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Shirou Ogami ( 大 神 士 郎, Ōgami Shirō ) is the deuteragonist of the anime and manga series BNA: Brand New Animal. He works as a special advisor to the Mayor and Police of Anima City. Unknown to selected few, Shirou is the civilian identity of mythical wolf beastman deity referred as Ginrou.

He was voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya in Japanese and by Ben Diskin in English.

Appearance[]

In his human form, he has pale skin and white hair that is slightly unkempt with bangs framing his eyes. He has teal/cyan eyes that are droopy and stern. Shirou wears a black leather jaIn his wolf form. As Ginrou, he becomes a cyan and white giant wolf with protrusions on the shoulder surrounded by fiery turquoise aura.

Personality[]

Shirou is a selfless yet quiet and stoic wolf beastman who proud to be born as one to the point of passionate when it comes about beastmen in general, moved even during the festival at Anima City. In fact, his worst fear was being helpless by the sight of his people suffering either at the hands of humans or other unfortunate circumstances. By contrast, due to grisly downfall of his hometown and sordid experience with mankind, he harbors immense hatred towards them so much that he doesn't hesitate to punish his kin who willingly sell out their race. It takes his fateful encounter with Michiru, one of two human-turned beastmen, that he begins to change his perspective about humanity as they are apparently more than what they seemed to be, even while both races are on the brink of committing all-out war against each other.

As Ginrou, he is a stalward defender of beastmen who takes his duty very seriously. Even after centuries passed since his transcendence, Shirou carries such responsibility still and only utilizes his true might if situation calls for it (the latter helped by the fact that he had witnessed how destructive his divine gift can be if utilized irresponsibly and that seeing Alan Sylvasta's abuse of similar power in their final battle only proved such point). While his dedication to do the right thing for his people matters more than enjoying power that comes from his divine status, Shirou nonetheless worries about implication of some people took advantage of the very legend and faith he indirectly create for their selfish purposes, explaining his mistrust toward Silver Wolf Order and their guru, Nazuna, who assumed the mantle of Ginrou without realizing her predecessor is still alive and well.

Biography[]

Background[]

Barbara: (sees a statue of winged Ginrou still under construction) A Ginrou with wings, huh? It's a little over the top. But, people always trying to make the imitation more flashy than the real thing.
Michiru: Imitation?
Barbara: (
nods)Shirou Oogami is indeed the real Ginrou for a thousand years now.
Michiru: (
gasps)A thousand years?! Does that mean he has been alive for a thousand years?
Barbara: Yes.
Michiru: I don't understand. He doesn't look
that old.
Barbara: In appearance, no. That's because he stopped ageing after he became Ginrou.
Michiru: What do you mean became?
Barbara: The truth is Ogami has always been Ginrou
Michiru: Huh?
Barbara: It's a long and complicated story. (
an artistic footage of an ancient Greek city plays as she narrates) A thousand years ago, at the eastern edge of Europe, there was a city called Nirvasyl. It was a place just like Anima City, a place where only beastmen lived. Oogami used to live there as a normal wolf beastman. Back then, beastmen and humans used to trade with each other. Not only they coexisted, they were friends. (the footage changes from a wolf beastman – presumably Shirou's mortal self – exchanges a coin with a human as part of unspecified trade to a horde of Greecian soldiers with familiar symbol begins the siege to purge Nirvasyl) But one day, without any warning, an army of humans attacked Nirvasyl. (we see many of the soldiers slew any beastmen they came across with spears at hand and a rain of arrows, resulting strange lights emerging from their corpses)They killed an entire clan. (Shirou in his wolf form charges upon the soldiers only to be speared by one of them and executed by their victorious general) Then, they killed him too. (the footage changes to reveal a pit in which every single one of slain Nirvasyl beastmen being dumped into as the general left, apparently rallying his force to continue the purge somewhere else) And just like all the others, his corpse was abandoned. (deep within the bloody pit corpses, Shirou's dying body, still with the spear on his torso surrounded by dead bodies of his fellow clansmen and the rest of Nirvasyl inhabitants, started to glow ominously. The lights converge into him as thunderstorms looming over the pit) But then, something strange happened... (the pit violently bursts into an explosion of light and darkness, revealing Shirou, now reborn as the transcendent wolf beastman in his Ginrou form at the center of the still-burning crater, who then howls into the night) I don't know how exactly it happened, but the blood of his 2000 fallen comrades gave him the power and immortality. At least, that's what he believes.
Michiru: No way...
Barbara: After obtaining the power of Ginrou, he searched for the general who killed his clan. He tracked down the army of humans and ended up killing many soldiers. However, he was never able to find the general. (
the flashback shows Shirou as Ginrou regaining his senses after looking at his reflection on his last victim's eye, and then the bloody path he made in his quest for vengeance. Reverting to his human form devoid of clothes, he looked on his bloodied hands as the flashback ends) After realizing how empty the vengeance was, he decided to become the protector of beastmen. Not only did he protected them from oppression by the humans, he led them to new lands as well.
Michiru: So, that's how the legend of Ginrou came from...
Barbara: I met him for the first time in Europe. It was in the end of the second world war. (
another flasback plays the young Barbara in a cell somewhere at a human research facility) Some countries were trying to analyze the powers of beastmen. They were trying to turn them into bioweapons. In those countries, beastmen were captured, thrown into prison, and used for their experiments. (young Barbara saw a dog beastman being shot down several times by two of the facility's officers. Apparently, a riot breaks out there with its mastermind, Shirou in his Ginrou form, mauls the same officers right before her eyes. Stepping to the bars, young Barbara meets Ginrou who then frees her) That was when we were saved by Ginrou. (young Barbara and Ginrou stumble upon a lab full of disfigured, presumably comatose beastmen, some were either had their limbs amputated or forcefully hybridized in Frankenstein-style) However, when he saw the horrible conditions that the beastmen were subjected to, the one used in experiments, he killed all the humans in the lab. (the flashback shifts to the bloody aftermath of Shirou's fury) After that, he never transformed into Ginrou again. He became afraid of his own strength, so he sealed away the power of Ginrou. You cannot tell anyonw what you learned about him today, understand?
~ Barbara rose reveals to Michiru about Shirou's past in "The Mole Rat Speaks".
Shirou's violent transcendence into Ginrou BNA 08

