At a glance
- Kaede Muller wins the BEYBLADE X Anime Expo Cup 2026, the tournament at the TOMY booth at Anime Expo in Los Angeles.
- 128 bladers at the start, registered in order of arrival. It is single elimination, and whoever reaches 4 points first wins the match.
- The Beyblade X booth over four days: more than 7,000 visitors and over 2,500 people in the arena, across the Cup, the trials, the mini tournaments and the matches against the Japanese development team.
The champion
Kaede Muller has been playing since the days of Bakuten Shoot Beyblade, the first series, and on the YouTube channel now goes by “BBX AX 2026 Champion”. The reason for still playing is friendship: “The Beyblade community has spread all over the world, and it is one of the best there is.” The opponent in the final and the combos were not published.
Around the Cup
At the booth you could challenge, on stage, the members of the Beyblade development team who had come from Japan, in the “Producer Battles”. According to TOMY, the line of challengers never stopped. TOMY's president, Akio Tomiyama, speaks of the “passion of the Beyblade X community” seen in Los Angeles.
A year earlier
At Anime Expo 2025, on July 5, the US national final of the Open class was played, leading to the first World Championship in Tokyo. ElenaBEY won with an Xtreme Finish over Yushua, ahead of TMS. In 2026 the spots for the Bangkok world final come through the BEYBLADE X GP circuit, and the Los Angeles Cup does not appear among its qualifiers.
Sources. TOMY press release on Anime Expo 2026 (prnewswire.com, July 2026); format and venue from the Beyblade wiki (beyblade.fandom.com); Kaede Muller's YouTube channel; Anime Expo 2025 from animecorner.me. Opponent in the final and combos not published.