Dante Koryu, known as Drum Koryu (虹龍こうりゅう ドラム, Kōryū Doramu; Koryu Drum) in Japan, is the main protagonist of the anime/manga series, Beyblade Burst Rise. He initially fought with his Beyblades, Ace/Glyph/Rock Dragon Sting Charge Zan. After his Bey was destroyed by Arthur Peregrine, Dante upgraded his Beyblade: Command Dragon Ignition'. He later borrows the Master Layer Base from Delta Zakuro to create Master Dragon Ignition'.
In Beyblade Burst Surge, Dante returned with the rank of S-Tier #6 with his new Lightning Beyblade, Triumph Dragon Charge Metal 1A, as a competitor in the Legend Festival and Ultimate Tag Series tournaments.
In Beyblade Burst QuadStrike, Dante returned as a new challenge to Bel Daizora and Pri Forsythe and later became a competitor in the Lodestar Battle Tournament, now with his new Quad Beyblade, Gambit Dragon Karma-Q Zephyr-Q+Eruption-4'.
Appearance
Dante is a young boy of average height. He has green eyes, cropped blonde hair with a blue, horn-shaped highlight on each side of his temple, and bronze colored, short eyebrows. Dante also has red and yellow markings on both cheeks under his eyes.
In Rise, Dante sports a white collared shirt with a red tie, a red fingerless glove for his left hand, teal baggy pants with light-blue suspenders hanging on the sides, white dress shoes, and a blue jacket with three lime stripes on each side, yellow sections on the sleeves and wrist collar, and a red "D" on the left jacket flap.
In Surge and QuadStrike, Dante now wears a yellow collared shirt, the yellow sections on his jacket are now white, the wrist collar and bottom border are now white with a dark-blue stripe, the left flap now has two "D"s joined together and the right flap now has a printed red Beyblade symbol, his teal baggy pants now have a vertical white stripe on each leg, and he retains his white shoes and red glove.
When Dante resonates with his Beyblade, the blue highlights in his hair emit blue flames.
Personality
Dante is an optimistic, passionate, easy-going and earnest Blader. When Dante first saw Sword Valtryek defeat him with its golden aura, he was surprised and excited and it inspired him to make his own Gamma Bey.
As shown several times throughout the season, Dante has a habit of making scary faces when nervous. He also has a bad habit of accidentally revealing his strategies to his opponents.
He can also be quite over-confident if excited after winning a battle.
Dante is very resilient and will keep on battling the same opponent until he takes them down.
And just like Valt, Aiger, Lui, Phi, Delta, and Arman, Dante has a habit of talking to his bey and has shown to have some form of resonance with his bey.
Biography
Background
Once a member of the Spanish team BC Sol, the same team as Valt Aoi, he becomes inspired by the strength of Valt's new bey, Sword Valtryek, and decides to get a Gamma bey of his own. Dante moves to Japan and joins the Victories, a team managed by his uncle.
Beyblade Burst Rise
Dante is first seen at BC Sol when Valt showed both him and Delta Zakuro his new gamma bey Sword Valtryek. He immediately faced Valt in a bey battle and became inspired upon seeing his and Valtryek's Hyper-Flux.
He later travelled to Japan for special bey training alongside his new gamma bey Ace Dragon, which he designed himself, with his parents arranging for him to stay with his Uncle. Shortly after arriving, he witnessed a bully attempting to steal Bushin Ashindra from Taka Kusaba and scared him into giving it back. Then after having quickly resolved a case of mistaken identity with Arman Kusaba, Taka's older brother and owner of Ashindra, Dante challenged him to a bey battle. While Dante managed to take an early lead with a ring out, he was untimely defeated by Arman. Though the battle did unlock his ability to communicate with Dragon's bey spirit and he promised to make Dragon the strongest bey in the world.
Shortly thereafter he met with his Uncle Tango Koryu who was among the spectators of his match with Arman and he introduced Dante to his team the Victories, consisting of Arman, Taka and Ichika Kindo. Dante being inspired by their earlier contest immediately challenged Arman to a rematch and managed to defeat him. Tango notices the beginning of Dante's own Hyper-Flux.
