Daidouji

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

Daidoji(or Doji in the English dub) was an executive of the Dark Nebula. He was an enemy of Gingka Hagane and the former leader of Dark Nebula who had Ryuga. He used to own Dark Wolf DF145FS before it got broken. Doji seeked the power of the "Forbidden Bey", Lightning L-Drago 100HF.

Doji and Ryuga were the ones who invaded Koma Village, Gingka's hometown, and stole the Forbidden Bey Lightning L-Drago from it. Being the head of Dark Nebula, and having Ryuga on his side, he arranged the Battle Bladers tournament in order to give Ryuga more power so they could eventually rule the world. This plan backfired when Ryuga used the dark power of L-Drago and attacked Doji; sucking most of the life energy within him for L-Drago and left him waiting for death.

Despite this major damage to his health, Doji would not give up and started to wear a long coat that covered his body, a top hat, an artificial leg, and a walking cane due to the attack he suffered at the hands of L-Drago. As a result, he found Rago and the Nemesis Bladers and brought them to Pluto as he made his ultimate return in Beyblade: Metal Fury, only to die once again due to Ryuga's new Special Move.

Doji finally returned as the true main antagonist of Shogun Steel, but this time, he was apparently revived by Merci. He was converted to light energy stored within the Hades computer system and being placed in a machine known as Robo Doji. His new form poses as a threat to the WBBA and the future of Beyblading. In addition, Doji is the secret mastermind behind Team Garcias's organization: DNA, which stands for Dark Nebula Again. This is all part of his plan to bring back Dark Nebula.

Appearance
Doji has dark hair with a golden streak, that he liked to comb. He also wore a suit and tie and glasses that flashed menacingly.

Personality
Doji is a person who never really gets serious even if his enemies were strong such as Gingka. He is also a person who doesn't like to show his real power, especially not to children such as Kenta. Doji is extremely cruel, often punishing members of the Dark Nebula by "feeding" their power to Lightning L-Drago 100 HF when ever they fail at the task they are given. He is never one to give up on his goals and desires, as he uses his intellect to get ahead of his enemies. He always speaks in a polite manner, even to his enemies, but there's no mistaking the arrogance in what he says. He'll frequently access people as 'my friend' in a condescending manner. Generally, he appears to never accept people as being on his level.

As shown in Metal Fury, Doji has a habit of taunting those who oppose him. In episode 141, he even goes so far to anger Ryuga by making note of him helping Gingka, as well as degrading him to a mere pawn in Hades Inc's plan. It's a form of manipulation, as he clearly knows this will cause Ryuga to immediately stop any cooperation with the other Legendary Bladers. Doji appears to take great enjoyment of taunting Ryuga, as he laughs hysterically at the Dragon Emperor's reactions. He has even done this to Gingka back in Metal Fusion when he "awakened" Lightning L-Drago.

Socially, Doji keeps his distance (Yu was the only one who had the potential to form a friendship with him.) He only associates with those who can be of use to him. Powerful bladers like Ryuga and Rago deserve the upmost respect, in his mind. Although Doji doesn't get close to others, he has the ability to "play others' emotions like a piano". This is shown in episode 3 of Metal Fusion when he agitates Kyoya to the point where he bets on his free will. He also does this in Metal Fury to Ryuga in order to mess up the Zeus Barrier.

In private, he has a conflicted relation with his own interests. He claims to 'hate cacti so much that he can't think about anything else'. The true reason for this, as Doji further describes, is that they are so prickly that he can't hug them. This sort of utter obsession with things he can't have seems to be a large part of his character motivation. In the anime version of Zero G, he is especially driven by this - given he is physically dead, he can't have any form of physical sensation which he now misses terribly. In addition, he wanted to use the Synchrome System to break the WBBA and make his foes suffer as revenge for his death. He also had no problem betraying his allies when they are no longer of use to him as shown when he brutally injured Kyoya after his loss to Gingka fed the power of Dan, Rekei, the Kumade bros, Yu and Testuya to Ryuga, Showing no conern over the Dark nebula bladers that Hyoma beat, mocking Ryuga during his fight with Rago and making sure Kira falls to his death following his loss to Zyro.

