With the D-BoYS, he was featured in their first two photobooks, the self-titled "D-Boys" and the second called "Start". He hosted a radio show called ""Marvelous Radio Vibration"" with fellow D-BOYS member Kotaro Yanagi and Yukki. The show aired on May 5, 2005, and ended its run on April 1, 2006. The D-BOYS then starred in their own drama documentary variety show called, "DD-Boys" in which Shirota's appeared in multiple episodes as himself. The show was 23 episodes long and ran from April 10 to September 25, 2006.