Shiro Amada

Infobox animanga character
name = Shiro Amada
series = Mobile Suit Gundam


caption = Image of Shiro Amada
first = , Episode 1
last = , Episode 12
creator =
voiced by = Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese)
Steve Staley (English)
alias =
age = 24
born = UC 0054
death =
nationality = Earth Federation
relatives =
divider = yes
aux1 name = Allegiance
aux1 = Earth Federation Army
aux2 name = Rank
aux2 = Ensign
aux3 name = Mobile weapons
aux3 = RB-79K Ball K Type [RX-79 Series|RX-79 [G] Gundam Mass Production Ground Type] Gundam Ez8

nihongo|Ensign Shiro Amada|シロー・アマダ|Shirō Amada is one of the main characters in the anime OVA , next to Aina Saharin.

Shiro Amada was born in the cluster of space colonies known as Side 2. At twenty-four, Shiro is officially the oldest main Gundam protagonist to date.

tory

Early Years

Shiro was present at his homeland, Side 2, during the initial Zeon G3 poison gas attacks on the colonies in the first weeks of the One Year War, witnessing all of the fellow colony inhabitants die horribly around him, Shiro saved himself only because he was lucky enough to wear a sealed space suit. Witnessing this wanton civilian death filled Shiro with a deep hatred for the Zeon, and everything they stood for.

Shiro, who was already serving in the Earth Federation Forces at the time, entered into officer training school, and after graduating he was handed a transfer to Earth to take command of the Kojima Battalion's 08th Mobile Suit Team in South-East Asia.

En route to Earth the transport that Shiro is on intercepts a distress signal from a damaged GM. Shiro decides to go out in a measly K-type Ball to rescue it. He is able to save the GM pilot, Terry Sanders Jr., and destroy the Zaku, although in the process his Ball was critically damaged. Shiro escaped from the damaged Ball just before it exploded and found that the pilot of the Zeon Zaku had escaped as well.

Shiro followed the enemy pilot to the ruined hulk of a sunk "Magellan" battleship where the two engaged in a shootout with their sidearms, and after tackling the Zeon pilot Shiro discovered that it was a woman. Noticing that she was wounded, Shiro aided her and the two devised a plan to alert their respective allies and make it out of the battleship alive. After the two escape the young Zeon woman tells Shiro her name is Aina Saharin, and from then on the two young pilots' fates would be intertwined.

8th MS Team

When he arrives on Earth, Shiro, Michel Ninorich and Terry Sanders Jr. join up with the rest of the 08th Team, composed of veteran Karen Joshua, and sonar navigator Eledore Massis. Shiro would be given the Ground-type Gundam unit 081 as his personal mobile suit. Full of boundless enthusiasm and naïve idealism, Shiro is initially regarded by his teammates as a hopeless lightweight, and taunted with names such as "Commander Newbie". Shiro tells his team there would be one rule on the 08th Team: that everyone would come back alive.

After a few missions, Shiro gradually hones his skills as a pilot and earns the trust of his fellow 08th Team pilots, and even the trust and co-operation of the jungle gueraillas that operated in the area. However Shiro's relationship with Zeon pilot Aina Saharin leads to trouble, and an eventual court martial, when it is discovered she was the pilot of the dangerous Apsalus mobile armor.

Although he was acquitted of all charges, suspicions of Shiro being a traitor were still heavy among the soldiers of the Kojima Battalion. However, at the crucial battle to destroy the Apsalus III and capture Zeon's mountain fortress Shiro deserts the Earth Federation Forces to save Aina, and Captain Ethan Ryer ordered him to be executed upon capture. But Shiro and Aina's combined efforts destroyed the Apsalus. Both of them disappeared as Shiro's Gundam Ez8 fell into the volcano with the exploding Apsalus.

Shiro Amada was listed as MIA after the battle, but his remains never turned up in the wreckage of the Ez8. Unbeknownst to the Earth Federation Forces, Shiro survived the battle, but not without paying a high price: he lost his lower left leg. He and Aina started a new life in a small log house hidden deep in the mountains of southern Asia, with Aina bearing his child.

External links

* [http://www.gundamofficial.com/worlds/uc/ms08/characters/chara_shiro.html Official Biography]