Battle B-Daman

Battle B-Daman
Cover of the first volume of Battle B-Daman
B-伝説! バトルビーダマン
(Bī-Densetsu! Batoru Bīdaman)
Manga
Written byEiji Inuki
Published byShogakukan
MagazineCoroCoro Comic
DemographicChildren
Original runApril 2002November 2005
Volumes8
Anime television series
Directed byMitsuo Hashimoto
Produced byShunji Aoki, Shinichi Ikeda, Mamiko Aoki
Written byHiroyuki Kawasaki
Music byTakashi Fukigami
StudioNippon Animation
Licensed byHasbro
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
English network
Original run January 5, 2004 December 27, 2004
Episodes52 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Battle B-Daman: Fire Spirits!
Directed byMitsuo Hashimoto
Produced byShunji Aoki, Shinichi Ikeda, Mamiko Aoki
Written byKatsumi Hasegawa
Music byMakihiko Araki
StudioNippon Animedia
Licensed byHasbro
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
English network
Original run January 10, 2005 December 26, 2005
Episodes51 (List of episodes)
Other series

Battle B-Daman (Japanese: B-伝説! バトルビーダマン, Hepburn: Bī-Densetsu! Batoru Bīdaman, "B-Legend! Battle B-Daman") is a Japanese manga series by Eiji Inuki which ran in CoroCoro Comics by Shogakukan from 2002 to 2005. An anime adaptation was released in January 2004. It premiered in the United States in April 2005. It is the first show of the B-Daman series to be dubbed in English. In Japan, the second season, titled Battle B-Daman: Fire Spirits! (B-伝説! バトルビーダマン 炎魂, Bī-Densetsu! Batoru Bīdaman), was superseded by Crash B-Daman, a new series with an all new cast and story. The toyline was originally manufactured by Takara and was licensed by Hasbro for release in United States.