Shiro Hama

Shiro Hama is one of the main protagonists of the series. She first appears in Season One and comes back in Season Two and onward. Her current B-Daman is the Rapid-Fire Type Sting Gorgon.

Shiro's alter ego is Surfing Sapphire with the Sapphire of Aqua Pura worn previously as a ring, but becomes an armband after being purified by Dark Corruption."'Electrocute the Bodies of Water, Sting Gorgon!' - Shiro, when Gorgon's Emblem Charge is ready." "'Create the tide and crash down, Surfing Sapphire!' - Shiro, after transforming into Surfing Sapphire."

Appearance
Shiro is an 11-year-old girl with pink hair and brown eyes. In Season One and Season Two, she wears a pale pink sleeveless top with a turtleneck collar, a red high-waist skirt, light gray stockings, and a pair of dark red shoes. She also wears a pair of red fingerless gloves. After receiving the Sapphire of Aqua Pura, Shiro wears a ring on her left hand. After getting purified from the effects of Dark Corruption, Shiro now wears an armband on her left arm.

While attending Crystal River Middle School, Shiro wears the standard school uniform, consisting of a purple and white sailor uniform, a green short-sleeved cropped jacket, and white socks. She retains her red gloves and red shoes.

In Season Three, her hair lengthens and styles it in a ponytail. She wears a brown shoulder cut coat over a pink oversized tank top, blue denim shorts, and pink boots.

As Surfing Sapphire, her hair lengthens and gains a blue ombre and styled in a loose ponytail. Her eyes becomes to bright blue white star-shaped pupils. In her first form, she wears a blue dress with transparent sleeves, and pink sandals. She also has a long blue scarf on her back.

In her second form, she wears a light blue top with a frilly turtleneck collar, a blue high-waisted skirt with a pink jellyfish on her left hip attached to a strand of pink string and a dark blue ruffle at the hem of the skirt, and a water layer under her skirt. Her blue scarf turns to water with both ends flowing with water.

As Dark Corruption: Guilt, Shiro's hair retains its length, but is now flowing freely. Her eyes are blacked out with markings and tears coming out. Her mouth is stitched together and forms into a smile. Black markings cover her middle finger and most of her hand. Her wrists are in a pair of shackles. She wears a blue dress covered in rips and tatters and left barefoot.

As Phoenix Sapphire, her hair lengthens and turns bright blue. She wears a white dress with blue feathers and gold details, and the Phoenix Stone in the center. A layer of white feathers goes around the back of her dress. She also wears a pair of white gloves and long boots with a gold trim, and gains a pair of water wings and tail that resembles a phoenix.

Official Bio
A B-Shot from the South Area of Crestland and student at Crystal River Middle School. Her B-Daman is the Rapid-Fire Type Sting Gorgon.

Shiro's known as Surfing Sapphire, the Angel Goddess of Water of the 9th Generation and holder of the Sapphire of Aqua Pura. Her predecessor is Noelani, the Angel Goddess of Water of the 8th Generation.

Her number one goal is to find her biological mother, Mifuyu Nagisa, after she was left at the orphanage.

Personality
Shiro is an energetic and rather childish young girl who enjoys spending her time with getting into Road Fights and talking with her B-Daman and partner in crime, Sting Gorgon. She has a tendency to show a tomboyish attitude. She gets bored of competing with other people, especially when she gets into Road Fights with her friend and rival, Misuru Hachuka and Asahi Yamada. She can be rather serious and short-tempered from time to time.

Despite her competitiveness, Shiro has a friendly nature and tends to let her guard down around others. She often has mood swings of reminiscing about her days in the orphanage and tends to feel lonely about herself.

Background
Shiro is the daughter of Mifuyu Nagisa and Neptune Hama. Her father left and disappeared out of their life when she was just a little girl. Even with her efforts to take care of her daughter while focusing on her studies, she couldn't handle two things at once. So she made the decision to leave Shiro at the Crestland Orphanage when she was five years old. Before Shiro was left at the orphanage and still with her mother, she found a B-Daman named Sting Gorgon, which was washed up on the beach shore. Shiro takes Gorgon in as part of her family and company whilst living in the orphanage.

During her stay in the orphanage, Shiro befriends two other others named Akira Takashi and Himari Tora. Together, they would play games, like tag and hide-and-seek, with the other orphans and talk about their favorite topics. On the contrary, Shiro often teaches her friends how to play B-Daman and gets into rival fights with male orphan. After her friends got adopted, Shiro makes a decision on finding her real mother. She later gets adopted into the Kinoshita Family.

