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Shiro Amada
Image:ShiroAmada.jpg
Image of Shiro Amada
DOB: UC 0054
Age: 24
Nationality: Earth Federation
Allegiance: Earth Federation Army
Rank/Position: Second Lieutenant
Ethnic Origin: Japanese
Mobile Suit: RB-79K Ball K Type
RX-79[G] Gundam Mass Production Ground Type
Gundam Ez8


Second Lieutenant Shiro Amada is one of the main characters in the anime OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, next to Aina Saharin. Image File history File links ShiroAmada. ... The flag of the Earth Federation Government. ... The RB-79 Ball is a fictional weapon from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. ... The RX-78 development program, in addition to the experimental suits listed above, managed to generate a significant stockpile of mobile suit parts. ... The RX-79[G]Ez-8 Gundam Ez8 was a ground combat mobile suit crated by the Earth Federation Forces in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. ... The main cast of the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) (L to R: Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Ed Tivrusky, Faye Valentine, and Ein the dog) Anime ) (IPA pronunciation: in Japanese, but typically or in English) is an abbreviation of the word animation. Outside Japan, the term most popularly refers to animation... A human ovum An ovum (loosely, egg or egg cell) is a female sex cell or gamete. ... Aina Saharin Aina Saharin is one of the main characters in the anime OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, next to Shiro Amada // Overview Aina Saharin (left) with Norris Packard Aina is Ginias sister and a daughter of the Zeonic noble family 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. In the fictional Gundam anime series, space colonies play a pivotal role in ever-changing stories. ... In the fictional Gundam anime series, space colonies play a pivotal role in ever-changing stories. ...


Story

Early Years

Shiro was present during the initial Zeon poison gas attacks on the colonies in the first weeks of the One Year War, witnessing all of the colonies inhabitants die horribly around him, Shiro himself saved only because he was lucky enough to be wearing a sealed space suit. Witnessing this wanton civilian death filled Shiro with a hatred for the Zeon, and everything they stood for. Zeon Emblem In the TV anime Gundam (Universal Century series) universe, Zeon can refer to either: Republic of Zeon, Principality of Zeon or Neo-Zeon. ... The One Year War is a fictional conflict from the Universal Century timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries. ...


Shiro, who was already 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. The flag of the Earth Federation Government. ...


En route to Earth the transport that Shiro is on intercepts a distress signal from a damaged RGM-79[G] GM Type-E Shiro and decides to go out in a measly RB-79K Ball K Type to rescue it. Shiro is able to save the GM pilot, Terry Sanders Jr., and destroy the MS-06RD-4 Zaku II Prototype, although in the process his Ball K Type was critically damaged. Shiro escaped from the damaged Ball just before it exploded and found that the Zeon pilot of the Zaku II Prototype had escaped as well. The limited production RGM-79E GM Type-E space-combat mobile suit As the One Year War reached its stalemate in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam, the Earth Federation realized that the only way to win the war was through building and mass producing their own mobile suits. ... The RB-79 Ball is a fictional weapon from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. ... Terry Sanders Junior is a fictional character in the anime OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. ... The MS-06RD-4 Zaku II Prototype was a prototype space combat mobile suit from the anime OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. ...


Shiro followed the enemy pilot to the ruined hulk of a sunk Magellan-Class Battleship where the two engaged in a shootout with their sidearms, and after tackling the Zeon pilot Shiro discovered that it was a girl. 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. In the fictional Mobile Suit Gundam universe, the Magellan-Class Battleship was a battleship type that was commissioned in UC 0070 as part of the Federations 70s Armament Reinforcement Plan. ... Aina Saharin Aina Saharin is one of the main characters in the anime OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, next to Shiro Amada // Overview Aina Saharin (left) with Norris Packard Aina is Ginias sister and a daughter of the Zeonic noble family Saharin. ...


8th MS Team

Shiro Amada (right) and Aina Saharin
Shiro Amada (right) and Aina Saharin

When he arrives on Earth Shiro, Michel Ninorich, and Terry Sanders Jr. join up with the rest of the 08th Team, composed of Karen Joshua, and Eledore Massis. Shiro would be given the RX-79[G] Gundam Mass Production Ground Type 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 "Captain Newbie." Shiro tells his team there would be one rule on the 08th Team; that everyone would come back alive. Image File history File links 08thOVA02300. ... Image File history File links 08thOVA02300. ... Aina Saharin Aina Saharin is one of the main characters in the anime OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, next to Shiro Amada // Overview Aina Saharin (left) with Norris Packard Aina is Ginias sister and a daughter of the Zeonic noble family Saharin. ... Assigned to the 08th MS Team along with Shiro, Michel serves as navigator and gunner of the teams support hovertruck. ... Karen Joshua in the cockpit of her RX-79[G] Gundam. ... Eledore Massis Eledore Massis is a character from the anime, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. ... The RX-78 development program, in addition to the experimental suits listed above, managed to generate a significant stockpile of mobile suit parts. ...