Anime
Season 1:

He manipulated Kyoya into thinking Ginga was his enemy so that he could recruit powerful bladers into the Dark Nebula. After Kyoya had lost to Ginga in a close battle, he attacked Doji with Rock Leone, but was defeated easily by Doji's bey, Dark Wolf.

Not long afterward, he along with other Dark Nebula bladers, tried to defend the Dark Nebula's base against Gingka, Kenta, Kyoya, and Benkei, but were defeated. This awakened Ryuga, the leader of the dark Nebula, who defeated Ginga in a battle, causing him and his friends to retreat.

Later, when Yu won the survival battle, he declared that all bladers that wished to compete in his tournament are required to have earned fifty thousand beypoints.

He later had several agents sent to diffrent cities to search for strong bladers. One of them, Kumasuke Kumade, was defeated by Tsubasa, who later joined the Dark Nebula after an intense battle with Yu.

In episode 27, he sent Yu and Tsubasa to sabotage a tournament to delay Hyoma and Kenta from getting into Battle Bladers.

He sent Yu, Tsubasa, Myreille, Dan, and Reiki to another tournament, which they ended up losing.

Finally, he observed the preliminaries of Battle Bladers and after seeing the results of the first round, He rearranged the order of the tournament. He paired Yu up against Reiji in a practice battle for Reiji, which Yu ended up running away from. He later recaptured Yu, who was thenn rescued by Hyoma and Kenta, and later Ryūsei Hagane. He battled Ryūsei, disguised as Phoenix, and lost causing a chandelier to crash on him and Wolf to be crack in half. This bought time for Ryūsei, and the others to save Yu and leave. Doji later broke out of the shards and was walking back to the arena, where he encountered Ryuga. Ryuga and Doji



had a short battle in which Ryuga destroyed Dark Wolf and killed Doji, or so he thought.

Season 3: After being absent for one whole season, Doji finally returned in Metal Fury but in a damaged state due to his assault by Lightning L-Drago. Doji found Rago and the Nemesis Bladers and brought them to Pluto at the mystic ruins, to show his loyalty to Nemesis. It was later revealed by Doji that both him and Ziggurat were members of the cult all along and both their search for L-Drago and Dr. Ziggurat's Spiral Force were part of the cult's plan to revive their god to destroy the world and recreate it in their image. When the legendary bladers fought Nemesis, who was still in his prototype form known as Prototype Nemesis, Doji manipulated Ryuga by provoking him as all Legendary Bladers had to work together to lock Nemesis away with Zeus' Barrier. He even calls him a pawn in hades Grand plan and by saying how pathetic he is to be frends with Gingka. This resulted in Ryuga attacking Nemesis alone and the dark bey being revived now being known as Diablo Nemesis X:D, Doji, Pluto, and Rago, the blader who wielded Nemesis, fled the temple they were in and went to the lost city of King Hades as this was the place where they wanted to build their new kingdom after releasing Nemesis' full power to destroy the world. However, Ryuga had followed them to fight Nemesis alone once more, seeking the bey's power for himself. During the battle, Doji taunted Ryuga about being weaker than Nemesis until Ryuga, enraged by this, released a new Special Move to attack Nemesis. Despite it couldn't destroy Nemesis, the impact from forbidden beys clashing was enough to send Doji falling down into the abyss, who was laughing maniacally, claiming it to be the best feeling in the world.

Season 4: Shogun Steel. While he is physically dead, it is revealed that Merci has preserved his body long enough to be able to create a digital version of his personality. United with Merci's system, Doji has secretly been pulling the threads of the DNA organization as a revival of Dark Nebula - even the name stands for 'Dark Nebula Again'. He even uses Kira Hayama to be the strongest and take over the beyblade world with the help of Argo Garcia and his siblings.

During the WBBA team challenge matches, Kira Yoshio Iwayama Captain Arrow, Spike Bourne, Genjūro Kamegaki, Baihu and many DNA bladers invade the stadium and interrupts the challenge. He then appears in front of Zyro Kurogane, Shinobu Hiryuin and Ren Kurenai as a hologram, and tells them how he survived during Ryuga and Rago's battle and reveals that he is the true leader of DNA. He even lies saying that Gingka joined him. He captures Gingka through Baihu Xiao having him give the Pegasus warrior wheel to Kira creating Pegasus Bahamoote SP230R2F, and gathers all the protagonists at the DNA headquarters for a final battle against the organization. he uses Karura to guard the fortress until he is beaten by Kite Unabara.

