The Beyblade franchise's official X account confirmed on Tuesday that Beyblade X starts its "Bey Kingdom Arc" on October 9, and the arc premieres on YouTube rather than through a conventional broadcast window. A new key visual came with the announcement.
Quick answer
Beyblade X's Bey Kingdom Arc premieres October 9, 2026 on YouTube, following the "True Future Arc" that started last April. The anime is produced at OLM for Takara Tomy's fourth-generation Beyblade project, originally broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2023, and it went global in July 2024 with Disney XD carrying the series. SenpaiRanks tracks Beyblade X at 6.53 adjusted on its Consensus board — mid-tier for the franchise, above Metal Fight Beyblade Zero G (6.29) and below Beyblade Burst God (7.13), the series' highest-rated entry on the site.
What the Bey Kingdom Arc actually is
Beyblade X has run in arcs rather than seasons since its TV Tokyo debut on October 6, 2023. The True Future Arc opened in April; Bey Kingdom is the next block, and the October 9 date puts it in the same week as the bulk of the fall premieres.
The delivery method is the part worth noticing. Takara Tomy is putting the arc on YouTube first. For a toy-driven franchise whose audience skews young and mobile, a free platform with no subscription wall is a distribution decision, not an afterthought — it removes every barrier between a kid seeing a Bey in a shop and watching the show that sells it.
Here is the series trailer if you are coming in cold:
Where Beyblade X sits in the franchise
Takara Tomy calls Beyblade X the "4th generation." The lineage runs: the original 1999 Bakuten Shoot Beyblade, 2008's Metal Fight Beyblade, 2015's Beyblade Burst, then X in 2023. Homura Kawamoto and Hikaru Muno write the manga with Posuka Demizu — the Promised Neverland artist — on art, which is a notably stronger creative bench than a toy tie-in usually gets.
On the SenpaiRanks ranking board, the franchise is a wide spread rather than a steady line. Beyblade Burst God leads at 7.13 adjusted. Metal Fight Beyblade: Baku sits at 6.91, Beyblade Burst at 6.77, Beyblade Burst Sparking at 6.59, X at 6.53, Bakuten Shoot Beyblade 2002 at 6.37, and Metal Fight Beyblade Zero G at the bottom with 6.29. If you want the franchise's best-reviewed entry rather than its newest, the board says Burst God.
Where to watch it
Three separate paths, depending on where you are:
- YouTube — the Bey Kingdom Arc from October 9, per the franchise account.
- Disney XD — carrying the series for the global broadcast since July 2024.
- TV Tokyo and affiliates — the Japanese broadcast home since 2023.
FuRyu's Beyblade X Evobattle game launched on Switch and PC via Steam in November 2025, and Crunchyroll added Beyblade X XONE to its mobile Game Vault — so the franchise touches a fourth platform without the anime being there.
The read
Beyblade X's 6.53 is a real score with a real vote base, not a placeholder, and it is honestly middling. That is not a knock — long-running kids' franchises rarely top aggregate boards, because the audience that rates anime online is not the audience buying the toys. It is exactly the kind of gap where a single axis lies to you. If you grew up on Metal Fight and want to know whether X is worth the re-entry, the Consensus number and the Quality number pull in different directions, and the only way to move either is to watch it and rate it yourself.
For the rest of the season, the fall 2026 ranked board and the October premiere date list cover what else lands that week. If you came for the toy-to-screen pipeline specifically, the best video game anime ranking is the closest neighbour.
Frequently asked questions
Q: When does the Beyblade X Bey Kingdom Arc premiere?
A: October 9, 2026, on YouTube, per the Beyblade franchise's official X account.
Q: Where can I watch Beyblade X?
A: The Bey Kingdom Arc goes to YouTube. Disney XD airs the series globally, and TV Tokyo plus affiliates carry it in Japan.
Q: Is Beyblade X good?
A: SenpaiRanks has it at 6.53 adjusted — mid-tier within the franchise. Beyblade Burst God is the highest-rated Beyblade entry on the site at 7.13.
Q: What arc came before Bey Kingdom?
A: The True Future Arc, which started in April 2026. Beyblade X premiered in October 2023.
Q: Who makes Beyblade X?
A: OLM animates it for Takara Tomy. The manga is written by Homura Kawamoto and Hikaru Muno with art by Posuka Demizu.