Gingka Hagane

is the protagonist in the Metal Fight Beyblade anime, and manga series.

Appearance
Ginga has flaming, spiked red hair and wears a blue headband with his beyblade's insigna on it. He has bandage over his nose and wears a white scarf (in a similar fashion as Kai from the original series). He also has two sets of belt gear around his waist; one contains his Beyblade and Shooter while the other contains his Shooter Grip and Beypointer.

Personality
Personality-wise, he appears to be pretty laid back. He is often seen sleeping in awkward places, and most of the time he does whatever he feels like doing. But, if he gets pushed to the edge, he'll do whatever it takes to protect his friends from harm.

History
Ginga was born as the son of Ryuusei Hagane, 12 years before the main storyline. When Ginga was young, an evil organization called Dark Nebula appeared and decided to wreck havoc. Ginga had gone out to the volcano that was being attacked, but later Ryuusei found out about this and went after him. After he had lost the battle against Ryuuga, the mountain began to fall apart. During that moment, he launched his beyblade at the rock wall behind Ginga, which created a hole in the rock wall for Ginga to escape. After that, Ryuusei officially gave him his Beyblade before he died.

The Beginning
During the start of the anime, Ginga, is seen walking around the city, not just that but sleeping in unusual places. A little after that, he ran into a group of beyblade thugs called the Face Hunters who was bullying someone named Kenta Yumiya. The five Face Hunters that were there had then challenged Ginga to a 5 VS 1 handicap match, which he easily beat them without even trying. Kenta was happy that someone was there to save the day, and even someone to look up to. Not long after that they both became friends, went to the Bey Park together. During their first conversation alone at the park, Kenta asked Ginga where he lives. Ginga revealed to Kenta that he has been traveling around the country looking for someone challenging enough to battle him.

One of the Face Hunters, Benkei had proposed a challenge for Ginga, for him to meet them at a construction site. As soon as Ginga got there, one hundred face Hunters' thugs were there waiting with there beyblades eager to battle Ginga. After one hundred beyblades were launched, Ginga remains calm, and unphased by this. Soon after Kenta appears, is worried about Ginga, he says to him that this isn't a beybattle, for him to run. Still, Ginga isn't scared, he reassures Kenta that everything will be fine. Ginga then decides to get serious, and launches his Storm Pegasis. Ginga unleashes some of his power from his Storm Pegasis, knocked away the one hundred beyblades with ease, he even summons his beast Pegasis to finish the job knocking all those blades away. After Ginga beat the one hundred Face Hunters who challenged him, their leader Kyouya Tategami challenged him to a battle.

Later that day, at the City Bowl, Ginga is seen beyblading against some kids, which he easily defeats their blades in a single swipe. All the kids there got so excited that a strong blader like Ginga had challenged them to a beyblade match. Then a girl named Madoka is seen watching from the background. Madoka took both Ginga, Kenta to the B-Pit, the Beyblade shop in town (which is also her house) and decided to help them out.

Later that day, the Face Hunters took off with Kenta's beyblade, told Ginga if he didn't come to the Metal Tower, that something bad will happen to Kenta's Sagittario bey. After Ginga arrived at the Metal Tower, he began his battle with Kyouya. After Ginga won the battle, Sagittario was given back to Kenta. Little did Ginga know....one of his enemies, Daidouji from the Dark Nebula Organization has returned, and they want him dead. That day, Kenta wanted to prove to Ginga to be a worthy opponent in battle so Ginga wouldn't leave town to find other strong opponents. Ginga accepted Kenta's challenge, decided to beybattle him. Kenta proved to be a worthy opponent, but Ginga won the battle using his first finishing move, Shooting Star Attack. Ginga explained to Kenta that he was going to stay in the city, that he wasn't going to leave.

After Daidouji gave Benkei the "Dark Bull" bey, Benkei goes all crazy after that. Later, Ginga sees an enraged Benkei and beybattles him, and won. Not just that, but the next day, some guy named Tetsuya kidnapped Madoka, demanded a battle with him, which Ginga won of course.