Relationships

 * Mifuyu Nagisa - Mifuyu is Shiro's biological mother. Mifuyu left Shiro at the orphanage because she can't take care of her properly and was still in school. After she finished her studies, Mifuyu promises to find Shiro, but was shocked to hear that Shiro was turned evil. She reunites with Shiro and promises that she will always be there for her.
 * Neptune Hama - Neptune is Shiro's biological father. Shiro doesn't recognize her father, but she hates him for leaving her biological mother. She later meets Neptune with the Darkalia Twins and was infuriated. After Shiro saved Neptune from the Darkalia Twins, she makes a promise that she would forgive Neptune and his actions, when she becomes 18 years old.
 * The Kinoshita Family - Shiro's adopted family. She is rather close with her adopted family, especially Aiya, her foster Sister.
 * Kohana Mai - Shiro meets Kohana on Main Island in the events of Season One. Their friendship grew during Season Two. At first, Shiro refused to believe that she's the next Angel Goddess of Water, but learns to accept her fate to save Kohana and Samuru.
 * Miku Asuga - Shiro and Miku meets when Shiro and her friends were going back to the WBMA Dormitory. She later becomes friend with Miku and was shocked to learn that Miku was created by Clarice Darkalia. She later accepts Miku for her existence as a spirit.
 * Hanami Kaiya - Shiro meets Hanami in the events of Season 4.
 * Akira Takashi - Akira is Shiro's first best friend. They met in the orphanage and attend the same school together. Akira supports Shiro and her choices, especially since she was destined to become the Angel Goddess of Water.
 * Himari Tora - Himari is Shiro's second friend. Like Mac and Akira, the two met in the orphanage. Himari and Shiro slowly shares interests and promised each other that they would have a B-Daman battle against each other. Years later, their promise came true when they have their first B-Daman battle in the events of the B-Master Tournament.
 * Maccarter Adler - Maccarter and Shiro met in the orphanage. They are both seen as friends and rivals. They often argue with each other and calling each other by their given nicknames; Mac calls Shiro "Bird's Nest" while Shiro calls Mac "Mac n' Cheese Idiot". However, Mac slowly starts to have feelings for Shiro, but she stays oblivious.
 * Asahi Yamada - Shiro and Asahi met when they were kids. Revealed in "Ask the TNBS Cast," Shiro slapped Asahi's face to defend Aiya. The two start a rivalry and often gets into Road Fights against each other. However, they slowly get along with Asahi starting to have feelings for Shiro, but she stays oblivious.
 * Noelani - Noelani is the Angel Goddess of Water of the 8th Generation and Shiro's predecessor. First appearing in Season 2, she has helped Shiro find her potential into becoming the next Angel Goddess of Water and other moments, where Shiro feels like she is stuck or troubling.
 * Meri Nicole Evian - Meri is Shiro's 4th Great Grandmother and the Angel Goddess of Water of the 5th Generation. At first, Shiro

Surfing Sapphire
"'Create the tide and crash down, Surfing Sapphire!'"

Surfing Sapphire is the 9th generation's Angel Goddess of Water and Shiro's alias. In order to transform, she needs the Sapphire of Aqua Pura in the form of an accessory, like her armband (previously worn as a ring). In her Angel Goddess form, Shiro is able to use her B-Daman with the use of her special move, in order to purify the Darkalia on its weak spot. in her generation, she can cast and perform convergence spells. Her main weapon is a water sword. With the Pearl of the Sea, Shiro is capable of performing the spell called "Ocean Blast". Shiro is able to perform the spells from 8th Generation down to the 2nd Generation, but has yet to perform the spells from the 1st Generation.

Phoenix Sapphire
In Season Two, Shiro and Kohana were gifted the Phoenix Stones from Spike Phoenix. During her battle against Neptune, she is granted a new form and stronger powers. She wears a white dress with blue feathers and details, along with white boots, white gloves, and a gold choker, her hair lengthens and becomes bright blue, and she gets water Phoenix wings and tail. With this Phoenix form, she is able to use the attack "Phoenix Water". Her spells become stronger from her Angel Goddess form.

Transformation (as of Season Three)
The transformation starts with Shiro showing the Sapphire of Aqua Pura on her armband. She raises her left hand with a ring of water appearing and states, "Sapphire of Aqua Pura, ocean floors rise!" before shouting "Metamorphose!" and brings down her arm and the water engulfs her. The water changes into her dress with her hair flowing freely. She swims around before clapping her hands and emits water, surrounding her dress. Her top changes and spins around with more water changing into her skirt. She creates a water ring and goes around her waist, changing into a pink jellyfish with a pink sting around the skirt. She dives and casts water and goes through the water. The water strikes her, changing into her sandals. Water covers her hair and closes her eyes. Her hair lengthens and creates a blue ombre, and styled into a loose ponytail. She opens her eyes, becoming blue with star-shaped pupils. Shiro claps her hands and water flows out of her back, transforming into her water scarf. With the transformation complete, she flies to the top and breaks out of the Gemstone Realm. She states her introduction as she lands on top of the water's surface before introducing her name and strikes a pose.

Dark Corruption: Guilt
Sapphire becomes Dark Corruption: Guilt, after she was captured by the Twins in Season Two, during the "Operation: Rescue Phoenix" Arc. She gains a twisted appearance, barely unrecognizable by her looks. Her long blue hair flows freely with the pink ombre fading out. Her eyes are covered in dark matter, tears flowing down, and her mouth stitched together to form a forced smile. Black matter surrounds her and the Dark Corruption covering her left hand. She wears a blue dress, all tattered and ripped, with shackles on her wrists and left barefoot.

Guilt is capable of casting dark magic and does not have any control over her mental state. Despite taken over by dark energy, a young Shiro would often appear behind Guilt's back, attempting to bring back her senses, but Guilt doesn't listen to her calls and completely ignores her. She only listens to the Darkalia Twins, Hannibal and Lilith.

Trivia

 * Shiro's given name both means "white" and "castle", while her surname means "seacoast".
 * Shiro's surname comes from her father instead of her mother.
 * Shiro's birthday is on October 25, making her zodiac sign Scorpio.
 * Her zodiac sign also makes a connection with her elemental powers, which is water.
 * Shiro is the first Angel Goddess to have been controlled by Dark Corruption by the Darkalia Twins.
 * Shiro is the second character to be revealed to have a descendant that has been an Angel Goddess. Shiro is related to Meri Nicole Evian, the Angel Goddess of Water of the 5th Generation.
 * Revealed in "Girls' Sleepover Time!", Shiro enjoys make-up and her adopted sister owns a few cosmetic products from Starlight Beauty.
 * Shiro has a trouble of controlling her moods, often changing from one mood to another in a few seconds. However, she is able to control it as she grows up.
 * Shiro is the second Angel Goddess to have more than one form
 * She gains her second form after she was saved from Dark Corruption and finds strength to fight again.