Shiro

Shiro is a childhood-friend of Ganta. She has two personalities, herself and the Wretched Egg.

Appearance
Shiro is an albino; she has snow-white hair, pale skin and red eyes. Even her eyebrows and eyelashes are white. Her hair is very long and reaches her feet. It is a little wavy, but mostly straight. She dresses in a peach, skintight bodysuit (white in the anime) with red decorations on it. The decorations are just lines or multiple circles. Her toes stick out of her bodysuit, just as her heels. She also wears big brown or white mittens and some sort of wide collar that completely covers her neck.

Personality
Shiro is a bubbly, happy girl that seems to be a klutz. She also has a lot of energy (most likely from the fact she eats nothing but sweets), although her mind cannot understand much. She didn't even know the concept of a girlfriend and has a simplified look on love. While she doesn't fully understand Deadman Wonderland, she knows how to help Ganta and only wants his happiness- even to the point of killing him when he asked. She is incredibly strong, however dense she is, and uses her strength to help Ganta as much as possible after a childhood incident between them. During the dog race show, she's seemigly oblivious to the dangers of the game and occasionally gets in the way of Ganta's progression (or survival) only to be later realised by Ganta that she was discreetly taking Ganta's blows for him. It is later revealed that Ganta actually has strong feelings of love towards Shiro and that the feelings are mutual.

History
Before the birth of the Wretched Egg, Ganta and Shiro played quite often, sharing a common admiration of Ace Man. They first met when Ganta saw her sitting by a tree and commented on her white hair. Shiro was embarrassed about her hair, but Ganta set her at ease and they started playing. Shiro was a test-subject of Ganta's mother, so they saw each other often.

She and Ganta got along well, but one time, when Shiro was in grave pain because of the constant injections, they once bickered so violently that Ganta took his toys and ran away from the hospital. Soon after, he came face-to-face with a rabid, vile dog. Ganta dropped to his knees in fear and called for Ace Man to save him. Suddenly, Shiro jumped down from a window in between Ganta and the dog, saving his life. After this, Ganta and Shiro were even more close.

Because of Hagire and Sorae's experiments, her body would often deteriorate, and needs to be sewn back together. Her arm fell off once while she and Ganta are playing hide-and-seek. She is later seen with her leg being sewn back on by Sorae. She was used in painful nanomachine experiments, causing her to create a separate personality known as the Wretched Egg to cope with the pain. As shown her body has been ripped apart several times possibly when her limbs were removed multiple times to create the Chorus Blocks.

Some time after that, Hagire built Deadman Wonderland and built a room for Shiro, supplying her with all the candy she ever wants.

Prison arc
Shiro is first seen sitting on the roof of Deadman Wonderland, singing the Woodpecker Song. Somehow, it seems she smells Ganta arriving at DW.



In the manga, she and Ganta first reunite when Shiro jumped through Ganta's cell window, breaking the bars in the process. She heard Ganta saying he wanted to die, so now she wants to help him die. She held a piece of broken glass and attacks him with it. Ganta dodges and Shiro understands that Ganta was lying, although she thought that his heart told her that, while it was just his stomach that was growling. She then says that she and Ganta are friends, to which Ganta is surprised that she knows his name. Ganta asks if he's her friend, then 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 prisoner guards comes in and tells Ganta he should be outside. Ganta looks behind him, but Shiro has already left.

In the anime, these events happened when Ganta was already at work. Shiro used a metal bar instead of a piece of glass.