After a few missions (and a LOT of time in the simulator) 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. The Apsalus Project was a series of projects by Principality of Zeon scientists to create a powerful Mobile Armour in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. ... Mobile ARMOUR (MA in short): All Range Maneuverability Offence Utility Reinforcement Unlike some misconception that people keep calling it Mobile armor, It got an U in it. ...


Although he was aquited 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 he is ordered killed by Captain Ethan Ryer. But Shiro and Aina's combined efforts destroy the Apaslaus III but the Ez8 is lost in the process. The Apsalus Project was a series of projects by Principality of Zeon scientists to create a powerful Mobile Armour in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. ...


Shiro Amada was listed as MIA after the battle, but his remains never turned up in the wreckage of the Gundam Ez8. Unbeknownst to the Earth Federation Forces, Shiro survived the battle. Although Shiro had lost his left leg in the battle, he was still alive, and he and Aina started a new life in a small house hidden deep in the mountains of southern Asia. MIA is a three-letter acronym that is most commonly used to designate a combatant who is Missing In Action, and has not yet returned or otherwise been accounted for as either dead (KIA) or a prisoner of war (POW). ... The RX-79[G]Ez-8 Gundam Ez8 was a ground combat mobile suit crated by the Earth Federation Forces in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. ...

Universal Century Characters
Earth Federation/Titans/Londo Bell/League Militaire:
Matilda Ajan - Shiro Amada - Frau Bow - South Burning - Gates Capa - Paolo Cassius - Uso Evin - Ryu Jose - Kojima - Karen Joshua - Yu Kajima - Hayato Kobayashi - Sleggar Law - Reccoa Londe - Christina Mackenzie - Sayla Mass - Eledore Massis - Jerid Messa - Four Murasame - Michel Ninorich - Bright Noa - Adenaur Paraya - Amuro Ray - Tem Ray - General Revil - Terry Sanders Jr. - Kai Shiden - Admiral Tianem - Kou Uraki - Admiral Watkins - Reed Wolf - Mirai Yashima
Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG)/Karaba:
Char Aznable - Judau Ashta - Henken Bekkener - Kamille Bidan - Blex Forer - Hayato Kobayashi - Reccoa Londe - Bright Noa - Amuro Ray - Emma Sheen
Principality of Zeon/Delaz Fleet/Axis/Neo Zeon:
Char Aznable - Black Tri-Stars - Crowley Hamon - Zeon Zum Deikun - Aiguille Delaz - Cima Garahau - Anavel Gato - Von Helsing - Haman Karn - Colonel Killing - Thomas Krutz - Shin Matsunaga - Norris Packard - Quess Paraya - M'Quve - Ramba Ral - Johnny Ridden - Aina Saharin - Ginias Saharin - Steiner Hardy - Lalah Sune - Bernard Wiseman - Degwin Sodo Zabi - Dozle Zabi - Garma Zabi - Gihren Zabi - Kycilia Zabi - Mineva Lao Zabi
Civilian/Miscellaneous:
Alfred Izuruha - Nina Purpleton - Kiki Rosita - Haro

  Results from FactBites:
 
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, Miller's Report (movie) - Anime News Network (734 words)
Plot Summary: Shortly after being rescued off the Himalayas, Federation Ensign Shiro Amada is accused of espionage due to his encounter with Zeon's top-secret mobile armor.
Her documented findings will determine whether or not Shiro is a traitor, and what his fate will be as commander of the 08th MS Team.
Shiro Amada's alleged ties with the Principality of Zeon.
Shiro Amada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (749 words)
Shiro Amada was born in the cluster of space colonies known as Side 2.
Shiro was present during the initial Zeon poison gas attacks on the colonies in the first weeks of the One Year War, witnessing all of the colonies inhabitants die horribly around him, Shiro himself saved only because he was lucky enough to be wearing a sealed space suit.
Shiro followed the enemy pilot to the ruined hulk of a sunk Magellan-Class Battleship where the two engaged in a shootout with their sidearms, and after tackling the Zeon pilot Shiro discovered that it was a girl.
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