Teru Saotome



Teru Saotome (早乙女輝 Saotome Teru) is a minor recurring character in the Metal Saga, making his debut in Beyblade: Metal Fusion.

He is a Beyblader who used to be a skilled ballet dancer, he now uses both in unison with his Earth Virgo GB145BS.

History
This boy used to be a very good and famous ballet dancer. Teru even has articles that were written about him on the net. He was very passionate in his peformances, and it showed. One day, however, one of the stage lights broke and fell on him, breaking his right foot. This unfortunately rendered him unable to dance anymore. While he was in hospital, all he could do with his healing leg was watch television. He mostly enjoyed watching Beyblade battles, notably Ginga Hagane's. He eventually got really attracted to beyblades, and one of the girls in his dancing troup saw that. She had always admired him, and she was really shocked when she witnessed the accident that happened on stage. To try to make him happy, she soon brought him a very special beyblade: Earth Virgo GB145BS. This bey,he quickly learned, had very good abilities at keeping its balance and it also spun around with grace, just like a dancer. He realized that was the perfect gift for him!

Personality
In general, Teru is very calm and disciplined. He plays with interest, but also with clear goals in mind, such as getting his name known at least in the Beyblade world. He does not really talk a lot, but when he does, his words drip with content, and he likes ballet.

Beyblade: Metal Fusion
He first appeared in episode 34, being watched on the big screen by Gingka Hagane. He was shown in a battle with Hikaru Hasama and won by dodging her special move Aquario Infinite Assault. Later, Gingka meets Teru. Teru claims Gingka is his idol and shines very brightly. They talk some more and Teru leaves. The next day, they meet in the final round of a tournament. Teru's Earth Virgo spins so fast that it blows Pegasus away when it attacks. The only place Gingka can strike is from below so he uses Storm Bringer to lift Virgo into the air and slam into it. Gingka wins the tournament championships.

Teru later earns 50,000 points and makes it to Battle Bladers where he loses in the first round to Ryutaro Fukami of the Dark Nebula and Thermal Pisces. After Gingka beats Ryuga he joins everyone else in celebrating.

Beyblade: Metal Masters
After the events of the Dark Nebula, the WBBA reopens after sometime and holds a tournament for the big celebration. Teru takes part and makes it to the semi-finals where he is to face Yu Tendo.

Yu and Teru trade blow for blow most of the match, showing no means of slowing up or backing down. Yu gains the upper hand but Teru continues to force his hand until Yu uses his special move to defeat Teru in a stadium out.

When the Japanese preliminary events began, Teru came in the top 10, ranking as 9 with 210 points. his final scene was along with the leave of Team Gan Gan Galaxy to show them his support.

Beyblade Metal Fury
He appears near the end when the Legendary Bladers fight Nemesis and Rago. He joins other bladers in giving his power to Gingka and looks pleased when the world is saved.

Beyblades

 * Earth Virgo GB145BS: Teru's primary Beyblade.

Special Moves

 * Pirouette Tour: This special move increases the Bey's spin rotation, making it rotate fast enough to create a wind shield, drastically increasing Virgo's stamina and defense. In the anime, it was even able to block Storm Pegasus's special move, Starblast Attack, and undo Storm Aquario's Aquario Infinite Assault.


 * Allegro Entrechat: This special move allows Virgo to quickly dodge an opponent's attacks.


 * Grand Jete: Virgo lands on top of the opponent's Bey,which has the potential to knock the other Bey out of the stadium,this move is inspired by the actual ballet move, Grand jeté.

Trivia

 * Teru's last name, Saotome is an anagram of "otomesa" (乙女座 ), which means Virgo Constellation in Japanese, the constellation that Earth Virgo based on.
 * He is listed as one of the Japan`s top 10 bladers.
 * Teru mostly keeps only one eye showing throughout the anime, similar to Wales.
 * Teru, unlike most Bladers, got his Beyblade at a later age. Also unlike most Bladers, he got his partner Bey from someone else. However, it is never said who the girl who gave him his Bey is to him, whether it was his sister or friend. It is only clearly seen that she is a ballet dancer like him.