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Shibuya Beginner Guide

The first hour is a loop: make a body, pick up codes, learn four keys, contain one curse, then sit a grade exam. Technique class waits until Grade 2.

Route

1. Roll race and stats. The code box on this screen is the one in how to redeem. Spend it before you lock the character if you care about the starting clan.
2. The tutorial is optional in one write-up and standard in another. Either way, the keys you need immediately are on the controls page: M1 to hit, Q to dash, F to block or parry, E to infuse.
3. Follow the blue ring to the Soul Ignite board (the notes say RANK 1/4). Start it, beat a field curse such as a Brute, then hold E to contain. The drop cited is Brute Tooth x1.
4. Turn the specimen in to Agent Hoshino inside HQ. “I’ve got a specimen for you” goes to the lab for Merit. Black Net pays Sin instead. Do not spend the yen you need for the gates.
5. The red phone booth opens the Grade Exam. The panel shows current grade and the next one you may sit. Modes named in the guides are Free For All and Gauntlet. E enters, C closes. Four examinees are mentioned for the first pass.

Where Tube Simulations fit

The official description names virtual Tube Simulations as a combat activity alongside grades and containment. The public beginner and progression guides do not document a reliable access point, entry cost, or reward table, so those fields remain unpublished here. For the first session, follow the documented containment and grade-exam route above; the official listing and developer Discord are the referenced update channels for this activity.

Yen before the trial

Tomoe in the subway sells a gas mask for 5,000 yen. Jira at the desert gate charges 10,000 yen and starts a ten-second count (“Ten seconds. Move.”). Akone rents a bike across the canyon; the rental price is not written down. Plant the relay at the glowing mark, then you are in the underground town where Yuki Sato sells technique skills. The prices written next to that shop are Piercing Blood 25,000, Slicing Exorcism 12,000, and Supernova 40,000. One guide spells the last name Supernovo. I keep both spellings and do not invent a fourth price.

NPCs and trainers

Searches for “cursed energy sensory shibuya trainer” do not match a named NPC in the guides. The person who teaches techniques is Yuki Sato, and only after Grade 2. The five names below are the ones with a place and a job. If a sixth name shows up in a primary note, it belongs in this table, not in a guess.

Play video: Cursed technique route (Builderboy TV)

Sources

• All linked sources on this page were reviewed on 8 Nov 2026; dates noted beside a publisher are its own update dates.
• Fan-wiki beginner guide — checked 8 Nov 2026.
• Fan-wiki progression guide — checked 8 Nov 2026.
• Fan-wiki technique route — checked 8 Nov 2026.
• shibuya.wiki beginner and progression notes, read via the 8 Nov research pass.
• Builderboy TV and ItzVexo character video.