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Xander Shakadera

Shakuenji Kaiza · 灼炎寺カイザ

Supporting Sword FlamesSB Rios Beyblade BurstBeyblade Burst EvolutionBeyblade Burst TurboBeyblade Burst QuadStrike
Bit-beast
Xcalius
First seen
Beyblade Burst

4

series

49

episodes on record

5

Beyblades

3

special moves

Biography

Alexander 'Xander' Shakadera, called Kaiza Shakuenji in Japan, is a towering, martial-arts-trained childhood friend of Valt and Shu who leads his own team, the Sword Flames, and is a founding member of the Supreme Four. He later trains in Brazil with SB Rios and joins the Big Five before eventually leading SB Rios into the World League, and resurfaces in QuadStrike as a legendary blader with an upgraded Beyblade. Bombastic, loud-laughing, and deceptively kind despite his intimidating build, he balances comic strength (accidentally breaking doors) with genuine mentorship of teammates like Xavier Bogard.

Appearance and personality

What They Look Like, and How They Behave

Xander stands out for his height, close to six feet, with spiked red-orange hair, red eyes, triangular teeth and a muscular build shaped by years of martial arts training; despite looking fully grown, he's actually only eleven, the same age as Valt and Shu. His regular outfit bares his midriff under a tight black top, layered with a red fur-trimmed vest fastened at the bottom, brown trousers striped in red, a yellow belt and black gauntlets. In Turbo the vest gains a brown border and the belt an "X"-marked silver buckle, with yellow wraps added at the ankles of his boots. By QuadStrike the vest carries sienna-coloured trim instead, paired with a sienna belt, a gold "X" pendant and a matching bracelet.

Xander is loud, cheerful and bombastic, a hard trainer with a big appetite who channels his fighting spirit through booming laughter, though he sets the jokes aside entirely once a battle turns genuinely serious. His sense of humour tends toward looking on the bright side of things. The intimidating build belies a genuinely kind and gentle nature, evident when he carries Toko and Nika on his shoulders through a crowd rather than leave them to push through themselves. As leader of the Sword Flames he leads well, praising teammates and rivals alike regardless of who wins. He can also forget his own strength entirely, as when a friendly fist bump knocks Valt clean over.

Blader Profile

Xander Shakadera, rated

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

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

A Supreme Four powerhouse whose sword-swing launch swept Valt at first, though Lui, Free and a grown Valt all beat him later on.

On file

The record

Team
Sword Flames / SB Rios
Beyblades
Xcalius Force Xtreme; Xeno Xcalius Magnum Impact; Surge Xcalius 1 Iron; Breaker Xcalius 1'Dagger Sword (borrowed from Xavier); Xiphoid Xcalius Xanthus-Q Xtend+-Q+Sword-1
Bit-beast or avatar
Xcalius
First appearance
Beyblade Burst
Japanese name
灼炎寺カイザ
Romaji
Shakuenji Kaiza
Also known as
Xhaka (in Japan) / Alexander Shakadera (Full name in the dub) / The Laughing Giant
Occupation
Blader / Leader and Founder of Team Sword Flames / Leader of SB Rios / Member of The Big Five (Former) / Mentor to Xavier Bogard / Member of the Supreme Four / Legendary Blader
Gender
Male
First anime appearance
The Battle We Promised! (Debut) / Showdown! Surge Xcalius! (Evolution) / Road to Glory! (Turbo) / Peerless! Xiphoid Xcalius!(QuadStrike)
First manga appearance
Battle Fairy Spryzen's Crushing Blow
Voice (Japanese)
Rikiya Koyama
Voice (English)
Andrew Francis (Burst-Evolution) / Austin Lee Matthews (Turbo-QuadStrike)

Bit-beast & Beyblades

Xander Shakadera's Beyblades

  1. Xcalius Force Xtreme
  2. Xeno Xcalius Magnum Impact
  3. Surge Xcalius 1 Iron
  4. Breaker Xcalius 1'Dagger Sword (borrowed from Xavier)
  5. Xiphoid Xcalius Xanthus-Q Xtend+-Q+Sword-1

Special moves

Called shots

Dual Xiphoid SaberSaber StrikeXiphoid Saber

Briefing

What to know

  • Founded and leads the Sword Flames Beyblade Club and later leads SB Rios
  • A founding member of the Supreme Four and formerly of the Big Five
  • Trained in martial arts from a young age by his family dojo
  • Despite an adult appearance, is actually only 11 years old, the same age as Valt and Shu
  • Mentored Xavier Bogard, helping him forge the sword-based Breaker Xcalius
  • Has accidentally broken multiple doors due to underestimating his own strength

Notable battles

  • vs Valt Aoi in Episodes 16-17 (Beyblade Burst) — Win (3-0)
  • vs Valt Aoi in Episode 46 (Beyblade Burst) — Lose (2-4)
  • vs Valt Aoi in Episode 32 (Beyblade Burst Evolution) — Lose (1-2)
  • vs Lui Shirosagi in Episode 44 (Beyblade Burst Evolution) — Lose (0-2)
  • vs Free De La Hoya in Episode 45 (Beyblade Burst Evolution) — Lose (0-2)
  • vs Aiger Akabane in Episode 27 (Beyblade Burst Turbo) — Draw
  • vs Valt Aoi in Episode 10 (Beyblade Burst QuadStrike) — Lose (0-2)

Quotes

In Their Own Words

  • Uncertainty is kind of a given.
  • Mind if I drop in?
  • It's all making sense now. Valt must be turning the city upside down looking for it.
  • Valt's the wild card in this competition. Come to think of it, he always has been. I know I've won most of the battles we've had, but every once in a while he takes me by surprise, attacking me at an angle I'd never anticipated.
  • Bro, kinda obvious my first name's Alexander. Not exactly a stretch of the imagination.
  • Whoa, dude. Need a time-out?
  • Well, ain't that the truth?
  • You know what this means, don't you? Now you gotta try and defeat all of the Supreme Four.
  • Dig deeper, Valt. I know you've got what it takes to crush him.
  • Well, that's one way to rattle his cage.

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

Episodes that mention them

The name turns up in what happens in these episodes rather than in their cast lists, so read them as leads, not as a credit.

Also on record

Named elsewhere on this site

Tournament reports, testing threads, rules announcements, news and fake or leak checks carrying this name. Each link opens that section with the name already searched for.

Cross-references

Teams, places and more

Places 1

Teams 5

Attributed, not verified by us

Claims We Could Not Check

  • His Japanese name 'Kaiza' is a Japanese pronunciation of 'Kaiser'
  • Ranked 4th in the world before the International Blader's Cup in Evolution, dropping to 8th afterward
  • Is one of two Burst characters (with Valt) to have led two different teams
  • Was the first Beyblade Burst character to destroy a launcher, and the first to destroy a Bey in the manga

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