Naoki Minamo

( 水面ナオキ / 水面直樹 Minamo Naoki) is a character appearing in the Beyblade Burst series. His Beyblade is Nepstrius N2 Vertical Trans.

Appearance
Naoki has light blue spiked up hair with a braid. He wears a lab coat and has a Light blue beylogger.

Personality
Naoki can be seen as proud and sometimes inhumane. His love for and enjoyment of experiments seems to sometimes outweigh the feelings and wellbeing of other people, as seen when he sabotages Shu Kurenai's match with Jin Aizawa, and manipulates Valt Aoi into thinking his mother is injured all for the sake of an experiment. He also seems to be a bit of a loner, as he is almost never seen with anyone else, and all his assistants in his room are robots. But, it is later revealed after he loses to Valt that he actually does love beyblading, and is slightly lonely, due to the fact that he cannot relate to the usual kid his age when discussing the science behind beyblade. He seems to have been touched by Valt's saying he was cool, revealing a more humane side of him, and this more vulnerable side is shown even more when we learn, as much as he was ready to destroy it, he finds his data valuable when he trips and deletes it all.

Beyblades

 * Nepstrius Armed Zephyr: Naoki's Beyblade in the manga.
 * Nepstrius N2 Vertical Trans : Naoki's primary Beyblade in Beyblade: Burst.

Trivia

 * Naoki Minamo is like a combination between Kite Unabara and Madoka Amano.
 * He also bares similarities to Hikaru Hasama, in terms of their beyblades.
 * For some reason, he is also similar to Tabane Shinonono from Infinite Stratos, due to their professsion.