Beyblade Burst Surge
Beyblade Burst QuadStrike
Beyblades
Air Knight Vertical Volcanic: Dante's Bey in Beyblade Burst Rise prior to the series.
Ace Dragon Sting Charge Zan: Dante's primary Beyblade in Attack Mode in Beyblade Burst Rise until the Dragon Gatinko Chip, the Zan Layer Weight, and the base itself were destroyed by Arthur Peregrine in Episode 15.
Glyph Dragon Sting Charge Zan: Dante’s primary Beyblade in Stamina Mode in Burst Rise until the Dragon Gatinko Chip and the Zan Layer Weight were destroyed by Arthur Peregrine.
Rock Dragon Sting Charge Zan: Dante’s primary Beyblade in Defense Mode in Burst Rise until the Dragon Gatinko Chip and the Zan Layer Weight were destroyed by Arthur Peregrine.
Judgement Valtryek Zenith Quake' Gou: A Beyblade used by Dante in the Rise manga.
Command Dragon Ignition': Dante’s upgraded Beyblade in Burst Rise.
Master Dragon Ignition': Dante's combined Beyblade in Burst Rise with Delta Zakuro's Master Layer Base.
Triumph Dragon Charge Metal 1A: Dante's Lightning Beyblade in Beyblade Burst Surge.
Gambit Dragon Karma-Q Zephyr-Q+Eruption-4': Dante's Quad Beyblade in Beyblade Burst QuadStrike.
Launch Styles
Lightning Launch: When a Blader has achieved complete synchronization with his Beyblade, the Launcher will illuminate and sparkle, granting the bey a temporary increase in speed and power.
Special Moves
Hyper-Flux: When a Blader has achieved complete synchronization with their Beyblade, the Bey turns gold with an illuminating light and sparkles, granting it a temporary increase in speed and power.
Dragon Launch: Dragon starts building up power by circling halfway around a Beyblade stadium, then ricochets off the stadium's wall. Dragon then attacks the opponent's Beyblade at full force.
Spring Cannon: Dragon increases its speed and attack power by using its spring-loaded Sting Disc to ricochet off the stadium wall. Dragon can also parry attacks by aiming the Sting Disc at incoming attacks.
Glyph Strike: Dragon unleashes a barrage of attacks similar to Dragon Launch, but at a much faster rate, using the blades on the Glyph Base to deal damage to the opposing Beyblade.
Rock Crash: With the energy of the Rock Layer Base, Dragon collides into the opposing Beyblade with tremendous force.
Drago Valkyrie Slash: With the Gou Layer Weight's unbalanced nature and the elliptical shaped Quake' Driver, Judgement Valtryek jumps into the air and smashes its opponents with the rubber from the Judgement Layer Base.
Ignition Force: The Ignition Driver tip starts spinning and it makes Command Dragon accelerate at increasing speed as it spins or it will change directions spinning the other way.
Winged Recoil: Command/Triumph Dragon uses its speed to smash into the stadium wall, then uses the movable 'wings' on the Command Layer Base/Triumph Ring to push off and gain tremendous speed and power to crash into the opposing Beyblade.
Ultimate Break: While in its Ultimate form, Dragon uses the Command Base's rubber blades to deal massive damage to its opponent.
Rainbow-Flux: When a Blader has achieved complete synchronization with their comrades, the Blader's Beyblade emits red, green and blue lights that fuse together, illuminating a spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, indigo and magenta colors and sparkles, granting it a drastic increase in speed and power temporarily.
Ultimate Upper: Master Dragon uses its energy to the Master blade and attacks from below to knock the opposing bey out of bounds.
Extreme Recoil: Engaged with the opposing Beyblade, the hidden blades on Dragon's Tempest Ring pop out, granting it a boost in power to turn the force back on the opposing Beyblade until it bursts.
Triumph Break: While in its Awakened form, Dragon uses the Triumph Ring's spring blades to deal massive damage to its opponent.
Triumphant Raid:
Gambit Break: After picking up its speed, Gambit Dragon rushes in and strikes its opponent using the blades of its Gambit Blade to cause critical damage.
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