Reiji Mizuchi

For the Back to the Basics Blader Style profile for Reiji, see Reiji Mizuchi (Back to the Basics).

is a fictional character and a villain in the Metal Fight Beyblade Anime and Manga. He is a member of the Dark Nebula, being their true second most powerful Blader after Ryuga.

Initially, he was assigned by Daidouji to watch over Gingka Hagane to study his Storm Pegasus 105 RF. He later takes part in the Battle Bladers tournament; he follows a strategy of attacking opponents weakly to lower their guard and injecting "poison", when they become vulnerable to the ultimate assault of his Poison Serpent SW145SD.

Appearance
He has red hair with a blonde streak running through the front of his fringe. He has eyes which are a bright yellow just like the eyes of a serpent that hide underneath his hair. He wears a long light purple shirt with a snake scale pattern across the bottom of his shirt and on the cuffs of his shirt. He also wears a pair of black, tight, leather jeans, black leather boots and has within his hair a pair of what appear to be clips with the look of snake's eyes. He often walks as though he's drunk, wavering and never actually walking straight and he tends to point a lot as well.

Personality
Reiji has a rather dark and cold personality. When outside of Bey battles, he is rarely (if ever) seen talking and seems to be content with observing events that are happening around him. He usually keeps silent during his bey battles except for when he will speak to strike fear in his opponents heart. Mizuchi has a rather sadistic side to him such as when he was battling against Hyouma. When Mizuchi started to unleash several serpents from his beyblade and they started to attack Hyouma's Aries. Hyouma started to beg Mizuchi to stop.

But this results in no effect due to Reiji then laughing statistically and then unleashing his dark move, serpent venom strike. After Aries was severely damaged and Hyouma was screaming. Poison Serpent returned to Reiji's hand and he walked with a smirk on his face.

It is also clear that when Mizuchi was facing Kenta that he did not understand that Beyblade was fought using the bladers feeling and heart. This caused him to go insane and then unleashed his dark move again which destroyed Flame Saggittario.

Overall Mizuchi is a character with a cold, super insane and sadistic personality who enjoys to destroy his opponents Beyblade without any regard for their feelings. Reiji seems to hate happiness and other feelings that are supposed to be use in a beybattle cause when he fought Ginga he was afraid of Gingka's happiness and exciment. After Reiji lost the battle to Gingka Hagane (he lost because of Gingka's spirit and Gingka copied Reiji's moves like Perseus killing Medusa by holding up his shield and Medusa seeing herself, turning herself into stone.) The poison he absorbed turned him to stone. He gets fun out of battles by driving fear and darkness into his opponent. He loves to crush beys.

History
Reiji seems to be brought up by Dark Nebula, in a room with big screens watching all of Ginga's battles.

Beyblade Metal Fusion
Reiji first appears at the Battle Bladers tournament after Gingka beats Yu. Doji tells him that it is time to show Gingka's gang how cruel they can be. He is then assigned to battle Hyoma during the first round where Gingka, Benkei Hanawa Kenta and Kyoya Tategami learn about him. During his introduction, Blader DJ mentions that there is no information on Reiji as a person or on his Beyblade and not having any data competing in the challenge matches.

His battle against Hyoma first appears to be rather one-sided, with Hyoma outmatching him. However, when things appear decided, Reiji finally begins attacking fiercely. While Reiji could end the battle with ease if he wanted, he instead proceeds to slowly torture Hyoma's Rock Aries ED145B and shatter the bey into tiny pieces in the process. After Hyoma tearfully begs him to stop, Reiji finally ends the prolonged fight and wins using the Venom Strike. He then walks off stage sadistcially thanking Hyoma for the battle while Hyoma drowns in tears.

