beyblade

CREATOR

Name: VIZ Media (Japanese comics corporation based in the USA).
Personal dates: Founded 1986 in California by Japanese born Seiji Horibuchi. Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under VIZ in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation publishes Manga stories and uses a variety of logos; the one to the left is one of many.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 2004. Stopped in 2006 after 14 issues.

The stories mainly evolve around diverse Japanese and overseas tournaments to demonstrate and compete with a special sports-related object called Beyblade, which is basically a spinning top with a launcher, and the aim of the game is to get one's own top to spin the longest time. One of the many contestants is a young boy named Takao Kinomiya with the alias Tyson Granger.

The series was developed in 2000 to promote the sales of a special spinning top called Beyblade (or Explosive Shoot Beyblade) in Japan. Later on a large number of animated TV cartoons followed.