History Manga / Spriggan

* SettingUpdate: The anime is updated from the ColdWar to the present day circa 2022. For instance, Moroha's now an SVR agent instead of being a KGB agent. The Machiner's Platoon is armed with FN SCAR assault rifles and dons Ops-Core-type helmets.

* SettingUpdate: The anime is updated from the ColdWar to the present day. For instance, Moroha's now an SVR agent instead of being a KGB agent. The Machiner's Platoon is armed with FN SCAR assault rifles and dons Ops-Core-type helmets.

* PoweredArmor: The Armored Muscle Suit Yu wears makes him borderline ImmuneToBullets (barring being shot in the face, which is exposed), boosts his speed and strength and allows him to focus his psychic energy into power-laced punched. The Machiner's Platoon has suits made of the same element that are more "mechanical" in design and make an emphasis [[MightyGlacier on strength over speed]].

It was announced that [[http://moetron.net/post/183307870700/a-new-anime-for-hiroshi-takashiges-manga-series the manga will be adapted again]] on March 2019 with animation by Creator/DavidProduction in collaboration with Netflix. Originally due to be released by 2021. The anime was delayed and eventually released worldwide on June 18, 2022. The first six episodes were made available.

* BatmanColdOpen: The ActionPrologue of "First Mission" sets up the basic premise of the series; a government team led by a HollywoodCyborg discovers LostTechnology beyond our comprehension, goes insane with powerlust and religious fervour and turns on his own side so he can activate it to destroy the world, only for Yu to turn up and stop him with a [[GeniusBruiser combination of badassery and thinking on his feet]].

It was announced that [[http://moetron.net/post/183307870700/a-new-anime-for-hiroshi-takashiges-manga-series the manga will be adapted again]] on March 2019 with animation by David Production in collaboration with Netflix. It’s due to be released by 2021. However, the anime is delayed to stream worldwide by June 18, 2022. The first six episodes were made available.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Machiner's Platoon is called the "U.S. Machine Corp." in a riff on US Marine Corp.
* DubNameChange: Viz placed in the Majestic 12 instead of the Machiner's Platoon to potentially avoid offending the US Military establishment.[[note]]MJ-12 is an actual conspiracy group IRL.[[/note]] This is averted in the Chuang Yi English version.

* EliteMooks: [=COSMOS=]. You don't fuck around with these kids. They're also ChildSoldiers kidnapped at a young age and trained to be special forces-trained assassins with lots of brainwashing.

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[[folder:OVA]]
* AdaptationDistillation: The entire film contained scenes that showed [[spoiler:Yu's failed brainwashing when he was COSMOS and the bombing of Yu's high school, both scenes from the manga's Mappa Mundi arc.]] Unless you read the manga (either the Shogakukan version or the translated versions that are completed), you won't know why the scene was in there. Watching the film assumes that the viewers are familiar with the Noah's Ark story.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Machiner's Platoon is called the "U.S. Machine Corp." in a riff on US Marine Corp.
* OneWomanWail: During [[spoiler: the activation of the Ark.]]
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[[folder:Anime]]
* DestinationDefenestration: "Let's take this outside." Yu does SuperWindowJump while holding mook.
* FreezeFrameBonus: ARCAM Corporation's motto is seen in Rie's tablet [[https://postimg.cc/9DMs6FPL while reading the paper]] in the "Flaming Serpent" episode.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Lampshaded by a bemused Yu when the outraged sister of the shy class president tries to karate-kick him out the window for being AsleepInClass.
* SettingUpdate: The anime is updated from the ColdWar to the present day. For instance, Moroha's now an SVR agent instead of being a KGB agent. The Machiner's Platoon is armed with FN SCAR assault rifles and dons Ops-Core-type helmets.
* TemptingFate: Yu is pondering WhoWouldBeStupidEnough to grab the SchmuckBait treasure when Yoshino rappels down into the temple and grabs it. Cue CollapsingLair.
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[[folder:In General]]

* ChildSoldiers: Villain Colonel [=McDougal=] is a young child who has been experimented on by the Machiner's Platoon (Machine Corp. in the OVA) and cybernetically enhanced since birth, having been trained to harness unmatched psychic power.
** Another example is [[spoiler: Yu himself, who was kidnapped at a young age and placed into a black ops unit of child soldiers known as "COSMOS" after his parents were killed during an archaeological expedition in Iran by American commandos.]]
* ColonelBadass: Aforementioned Colonel [=McDougal=] can take down complete squads of soldiers with his mind alone.
* CreepyChild: Colonel [=McDougal=] doesn't look much more than 6-10 years old. He's also an albino with heterochromia, a sadistic killer who can slaughter people just be thinking about it, and who plans to [[spoiler: wipe out all human life and repopulate the world with creatures of his own devising]] by seizing the power of Noah's Ark.
** Yu admits that he is also one. The only last thing that he wants to face fighting against.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Col. [=McDougal=] after the activation of the Ark]].

