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Other charactersKai Hiwatari
Kai appears in the end of the very first episode of the show; at the time Kai is the team captain of the Blade Sharks (A group of bladers that terrorize others who play the game by defeating them and stealing their blades). Tyson Granger (Takao) and Kai meet after one of Kai's 'underlings,' Carlos, loses to him. Kai defeats Tyson as easily as Tyson did Carlos, though he did not use the bit beast Dranzer for this victory. Later on, Kai kidnaps Tyson's genius friend Kenny, and is challenged by Tyson to get his companion back. The fierce battle ends in a tie thanks to Tyson's new Dragoon bit beast. Kai gives Kenny out anyway and flees. No confrontation occurs between Kai and Tyson until the Regional Tournament, which Kai participates and defeats many of Tyson's friends on the way to the finals, including Max. In the finals, Kai and Tyson battle a close match but Tyson comes out on top with victory. After the battle the director of the BBA, Stanley Dickenson, offers both Kai and Tyson a position on the newly formed Bladebreakers team. Kai's reluctance dissolves after he is given the position of Captain. The Team goes on to win the Asian and American tournaments; they also defeat the top European team, Majestics. At the World Championship, Kai begins acting strange. Then, in a bold step, Kai leaves the Bladebreakers and joins with his grandfather, Voltaire, and his team Neoborg (the Demolition Boys). This change started after Kai revisited the abbey where his grandfather's "Beyblade soldiers" are trained under the authority of Voltaire's counterpart, Boris Balkov. Here, Kai reunites with the powerful bit beast Black Dranzer, embracing it's darkness. With Black Dranzer, Kai is able to get team Neoborg all the way to the finals. Before the finals, Kai meets with Tyson on a field of ice to do battle. Tyson has much trouble with battling Kai, but in the nick of time Max arrives with an upgraded version of his blade, Draciel to help Tyson. Also to help Tyson spins in Kai's old Dranzer, who is not a happy bit beast. This overwhelms Kai to the point of falling through the ice. The Bladebreakers use all in their power and eventually rescue Kai. After this near-death experience, Kai realizes that he does need the help of his companions at times and that he is not the invincible powerhouse he once believed he was. Kai rejoins his Bladebreaker team and helps lead them to the championship title After the events of Season 1, Kai decides to leave Beyblade in his past and start his life over. Kai starts this by attending the Whitney Prep School. During his time there, though, he is attacked by a mysterious blader and saves a fellow classmate from this blader. The intense fight Kai had with this blader rekindled his interest in Beyblade and goes to Tyson for answers. To Kai's surprise, all of the former Bladebreakers are also in the same situation Kai was: Attacked by a mysterious blader. The bladers turn out to be the Saint Shields, a group that wish to capture the four Sacred Bit Beasts (Dragoon, Dranzer, Driger, and Draciel). Later Kai and the Bladebreakers encounter strange cybernetic bit beasts which are exact copies of the teams' bit beasts. One of these to wield the prototypes of these beasts was Wyatt, the boy Kai saved during the Saint Shield member (Dunga)'s attack. Kai battles Wyatt, who falls into madness and a minor coma from being unable to control the cyber bitbeast. Kai takes the suffering of Wyatt as his fault. Later, the Bladebreakers finally fight a team that can handle the awesome power of the Cyber Bit Beasts: Team Psykick, who were former friends with the companions. Kai manages to break the hold of the bit beast over Goki, the user of Cyber Dranzer, despite his hallucinations of battling Wyatt. With Psykick broken free from the Cyber Bit Beasts' hold the Bladebreakers once again become friends with the team. For this season's World Championship the tournament is a 2-on-2 tag-team-style format, meaning the Bladebreakers must compete in couples. Kai gets paired with Ray. Kai and his partner make it all the way to the semifinals, but are stopped abruptly by the duo Gordo and Zeo, though a shot at the Championship title isn't the only thing lost. During Kai's battle with Zeo, Zeo's bit beast Burning Cerberus took Dranzer. This greatly upset Kai, but later his bit beast and companion return to him after Tyson defeats Zeo in the final round. During this season, Kai, in an effort to prove to himself that he is the better Blader between himself and Tyson, leaves the team. After this, he joins the newly-reformed team Neoborg, whom is now out of Boris and Voltaire's control. Kai and Tala team up in this double-elimination, round robin, tag-team format tournament and make it to the finals with only one loss. In the finals Tyson and Kai face off after Daichi ties with Tala. The battle was more fierce than any of Kai and Tyson's in the past. It was so extreme the arena was starting to crumble. It came to the point of Mr. Dickenson asking that the two call it a tie and share the title, but this did not go over well with many, Kai especially. "No way! You can't do that to me! Are you telling me that this tournament has been nothing but a complete joke? That everything that we did doesn't count because you decide we get punished for working hard?" he shouted at Mr. Dickenson upon the announcement of the decision. After some coaxing from the fans and other bladers in the stands the two were allowed to finish their battle. Both Kai and Tyson matched each other blow for blow, eventually realeasing powerful finishing attacks. The two stared each other down afterwards, but Kai collapsed, losing the battle. Kai was missing for some time and did not reappear again until the BEGA Justice 5 Team Search tournament where he participated until the final round where he went up against the top class blader Brooklyn. Kai did his best but was greatly overpowered by Brooklyn's skill and his dark bit beast Zeus. Kai went into hiding once again, only to emerge as Team BBA's 5th member. Kai once again did battle with Brooklyn using his upgraded Dranzer MS blade. It was a hard and willpower-a torturing battle for Kai, but in the end Kai emerged the victor. Of course, this victory did not come without a heavy price paid. The