It has been one week since Beyblade X tore up its own map.
On Friday, October 9, episode 135 — "Version 2.0" — premiered at 7 p.m. JST on the official BeyTube channel, opening the Bey Kingdom arc. It is the first new chapter since the True Future arc began last April, and it starts right where that one left off: Team Persona has just stopped the Kurosu clan's plan to destroy and rebuild Beyblade. The "X" they touched, the arc's outline warns, was only a fraction of the whole picture. The rest of that picture is a kingdom.
A walled nation where rank, law, and honor are all decided by spinning top. Its throne is settled by the Spin Crown War, a succession battle among 99 princes — and Persona is summoned to fight as stand-in for one of them: Dima Dil Kanz, the 88th prince, a quiet man voiced by Masaya Miyazaki. Why a prince who is supposedly a strong blader needs stand-ins at all is one of the arc's open questions. The other is the kingdom's hidden past connection to Persona, which the synopsis teases without spelling out.
The crew stays intact, which feels right for a story this big: Moto Terada directs, Koji Bandai handles series composition, and OLM animates, with Soma Saito, Shuichiro Umeda, and Ruriko Noguchi still voicing Ekusu, Bird, and Multi. New episodes arrive every Friday at 7 p.m. JST on BeyTube, and in Japan the arc also streams on U-NEXT, Anime Hodai, Lemino, Prime Video, DMM TV, d Anime Store, and ABEMA.
It comes with new music, too. &TEAM's "Fearless" is the opening theme — a heavy, loud track written by Soma Genda, SAS, LOAR, Seann Bowe, and Sho of MY FIRST STORY, out digitally the day after the premiere. BAND-MAID's "SPIN" closes each episode; SAIKI wrote the lyrics, and the full single lands October 28 in three editions: a ¥7,700 CD+Blu-ray, a ¥6,600 CD+DVD, and a ¥1,650 standard CD. In the run-up, the official account posted one photo a day from September 25 through October 8, all 14 members of both bands holding their assigned beys.
Newcomers get a ramp instead of a wall. The BEYBLADE X START DASH PROJECT ran two catch-up videos in late September — Umeda retracing Bird's battles, then a first-look roundup of the toys, manga, and anime — with prizes for 30 winners that include a reproduction art board signed by manga artist Posuka Demizu and the new BX-53 All-in-One Set. The manga itself is free to read on CoroCoro's website for anyone who wants the story on paper.
The timing was deliberate: the arc premiered one day before the October 10 product wave, when Luster Dragoon 6-60LC and the BX-53 All-in-One Set hit shelves together. Story beats and toy shelves, launched in lockstep — the way this franchise has worked since 1999.
Overseas fans will need patience. Nothing has been announced yet for the Bey Kingdom arc in English. Netflix carries the series in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and 91 other territories, and Disney XD is airing the current dub, but the new arc's Western plans are still unwritten. If "Version 2.0" means what it sounds like, the show is rebuilding itself one battle at a time — worth spoiler-proofing for. We'll be watching every Friday.