* NoahsStoryArc: It's depicted to be created by an ancient race as an out-of-place artifact which not only carried dinosaurs and mythical creatures, [[spoiler:it's also used as a weather control device that can bring about drastic changes to the Earth's weather, including the threat of global flooding]].
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Col. [=McDougal=] plans to wipe humanity off the face of the planet to help the Earth re-flourish and repopulate it with creatures he will create.]]

* RazorFloss: The cybernetically enhanced Machiner's Platoon operative "Little Boy" uses razor-thin wires as his weapon of choice, which he utilizes to ensnare and slice multiple enemies at once to ribbons.
* ThatManIsDead: Yu has abandoned being called #43 since he defected from COSMOS, preferring to be called by his real name.
* TitleDrop: Several times, the title is mentioned.

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* ActionGirl: Yoshino Somei. Being a mercenary treasure hunter and trained by her mom at a young age, she's prepared for this. Tea Flatte too [[spoiler:thanks to her magic.]] For a short time, Akiha Ominae.
* AncientAstronauts: Quetzalcoatl was this when Yu Ominae and his classmate Hatsuho Sasahara learned about this in the former's mission in Mexico. However, Tezcatlipoca was not as [[spoiler:he was a survivor when his people tried to escape from the Roman Empire. However, they were all slaughtered by archers. Needless to say, he wants more than revenge against the former empire. DisproportionateRetribution can also be included because of Tezcatlipoca alone.]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Oboro is a benevolent version. Chen Suan Lee is the evil version.
* BareFistedMonk: Oboro and Chen Suan Lee. Oboro's personality and goals fit this the closest. Bo Brantze also counts.
* BadassNormal: Oboro, [[spoiler: Yamamoto]] and Chen Suan Lee. [[spoiler: Yamamoto]] stands out because he, unlike the other two, does not have mad kungfu skill, just incredible aim and reflexes. Akatsuki and Yuu also becomes this at the end of the story, having ditched their respective suits.
* [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Brits with Battleships]]: An enemy faction in Spriggan's Berserker arc, which involves the British [=SAS=] against a bunch of ARCAM Private Army soldiers. The former obviously won.
* ChuckingChalk: Yu Ominae's delinquent status in his high school is known publicly to the point that his teacher throws chalk at his head to make him pay attention. It's subverted since Yu catches the chalk with his fingers even when he dozes off. The manga suggests that it wasn't his first time getting into this kind of trouble.
* ClassTrip: Yu gets one with his trip, being excited and all since he lived in America for most of his life. Except that Yoshino spoiled it to get him to secure an [=OOPArt=] with her. He was pissed off. A lot.
* CrazyPrepared: ARCAM Headquarter buildings (At least the Japanese branch) have bullet and shatterproof glass on the entrance, electrified walls and floors in certain parts of the lobby and guards having easy access to small arms, which is a surprise since the country doesn't allow a majority of small arms. Even when ARCAM personnel are in field missions considered risky, they are armed with various small arms ranging from sub-machine guns and assault rifles to [=GPMGs=] and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Same goes with ARCAM Private Army soldiers sent to protect them too. COSMOS and the Machiner's Platoon were able to bulldoze through those defenses and such, are the only adversaries of the Spriggans to have the "honor" of doing so.
* DubNameChange: Viz placed in the Majestic 12 instead of the Machiner's Platoon to potentially avoid offending the US Military establishment. This is averted in the Chuang Yi English version.
** Orihalcon is used instead of Orihalcum. Although in this case, it can be also be used as such.
** When Spriggan was released in Canada and in the US, France, Spain, it was known as '''Striker'''. This was probably since the translators made the change from '''Spriggan''' as they said the former was the meaning of the latter in English.
* EliteMooks: [=COSMOS=]. You don't fuck around with these kids. They're also ChildSoldiers kidnapped at a young age and trained to be special forces-trained assassins with lots of brainwashing.
