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The main rival team of Edogawa Doras, Arakawa Whiter mostly consists of elite athletes and is rather popular, one of the reasons because there’s Shiroemon.
Despite having no sub-team or coach, they always win on every tournament they take part in. They get even more solid after battling Edogawa Doras on the 43rd Big Dome Cup.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: As their name indicates, their color is white.
- Eyes Always Shut: 3 of the team members.
- Light Is Not Good: Their color is white, but they were condescending towards Doras, especially Shiroemon. Of course, they grew out of this quite quickly.
- The Rival: Towards Edogawa Doras. The strain relationship gradually becomes Friendly Rival later on after each's leader seeing the other as Worthy Opponent.
- True Companion: It’s late and subtle, but still visible.
- Underestimating Badassery: They looked down and ridiculed Doras in the first few chapters, not knowing Doras will be their greatest opponent later on.
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Shiroemon
The cool rival
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Position: Pitcher
Jacket number: 1
The team's captain and only pitcher, he also takes the role of shadow coach. He used to be Kuroemon's schoolmate but after a heated argument, they broke up. By now, he and Kuro are each other's greatest rival.
In Shin Dorabase, he, just like Kuroemon, has become professional player and is one of the Chiba Marines's top players.
- The Ace: The top-tier pitcher with the unbeatable, signature White Ball and its variations (until Kuro steps in), and the literal ace for the national team, he can only be rivaled by other top-tier players.
- All for Nothing: He used a new pitch recklessly at Drump’s suggestion in a desperate attempt to defeat Doras and ended up almost losing his entire career because of the strain that injured his shoulder, but Doras found a way to counter it anyway.
- Always Someone Better: Whenever Kuro improves, Shiro improves a league better.
- Character Development: Shifts from being a selfish Jerkass "villain" to sympathetic rival. Especially after Kuro, who he often looked down at and considers a "dumb robot", manages to hit his White Ball, he develops respect for him and even acknowledges him as a Worthy Opponent.
- Determinator: His love and dedication to baseball is even moreso than Kuroemon, which led to their friends-turn-rivals relationship.
- Honor Before Reason: He will hand off using his signature pitch if Kuroemon wants him to preserve it for their match, at the cost of losing against Flyers. And then he realizes someone imposted Kuro.
- It's All About Me: In his first few appearances, he saw his teammates as nothing but steppingstones to victory and was a Jerkass towards them in the name of "strictness". He grew out of this after being called out.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Doesn’t give up his stoic, contemptuous, proud attitude and the habit of calling Kuro a "dumb robot" after his Character Development. Still a honorable guy from the bottom of his heart.
- Heroic RRoD: Ended up injuring his own shoulder by continuously using a hard ball he can't handle to win against Doras, much to Drump's satisfaction. Thanks to Doras, he was healed not so long after.
- Hidden Depths: Besides baseball, he’s also good at golf and fishing.
- Not So Stoic: Shiro seems to be based on the cool-and-cold rival archetype as opposition to the protagonist's Hot-Blooded (which Kuro is), and most of the time he really lives up to the image. But then he can still cry and enrage as any other characters.
- The Perfectionist: He hates failures and only strives for the perfect victory without regard to his teammates. While still having some shades of this, he significantly mellows out.
- Token Non-Human: Opposite to Doras, he is the only cat robot in the team.
- Signature Move: The White Ball and its variations. His newest technique is called World Ball.
- Situational Hand Switch: When his left shoulder got injured (Shiro is left-handed), he tried to use his right hand instead. It didn’t work, or rather, it didn’t have the chance to work, as Shiro was healed some moments later.
- Worf Had the Flu: He falls to Amoll’s trick and doesn’t use his Signature Move over the whole match, giving Flyers the chance to defeat his team.
Hirai
Position: Catcher
Jacket number: 2
The catcher of Whiters, a player with good physique, making him one of the team's best batter. He is really close to Shiroemon and intimately calls him "Shiro-kun" while other teammates mostly use "Shiro-san", indicating the inseparable closeness between them.
- The Big Guy: He is noticeably the biggest guy of the team and fittingly takes the role of a catcher.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Similar to Shiro, Hirai was not much of a nice guy at first glance, but after his Heel–Face Turn along with the team, he’s shown to be quite selfless and willing to do anything for his friends.
- Morality Pet: Doesn’t look like it, but he’s this to Shiro as the latter snaps out of his Jerkass way after he realizes he has hurt Hirai in process.
- Only Friend: To Shiro in Whiters at first, since other members feared Shiro and disliked his selfishness and insufferable attitude.
- Pointless Band-Aid: Has a band-aid on his nose all the time, but seems to be only for aesthetic purposes.
- The Reliable One: In Whiters, this position belongs to him, not Shiroemon. He is the one raising both Shiro's and Komatsugawa's spirit whenever they feel down.
- Undying Loyalty: To Shiro. When other members criticize Shiro, he’s the only one that stands by his side, and never tells Shiro about how he’s injured by catching his new pitches which he hasn’t got used to yet as he doesn’t want to slow Shiro down.
Komatsugawa
Position: Second baseman
Jacket number: 4
The team's second baseman. He was not much a good baseball player and is still not when facing strong opponents, but if he gets fired up he could play as well as Shiroemon.
- Expy: To Mettman in Baseball Star Mettman, a manga written the same mangaka.
- Grew a Spine: At first, he’s absolutely terrified of and pushed around by Shiroemon. After he Took a Level in Badass, while still respecting Shiro, he isn’t above delivering him some snarks.
- Nerd Glasses: Wears round glasses that indicates his clumsiness and lack of experience in baseball. He grows out of (a part of) his awkwardness later.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivered this to Shiro after having enough of the latter’s shit once he saw Hirai being injured by trying to catch up with Shiro’s whims.
- Took a Level in Badass: He used to be a bad player and got scolded severely by Shiro in some of the first chapters, but thanks to the hard training he made a great progress. So great that he is chosen to represent Japan in the WABC. The freaking national team.'
