Shu Shirakawa

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Shu Shirakawa - シュウ・シラカワ
Other Names Christoph Gran McSword, Christoph Zeo Volkruss
Series Info
Featured In Super Robot Wars OG: Divine Wars
Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector
Personal Info
Voice Actor Takehito Koyasu
Age 21-22 (Classic Timeline)
22 (OG1)
24-25 (MKIII)
Gender Male
Species Human
Nationality Langran
Relationships Misaki Shirakawa (Mother)
Kaion Gran McSword (Father)
Professional Info
Profession
Rank/Position   
Affiliation Volkruss Cult (Formerly)
EOTI Organization/Divine Crusaders (Formerly)


Personal Data

  • Name: Shu Shirakawa
  • AKA: Cristoph Gran McSord or Cristoph Zeo Volkruss, Shu-boy
  • Voice Actor: Takehito Koyasu
  • Status/Rank: Cult of Volkruss Member "formerly", Divine Crusaders Researcher "formerly", Shu's Group, Himself Currently
  • Related Characters: Chika (Familiar), Masaki Andoh (Rival), Lune Zordark (Rival), Hwang Yang Long, Tytti Noorbuck, Mio Sasuga (Other Heralds), Saphine Grace (Self-proclaimed girlfriend), Princess Monica Grania Bilseia (Self-proclaimed girlfriend), Telius Gran Bilseia (Subordinate), Amara Barton (Subordinate)
  • Mecha: Granzon → Neo Granzon

Appearances

Video Games

  • Super Robot Wars 2 - Non Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars 3 - Playable character → Non Playable enemy character
  • Super Robot Wars EX - Playable character → Non Playable enemy character
  • Hero Senki: Project Olympus - Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars 4 - Playable character → Non Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars 2G - Non Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars Gaiden: Masō Kishin - The Lord Of Elemental - Non Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars F - Playable character → Non Playable enemy character
  • Super Robot Wars F Final - Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars Alpha - Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden - Non Playable character
  • Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation - Non Playable character
  • Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2 - Non Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars Original Generations - Non Playable character → Playable character → Non Playable enemy character
  • Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden - Playable character → Non Playable enemy character
  • Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin II - Revelation of Evil God - Playable character → Non Playable enemy character
  • 2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generation - Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars Original Generations Dark Prison - Protagonist
  • Super Robot Wars OG INFINITE BATTLE - Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin III - Pride of Justice - Playable character → Non Playable enemy character
  • Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin F - Coffin of the End - Protagonist
  • Super Robot Wars X-Ω - Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers - Playable character
  • Super Robot Wars DD - Playable character

Animation

  • Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars
  • Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Inspector

Theme Music

  • Dark Prison (ダークプリズン) - Default theme in all appearances
  • Neo Granzon (Retitled ARMAGEDDON in later SRW series, where it is no longer attributed to him) - Used when piloting the Neo Granzon as an enemy unit
  • Dark Prison Ver. OG DP (ダークプリズン Ver OG DP) - Used when piloting the Neo Granzon as ally unit

Personality And Traits

Shu Shirakawa conducts himself in an extremely proper manner, but despite this propriety, he is not above condescending his enemies for their weakness. On top of this, Shu is an incredibly intelligent individual, and despite his young age, he has earned a number of PhD's and is a brilliant scientist. Not only that he actually comes from La Gias, where there are only highly developed alchemies and magics, but Shu managed to adopt himself into the Earth science very quickly and even managed to combine it with alchemies and magics. He also is an excellent alchemist and has an even higher amount of mana than prince Palelord.

Shu is also very accomplished in mecha development. It is said that he single-handedly designed and created Granzon, which is one of the most technologically advanced mechas to ever exist, using 1/3 of DC's funding. To further enhance this, he was also able to channel Volkruss's power onto the machine to transform it into Neo-Granzon, one of the deadliest mechas in the SRW universe. After being freed from Volkruss, Shu later learnt to achieve the same effects using alchemy and magic alone.

Chika, Shu's familiar, is a foul-mouthed bird who cares exceptionally much about money, and very talkative. It is revealed by the creator of Masoukishin, Shu has created his familiar in order to obtain Cybuster. However Chika's personality annoyed Shu so much he didn't bother creating second familiar, required to utilize High Familiars of Cybuster.

