Shiro (Deadman Wonderland)

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Shiro is a female anime and manga character who features in Deadman Wonderland.

Biography

Shiro (Japanese: シロ, Hepburn: Shiro)

She eventually became a test subject in a series of experiments perpetrated by Hagire Rinichirō and Sorae Igarashi. During this time, Shiro was kept in the home of Dr. Igarashi with her befriending her young son Ganta Igarashi with the two being of the same age. They met with one another when Ganta saw her sitting on a tree and commented on her white hair. This led to Shiro becoming embarrassed about her hair but Igarashi told her that he liked it. As a result, Shiro felt better and the two started to play with one another where they became close friends and shared a common admiration of a superhero called Ace Man. Though at the Igarashi residence, secretly Shiro was subjected to experiments and suffered intense pain from regular injections. Thus, whilst normally getting along with Ganta, Shiro would violently bicker with him when in intense pain. A result of one of these incidents led to Shiro breaking his Ace Man action figure with an upset Ganta taking his toys away from her as he ran away in tears. Sometime afterwards, Ganta was approached by a rabid vile dog that was actually one of the other test subjects that had managed to escape from the laboratory. In fear, Ganta dropped to his knees and called out in desperation for Ace Man to save him. At that point, Shiro suddenly arrived when she jumped down from a window and landed on the dog with this knocking it out thus saving Ganta's life. Shiro vowed to become Ganta's 'Ace Man' whenever he was In trouble.

Whilst in the Wretched Egg state, she dressed herself in a helmet and a cloak where she made her away outside Deadman Wonderland towards Nagano middle school. She floated outside the window of the classroom where Ganta Igarashi was studying when the lullaby played whereupon she attacked the class with her Branch of Sin. This attack killed every student in Ganta's class except for Igarashi himself who was the only survivor. After he regained consciousness, the Wretched Egg approached Ganta whilst holding the head of his class fellow Mimi. With a grin on her face, she approached him and implanted a Red Crystal in his chest. Igarashi fainted as a result whereupon the Wretched Egg returned back to Deadman Wonderland. When Ganta regained consciousness again, he was taken into custody where he never knew the attacker who had affected his life so greatly and referred to the person as the Red Man. Shiro was next seen sitting on the roof of Deadman Wonderland, singing the Woodpecker Song. She smells Ganta arriving at the prison and goes off to see him. She and Ganta first reunite when Shiro jumped through Ganta's cell window, breaking the bars in the process. She overheard Ganta saying he wanted to die, so she began to attack him with a piece of broken glass in an attempt to kill him, believing this would make him happy. Frantically, Ganta dodges out of fear and Shiro understands that Ganta was lying. She then claims that she and Ganta are friends, to which Ganta responds that he's never seen her before and is surprised that she knows his name. Ganta asks if he's really her friend, which Shiro agrees, then he asks why she tried to kill him and continues by saying that he would never kill his friends, thinking back at the Nagano school massacre. One of the prison guards comes in and tells Ganta he should be outside working. Ganta looks behind him, but Shiro has disappeared. While at work, Shiro appears from underground, surprising Ganta. She offers him a cookie, claiming it's better to eat with "friends". Some of the other prisoners notice Ganta from the papers of the Nagano school massacre and start taunting him for being a mass murderer, upsetting him. Shiro steps in and pushes one of them, claiming that Ganta "would never kill his friends".

