The Spin Crown War Begins: BEYBLADE X Enters the Bey Kingdom
On October 9, BEYBLADE X opened its fourth season without resetting the counter. Episode 135, "Version 2.0," premiered at 7 p.m. JST on BeyTube — Takara Tomy's official Beyblade YouTube channel — and the new Bey Kingdom arc carried the running episode number straight into an entirely new world. Ten days in, it is shaping up as the show's biggest swing yet: a story where Beyblade isn't only the competition, but the government.
The setting does most of the work. Bey Kingdom is a nation where Bey battles decide everything, up to and including who inherits the throne, and with succession open, 99 princes have entered the Spin Crown War — a last-blader-standing contest for the crown. Team Persona lands in the middle of it because Prince Dima Dil Kanz, the 88th prince, has been ruled out by a wrist injury and needs champions to fight in his place. The announcement materials tease a hidden connection between the kingdom and the team, and they leave one question dangling: for a blader this capable, why does Dima need stand-ins at all?
Dima's voice belongs to Masaya Miyazaki (Kiri Namekawa in Dead Account), joining returning leads Sōma Saitō as Jaxon Cross, Shūichirō Umeda as Robin Kazami, and Ruriko Noguchi as Multi Nana-iro. Moto Terada directs, with anime studio OLM producing. The arc also brings a soundtrack refresh: &TEAM perform the new opening, "Fearless," which arrived digitally the day after the premiere, while BAND-MAID's "SPIN" becomes the ending theme when it drops October 28.
Catching up is easier this time. New episodes stream every Friday at 7 p.m. JST on BeyTube, and Japanese viewers can also find the arc on U-NEXT, ABEMA, Prime Video, and the rest of the usual lineup. Stateside, the series airs on Disney XD and streams on Hulu and Netflix, with Disney+ carrying it for the first time — though no English-language date for the arc has been announced yet. Takara Tomy is running a parallel on-ramp, the Start Dash Project: since September 25, special BeyTube videos have recapped the story, and the October 2 special bundled first-look reveals with a keyword campaign that gave away metal-coat rare Beys and an all-in-one set. Readers are covered too — Posuka Demizu's CoroCoro Comic serialization is nine volumes deep, and all chapters are free to read until November 12.
And the "Version 2.0" title isn't just flavor: it is also the name of the product wave Takara Tomy has been rolling out this fall, and the same week the arc premiered, the BX-53 all-in-one set — Aero Pegasus 3-70A alongside two Version 2.0 Beys — went on sale in Japan. If the story turns out to be the explanation for where those builds come from, then collectors and viewers are watching the same season for different reasons.
The Bey Kingdom arc is the rare Beyblade season that changes the board rather than just the bracket: a royal court where every argument ends in a Bey battle, a prince who cannot throw his own top, and a story that rewards people who read product announcements as closely as episode listings. Fridays at 7 p.m. JST on BeyTube — this once, it is worth keeping up week by week.