However, deep inside Shu has a dark past - He was offered as a sacrifice by his very own Earthling mother, who wished to return home by the ritual. On the verge of death, he signed a pact with the evil god Volkruss who saved him from death and granted him supernatural intelligence, at the cost of Volkruss gaining control of his will. Shu has been in conflict ever since, and all his actions onward were ultimately targeted at freeing himself from Volkruss's grasp.

After being defeated by Masaki and his friends, Shu was resurrected by Luozorl Zoran Loiel, a high priest of Volkruss. The resurrection wiped out Shu's memories, but luckily for him (and unluckily for Luozorl) included his own pact with Volkruss. Seizing this opportunity Shu started to rebel and eventually destroyed the entire sect and their god in revenge for having controlled him.

Now free to do whatever he pleases decides to help out Masaki and allies against the threats on the surface and occasionally threats that happen in La Gias, trying to become a more reasonable person in his own way, and now is a person who always keeps his promises when being asked.

His rivalry with Masaki comes from him killing Zeoroot the destruction he caused for Langran and Masaki considers him a threat for every action he does, before fleeing to the surface world of Earth, an event that occurs before Super Robot Wars 2 in the Classic Timeline and most likely also happened in the Alpha and Original Generation timelines. However over the course of the OG Saga: Masou Kishin Games his relationship with Masaki gradually changes with him now being on more reasonable accounts and being more concerned about his well being now having a sense of trust between each other.

History

His mother, Misaki Shirakawa, is a Japanese women from the surface, his father is a La Gias denizen and that makes him a half Earthling, half La Gias breed in existance. The Japanese name "Shirakawa Satoshi" is a private name given by his mother. Shu was one of the heirs to the throne, but contracted with the destructive god Sava Volkrus after an incident that occurred in his childhood (around 10 years old). The deep scars on the chest and the distrust of women can be said to be a remnant of that time. Contracting with Volkrus and becoming his servant is a deadly sin in La Geass, and after the facts became known, he was called "Apostate Christophe" and feared. Due to his high ability, he has a strong attachment to this evil god, and he is still being targeted even after being released from the curse named Contract by "Resurrection after Death".

About two years before the main story started, it was stated that Shu left Langran and went to the surface (in the OG series, "from nearly two years ago" is blurred to "a while ago"). Prince Terius, who happened to hear a conversation between Foreign Minister Gram and Lieutenant General Lafitte, speculates that his cousin's ground activities were due to a secret order from the Lengrand government. The actual situation is unknown, but it is not difficult to imagine that he was secretly engaged in activities that fulfilled his purpose while going back and forth between the ground and La Giasu, even from the fact that he was acquainted with Tutti . When two ground people, Masaki and Simone, first met Shu, there was a scene where they felt déjà vu that they had seen it somewhere, but it was not mentioned in detail. If the reason for the disappearance is the execution of the mission of the "Ground Man Summoning Plan" planned by Lengrand, the discomfort felt by the two people is not caused by " remembrance ". It is understood that the two people who have a good intuition have seen the existence of Shu who witnessed the selection of the ground people to be summoned somewhere. It also leads to the understanding that the involvement of Volkrusians led to the understanding that a dangerous man like Rubikka was called into La Gias as a ground man to be summoned.

On the ground side, he is fascinated by Dr. Bian Zordark, who will later become Leader and General of the Divine Crusaders (DC), and promises to cooperate with him without asking for a reward.It was during his involvement in the development and piloting of Granzon that he gained he has earned a number of PhD's and became a well-known brilliant scientist.

Classic Timeline

Masou Kishin I Sometime before the war with the Divine Crusaders, Shu had his first encounter with Masaki Andoh on the surface (Earth), where he had already received his Granzon and was piloting. Eventually meets him again in La Gias. He explains to Masaki that he is not an Earthling, but a citizen of the Langran Kingdom. The next time Shu and Masaki's paths would cross would been in under much more shocking circumstances. Masaki had already let it be known to his friends in La Gias that he could not trust Shu, and his feelings were validated when Shu, in the Granzon, launched an attack on the capital of Langran. Here, he renounced his royal bloodline and a declaration of war on the Langran Kingdom. He also renounced his original name, Cristoph Gran McSord, saying that if he must use the Cristoph name, the name Cristoph Zeo Volkruss may suit him better. As it is, he preferred the name Shu Shirakawa.