The prisoners attempt to attack her, but she easily defeats them. However, one the prisoners hits Shiro on the back of her head with a shovel, knocking her to the ground. Ganta responds by violently attacking the prisoners, but he is easily knocked to the ground and beat up. However, a building is blown up from above them in an attempt to test Ganta. As the prisoners flee, Ganta refused to leave Shiro who is still "passed out", finally admits that he doesn't want to die yet and unleashes a blast from his Branch of Sin destroying the falling debris, saving them both. Later when Ganta is taken to the doctor's office where he formally introduces himself to Yō, Shiro appears from above, surprising both of them. After being told of the upcoming dog race and the stakes, Shiro becomes excited and the two of them join. During the race, Shiro appeared to be oblivious of the brutality and potential danger of the race and usually got in Ganta's way, upsetting him. Towards the end of the race, Ganta notices how tattered and beat up Shiro looks and realizes that she discreetly sacrificed her own safety to assure his. In order to win the race, one person had to be in possession of a ball before time runs out, as Shiro passes the ball to Ganta, the platform she's standing on disappears and she falls under into a pit of spikes. Ganta realizes the victory isn't worth it and saves Shiro instead, much to her shock. Ganta sacrifices the victory and the race ends with no winner. Shiro enjoys the runner-up prize with Ganta and leaves. The Wretched Egg appeared before Ganta again in Deadman Wonderland, shortly after the Dog Race. She kills three inmates and nearly kills Yō as well before Ganta shoots her in the chest with his Branch of Sin. Rather than appearing in pain despite the dented armor, she grins, and welcomes Ganta 'home.' Appearing pleased, she flies away, apparently satisfied with Ganta's progression as a Deadman. Shiro returns and greets Ganta when he wakes up in the infirmary. She admits to eating his snacks and begins to regret it, thinking Ganta was mad at her.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Shiro was an albino with chalk-white skin and even white hair but possessing red eyes. Her skin contained numerous heavy scars throughout her body due to being the subject of brutal experiments. She was said to resemble Mimi who was a girl in the same classroom as Ganta Igarashi at his school. Typically, she was clothed in a skin-tight bodysuit with her heels and toes being open wore large gloves that helped conceal her heavily scarred skin.

A result of the trauma caused by the torturous experiments done to her led to Shiro developing a homicidal maniacal split personality that was known as the Wretched Egg (レチッドエッグ, Rechiddo Eggu). For a time, Ganta knew of this other murderous personality as the Red Man (赤い男, Akai Otoko) due to her wearing a mask that obscure the face except for the mouth and also wearing a large cape.

Shiro was shown to be a clumsy yet bubbly young girl. She has lots of energy, most likely from the fact she eats nothing but sweets. She is shown to have loved sweets throughout her life, particularly cookies, and her sweet tooth may be her way of staying connected to her childhood. She has a very childlike outlook on life; this leads to her not understanding much: Shiro did not even understand the concept of a girlfriend and had a simplified outlook on love.

Despite this, she knows she loves Ganta Igarashi and only wants him to be happy, even if that means resorting to drastic measures. She is also very concerned about his safety. Shiro does her best to protect Ganta, regardless of the danger. Throughout the series, it is shown that all Shiro really wants is Ganta's approval, and it is surprisingly easy for him to hurt her feelings. However, with the exception of him stating that he "hated" her in the Forgery arc (which was only for Shiro's protection), Ganta has never meant to hurt Shiro and has always regretted his actions afterward.

Shiro is incredibly strong, and she uses her immense strength to keep Ganta safe as much as possible after a childhood incident when Shiro became Ganta's "Aceman". One example of this is manifested during the dog race show. Shiro appeared to be oblivious to the dangers of the game and occasionally got in the way of Ganta's progression as well as his survival. But it is only at the end, when Ganta notices her cuts and scratches, that he discovers that she was discreetly keeping him out of harm's way, consequently taking his blows for him.

Shiro and Wretched Egg were able to interact while they were asleep and dreaming. Shiro often asked why Wretched Egg was trying to kill Ganta, though she never received a straight answer. Wretched Egg was extremely protective of Shiro, and claims that Shiro's pain 'belongs to her.' To that end, Wretched Egg endured the pain caused by the experimentation performed on her, and it was because of Shishito Madoka's 'Iron Maiden' inflicting such excruciating pain on Shiro that she was able to take over completely. The Wretched Egg also tries to comfort Shiro subconsciously, such as when she ate Shiro's unfinished pudding, even though she hates sweets. This causes Shiro to think Ganta had eaten it, making her happy as she thought that Ganta had visited. Shiro referred to Wretched Egg as 'Aceman,' and was completely aware of her presence within her mind, and by extension, what she, herself, was.