Shirou's violent transcendence into Ginrou

Shirou was the sole survivor of the purge that took place in a beastman-exclusive city called Nirvasyl which situated at Eastern Europe. His life back then was normal until Raymond Sylvasta and his army besieged the city, killing its inhabitants and removed it from the map. According to Raymond's descendant, Alan Sylvasta, the purge was an act of necessary evil as having beastmen of different animal species coexist in a single region increased the risk of some of them undergone stress-induced berserker rage — a condition now known as Nirvasyl Syndrome. Even so, as Shirou and co. discovered in present day, such concern was something Sylvasta Family — a proud clan of purebreed beastmen — took advantage in their campaign against their regular kin so as only purebreed beastmen remained as supreme rulers of the planet.

Regardless, Raymond made a mistake where he didn't bother to check whether Shirou was properly killed and having his dying body tossed into a pit alongside bloodied corpses of hundreds of his fellow Nirvasyl inhabitants. As a result, their blood and vestiges imbued themselves into Shirou, leading to his miraculous revival and transcendence into Ginrou — a phenomenon not unlike Sylvasta Family's blood transcendence ritual in which a chosen member being bathed with blood of 1000 wolf beastmen. With his newfound power and (unknown to him) support from his late friends and loved ones beyond the grave, Shirou set out to hunt down Raymond Sylvasta in a bloody quest to no avail. In the end, he opted to use his divine powers to help his kin across the globe, and became known as Ginrou. Shirou knew his brethren would worship him as their patron deity, but his responsibility mattered him more.

As World War II came to a close, Shirou punished humans who responsible for unethical experiments on beastmen they captured during his raid on their research facility. It was during the attack he met the young Barbara Rose and Kuro themselves. Horrified by the aftermath of his one-man assault at said facility, Shirou decided to suppress his divine powers and rely on his natural might from there on.

Afterwards, he traveled alongside Barbara in helping their fellow beastmen as mortal up until the foundation of Anima City with his companion as its president while Shirou himself opted to become a social worker for Gem and Melissa Horner of the Animal-human Consumer's Coop by profession.

Trivia[]

  • Shirou's mobile phone number is [5128-8814|(040) 5128-8814], which means "this is dangerous" if you convert and read each of the numbers in Japanese furigana.
  • He has another name in the light novel, which is "Abiyad" (meaning "white" in Arabic).
  • He is similar to Lord Sesshomaru from the Inuyasha series.
    • Both are pessimistic canine-humanoids who have longevity, but appear younger by their physical appearances.
    • Both are able to transform into their large animal forms (Sesshomaru is a dog yokai while Shirou is a wolf beastman).
    • They accompany younger girls who often aid them in situations since their respective encounters (Michiru Kagemori and Rin).
    • They despise humans since the past until they accept them in the end (the difference is that Sesshomaru viewed humans as "powerless and unworthy" while Shirou viewed them as enemies who were responsible for slaughtering every beastman).
    • They are able to heal and regenerate themselves from their injuries.
    • Both later formed significant bonds with their younger counterparts (whereas Sesshomaru falls in love and marries Rin when she reaches adulthood, while Shirou and Michiru are close friends who complement each other's nature, both in and out of work).
  • According to BNA staff, "Yoshinari was very careful to make Michiru and Shiro equals in the story. He doesn’t want Michiru to be Shiro’s side-kick. It’s not Batman and Robin, they’re partners." This in turn, confirmed the two's dynamic being that of partners who complement each other's nature.
  • Shirou's true nature as the transcended beastman under the name of Ginrou was foreshadowed through some points in the series noticeable only for astute watchers, such as superhuman abilities beyond average beastmen (including surviving the fall from extreme heights), increasing concern and suspicion toward Silver Wolf Order, and him nonchalantly consuming bacons intended to be offering for his divine alter-ego.
  • His Japanese voice actor, Yoshimasa Hosoya, also voiced Haruhiro in Grimgar of Fantasy, Reiner Braun in Attack on Titan, Fumikage Tokoyami and Dark Shadow in My Hero Academia, Cody Maverick in Surf's Up, Kazuichi Soda in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Lance in Pokémon Generations, Aren Kuboyasu in The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Kojou Akatsuki in Strike the Blood, Matt Ishida in Digimon Adventure tri, Declan Akaba in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Welf Crozzo in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Masrur in Magi: The Labyrinth Of Magic, Wave in Akame Ga Kill!, Gaius Worzel in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, Orga Itsuka in Mobile Suit Gundam: IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS, Subaru Hidaka in Robotics; Notes, Arata Kasuga in Trinity Seven, Renshō Sorinozuka in Inu x Boku SS, Rom in Show by Rock!!, and Robin in Fire Emblem: Awakening.

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