In a rage, Masaki launched in the Cybuster to meet Shu head-on; Shu, unimpressed with Masaki's hotheadedness, says he will show him just what kind of power the Granzon has compared to the Cybuster's. Masaki attacked Shu, and to his shock, didn't even scratch the paint of Shu's machine. Shu proclaims that that was what he was trying to tell Masaki: that it is useless to even try and fight back, since the Masō Kishin are not even close to being in the same league as the Granzon. To demonstrate this, Shu used one of the Granzon's weapons to damage the Cybuster. He criticized Masaki's lack of power, and told him that if he wishes to live, he will unlock Cybuster's true potential here and now. He went on to explain that the Granzon shares the same technology used by the Divine Crusaders' Armored Modules, Extra-Over Technology -- the extraterrestrial technology gathered from Meteor-3. He added that an alien force will eventually attack Earth, and the Granzon is the only machine powerful enough right now to withstand their weaponry. Furthermore, he warns Masaki that unless he can realize his Masō Kishin's full potential, his chances of being able to fight them are nonexistent.

He was forced to watch Shu duel with Zeoroot and quickly defeated him. However, Shu was forced to retreat, when he realized that Zeoroot had damaged the Warp Shield of the Granzon. Masaki gave chase and confronted Shu, initially driven by a desire to avenge Zeoroot, only to come to realize (thanks in part to Shu's own comments) that vengeance wasn't what was driving him to defeat Shu - it was simply the fact that for whatever reason he couldn't stand the pompous bastard, and felt something inside him telling him that Shu simply couldn't be left alone to do as he pleased. In response to Masaki's epiphany, Cyfis, the resident spirit of Cybuster, initiates "Possession," a mode where pilot and spirit share wills perfectly and thus increase the machine's capabilities far beyond their normal limit, at the cost of an immense amount of Prana. Masaki manages to defeat Granzon in a single blow thanks to the power of Possession, but it is of course a temporary victory, as Shuu escapes.

When the capitol of Langran was destroyed by the forces of the Shutedonias Alliance (another nation of La Gias), Shu and Masaki met once more. Despite the way that it looked to Masaki, Shu was not responsible for this attack, adding that he knew Masaki wouldn't believe anything he said. Realizing that Masaki would want his revenge, Shu went on to say that he had business to attend to on Earth. Masaki went back to Earth to track down Shu and make him pay.

Super Robot Wars 2 (The Divine Crusaders War) Shu collaborated with Bian Zoldark, who staged a coup towards the Earth Federation with his faction, the Divine Crusaders. The first obstacle facing him in this situation, however, was the weak-willed Earth Federation government, which saw fit to surrender to the alien threat, before they could begin their assault. Finding the secret meeting to sign their declaration of surrender in Antarctica, Shu used the Granzon to level the building and end the proceedings, before they could even begin. To the Earth's armed forces, this was seen as an act of terrorism; and it is at this place that Shu is reunited by Masaki. Meanwhile, various factions, that would become the Londo Bell, began rescuing prisoners of the Divine Crusaders, and amassing power to topple Bian. When Bian is defeated, Shu's intention, which was the same as Bian's, was revealed: to prepare the Earth's forces enough to face the upcoming extraterrestrial threat. Shu vanished into obscurity, afterwards.

Super Robot Wars 3 (The Inspectors) Eventually, Bian's prediction came true and the Earth Federation finds themselves under attack by the Inspectors. Shu eventually came out of hiding and joins forces with the Londo Bell to defeat the Inspectors, successfully defeating the child-like tyrant, Wendolo Bolverde. After Wendolo's defeat, however, Shu revealed his true intent -- he wished to challenge himself and become stronger by fighting and killing his enemies-turned-allies. To accomplish this, he unlocked the cursed power of the God of Destruction, Volkruss, transforming his Granzon into an even more devastating machine, the Neo Granzon. With this newfound power, he intended on destroying the Earth -- knowing that this impetus was necessary to push the Londo Bell to its full power, this is later known as Ragnarok. In this final battle, the combined might of the Londo Bell prevailed, and Shu's machine was destroyed, his last words indicating that he was proud of the Londo Bell and their ability to defeat even the Neo Granzon. He died with no regrets.

