Boukenou Beet

Beet the Vandel Buster
冒険王ビィト
Boken Oh Beet

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It's the Century of Darkness where monsters known as Vandels rule the world, and the Vandel Busters are the only ones who can fight them. When a group of Busters are killed in battle, they pass on their magic Saiga weapons to Beet, making him the strongest Buster ever. But Beet won't just fight the Vandels—he wants to destroy them and finally end the Century of Darkness. (Source: VIZ Media)

Publication notes

On October 6, 2006, Boukenou Beet was put on hiatus due to Koji Inada's illness. Furthermore, with the discontinuation of Shounen Jump (Monthly) on June 6, 2007, it was put on an indefinite hiatus instead. On December 21, 2015, in the combined third and fourth issue of Weekly Shounen Jump, it was announced that the series would resume serialization in the Spring issue of Jump SQ.Crown, which was published on April 16, 2016. Boukenou Beet has been published in English as Beet the Vandel Buster by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint since October 19, 2004.

Published

Mar 6, 2002 to ?

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Adaptation

Bouken Ou Beet (anime)

Main characters

Beet18 fan favorites
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The leader of the Beet Warriors. He is the younger brother of Zenon and believes very greatly in justice. He claims that he will be the man who ends the Dark Ages with his hands. When he was almost killed by Beltorze,the Zenon Warriors put their life energies into their saiga and gave them to him. Because of this he has all 5 of their saiga even if he doesn't know how to use them.He is completely incompetent at using the divine attack and ends up hurting himself. He strongly believes that the Zenon Warriors aren't dead and still looks for them. Saiga: Burning Lance -- This was the saiga of Laio the master of spears.Laio was the one closest to Beet and taught him Sohjutsu (art of the spear). Because of this Beet uses this saiga more than any other. Crown Shield -- This was the saiga of Cruss the main defender of the Zenon warriors. At first Beet thought it was useless for anything except defense. When the Phantom Beltorze knocked him out, he remembered it could be used to remove poisons and could turn into a wrecking ball. Cyclone Gunner -- This is the saiga of the silent Alside. At first Beet could only fire one bullet. He believed this to be because Alside was better than him. After being almost killed by Frausky, Beet relized that the Cyclone Gunner breathed and he had to breath in harmony with it. As he put it, the Cyclone Gunner has no bullets. Boltic Axe -- This was the saiga of the giant Bluezam. Beet didn't like using it because it takes too long to come out and he can't control it. The first time he used it was aganist Grineed. Excellion Blade -- This was the saiga of Beet's brother Zenon. He doesn't use it because he can't use it properly and breaks it when he tries to. The first time he used it was against the Phantom Beltorze.
Kissu4 fan favorites
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The third member of the Beet Warriors and an old friend of Beet.He can be a romantic at times and fell in love with Poala as soon as he saw her. He is also a very weak person and is a coward at times. In his first team, they fought Baron and soon began to lose. His other teammates told Kissu to distract Baron while they moved in. They actually used him as bait so that they could run away. Baron made short work of them but let Kissu.This caused him to believe that humans were nothing but trash and Vandels were truly honorable. He later worked for Grineed dechipering ruins that helped Grineed create monsters from rocks and dirt. He is a master of the divine attack and often use the first class divine attack "Frozen Wave of Divine Blue". While working for Grineed he had a bracelet that would inject poison needles into his arm if he used divine attacks. This almost killed him until Beet cut the bracelet off with the Excellion Blade and removed the poison with the Crown Shield. He is also one of Milfa's various crushes.
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Milfa is a young Broad Buster. She may seem to be a naive and weak girl, but she is incredibly strong since Broad Busters are considered to be the strongest Buster force. However, as Level Forty is the minimum to be a BB and Milfa is only in the low forties, she is still technically a rookie Broad Buster. She is very flirtatious with Beet After she sees his Saiga, she realizes that he has inherited the Saiga of the Zenon Warriors. She considers Beet's encounter a "meeting of fate" because she idolized Zenon from childhood, and believes Beet will grow up to be just like him. Beet is impressed by her fighting skills, but does not understand her flirting. Milfa also falls in love with Kissu after he saves her and displays his amazing tengeki uses. She may even become a new addition to the Beet Warriors. Milfa mostly fights with martial arts. She fights with the tengeki of lightning, focusing it on her self like a lightning rod with devastating results (lightning armor or aura of sorts). Milfa has a huge saiga called the Lightbolt Grasper, usable as a huge clamp to grapple larger enemies. Milfa considers Poala to have great potential, and together, lightning and fire make a wonderful team with Milfa as the mentor. Has recently started hitting on Slade, dropping hints such as revealing her rather large breasts to him in the guise of showing her level. She does, however, express disdain toward Slade because he is "no fun," and in volume 12 does a great deal to support a broken Kissu. SAIGA Lightbolt Grasper: A saiga shaped like a giant claw that Milfa uses to grab her enemies. Once they are in its grasp, she can electrify them, or hold them for others to destroy. She can also use it to fire a beam of lighting at her opponents, moving them out of her opponent's way.
Slade2 fan favorites
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Slade, by nature, is an assassin. He met Beet while he was on his three year journey, around the 2nd or 3rd year. The two are rivals to each other, but not in an angry sort of way. In the present story, he meets Beet and Poala at a port town, which later becomes the battlefield where Beet and Belltoze later fight. After said fight, he impressively holds off Belltoze from killing a weakened Beet. After a long fight, Belltoze eventually defeats him, throwing him into a building and breaking an entire wall. Slade, like Beet, uses spears when fighting. He is especially skilled at using Divine Wind, normally creating small wind shuriken or using tornadoes to attack. His strongest attack is called "tengeki of tornado," where he creates an enormous tornado surrounding his enemy. He then uses his Saiga, "Silent Grave," to slash at his opponent. All the while, he is moving so fast in the whirlwind that he cannot be seen. His personality is best described as quiet, not talking or doing unnecessary actions. He is basically the opposite of Beet. He is also the potential fifth member of the beet warriors. SAIGA Slade's saiga is called Silent Grave. It is a spear saiga made of wind, and compressed to a very high limit. It is so focused, that it can cut through the skin of any vandel. Another side addition is that when he summons it, its invisible, which make it looks like he is slashing at his enemies using just his hands.
Poala0 fan favorites
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Beet's childhood friend and the second member of the Beet Warriors, her family took Beet in when Zenon brought him there. She cares about her family and friends very much and became a buster to pay for her fathers medicine. She is thoughtful and prefers to have a plan before starting a mission. She can also be extremely violent when the circumstances call for it. Beet often introduces her as his wife-to-be which can make her mad. Regardless she has a crush on Beet and hates it when Milfa flirts with him. She is in charge of money for the Beet Warriors and will use there for both things they need like food and weapons. Her main element is fire. At first she thought that her divine attack of fire was weak because she was. Kissu explained that it was strong at first, but it scattered after a distance, causing it to lose power. She corrected this by attacking monsters and Vandels up close.