Beyblade X: Why There are No More Supernatural Occurences
As a warning, this is a 1500 word opinion essay (calling it an opinion piece sounds too pretentious for what this really is), hit the "read more" at your own peril. This also includes Beyblade X Season 2 spoilers up to the end of the current English Dub (as of 29 November 2025)
I believe that there is no supernatural power exhibited in Beyblade X because the collective blading community shifted from valuing power to valuing skill, and I believe they are still using beyblades with power in them. I believe this because of the difference between the other generation’s “possession arcs” and Khrome Ryugu’s, the emphasis Beyblade X has put on demonstrating the B4’s monopoly over beyblading to it’s viewers, and a very specific quote from Multi Nanairo that established Beyblade X’s unique perspective on beyblading.
Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge that there is a reasonable chance Beyblade X exists in an alternate universe from the rest of beyblade, one further increased by Quinn Manju’s mother, who has been suggested to have been alive since the beginning of blading. Whether the entirety of beyblade is possible to have witnessed in one lifetime is impossible to determine, given the possibility of a time disparity between our time and in-universe time For this reason, this essay assumes that all beyblade “generations,” or sagas, or seasons, occurred in the same universe. I also much acknowledge my limited knowledge. I have watched the first two seasons of the Metal Saga, the first two seasons of the Burst Saga, and am, as of 29 November 2025, up to date with the english dub of Beyblade X.
What we know right now, and what we can directly take from Beyblade X’s canon, is that there’s an impersonal relationship between bladers and their beyblades, which is significantly different than prior seasons. This stems from the way beyblades are mass-produced. Beycrafters are the only ones allowed to craft beyblades, and the B4 (currently unknown if it’s an offshoot of the WBBA,) controls the constraints (size, weight, materials) of created beyblades, and the licences given to new beycrafters. B4 has a monopoly over the creation, mass-production, and indirectly the schools beycrafting is taught in. For a business, kind of reprehensible. For a sport, it’s more reasonable. It ensures everyone battles fairly, controlling as many elements as possible except for skill level. However, beyblade has not always only been a sport. There are usually supernatural elements, helping or hindering tournaments, mysticizing certain beyblades, creating hierarchies, what have you. So where did the power go?
The best way to look for it is to compare previous seasons of beyblade to the current one. The most reliable place to look for an exertion of power in any generation has always been the inevitable possession arc. Possession has become a consistent occurrence through beyblade. Two prime examples are Ryuga, from the Metal Saga, and Shu Kurenai, from Burst. Beyblade X’s version of a possession arc can be seen in Khrome Ryugu. In a possession arc, usually we see the beyblade influence, enhance, or overtake either a blader’s emotions or mind. Kurenai had an obsession with perfection and revenge, which we saw Spryzen Requiem encourage, mirror, and eventually use to overtake Kurenai. Ryuga had an obsession with victory. L Drago gave him power, and eventually possessed him through that channel. Khrome Ryugu is the odd one out. He exhibits the same obsession with Jaxon, his ideal of power, but his beyblade does nothing to influence him. Ryugu just happened to be blading when he met his ideal of power. It could have been any other sport, and have the same result. We do see Ryugu change his beyblade to match himself, a similar occurrence to the others, but it’s clear that changing his beyblade is an effect of his mental state, not a mirror, and certainly not the catalyst.
I believe this is because Ryugu has a less personal relation with his beyblade, and that, in beyblade X, a beyblade’s personal-ness, has become unimportant. Due to mass production, its accessibility has increased, so the attachment to a particular beyblade has decreased. Rather than swapping out parts, like characters did in Metal Fusion (see the Reji-Kenta battle at the end of season one), or adding removable pieces like in burst (see Valtryek and Revive Phoenix) you can swap out the beyblade itself. Evolution no longer means changing the beyblade to suit yourself. It means creating an entire other beyblade you can swap between. This is one of the only differences between Ryugu, and Ryuga and Kurenai.