Super Robot Wars EX (Resurrection) His death was short-lived, as his body and soul were brought from the void back to La Gias, summoned by the priest of Volkruss, Luozorl Zoran Loiel, but with his past memories gone making him . His plan was to use Shu to summon the true Volkruss and throw La Gias into chaos. Shu, unhappy from being used by Luozorl, quickly rebelled, and even defeated Volkruss itself, alongside his former enemies.

Super Robot Wars IV, Final, F Final/Masou Kishin II (The Guests, and Afterwards) Shu was later seen wandering on the surface world of Earth, when the Londo Bell faced the Zuvorg Alliance emissaries, calling themselves the Guests. He would eventually join forces with them again to drive away the Guests. In the second half of Super Robot Wars Gaiden, Shu and Masaki confronted a resurrected Luozorl, who caught Shu through brainwashing, and turned him against Masaki. Masaki helped Shu break free from Luozorl's control and together, they slew the mad priest. Afterwards, both settled with their differences and it is assumed that they somewhat become friends.

Alpha Timeline

In Alpha Series because the Divine Crusaders were not an enemy force in Alpha, Shu acted as a background ally for much of Alpha, only joining the Londo Bell at the end, when they prepared for their showdown with the leader of the Aerogaters, Laodicea Judecca Gozzo. His role in Alpha Gaiden was also limited to a short number of episodes, but much more significant. In the chaos surrounding the aftermath of the war with the Aerogaters and the activation of the Aegis Plan, Shu, with Saphine Grace and Monica Gran Bilseir in tow, arrived on Earth in front of the grounded Macross battleship, declaring that he must provide a sufficient number of sacrifices on the surface to resurrect a certain something in La Gias. In addition, he felt a compulsion to bring about an end to the forces trying to divert the wheel of balance in the universe, the Londo Bell, and doom the Earth to its one true destiny: destruction.

Rightfully angered by his proclamations, the Londo Bell engaged Shu in his Neo Granzon and even managed to badly damage it, however, the result of which was a rip in time and space that threw the Londo Bell centuries into the future, one where they failed to activate the Aegis Plan, bringing about an apocalyptic world.

When the Londo Bell returned to their original timeline, Shu was there for one more challenge, intending (as in the Classic Timeline) to destroy the Earth, and provide the souls required for Volkruss' resurrection, with Ragnarok. In a hard-fought battle, the Londo Bell overcame the Neo Granzon a second time, destroying the monstrous machine for good. Shu died without regrets, realizing that it was simply his time to be destroyed, as part of the universal cycle of life.

Since the events of EX wasn't present in this timeline it was hard to say if Shu was resurrected and if the story was happening without aid from the surface.

Original Generation Timeline

Following the events of the Classic Timeline, Shu first appears in Antarctica and attempted to wipe out the SRX Team with the Granzon, along with the base, only to be stopped by Masaki's arrival. Afterwards, his story generally stayed the same with the Classic Timeline version of the Divine Crusaders War.

Original Generation 2 In the war with the Inspectors, Shu was generally inactive, only appearing at unexpected times, such as rescuing Ratsel Feinschmeker from the assault of the Inspectors' Aguija and Mekibos. He is not seen afterwards.

In Original Generation Gaiden, Shu first shows up during the Bartoll uprising, and much to Masaki's chagrin, he helped him defeating Kyle Bean and his Mironga. His whereabouts were unknown afterwards, but he showed up again to help the Cry Wolves squadron, Axel Almer and Einst Alchemie, to drive away the newly, risen Einst threat and the homunculi of Duminuss, Tiz. Shu later shows up for the last time in the Swordian Fortress and helps the Earth Federation Army defeat Duminuss and the Dark Brain. After the Dark Brain's defeat, however, just as in the Classic Timeline, Shu betrays his allies and attempts to execute Ragnarok once more, with the Neo Granzon. He is shortly defeated and killed.