Deadman arc
Shiro stops attacking Ganta and offers to befriend him, but prisoners notice her unusual appearance and begin to approach them. They begin to beat Ganta, who attempts to protect Shiro, but Shiro easily defeats them. One of the prisoners hits Shiro on the back, disorienting her, but Tamaki has a building fall of them. Most of the prisoners, if not all in that area, were killed, but Ganta protects Shiro and destroys the building with his Branch of Sin. Later, Shiro continues to follow Ganta around. during the dog run, Shiro join to help out Ganta survive, but makes it seem as if she's just pestering him. She sacrifices her own safety to assure his, but Ganta doesn't realize this until the end, when Shiro acquires the ball. Shiro begins to bother the Kazumasi, who is the only other surviving inmate in the race, which allows Ganta to realize her injures. The tiles fall under Shiro, but she catches herself with her feet. Ganta goes to get the ball, but Shiro slips and Ganta sacrifices the points to save her instead. Shiro eats the runner up prize with Ganta and leaves. In between leaving and returning to Shiro later on, she becomes Wretched Egg and attacks Ganta, Yui and other inmates. Shiro returns to normal to greet Ganta when he wakes in the infirmary. She admits to eating his snacks and begins to regret it,thinking Ganta is angered at him. When Yui and Ganta talk about the attack, Ganta mentions that all of his friends are dead, which angers Shiro, who considers herself his friend. When the three go to find the G block, Shiro informs them that she knows the way, but refuses to tell them. The security bot, sent by Makina to capture Ganta and kill Yui, arrives, forcing Shiro to tell them and escort them to the G block, located in a path in the air vents. The security bot follows them and destroys the surroundings. It goes to kill Ganta, but Shiro kicks it away and begins to vent towards Ganta, demanding he take back what he said about all his friends. Ganta realizes that her and Yui are friends and apologizes to them for dragging them down with him, but Yui says to himself that it's too late to apologize. Shiro is captured by the bot and is about to by killed for not having an inmate number when Senji arrives and destroys the bot. Shiro goes flying and is injured while Senji and Ganta fight. Senji runs into Shiro and her revealing outfit causes him to become uncomfortable. A special unit then arrives and takes away Yui and Shiro to empty rooms to wait as Ganta and Senji compete in the Carnival Corpse. Ganta recalls mamories of Shiro and him when they were young this allows him to have the energy to beat Senji. Yui takes Shiro and uses her to escape to G block, again, and find his sister, Minatsuki. Shiro stops hearing the music that is playing only to her and turns into Wretched Egg. After turning, Shiro passes out and is picked up by a mysterious man, who is soon revealed to be the owner of Deadman Wonderland.

Scar Chain arc
Shiro goes into a fury as Wretched Egg, killing the owner of Deadman Wonderland. She returns to normal, seemingly having no memory of the events prior and arrives to save Ganta from the attack by Genkaku. She stays in Ganta's room, ordered by Ganta to wait until later to play. When he returns, Shiro asks him to promise to take her on a ferris wheel when they get out. She becomes extatic when he does. Shiro is left by Ganta and the others to go riot and escape. She falls alseep and wakes up to find Toto and overhears Nagi calling to inform them about the data chip being a bomb. Toto tells Shiro to catch up with Ganta and the others and dispose of the chip. Shiro does so by finding Ganta and tossing it into fire. It explodes, but Ganta thinks it is the fire reactign to the chip. He yells at her, but Shirocalls him weak and that she needed to. This causes Ganta to hit her and it shocks her. She runs away and finds her way back to the dead owners room. She believes he is just sleeping and invites herself in. She finds the cookies, which she is unaware are alcoholic and eats all of them. Toto finds her and addresses her as Wretched Egg. This annoys Shiro, but she soon discards it, resulting from her becoming drunk off the cookies. As she stumbles around drunk, Shiro finds the captive Karako and Genkaku's layer. She is quickly bound as well, snapping her out of her drunk state. Ganta arrives to save them, but is overpowered. Shiro tries to help Ganta, but finds herself immobile from injures to her ankles. Ganta, which is reverse from usual, protects Shiro, taking all the punches delt by the crazed Nagi. Ganta activates a higher stage of Branch of sin, which sends Shiro into a stage of Wretched Egg. The red on her suit light up and she mimics Ganta's movements. Shiro snaps out of Wretched Egg in time for Ganta to catch her show her to the moonlit ferris wheel. He assures his promise to her as other prisoners escape.

Abilities
Regeneration: As the results of Hagire's and Sorae's experiments, Shiro's body has developped the ability to regenerate almost immediately. They have done tests by ripping of pieces of flesh from her body, even removing internal organs, but Shiro keeps healing them back. Her legs have been broken more than once in the manga, and once in the anime, and they heal with dramatic speed, visibly snapping back into place. The reason for this, is her exceptional blood (as the first Branch of Sin). Her blood just boils and recreates the flesh or organs.

Branch of Sin: As Shiro, she has shown minimal control of her Branch of Sin and has been able to use it in combat only once. She first discovered her powers when Ganta and Senji were discussing their Branches of Sin. She used it to fight for the first time in Ganta's battle with Shishito Madoka, where she saved Ganta when he was about to get killed. Shiro's Branch of Sin is the same as the Wretched Egg but less powerful however its still strong enough to cut Shishito's Shūen no Ago.

Trivia

 * Shiro's name means white in Japanese.
 * Shiro is the only character so far that has appeared on multiple volume covers: Volume 1 and 2. Not Volume 10, because technically, that's the Wretched Egg.
 * She refers to the Wretched Egg as Aceman, given that she developed her second personality after crying out for Aceman to help her.