Beyblade: Metal Fusion season 1

Beyblade: Metal Fusion
Season 1
The cover of the first DVD compilation released by Sony Pictures Entertainment
No. of episodes51
Release
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original releaseApril 5, 2009 (2009-04-05) –
March 28, 2010 (2010-03-28)
Season chronology
Next →
Metal Masters
List of episodes

Beyblade: Metal Fusion, known in Japan as Metal Fight Beyblade, is the first season of the 2009 Japanese anime television series Beyblade: Metal Saga based on Takafumi Adachi's manga series Beyblade: Metal Fusion, which itself is based on the Beyblade spinning top game from Takara Tomy and Hasbro. The 51-episode series was produced by d-rights and Nelvana under the direction of Kunihisa Sugishima.[1]

The season was first broadcast on TV Tokyo in Japan between April 5, 2009 and March 28, 2010. Nelvana announced that it will air in Canada's on May 15, 2010 on YTV.[2] The season premiered on June 26, 2010[3] in the United States on Cartoon Network, on September 13, 2010 in the United Kingdom, on November 10, 2010 in Australia on Network Ten, and in Latin America on April 18, 2011 on Disney XD.[4]

Two pieces of theme music were used for the opening and closing themes. The opening theme is "Metal Fight Beyblade" (メタルファイト ベイブレード) performed by Yu+Ki and the ending theme is "Boys ~Hikari Kagayaku Ashita e~" (Boys～光り輝く明日へ～) performed by MASH.[1] The first 23 episodes were released on six DVD compilations of three to four episodes each by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The first compilation was released on July 15, 2009[5] while the sixth compilation was released on December 9, 2009.[6] The remaining 28 episodes were released on seven DVD compilations under the title Metal Fight Beyblade: Battle Bladers (メタルファイト ベイブレード バトルブレーダーズ編, Metarufaito Beiburēdo - Batoruburēdāzu-hen). The first compilation was released on January 13, 2010[7] while the seventh compilation was released on July 14, 2010.[8] Beyblade: Metal Fusion was followed by a second season titled Beyblade: Metal Masters.

  1. ^ a b メタルファイト ベイブレード (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Archived from the original on May 31, 2009. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
  2. ^ "Corus Kids May 2010 Highlights". Corus Entertainment. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
  3. ^ "Beyblade Metal Fusion To Debut In US On cartoon Network". Anime News Network. 2010-04-30.
  4. ^ Urahara, Kisuke (2001-03-06). "Confirmado oficialmente - Beyblade: Metal Fusion llega a Disney XD en Abril" [Officially confirmed - Beyblade: Metal Fusion comes to Disney XD in April] (in Spanish). ANMTV.
  5. ^ "メタルファイト ベイブレード Vol.1" (in Japanese). Amazon. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
  6. ^ "メタルファイト ベイブレード Vol.6" (in Japanese). Amazon. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
  7. ^ "メタルファイト ベイブレード -バトルブレーダーズ編- Vol.1" (in Japanese). Amazon. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
  8. ^ "メタルファイト ベイブレード -バトルブレーダーズ編- Vol.7" (in Japanese). Amazon. Retrieved April 22, 2011.