Ryutaro Fukami

     Ryutaro Fukami (深海流太郎, Fukami Ryuutarou) is a recurring character in the Metal Saga. He is mostly featured in his debut season, Beyblade Metal Fusion.

He was a member of the Dark Nebula and a ruthless blader fighting with the Bey Thermal Pisces T125ES. His special ability is foreseeing the future, although nothing is known on how concrete and accurate his visions truly are. .

Appearance
Ryutaro is a fair skinned Japanese boy with dark blue hair. He wears violet lipstick on his lower lip and pink make-up markings under his turquoise eyes. His clothes resemble a traditional Japanese yukata and hakama, but they were modified to a more western cut. Additionally, he wears a number of leather belts. His shoes have a surprisingly high sole. He's never seen without his fan.

Personality
Ryutaro is a boy who always puts on a humble facade, even if in truth he is rather arrogant and self-centered. His speech seems overly polite and old-fashioned and he doesn't usually voice a negative opinion directly. Ryutaro feels slightly superior to most others, which may be due to his ability to foresee the future. He's usually seen smiling and gesturing with his fan. Generally, he is heavily based on Japanese culture and tradition. References to this are found all throughout his actions and possessions.

Above all, Ryutaro is controlled by a belief that fate is absolute, and the future cannot be changed. When challenged in this conviction, he easily loses composure and begins stuttering. Through his fights with Gingka he ultimately, he manages to accept that reality is different from what he thought.

Ryutaro has a certain tolerance for hurting others without regret (e.g. causing Gingka headaches with the use of Distortion Drive), but he's not evil. He considers the punishments of Dark Nebula members inhumane and wrong and does immediately call Doji out on it. Still, he can't bring himself to quit the organization right away and instead tries to save himself by defeating Gingka violently, prioritizing his own safety over what he deems right.

Anime
His first appearance was in epiosde 30, "The Bewitching Pisces". Gingka and his friends are hanging out before the tournament when they see his fortune telling wagon. He is telling other bladers when to enter certain tournaments so they will have the best outcome. However, an unhappy customer appears and challenges him to a battle. Ryūtarō  wins easily and everyone is impressed how he sent his opponent's bey flying without even touching it. He later battles Gingka and had a strong start until Gingka created a vacuum by using Storm Bringer and defeated him.

Not long after, He is about to battle Tobio in the second round of the semifinals when Ryūga steps in and challenges them both to a battle at the same time. Ryūtarō  attacks with his special move, but is defeated and recruited into the Dark Nebula.

He accumulates 50,000 Beypoints and enters the Battle Bladers tournament, where he faces off against Teru. He wins and goes on to the next round. Later in the Dark Nebula's base, he sees his fellow bladers consumed one by one by Lightning L-Drago's dark power after losing. He is terrified, especially since his next opponent will be Gingka, who has defeated him before.



He battles Gingka, and puts up a good fight by using his Distortion Drive move, and later using illusions to make it appear that Gingka was on fire, and later frozen. However, Gingka realized they were illusions and broke free, defeating Ryūtarō  in the same fashion as before. After his defeat, Ryūtarō  accepts his fate and snaps his fan in half. He then has to battle against Mizuchi but the fight in not shown (it happen somwhere between episode 43 and 44).

He is not seen again until the end of Episode 51 when he, Kyoya, Tobio, Tetsuya, Hikaru, and Tsubasa awaken and he comments on how Gingka did the impossible : defeat Ryūga and end L-Drago's dark power over their blader spirits. He later says "2", along with Tetsuya and Tobio as part of the trademark countdown before the end of the shiw.

Manga
In the manga, Ryūtarō 's original design was based more off an annoying kid then a magician. He seems to be overconfident in the manga, overlooking important Details, like how Pisces could be hit from above or below while it was using Distortion Drive.

Beyblade: Metal Masters
Ryutaro fights in the Japan Qualification Rounds but only ranks 8th, which isn't enough to get into the team. Later he as well as other bladers from Japan wish Team GanGan Galaxy Gang Gang galaxy good luck in the championships.

Metal Fight Beyblade VS the Sun (Movie)
Ryutaro is first seen predicting something terrible happening to earth. Just at that time, he gets approached by Tetsuya Watarigani who convinces him to join him in picking up Masamune Kadoya and then doing something against this terrible fate by opposing Helios, the movie's antagonist. What Ryutaro is not told is that Tetsuya acts on command of Tobio, who is planning to use Ryutaro's special move as a distraction before striking himself. However, both Ryutaro's direct battle and Tobio's secret plan fail, and they are brutally defeated.



Ryutaro is the only character falling unconscious for a longer period of time. Masamune carries him to the B-Pit and he is never seen again in the movie (not even during the ending).

Beyblade: Metal Fury
Ryutaro is only seen in the finale of the series, sitting in front of his scrying bowl and waiting out the result of Gingka's fight with Rago and Nemesis. Along with everyone else, he joins in on sending Gingka his power. When the danger is over, he is shown to give a relieved smile and raises his fan.

Beyblade

 * Thermal Pisces T125ES: Ryutaro's Beyblade, used to distort air and the enemy's mind through its special move and to outlast them with its stamina.

Special Moves

 * Distortion Drive: Ryutaro makes a 5-pointed star-symbol with his fan and taps at the middle of it, causing a physical field to be formed around Pisces and for the opposing bey to be majorly slowed.
 * Blazing Inferno: Pisces starts off by trapping the opponent with Distortion Drive. Then, Ryutaro uses mind tricks via air pressure to make the opponent believe that they are on fire.

Trivia

 * 'Fukami' means 'deep', and Ryūtarō  is simply a name.
 * Whenever Ryūtarō 's about to do one of his mind blowing attacks, he says "Good Luck, come my way" three times.
 * Ryūtaro doesn't actually use magic moves. It's merely just the shape of his bey that creates a wind pattern around it, allowing it to float or to knock an opponent's bey flying.
 * Gingka did struggle a lot during their first battle because his bey couldn't touch thermal Pisces, Ryūtarō 's bey, because of the changing air curent that occurs during Pisces' spinning.
 * His name was originally thought to be spelt "Rutaro" or "Ryuutarou".