I initially believed powerlessness, because of the monopoly, stemmed from the B4. Maybe it was their constraints, or a specific material? Maybe the 4X system, a mimicry of the prior beyblading spirits, stopped people from using actual spirits? This train of thought ended up being a dead end because of the infinite possibilities: It could be the 4X system blocking it off. It could be mass-production diluting a beyblade’s power. It could be any number of things, and it’s so easy to blame the B4 for it, but it’s also impossible to prove. To be the correct answer, it needs to fit Beyblade X’s current theme of winds of change, along with explain where the power went and why Beyblade is going through so much effort to show us the B4’s control. This leads me to my first jump from canon to theory: beyblades still have the exact same potential as in burst and metal saga. They still have spirits. They still have possibilities of power, influence, the works.
Ryugu didn’t get possessed, not because he was better or stronger or more impervious to his beyblade’s influence, but because he and his generation are detached enough from personal beyblades that they make changing beyblades into a key strategy. The B4 doesn’t make their rules and constraints to stop power from leaking through. They make it because Ryugu’s generation prioritizes skill over power, leading to different qualities prioritized in beyblades: diversity, ability to work around potentially poor matchups, standardized size and weight, an ultimately fair fight.
The B4 is specifically shown to have so much control, I think, because after seeing them constantly be in control, we see what it looks like when they scramble, and why. The collective goal of the B4, as previously established, is to ensure a fair battle. “A fair battle,” has now been taken to mean a blading without any supernatural forces at play. But the goal of the collective bladers must align with the B4. If it does not, if rules or equipment become outdated, the B4 scramble to keep up, as evidenced by their behaviour in Season Two. This shows us that change is perpetrated by the collective bladers. And if change is perpetrated by them, then they are the ones that initially demanded a fair battle, one that did not include any supernatural forces. If this is the case, then the B4 formed, constructed rules and constraints for the creation of beys, made the mimicry 4X system, and mass-produced beyblades to create the exact reality Beyblade X currently exists in: diverse beyblades and options forming the backbone of strategies, the human becoming the most important agent in a battle by far. The B4’s existence is created by the need for blading moderation, and thus serves the collective bladers, who created the B4 because of a priority change from blading power to blading strategy.
The biggest demonstration of this priority change comes from Multi Nanairo, who asks a very interesting question back in the beginning of Season One. She asks Robin, our primary perspective, “Would you rather take all that time to master your Incendio now, or have a beyblade you can control at your level?” Robin chooses the latter. In any other generation, his choice would be laughable, borderline cheating. The protagonist would have chosen the first option and worked doubly hard to master it. Taking the second option so early in Beyblade X demonstrates this new mentality, and new emphasis on human power-level and human strategy, as opposed to sheer beyblade power. It’s a subtle change, from “this beyblade is stronger,” in Metal, to “we’re stronger,” in Burst, to “this person is stronger,” in X. It pushes the creation of the B4, and the B4, to validate their organization’s existence, creates rules, regulations, mass-production, the works, and at our “current day,” we have a B4 that is slightly removed from the collective bladers, collective bladers whose access to diverse beyblades creates the backbone of their strategies, and a beyblade whose spirit is no longer prioritized, or even required, to the point that no one even references it.
There’s always the chance that the B4 is stifling power, regulating everything they can, including the way spirits activate, but Beyblade X isn’t a story about control. Upheaval, yes, but not control. In my opinion, it’s more likely that beyblades still have the power to do everything they could before. It’s just that people have exchanged exalting beyblades for exalting themselves.
I would like to leave you all with a prediction, in the case that this is correct- the beyspirits, the B4, all of it. There are people coming out of the woodwork, also ancient, also using beyblades and techniques technically B4-Legal, but for how long? The initial Phoenix spread like wildfire. These beyblades from older clans, Tenko Shiroboshi’s, for example, are appearing suddenly and becoming the new cutting edge. If we are looking backwards into the far past to create beyblades, I predict that Blaze Fujiwara’s “bey-timeshift” was intended to mark the swing of a pendulum from the extreme of “pure human skill,” and the beginning of its swing back towards power. I predict that we will see some instance of beyblade power reminiscent of Burst or Metal by the end of the season- even something small, like wind during a battle that breaches the 4x system and affects the crowd- and while I am fully willing to be wrong, I would be so, so delighted to be right.
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Feel free to leave critiques, theories, or additional evidence! I’m using this essay to create my Quinn Manju’s arc in a separate fic, who is trying to answer the question of “where did beyblade power go?” from the perspective of someone who grew up in the Metal Fusion era, so information and various perspectives are wonderful! If you do, please be nice to people in the comments, though. theyre tumblrinas, they've been through enough.
