Xander Shakadera

, also known as in the Japanese version, is a recurring character who appears in the anime and manga series, Beyblade Burst. He is a member of the Four Spinning Emperors as well as the leader and founder of his own team, Sword Flames. His Beyblade is Xcalius X2 Magnum Impact.

Appearance
Xander is very tall, reaching 186 cm (about 6'1"ft) and has red orange spiked hair and red eyes. He also has a muscular build due to his martial arts background. His regular attire consists of a tight black top which exposes his midriff, with a red fur-trim vest which has a belt-type fastener at the bottom over it. He wears brown pants with two red stripes at the ends of each leg, a yellow belt, and black gauntlets over his arms.

Personality
Xander is very bombastic and cheerful. He trains hard, and is a big eater. In a way, he's quite similar to Valt. He expresses his fighting spirit through laughter, but is shown to abandon even this in the face of the most serious of battles and situations.

Beyblades

 * Xcalius Force Xtreme: Xander's Beyblade in the manga.
 * Xcalius X2 Magnum Impact: Xander's primary Beyblade in Beyblade: Burst.

Trivia

 * According to Hiro Morita on his Twitter page, Xander is the only character to undergo a change in expression between the anime and manga.
 * His Beyblade, Xcalius X2 Magnum Impact, is named after Xenovia from High School DXD, whom also holds Excalibur. In that anime, Xander's seiyu, Rikiya Koyama, also voiced Azazel.
 * Xander's English voice actor, Andrew Francis, also voices Shining Armor in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
 * Due to the fact that he is from martial artist family and his beyblade has a royal European knight theme, it refers to Ayato Amagiri from The Asterisk Wars and Ikki Kurogane from Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry, who also came from a martial artist family, and both have a main heroine from royal families in Europe.