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Valt is the excitable founder and captain of Beigoma Academy's BeyClub, runner-up in his first National Tournament before joining Spain's BC Sol and becoming World Champion.

Tyson Granger — Takao Kinomiya in Japan — is the loud, hungry, endlessly stubborn heart of the series: a boy from a kendo dojo in Bay City who blades on instinct and refuses to accept that any match is over.

Kenny — Manabu Saien in Japan, and Chief to everyone — is the Bladebreakers' mechanic, analyst and worrier, a small boy whose eyes are permanently hidden behind his fringe and whose laptop houses the talkative bit-beast Dizzi.

Max is the sunny, hyperactive defender of the group, the son of a Bay City hobby-shop owner and an American research scientist, and the only Bladebreaker of mixed parentage.

Ray Kon — Rei in Japan — is the calm centre of the Bladebreakers, a technically gifted blader from a remote Chinese mountain village who left his clan, the White Tigers, to see how the rest of the world played.

Gingka Hagane, called Ginga in Japan, is the central hero of the Metal Saga, introduced as a wandering blader with his Storm Pegasus.

Cold, proud and privately haunted, Kai is the trilogy's second lead: introduced as the tyrannical champion of the Blade Sharks and Tyson's first real obstacle, then captain of a team he never asked to join, then a defector, then its leader again.

Jaxon Cross, called Ekusu Kurosu in the Japanese version, is the protagonist of Beyblade X and leader of Team Persona.