In 2nd Original Generation, like in Classic Timeline, afterwards Shu is revived by Volkruss's cult and has his memories wiped (along with the contract being accidentally nullified).

Shu later resurfaces in the surface again with his memories returned and becomes vital in exposing the innocence of Steel Dragons by bringing the Commanders of both the Gaia Sabers "Arteil Steinbeck", The Guests "Teniquette Zezenan" with their fleets behind them, and Masaki with the rest of the Heralds to a meeting out in space. First he starts things off by revealing the Naked Singularity and caused it to collapse from the Granzon and Shu started by explaining how the Granzon was also made with Guest Technology. Then explained the background before the DC War and how the Guests first made contact, gave the Black Hole technology that was used in the development for the Granzon, and then when the Areogaters attack how a group of humans contacted the Guests and agreed on surrendering the Earth over to them and saving their own skins, and Zezenan was at the Antarctic Incident. Then explained how the Naked Singularity works by making unexplained incidents happening and how come the Earth has been attacked by Aliens numerous times and the Einst, Shadow Mirror, Shura and Ruina all came from different worlds, so what made them come here of all places? In other words all the events that have transpired was because of the Granzon, but Shu stated that he didn't plan for any of this for his own self-interests and stated while it's true the fault for most of the chaos is the Granzon, still said some of the events wasn't just because of the Grazon. With the boundary between time & space is uncertain the possibility is the Earth itself could be wrapped in it. Then said while he did end the Singularity he still say that the current chaos at the moment cant be undone and the dice has been rolled. He then explained how he did understood the theory he didn't know the energy to break it until he fought against someone, possibly Dark Brain. But wasn't finished yet he posted online for the world to see a fixed video of Steinbeck and Zezenan meeting in secret of conspiring together and were behind framing the Steel Dragons for killing the President. After the fighting Shu gave Masaki the last missing piece of Tronium in his possession. Later on, he, along with Saphine and Monica, join forces with the Steel Dragons to destroy the Guests and eventually Gaia Sabers, the Ruina and the Garden Of Baral. He once again vanishes once all the ordeals are done.

In Original Generation: Dark Prison, this is an extra tale that explains Shu's events during 2nd OG. After being revived by Luozorl, he was assigned to get his repaired Granzon and eventually gets caught up with the civil wars between the Kingdom of Langran and Shutendonias Alliance, along with the mass summoning of surface dwellers that were called down to La Gias and gained some allies that he promises to return to the surface Selena Recital, Elma, Albharda and Yong Gebana. During the chaos the Cult of Volkruss plans to revive their god through a ritual of a sacrifice from the blood of the royal blood.

In Masou Kishin OG Saga 2, 3 & F Coffin of the End, Shu continues doing his own thing alongside his Subordinates, clashing against Masaki and Co on numerous occasions and still continues to foil the plans of the Cult of Volkruss of trying to revive the other Pillar Gods of lore. Eventually had his first taste of defeat as his NEO Granzon was defeated in battle and a mysterious force begins to bring destruction to La Gias with the disappearance of the Heralds in action, in order to solve this mystery he used his personal ship Vuira to gather allies and find out the truth behind the strange events that plague La Gias.

In Original Generation: The Moon Dwellers, Shu returns during the Mid part of the story alongside Masaki, Lune and Amara from comming out of Earth's CrossGate from space. Explained what happened in La Gias during F Coffin of the End. Shu and co ended up assisting the Steel Dragons fighting against Fury and Gadisword, but not before hearing from Yong about Selena's injury and the death of Albharda which he held onto his promise to him. Eventually had to face against Dark Brains remnants attempt to revive their leader only to face against XN-L/Zan-El another Kadoam Hakam using the Grandread Fenossa as his divine object who appears out of the CrossGate planning to eradicate all life in the universe. After the conflict ended with the CrossGate being destroyed, with no other way to return Shu and co decided to stay aboard the Kurogane for the time being until they find a way to return to La Gias.