only way Kai survived to do his final attack and live was that his bit beast, his only true friend, Dranzer, sacrificed its life to protect Kai. This greatly shattered Kai's morale and since that final battle with Brooklyn. After Tyson and Brooklyn's match, everything returned back to normal, except that Tyson owes Kai a rematch from the tournament. Kai is protrayed as a bully and a tough guy, and as much of the Beyblade anime doesn't happen in the manga, Kai never undergoes any real personality rewrites and remains the bad-boy throughout the entire 14 volumes. His backround is that his bully nature is due to the shock of his Father leaving him when he was younger. His father was a Beyblade engineer, who neglected family business for beyblades. Kai's grandfather gave him a choice; stay home and give up beyblades, or leave and continue beyblading. Kai's father ended up choosing to Beyblade, leaving Kai to think he abondoned him and began a quest for vengence against ALL beyblades. His goal until he met Tyson was to rid the world of them forever. The series ends on Volume 14 with the introduction of the next generation of bladers (unfortunately this story is never continued). The 25th beyblade tournament goes underway with Tyson's Son Makoto facing off in the final against Kai's son Go (Gou) ('Go' means strength) though Kai's wife is never actually shown. Kai himself is now a businessman, and the last frames of the comic show him and Tyson facing off against each other other just like they did when they were young. Marik Ishtar
Marik Ishtar is a later antagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh!. His family has guarded the tomb of the pharaoh for generations. Marik holds the Millennium Rod and with his Ghouls organization (called the Rare Hunters in the English anime), he wishes to obtain the three God Cards, and with them, unlock their power for himself so he can gain the title of "Pharaoh" and set his people free. He also has a hidden agenda - to get revenge on the ancient Pharaoh's soul for killing his father, as he was made to believe. In the English anime, he wants the God Cards and the Millennium Puzzle to gain the power of the Pharaoh and rule the world. The character's sister is Ishizu Ishtar. Dark Marik (Yami Marik) is an entity that was created by Marik's hatred for being a tombkeeper and for his father who strictly enforced that he continue his family's lineage. Dark Marik slowly grew by Marik's hatred, percipitated by a forbidden trip outside of the Pharaoh's tomb that he convinced Ishizu to let him take (forbidden due to his father's fear that the freedom and marvels of the outside world would further divert Marik's attention away from his heritage), and when he was forced to take the initiation ritual to become a full Tombkeeper (a task his adopted brother Odion (Rishid in the Japanese versions) failed to convince his father to take on himself), he unwillingly unleashed Dark Marik, who took the Millennium Rod for himself. In the manga, Dark Marik specifically skinned his father with it and then threw his father's back onto Odion. Marik killed his father in the Japanese version of the Duel Monsters anime as well, though the reason was that the man was about to kill Rishid (In the English anime, it is explained that he sent his father to the Shadow Realm). Dark Marik is sealed away in Marik's body by Odion, and remains sealed away until Odion is knocked out in his battle with Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler in the English anime) on the Battle Ship during the Battle City semi-finals. Dark Marik has no specific goal or purpose. He simply enjoys killing, and especially wants to kill the Pharaoh since he is the embodiment of Marik's hatred of the Pharaoh. In the English anime, Dark Marik wants to gain the power of the Pharaoh and rule the world just like his counterpart. Dark Marik unleashes himself when Odion ends up in a coma. Dark Marik then traps the soul of Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine in the English anime). In the English anime, Mai's mind is slowly erased in the Shadow Realm. After this, Jonouchi is determined to duel Marik and save Mai. Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura) teams with Marik's soul to stop Dark Marik, but fails as well and loses the Millennium Ring. Jonouchi becomes severely injured to the point where he can no longer duel. As time goes on, Dark Marik becomes the dominant host of Marik's body, with the real Marik's soul slowly fading out of existence. Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) is the only who could stop Marik. When Dark Yugi and Dark Marik duel, Odion wakes up and he makes Marik realize he had to accept his responsibility for being a tombkeeper. With this confidence, Marik overpowers his evil self and forfeits, destroying Dark Marik. Marik gives Yugi the Millennium Rod and Sun Dragon Ra a.k.a. The Winged Dragon of Ra. Marik then reveals the Tomb Keeper's initiation. The carving of the pharaoh's (Dark Yugi a.k.a. Yu-Gi-Oh a.k.a. Dark Yugi) memory onto the back of a tomb guardian involves using either a hot dagger (as in the manga), a normal dagger (in the Japanese version of the second series anime), or a tattoo (in the English second series anime) on his back (see below right image). Fulfilling his duty as tomb keeper, Marik returns to Egypt to start a new life. Although never said in the English dubbed anime, Dark Marik is an alter-ego of Marik. When he received the Tombkeeper's initiation and was tattooed, Marik created a second personality to deal with the pain and agony of the ritual. This can be used to explain Dark Marik's obsession with pain: he was a vent through which Marik's pain was shunted. Overall, Dark Marik and Marik are most likely suffering form dissociative identity disorder, more commonly known as suffering from multiple personalities. Because this is never mentioned in the English dub, some English dub fans believe that Dark Marik is an evil spirit like Dark Bakura and Dark Yugi. This theory is further strengthened by the fact that in the English anime Marik could be banished to the Shadow Realm while Dark Marik was safe. This theory is faulty because it is the mind that is banished to the Shadow Realm, and suffers of DID can be said to have seperate minds. |
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