Unlike Shiro, who harbors an innocent love for Ganta, Wretched Egg's feelings for him are much more complicated. On one hand, he and Sorae were the only two good things in her life, and her sole source of happiness in her childhood. On the other, she expresses a strong resentment toward him for having forgotten about her, and leaving her behind when she needed him the most. She revealed in Chapter 55 that she was in love with him, and feels that the only way he can redeem himself for how he had hurt her was by killing her and ending her suffering. To that end, she gave him his Branch of Sin, and went to great lengths to make him stronger, both physically and mentally.

Despite knowing full well that Sorae was the one who subjected Shiro to such horrific treatment, she appeared to hold little to no ill will towards her. Sorae was the one who continued to give her hope that her wish to die could still be granted, and after Ganta was sent away, she continued to care for her while Hagire continued to exploit her powers, until she completed the Mother Goose System and committed suicide, both out of guilt for what she did to Shiro, and to prevent that Hagire from finding out how to turn it off.

Despite the fact that Hagire was one of the main reasons she suffered so much during her childhood, she spared him, and even chose to indulge his desire to fight her over and over again. Their relationship was strained at best, mostly because Wretched Egg didn't have anywhere else to go or anyone else to take care of her, and because she needed him to unlock the Mother Goose System. She also believed that if Ganta failed in giving her her wish, that Hagire would be able to fully satisfy her bloodlust and desire for chaos and destruction. However, Chapter 55 revealed that she was growing frustrated with Hagire constantly wanting to fight her instead of working on shutting down the Mother Goose System, and the moment she found out where Ganta was, wasted no time in breaking out of Deadman Wonderland to give him his Branch of Sin.

Powers and abilities

She was the original Deadman and the source of the Branch of Sin infection with this giving her the power to control her blood freely out of her body. This gave her a great number of abilities beyond that of normal human being such as the capacity to levitate to fly. Her body was capable of healing itself from injuries as she restored her broken legs within moments when Genkaku attempted to kill the escaping Deadmen. Her Branch of Sin manifested as a whip of blood and struck with such a force to massacre dozens of people and destroyed parts of the body instantly with this resembling a hurricane.

As the Wretched Egg, her skills are unmatched even by the strongest of opponents. While her powers were restrained by the Mother Goose System, she has been shown capable of massacring dozens of people by creating a whip of blood that can destroy parts of the body instantly. Her Branch of Sin also resembles a hurricane. While unrestrained, she was powerful enough to cause the Great Tokyo Earthquake that submerged a large area of Tokyo. It's possible her power can spread infinitely and be expressed in multiple forms as evidenced by her lifting and slamming down a cargo ship prow first effortlessly after helping Ganta out of the Walfisch. The Wretched Egg has the ability to regenerate almost any wound completely in an incredibly short amount of time.

Shiro was able to implant a red crystal in others that embedded into their chest and turned them into a Deadman. Such a technique was used on Ganta Igarashi thus turning him into one of their number and giving him the ability to control his own blood as a weapon.

She was held as being the strongest of the Deadmen with her power being contained by the Mother Goose System

Notes

• Shiro was created by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou where she featured in the setting of the Deadman Wonderland universe.
• The characters name 'Shiro' (白?) may refer to the Japanese term for the color white.

In other media

Television

• In Deadman Wonderland, Shiro appeared in the setting of the anime television series where she was was voiced by Japanese actress Kana Hanazawa and by English actress Monica Rial in the dubbed series.

Video games

• In Lollipop Chainsaw, Shiro's bodysuit appeared as an unlockable outfit in the video game Lollipop Chainsaw that could be worn by the protagonist Juliet Starling. Once equipped, it gave the character Shiro's appearance as well that included her white hair and red eyes.

Appearances

• Deadman Wonderland:

External Links

• Deadman Wonderland Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry

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