Key events
- Blader Guy (Gai) reveals Neo Battle Bladers' qualifying format: an RPG-style maze where meeting another Blader forces a battle.
- The maze opens and contestants, including Zero, Shinobu, Sakyo, Kite, and Eight, scatter into it.
- Zero encounters gang leader Akuya Onizaki and his Archer Gargole SA165WSF.
- Akuya's gang joins in with chained Beyblades to overwhelm Zero's Samurai Ifraid.
- Shinobu launches Shinobi Saramanda to help Zero double-team Akuya's group.
- Ifraid disables the chained Beys while Saramanda and Ifraid knock Akuya's team out of the stadium, winning the fight.
Battles
- Zero Kurogane (Samurai Ifraid W145CF) & Shinobu Hiryūin (Shinobi Saramanda SW145SD) vs Akuya Onizaki (Archer Gargole SA165WSF) & his gang
Claims We Could Not Check
Attributed, not verified by us
- Japanese title: 開幕 ネオバトルブレーダーズ (Kaimaku Neo Batoru Bureedaazu); French release title: 'Le "Neo Battle Bladers" !!'
- The 5th Zero-G chapter but the 47th chapter overall in the manga franchise.
- Blader Guy succeeds Blader DJ as the tournament's referee for the Zero-G era.