The differences between the anime and the manga are significant and plentiful. The former teammates face off against each other in various rounds, but ultimately become allies again for another effort to stop the world from being taken over. This leaves Takao to join forces with season-newcomer Daichi and his bit-beast Gaia Dragoon. Max, Rei, and Kai all go to their alternative teams for their own shot at becoming the world champion. Season 3 ( G-Revolution) returns to the tournament-heavy format, but with one major twist: the BBA Team is no longer together. Along the way, each member of the team faces a personal demon and grows both as a person and as a teammate. It starts out on neighborhood level, with a local gang of beyblading bullies terrorizing Akebono, moves to the Japanese Tournament where the protagonists become a team, then enters a series of tournaments, and finishes with the BBA being the world's last chance against a hostile takeover by Borg and Hiwatari Enterprises. The first season narrates how the protagonists, the BBA Team, rise to the top.
Also included in the anime lineup is the Non-Serial Movie Beyblade: The Movie - Fierce Battle, which can be considered an Alternate Continuity to the third season. The story was adapted from the manga by Takao Aoki, which itself was a reboot of the events told about in Jisedai Beigoma Battle Beyblade. The first season was produced by Madhouse and the last two were done by Nihon Animedia, with some outsourcing to Synergy. American audiences got their share of Beyblade from 2002 to 2005.
aired from 2001 to 2003 with a season each year in Japan. Bakuten Shoot Beyblade (爆転シュートベイブレード) note "Bakuten" is a neologism, combining 爆 for "explosion" and 転 for "(rotational) movement".