A female blader named Hikaru Hazama shows up in Metal Bey City, and wanted to battle against Ginga. Well it didn't turn out the way she wanted, as Ginga got sick, Kenta battled her in his place.

Dark Nebula continues to manipulate Kyouya into thinking that Ginga is the bad guy. While that is happening, Daidouji asks the main computer (Merci)to gather more data on Ginga. Merci lured Ginga into an outhouse, which then Merci tricks Ginga into thinking that he's on TV. After Merci gathered enough data on Ginga, he kicked him out then left. The whole time Ginga had no idea that it was a trap to gather data on him.

Daidouji then sent Kyouya back to the city to battle against Ginga for a second time. Both Benkei and Kenta had fought Kyouya that day. After their loss against Kyouya, they both returned to the B-Pit, but Benkei was more injured then Kenta. That night, a furious Ginga found Kyouya, battled it out with him. Later in the battle, many kids showed up to watch Ginga's battle against Kyouya, cheered him on. After Ginga won, a helicopter from above appeared. The person that came out of the helicopter gave Ginga a startling surprise. Ginga was shocked to see that it was Daidouji, one of the people from the Dark Nebula Organization that was responsible for the death of Ginga father.

Ginga fought against Daidouji, but not too long after, the fight came to a halt and Daidouji left. Madoka, Kenta, Benkei had no idea what was going on, demanded an answer from Ginga. At first Ginga was reluctant to tell them anything, but then after his friends convinced him, he told them about Dark Nebula. After they found Kyouya, they all decided to go to the Dark Nebula castle to help Ginga to defeat them.

Beyblades
Pegasis 105F: is Ginga's first Beyblade, was given to him by his father, Ryuusei Hagane before he died. Ginga used this beyblade until chapter 5 when Ryuuga broke it with his L Drago beyblade.

Storm Pegasis: In the anime, Ginga started out with Storm Pegasis instead of Pegasis 105F. In the anime he retains his Shooting Star Attack, Tornado Wing Attack from the manga. Storm pegasis is an attack type beyblade.

Galaxy Pegasis: Ginga's new beyblade after Storm Pegasis sacrificed itself to defeat L Drago. Known as the strongest attack type Beyblade Ginga ever used. Retains most his attacks from the previous beyblade.

Beast/Finishing Moves

 * is the beast inside Ginga Hagane's Beyblade.


 * Lightning Edge: Ginga's finishing move in Metal Fight Beyblade DS is


 * This move is used when his beyblade is flying in the air (usually when his opponent knocks it up in the air) and comes flying down to his oppenent's blade making a devastation crushing blow. Ginga first used this attack in chapter 2 of the manga, and Episode 2 (anime)


 * Ginga's second finishing move is Ginga first used this attack on Episode 5 (anime)


 * Ginga's third finishing move in the anime. He first used this attack on Episode 10 (anime)


 * Ginga's fourth finishing move in the anime. He first used this attack on Episode 30 (anime)


 * Ginga's fifth finishing move in the anime. He first used this attack in chapter 2 of the manga, and episode 34 in the anime.


 * Like Yuu and Tsubasa's "Fusion Spin-move", this technique also falls under that category.


 * Ginga's sixth finishing move in the anime. He first used this attack in Chapter 15,(manga) and episode 51 in the anime. This is referred to as an . The kanji for "Galaxy" in this technique is also a pun on Ginga's own name.


 * Ginga's seventh finishing move. He first used this attack on Episode 53 (anime)

Quotes

 * "Go Shoot!" (Episode 1)


 * (To Kenta) "A Bey's strength has nothing to do with attack or endurance." (Episode 1)


 * (says out loud excitingly) "Triple Beef Burger!!!" (Episode 4)
 * (Out loud.) "Why is it a hot dog!?" (Episode 4)


 * (To Madoka) "Sh-Shot?!" (Episode 7)


 * (To Madoka) "I don't need a doctor!" (Episode 7)

Trivia

 * Ginga means "galaxy"; this relates to the continuing theme of celestial objects - i.e galaxies - used throughout the Beyblade series. Hagane means "steel" and is a reference to the Metal Fight Beyblades.