June’s issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Coro Coro Comics magazine published a 70-page full-color preview of a new Beyblade X manga series by the Promised Neverland writers. The manga will start its regular serialization in the magazine’s July issue. It will reportedly ship on June 15th. Homura Kawamoto and Hikaru Muno are credited with the original work, with Posuka Demizu drawing the manga.
Takara Tomy announced the Beyblade X manga project in March. Tomy described the project as the “4th generation” after its original 1999 version. Beyblade Burst Queadstrike, the seventh and latest season of the Beyblade Burst anime series, premiered on Disney XD on April 3rd. It also premiered on Hulu on May 8th in the U.S.
The manga’s story centers on a young boy who has the goal of being a professional Beyblade player. He aims to get to Tower X, where all professional Beyblade players gather. The story will introduce new gears, abilities, and methods in playing Beyblade.
Kawamoto Muno Demizu: Leading Up to Beyblade X
Hiro0 Morita launched the Beyblade Burst manga in Monthly Coro Coro Comics in July 2015. The series concluded in December 2021, and the series spinoff manga by Seitaro Komatsu titled Beyblade Burst 3-Nen B- Gumi Bei Sensei launched in Monthly CoroCoro Ichiban magazine in April 2022. It also ended in December.
Kawamoto and Muno, along with publisher TMS, are credited with the original work of the poker-themed anime High Card, which premiered on January 9. The anime will get a second season. Demizu and Kaiu Shirai launched The Promised Neverland in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in August 2016 and ended it in June 2020. Viz Media publishes the manga digitally and in print in North America. MANGA Plus also published the manga digitally in English.
The first season of the manga’s anime adaptation premiered in January 2019. Aniplex of America streamed the anime on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation, and HIDIVE as it aired. Toonami began airing the anime in April 2019. The anime’s second season premiered in January 2021. Funimation streamed the anime as it aired, and also streamed an English dub. A live-action film adaptation opened in December 2020.