Reiji next appears, when he fights Yu Tendo as punishment for Yu's loss against Gingka at Battle Bladers during the first round. Yu is told that he'll be set free if he is able to beat Reiji. In their battle, Reiji uses the same strategy he used against Hyoma, which he calls the 'Serpent's Poison'. While he appears to be victorious, Yu suddenly orders Libra to use Inferno Blast and takes his chance to escape during the resulting confusion. Later after Ryutaro Fukami loses to Gignka in the second round, Daidouji tells Reiji that he will be taking care of Ryutaro. But the actual battle is never shown (it should have happened between episodes 43 and 44).

Back in Battle Bladers, Reiji has to face Kenta Yumiya. He starts out by following his usual strategy, but then begins to break off Flame Sagittario C145S's claws one by one. However, Sagittario is not defeated this easily; Kenta, who has combined his Beyblade with Flame Libra's Eternal Sharp Performance Tip for this battle, begins speaking of his friendship with Yu and the others, and his experiences with them are makes him this strong. At this point, Reiji finally gets angry for the first time, being unable to stand what Kenta is saying; his rage causes his real eyes to show between his hair. In this state of anger, Reiji begins damaging Sagittario more and wins by stopping Sagittario's rotation with his Dark Move. While this is his formal victory, Reiji declares that he is unsatisfied with his victory and continues to attack Kenta's bey in an effort to break him even more. In an attempt to protect his Beyblade, Kenta enters the arena himself; Reiji might have attacked (or even killed) the young boy, had it not been for Gingka Hagane's interference.

As a result of this sudden turn of events, Gingka is selected as Reiji's next opponent in the semifinals. In this fight, Reiji reveals that the Dark Nebula has watching Gingka's battles in a secret research area filled with numerous screens. He always wanted to defeat Gingka and erase his love of friendship, as a form of proof that even a powerful Blader can be helpless in fear. As their fight goes on, it appears as if Reiji is about to defeat Gingka, who has seemingly turned to stone due to negative emotion. However, Gingka manages to break free and declares that he is still having fun battling Reiji. Reiji can't understand why Gingka is not afraid of him, starting to lose his composure and attack Pegasus again. Gingka finally finds an effective strategy - he blocks Reiji's attacks by successfully mirroring his movements; Reiji finally starts to feel fear himself as he notices that Gingka, who is still smiling, is about to win. He is therefore defeated, and has a complete breakdown, unable to comprehend or believe his loss and was unable to scare the other Blader; he then imagines himself ironically turning to stone by his own negative emotions.

The last time he is seen is on the ending picture of the season, angrily walking away from the other celebrating characters. It is currently unknown what happened to him after the events of Metal Fusion as he isn't seen in Metal Masters or Metal Fury.

Beast
is the bit beast inside Poison Serpent when it is in defense mode.

is the bit beast inside Poison Serpent whien it is in attack mode.Anybody who sees into her eyes turn into stone.

Poison Serpent Venom Strikehing Moves

 * Venom Genocide: Reiji's first finishing move is, Mizuchi first used this attack on Episode 41 (anime). Like Ryuga's Finishing Moves, it is referred to as a "Dark Spin Technique".

Beybattles
"It looks like the poison has taken effect."

"Feeling a bit cold? Like maybe your fear turning to stone!"

"It hurts! It hurts! It really hurts!"

"Crush it into nothing!"

"Come on why don't you fear me!"

Trivia
Sometimes the beast in his bey is Medusa, which explains why Gingka looked like he was turning into stone. A reason why in defense mode it is Serpent, and when it is in attack mode it is Medusa.

He doesn't understand a blader's spirit.

"Mizu" means water in japanese.

What happen to him after losing to Ginga is unknown.


 * His Beyblade, Poison Serpent SW145SD, is the first to have a bit beast change, the second being "Poison Virgo ED145ES", the third being Gravity Destroyer AD145WD and the forth being "Meteo L-Drago LW105LF.
 * He was the second Blader to have a Dark Move, the first one being Ryuga.
 * He is the only Dark Nebula Blader (other than Doji) who did not redeem himself.