Beyblade X Manga and Anime Discussion

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This month's chapter should perfectly coincide with the release of Shelter Drake, a follow up to the Team Pendragon situation. Given that he saw a snapshot of it in Chapter 19 already as well, with Ciel specifically getting super worked up (he's obviously the user of Shelter Drake based on the Corocoro scans), everything points to the chapter being about this.

March is the debut of the CX Beys, which we know from leaks will be new evolutions for the Dran, Hells, and Knight lines. Evolution itself isn't usually the entire focus of a chapter, it's added in conjunction at the start or end of one. What I'm saying is that March could be a part 2 of February's chapter of the fact that Team Persona has new beys being essentially a footnote at the end of it. On the other hand they could show off some cool debut battles (though this doesn't always happen in the month a protagonist's new bey releases). If that's the case, I'm hoping King and Burn will be featured in them as well. They haven't had a chance to do anything of substance in the manga yet.

Unfortunately for my speculation purposes, the April releases are unknown. What we do know however in that May is the Fox Beyblade's debut, which has recently been leaked in full detail. I'm assuming 1 of the 3 Beyblades will be related to the Team is the Season 2 teaser (or maybe all 3), given that they still haven't shown up yet. This would also be the prime time to introduce Multi's mentor as well, though this brings up a separate topic. The topic in question being anime and manga relations, which is now relevant due to Season 2's plot significantly diverging in the anime.

The anime can have its own unique characters and plot lines, though given that in the anime's teaser Multi's Mentor was shown alongside other manga characters, I wonder if she's also going to be in the manga as some point. I also wonder if Bird's backstory will be covered at all. Bird's character hasn't got focus recently so I'd assume it would be when he gets a new Beyblade, or in the distant future. However that's assuming it happens, and the anime has had original backstories and whatnot before. Bird being so important could make a difference here though, as giving him original content changes things more specifically than a more minor character like Meiden. Though if it does happen in the manga, how similar or different it'll be is hard to say.