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Ilya Mao

Iriya Mao · イリヤ・マオ

Supporting BC Sol Beyblade Burst QuadDrive

Bit-beast: Ifritor
First seen: Episode 10 - Novas Collide! Bel vs. Rashad! (Beyblade Burst QuadDrive)

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Ilya Mao is a playful, sharp-tongued BC Sol blader in Beyblade Burst QuadDrive who rejoined the team specifically to challenge Free De La Hoya and Valt Aoi. Strategic and mischievous — she once bet Bel Daizora that the loser of a match would serve as the winner's servant for a day — she carries visible cat-like quirks, from her helmet's cat ears to a habit of hissing mid-battle. Despite being a prominent supporting figure in the anime, her manga presence is limited to a single flashback explaining her earlier departure from BC Sol over Rashad Goodman's harsh training style.

Appearance and personality

What They Look Like, and How They Behave

Average in height, she has pale skin, yellow eyes with light green eyeshadow, and short cerulean hair with two red strands at the front and bangs resting between her eyes. She tucks a white, blue-striped t-shirt into a dark-red jacket padded in crimson at the shoulders and elbows, over rolled-up black shorts lined in white and a white belt with a golden-orange buckle. Navy-blue thigh-high stockings with golden knee-pads lead into dark-red boots panelled in white with roller skates built in, and she wears black fingerless gloves. A red helmet with a white centre, cat-like ears, pale stripes on each cheek, an occasional orange visor and three thin whisker-like lines completes it.

Playful and easygoing on the surface, she is actually sharp and calculating underneath, working hard to get inside an opponent's head before a match even starts. She is outgoing and snarky, with a mischievous streak that once led her to bet Bel Daizora that the loser of their match would serve the winner for a day. Beneath the carefree attitude sits real passion — she joined BC Sol specifically to test herself against Free De La Hoya and Valt Aoi — and a competitive edge that turns her withdrawn and serious for a while after a defeat, as happened following her loss to Lui Shirosagi. Rules mean little to her, shown when she battled Bel even though the cameras weren't rolling and it wasn't allowed. A few cat-like habits round her out, from the cat-ear helmet to hissing mid-battle.

Blader Profile

Ilya Mao, rated

Attack 7/10
Defense 6/10
Stamina 7/10
Technique 8/10
Spirit 7/10

beybladewiki.com editorial rating — based on on-screen performance, not official stats.

A sharp, mischievous strategist who sweeps Bel and takes a round off Lui, but fades whenever Rashad or Phelix is across the stadium.

On file

The record

Team: BC Sol
Beyblades: Magma Ifritor Ciquex-Q Jaggy-Q+Wave-4
Bit-beast or avatar: Ifritor
First appearance: Episode 10 - Novas Collide! Bel vs. Rashad! (Beyblade Burst QuadDrive)
Japanese name: イリヤ・マオ
Romaji: Iriya Mao
Also known as: The Scarlet Lightning
Occupation: Blader / Former Member of BC Sol / Great Aerial Tour Competitor / World Youth Challenge 3rd Place Winner / Member of Nexus
Gender: Female
First anime appearance: Novas Collide! Bel vs. Rashad!
Voice (Japanese): Lynn
Voice (English): Brittany Cox

Bit-beast & Beyblades

Ilya Mao's Beyblades

Magma Ifritor Ciquex-Q Jaggy-Q+Wave-4

Special moves

Called shots

Beast Dodge Magma Smash

Briefing

What to know

First main female blader in the Burst series, and the first female blader with a wholly unique (non-generic) Beyblade — Magma Ifritor.
Rejoined BC Sol specifically to challenge Free De La Hoya and Valt Aoi.
Bet Bel Daizora that whoever lost their battle would serve as the winner's servant for a day.
Left BC Sol previously over disagreement with Rashad Goodman's overly harsh training philosophy — shown only in a manga flashback.
Close teammate of Bashara Suiro, frequently coordinating with him in tag battles.
Cat-themed design quirks include a cat-ear helmet and an in-battle hissing habit.
Shares her surname 'Mao' — a nod to a cat's meow — with Mariah's Japanese first name.

Notable battles

vs Bel Daizora in episode 12 — Win (2-0)
vs Lui Shirosagi in episode 12 — Lose (1-2)
vs Rashad Goodman (with Bashara Suiro) in episode 16 — Lose (0-2)
vs Bel Daizora, Valt Aoi, and Ranzo Kiyama (with Rashad Goodman and Bashara Suiro) in episode 17 — Win (1-0)
vs Phelix Payne (with Bashara Suiro) in episode 21 — Lose (0-4)

Sightings

Episodes they appear in

From our own episode records — the cast, Beyblade and debut lists we compiled show the name here.

Also on record

Where they first appear

Resolved against our own episode records, so the pointer the entry carries as text is a link you can follow.

Beyblade Burst QuadDrive episode 10: Novas Collide! Bel vs. Rashad! First anime appearance · 2021-07-30

Cross-references

Teams, places and more

Attributed, not verified by us

Claims We Could Not Check

First main female Blader in the Burst series to own a unique Beyblade rather than a generic one; Pri Forsythe follows with Pandoras.
Shares a birthday with Akira Yamatoga, the first such pairing between unrelated Burst characters.
Design and mannerisms draw on the catgirl anime/manga trope.

The Blader Profile is our own reading of how the character performs on screen or on the page, not a figure from the makers.

Biography