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Naoki has light blue spiked up hair with a braid, and wears white,
square-like glasses. He wears a lab coat and always carries a light blue
 beylogger with him. He dons a turquoise, long-sleeved work shirt and a
dark blue button-up vest underneath his lab-coat. He also wears dark
grey trousers and black shoes.

## Personality

Naoki is often seen as proud and intelligent, being able to analyze
his opponent's abilities and come with strategies to defeat them.
However, his love and enjoyment of experiments sometimes seem to
outweigh the feelings and well-being of other people, as seen when he
sabotages Shu Kurenai's match with Jin Aizawa, and nearly gets Valt Aoi disqualified from the National Tournament all for the sake of an experiment.

Naoki also seems to be a loner, as he is almost never seen with
anyone else, and all his assistants in his research are computers or
robots. But, it is later revealed after he loses to Valt that he
actually loves beyblading, and is slightly lonely due to the fact that
he cannot relate to most of his peers. His interest in the science
behind beyblade makes him feel even more alone, because most people are
just focused on the game itself.

However, he seems to have had a change of heart after Valt said
he was cool, revealing a more relatable side of him, and his more
vulnerable side is shown even more when we learn that he finds his data
valuable, even though he was willing to destroy it until Valt stopped
him. But unfortunately, he accidentally trips and deletes it all.

## Biography

### Beyblade Burst (anime)

He came to Valt Aoi saying he was a journalist interested in Valts Blading Skills, but he turns out to be Valts first opponent in the Indivisual National Tournament. Before the match Valt gets a call from his mom saying shes going to give away her bread oven. Valt goes to stop her from doing it. it turns out Niaoki faked the call to make Valt forfit the match, but he made it in time to battle.

In the battles Niaoki's research fails him as he loses.

He plants a robot in the audience to screw with Shu Kurenai. it blinds him alowing Jin Azawa to steal a point. In the second battle Shu sees it coming and closes his eyes for the launch and won.

After Valt and the others figure out what he did him and Valt have one last battle. Valt wins. Niaoki almost throws out his resarch, but Valt stops him, but its short lived as he trips and acsendently activates a hardrive wipe.

### Beyblade Burst Evolution

He comes to America to see Valt and Shu go head to head in the International Bladers Cup.

## Beyblades

* Nepstrius Armed Zephyr: Naoki's Beyblade in Beyblade Burst (manga).
* Nova Nepstrius Vertical Trans: Naoki's primary Beyblade in Beyblade Burst.

## Battles

 Valt Aoi | 40
 Valt Aoi
 Valt Aoi

## Anime Apperances

### Beyblade Burst (anime)

* *Episode 40 - All In! Going Solo!*
* *Episode 41 - Nepstrius' Trap!*
* *Episode 42 - Jumbo Jormuntor! The Venomous Snake!*
* *Episode 46 - Battle for the Top! Valt vs Xander! (no lines)*
* *Episode 50 - Overthrowing The King! (no lines)*

### Beyblade Burst Evolution

* *Episode 50 - Breaking Point! Bursting Through! (no lines)*
* *Episode 51 - A Champion is Crowned! (no lines)*

## Relationships

### Valt Aoi

Naoki first approached Valt with the intent of gathering information
on him in order to defeat him in their upcoming battle. He often made
backhanded remarks about Valt's intelligence, and then later tricked
Valt with a fake phone call from his mother claiming she was giving away
 her bread oven, which nearly caused Valt to be disqualified for being
late.

Naoki later manipulated Valt into believing that Shu's next opponent, Jin Aizawa was going to use underhanded tactics in their battle. When the truth was later revealed, Valt was upset at being used
and challenged Naoki to a battle, which Valt won with a Burst finish. By
 the of the episode, however, Valt tells Naoki that he should hold onto
all the data he'd collected about beys, stating that as long as he's
upfront about what he's doing and not treating others like lab rats,
everyone's happy. However, after Valt left, Naoki accidentally erased
all his data on his Beylogger when he tripped.

## Trivia

* His last name "Minamo" means "water surface".
* His birthday is June 30.
* In the manga, Naoki is seen watching Yo-kai Watch when Valt and Rantaro go to his home.
* Naoki is the first *Burst* character to break the fourth

wall, namely in his debut episode when he says that Valt's intelligence
is low while looking towards the audience.

* In the manga he is introduced as the Hokuriku district representative.