However, the DNA bladers are all defeated by Zyro and his friends including Sakyo Kurayami and Takanosuke Shishiya. During Kira and Zyro's battle, Doji enters a robot body he had prepared known as Robo Doji. It then sends Phantom Fenrir T125JB to defeat Salamander Ifrit W145CF, but Fenrir is easily defeated by Pegasus Bahamoote. After Kira loses to Zero once again the staduim begins to fall down. Doji taunts the two saying that Kira's pride was now going to be his downfall. Kira gets angry and learns that Doji just used him After Zero and Kira are saved by Yoshio, Doji enters another suit to do battle. It first appears more like a giant beetle, but then transforms into a mega-sized beyblade. Zero and Gingka try to fight it but are no match, but Kira arrives to help with Behemoth Golem DF145BS. Kira announces his decision to leave DNA and side with Zyro and Co. who is dissatisfied with what Doji has done to DNA and ends his affiliation with it. The three Bladers let out their true potential in the real final battle. Zyro activates "Super Burning Upper" while Gingka uses 'Galaxy Nova' and Kira creates "Rising Gaia Hammer". The three Special Moves combine to create one of the most powerful moves in Beyblade history. The moves swirl together and land on Doji's mecha Beyblade, causing it to cease spin, completely. After this bey-version of Doji is defeated by Gingka, Zyro and a redeemed Kira it starts malfunctioning. Determined to not let them win over him, Doji throws himself down a hole in the building, causing an explosion that destroys the entire headquarters. Before this, he states that Gingka and the others would not be there to see the 'future of beyblading' which they speak about. His plan ultimately failed when everyone, including the DNA Bladers, escaped from the building and Doji was lost for good.

Trivia
Doji is one of the only 2 veteran characters who battled in Shogun Steel, the other being Gingka Hagane. Doji's recent Beyblade, Phantom Fenrir T125JB was never released.
 * Daidoji has a comical obsession with cacti. He keeps them in his office to admire. In Epsiode 28, he lectured Yu Tendo about how much he despises them, despite literally surrounding himself in their presence.
 * It is ironic because until episode 42, only he and Ryuga were in on the plan to feed weak bladers to L Drago. Little did he know he would become food himself.
 * He, the Dark Nebula Bladers and Ryuga are the only characters from Metal Fusion who didn't show up in the final shot of Blader's Spirit.
 * So far he only used his true power once during his battle with Phoenix where the opponent goes into a dark bottomless hole.
 * He seems to favor the Dark fusion wheel because his first beyblade had the dark fusion wheel and he gave Benkei and Tetsuya bey's with the dark Fusion wheel.
 * Doji and Masamune Kadoya share a very simlair streak hairstyle.
 * In Metal Fury, he reappears with a scar on the left side of his face. The scar might possibly stem from Lightning L-Drago's attack on him in Metal Fusion. This is further supported as the according eye blacks out the moment he falls in that episode. In Metal Fury, the eye is passed by the scar and he only wears a monocle over his other eye. This indicates the scarred eye is blind or made of glass, seeing it's no longer in need of eyeglasses.
 * In Beyblade Metal Fury, Doji did not obtain and or use a new Bey.
 * It is very common for Doji to betray others when they no longer serve any value to him. So far Rago, Pluto and the Nemesis Bladers are the only blader's he never betrayed.
 * Doji has been nearly killed by Ryuga twice. The first being in Metal Fusion when Ryuga sucked out all of Doji's life force. The second being in Metal Fury when he causes Doji to be thrown off a cliff.
 * In Metal Fury, his hair is grey, most likely due to Lightning L-Drago stealing his life force.
 * Doji, Bao, Keyser, Cycnus, and Herschel are the only villains in Beyblade Metal Fury who do not appear in the theme song.
 * He never won any battles in Beyblade Shogun Steel.
 * Whenever Doji appears, most of the time only one side of his eyeglasses is seen which is right and in some episodes, it is seen on the left side.
 * In Metal Fury, Doji did not obtain and or use a new Bey.
 * It is very common for Doji to betray others when they no longer serve any value to him. So far Rago, Pluto and the Nemesis Bladers are the only blader's he never betrayed.