Kind of felt like the early MFB manga, with the focus being them arriving at some Beyblade Masters random shed (which is of course being attacked by goons). Speaking of those goons, I'm curious of the direction this series is going, cause Ginro was probably over exaggerating to some extent, but also suits with Beyblade did in fact try to take him by force. I dunno, but I'm not against it if we get some good development for our characters, and it seems like that is actually in the works. I was quite pleased with the events of this chapter, actually.

Tenka being invited to join Team Persona is exactly the shake up we needed, at least mentality wise. I'm sure Multi's just annoyed that Ekusu is being airheaded and making decisions on his own (as usual). Tenka herself also seemed perturbed, I'm assuming she has obligations to stay with the Shiroboshi Style Dojo. I'm assuming we'll eventually get the details on this Dojo and Tenka's relations to it, along with her own personal motivation. This is all kind of mandatory, more of a when rather if. However, I'm mostly focused on Bird here (as usual). I doubt Ekusu wants to replace Bird realistically, he probably envisions an MFB Baku set up with 3 main members and a substitute. But all Bird needs to do is get doubts over his placement and the idea of being replaced. This would cause him to question his overall value on the team, and hopefully also reflect on his journey up to this point. Hopefully we'll get that stuff sooner rather than later, and by soon, I mean in the next chapter or 2.

Bird is the only member of Team Persona that hasn't gotten a fight yet, and given that Chapters 1 and 2 seemed to be specifically structured for Multi and Ekusu to fight, I'm sure Bird is next. Conveniently, next month we also have the debut of a Bird Beyblade which can act as a parallel to Strike Hawk. A Bird fight next chapter seems like ideal grounds to focus on him. Helm Knight also exists, but I suppose it's debut fight will get pushed back to December.

By the way, on the topic of Evil Organizations, looking back to the Anime's Part 2 teaser (which is conveniently above this post), they show off a bunch of different rivals. Ginro giant silhouette is easily identifiable, and Garuda's owner seems to be the one with the pigtails based on Corocoro scans. After this we have 3 more characters to introduce. There's also that team Team Persona was facing in the manga's Part 2 teaser, and I don't think any of them match one of those 3. Last would be inevitable advent of a proper Pegasus based on the constellation above the page showing the 2 towers. Seems like the future has some fun stuff in store.

Kado Bantaro (kadovar/wardens real name) -> Edward Kado
Team Baisons -> Top Blend
Team Dreams -> The Dreams
Team Conquest -> Team Unite and Conquer

Ai Nekki, Quinn Manju, Rex Jura, Packun, and Team Cretaceous all remain unchanged

I'm assuming that Omega is the main antagonist for now, right? From what I gathered Omega disobeyed the Shiroboshi school but blading in the X Tower and got excommunicated. But the beef between the two parties hasn't been formerly settled, so her daughter, Tenka, decides too. The plot line isn't super complicated, but should still be good if executed well. From what I can tell the fact that she got excommunicated, the whole reason this rivalry between both parties exists, is just because Omega just disobeyed and arbitrary rule. I don't even think Tenka cares about that rule either, she seemingly accepted the offer to fight her just because (though I'm sure things are more complicated on her part, given that they're related. Maybe she's made at her Mom for leaving her behind or something.).

The whole contest going on is interesting, but I'm afraid the plot will skip around it too quickly, just like climbing the X Tower. If you need 100 stars to fight Zodiac, and Persona's starting with 4, with each team having 3 members average, they would have to fight 32 teams. And obviously this won't all be shown on screen. I'd rather them just lower the requirement for stars tbh.

Either way, we finally get the Bird fight, as expected. FIghting Karura's team to test out the abilities of new Persona does seem like a weaker reason to fight, but whatever. Bird doesn't really do bad, but he still loses. I'm not sure if there's anything he could've done better in the context of this fight, but in the context of his overall character, this is just unnecessary. Even if each loss was written reasonably, 18 months of straight losses will begin to feel unnatural regardless, like reverse plot armor. Also Bird losing his star off rip is kinda hilarious.

Anyways, as usual, Bird loses, and another member of Persona swoops in to save the day, with it being Multi this time. Since the guy with Ghost also a member of Karura's team, I'm assuming Ekusu will eventually return and beat him, securing the win next chapter.