First Very Official Metal Fight Beyblade Anime Image + Characters DATE: 03/04/09
Here is the first picture we have from TV Tokyo:
From left to right, top to bottom is: Kyouya Tategami, Benkei, Kenta Yumiya, a new girl called Madoka Amano, and Ginga Hagane. Considering the girl's importance in the picture, she will most probably be a secondary character, like Hiromi was in Beyblade 2002 and G Revolution.
The story right now seems to be highly inspired by the manga: Ginga is a determined beyblader; he will fight 100 beys from the Face Hunters and meet Kyouya.
The beyblade illustrated is indeed Storm Pegasis 105RF. As you can see, the upper layer of the Wheel will not really be hit during battles, unless both beyblades' height vary a lot.
The cast is as follows:
DIRECTOR - Sugishima Kunihisa (previous work: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
SCRIPT - Hasegawa Katsumi (previous work: Bakuten Shoot Beyblade G Revolution)
CHARACTER DESIGN - Nagamori Yoshiro (p.w.: Bakuten Shoot Beyblade G Revolution)
ART DIRECTOR - Honda Takashi
MUSIC - Neil Parfitt (p.w.: Bakugan)
SOUND DIRECTOR - Matsuoka Yuki
ANIMATION - Tatsuno Copro.
ANIMATION WORK - Synergy SP
HAGANE GINGA - Kanada Aki
TATEGAMI KYOUYA - Satoshi Hino
YUMIYA KENTA - Katou Emiri
BENKEI - Miyake Kenta
AMANO MADOKA - Shindo Kei
DAIDOUJI - Takehito Koyasu (p.w.: Volkov (Beyblade))
^On some of those websites, you can hear a sample of their voice.
