadium makes it spin. In order to get a stadium out, he has to make the beys fall through a hole. After defeating them all, he asks for Shinobu. The other bladers tell him that he's kind of strong, but Shinobu and his unbeatable Ninja Salamander bey are out of his league. Shinobu arrives and tells Zyro that he won't allow him to disobey the rules of the bey park. He accepts his challenge, but only to throw him out. He knows that Zyro isn't used to the stadium, and decides to take advantage of it. He uses the force his bey makes to tilt the stadium, which messes up Ifrit's spin. Zyro discovers that he can't fly out of the stadium to use his special move. Instead, he has Salamander hit his bey into the air. Madoka shows up and says that technique is familiar. She knows that bey. Zyro says he'll become a blader that outshines even the legendary Ginga. Shinobu is shocked, and has Salamander dodge the move. After that, he easily defeats Zyro, and tells him that he's not even worthy to say Ginga's name. Madoka tells Maru to keep a close eye on Zyro and his bey from now on. Maru basically works for her and calls her chief. Okay, that's cute. Zyro hasn't eaten anything since breakfast, so he stops by a place called Bull Burger to eat. It happens to be run by Benkei, who serves him a dish inspired by one of Leone's special moves. He knows Shinobu, since he's also an instructor at the bey park. He encourages Zyro to never give up just because he loses once or twice. Seeing him reminds him of Kyoya. Zyro recognizes Kyoya's name and calls him Ginga's greatest rival. Maru comes in and tells him that Benkei used to be Kyoya's right hand man. She prefers Ginga, but her ultimate favorite is Chief Madoka. Zyro agrees to have Benkei train him. His first goal is to defeat Shinobu.