Beyblade: Metal Fusion - Episode 01

Pegasis Has Landed! is the first episode of the Metal Fight Beyblade anime.

This episode marks the first prologue intro for the series, and lasts to episode 13.

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 * Original Airdate: April 5, 2009
 * English Airdate: Flag of Canada.png May 15, 2010
 * Opening Song: Metal Fight Beyblade ver.1
 * Ending Song: Boys ~Hikari Kagayaku Ashita He~
 * English Dub Title: Pegasus Has Landed
 * Kanji: 舞い降りた天馬(ペガシス)!
 * Romaji: "Maiorita !"
 * Arc: Untitled

Prologue Intro 1: Metal Fight Beyblade

 * The constellations that decorate the sky.
 * There are as many Beys as the constellations in the sky.
 * Each battle brings its own drama.
 * This is...
 * the story of the passionate Bladers, who bet everything on Beyblading!

Summary
The show starts off with a young blader, Yumiya Kenta, who has enterd a tournament with his beyblade Flame Sagittario. Little does he know that the face hunters(a gang of bladers who steal points from weak bladers beypointers) are watching him. As Kenta is about to face a blader in the semi finals, the screen cuts to show our hero Hagne Ginga as he first enters town. Later the conclusion off Kenta's match shows with Kenta losing in the final eight. As Kenta and his friends go home, Kenta is faced by the face hunters, their leader Benkei. As the match is about to end (with Sagittario being beaten to a pulp) Ginga comes just in time, with his blade Storm Pegasis, and beats Benkei. Then the face hunter gang challenges Ginga in a 5 on 1 match with Ginga easily winning. Afterwards Ginga gives Kenta some advice and friendship as they watch the stars. In the morning Kenta is looking for Ginga, but Ginga is in the face hunters headquarters, being challenged to a 100 on 1 match(wich no one has ever won) as kenta comes in to warn him to stop, but Benkei has already started and Ginga is stuck. Ginga pulls through and defeats everyone, the show ends with the leader of the face hunters,Kyouya, happy as he and his beyblade, Rock Leone finally have a challenge

Cuts/Changes made in the Dub

 * A new Opening theme is made for the dub. The dubbed Opening uses the same background music as the original, but is more condensed.
 * The Ending theme in the dub is an instrumental of the opening theme.
 * The term "Go, Shoot" was changed to "Let it Rip!" (Probably to avoid the word "shooting")
 * The dub did show a next episode preview, but was made 15 seconds longer, and some narrator guy did the dialogue. In the original, the next episode previews were originally 30 seconds, and narrated by Kenta.

Dialogue Changes
Not much dialogue was changed/added in this episode. There was a few added dialogue here and there, but for the most part, the dialogue remained truly to the original.

Cuts

 * The prologue intro that was shown before the opening theme in the original was taken out completely in the dub.


 * Only the first half of the eyecatch was shown in the dub.

Name Changes

 * "Ginga Hagane" was changed to "Gingka Hagane" and pronounced Jinga instead of Ginga.

Characters/Beys in Order of Appearance

 * 1) Kenta / Flame Sagittario
 * 2) Blader DJ
 * 3) Osamu
 * 4) Takashi
 * 5) Ginga / Storm Pegasis
 * 6) Face Hunters A, B
 * 7) Koji Yamada
 * 8) Benkei / Generic Beyblade
 * 9) Face Hunters C, D
 * 10) Kyoya / Rock Leone