* EnemyMine: Near the end, Yu and Jean (with the rest of the anti-Larry Markson and anti-Henry Garnum ARCAM personnel) team up with ex-Trident Corporation commando Iwao Akatsuki and ex-Neo Nazi and ninja-trained Bo Brantze to stop the destruction of the Earth by Larry's hands from trying to harness Gaia's power for a hostile ARCAM. It's interesting [[spoiler:considering that ARCAM security forces including the Spriggans had once marked the two as their enemies.]] In the beginning, Spetsnaz officer Victor Shutrov (or Stolov, based on the Singaporean English translation) tries to kill Japanese KGB agent Koichi Moroha when he learns of his plan to dominate the world via the Fire Shrine and not on behalf of the USSR, helping Yu somewhat. He's killed later, not being able to stop the renegade agent. Yu and Iwao also team up to remove the curse from the forests of India. This is also part of EvenEvilHasStandards.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: A few, but notably with Bo, a ''neo-nazi''. Yu thinks that the world's gone crazy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Numerous bad guys, ranging from Iwao Akatsuki to [=ARCAM=] personnel (most of them former) that someone in the company's trying to amass power to take control of the company with disastrous results. [[spoiler:Turns out that they're right and this makes Yu reluctant to continue Spriggan missons since he can't tell if the majority of ARCAM are bad guys or good guys.]]
* GaiasVengeance: Near the ending of the manga [[spoiler: when corrupt ARCAM/Trident officials wanted to harness Gaia's natural power as a military weapon. Too bad it backfired and instead, started volcanic eruptions that threatened to destroy the planet.]]
* {{Ninja}}: Yu and Yoshino face off against Koga-trained ninjas led by a spymaster named Kenzo Nakano to seize the [[spoiler:PhilosophersStone.]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jean is this after he sees his own blood whenever he gets shot up by small arms. He's like that [[spoiler:since his family bloodline are all werewolves, created by ancient civilizations as a biological soldier.]]. However, ex-ARCAM Spriggan and doctor Percup Ramdi had been able to fix it somewhat.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: In the Forest of No Return story, the ARCAM Special Private Army operatives and Trident mercenaries deployed to the forest in India are turned to zombies with the ability to use their weapons and equipment thanks to a curse [[spoiler:placed on it by Rama after Sita was kidnapped.]]
* PlayingBothSides: Japanese KGB agent Koichi Moroha uses the CIA agents and the American military with the Spetsnaz in Japan to help him secure the Fire Orb for himself.
* StealthMentor: A variation occurs when Oboro was first introduced. He was a good guy all along, and was a double agent. [[spoiler: A more straight example occurs late in the series when he seemingly defects to Trident. He fought and seemingly killed Jean and later fought Yuu. After being defeated (he may have limited himself) he explains that he did all that to unlock Yuu's true potential and he knew Jean wouldn't be that easily killed. It was shown in subsequent battles that the two indeed became a lot more powerful after his "lesson".]]
* [[UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets Russians with Rusting Rockets]]: The Russian military is an enemy faction of the ARCAM Foundation in the Fire Shrine arc with the Spetsnaz deployed in Japan to secure the Fire Orb.
* TowerOfBabel: There's a mention of this in the Iraq storyline with the Reverse Babel Tower as its counterpart.
* YouClonedHitler: A main plotline in the manga with Hitler [[spoiler:actually having good and bad personalities. The former killed himself when he found out that the latter was responsible for starting WWII. At least in the European theater.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Koichi Moroha kills the CIA agents in the outskirts of New Tokyo International Airport by using [[spoiler: razor sharp winds that decapitated them and their body parts.]]
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* AGodAmI: Colonel [=McDougal=].

* BarehandedBladeBlock: During the chase in the Grand Bazaar, Ominae managed to block a mook's {{BFS}} with his bare hands. Before breaking it, much to the mook's horror. Justified because Ominae is a SuperSoldier.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** The Machiner's Platoon is called the "U.S. Machine Corp." in a riff on US Marine Corp.
** As with the manga, the two US superweapons called Fat Man and Little Boy.
* FatAndSkinny: Fat Man and Little Boy. Their appearances are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* GatlingGood: Fat Man's preferred weapon. It appears to be a vehicle-mounted chain gun, but given his immense strength, Fat Man can use it single-handedly to massacre entire legions of RedShirts.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Several of Little Boy's victims ends up being diced apart into chunks thanks to his RazorFloss, with a few who gets cleanly bisected.
* OneManArmy: Yu, Jean, and most of the named characters can take down entire armies, even if fighting on their own.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Yu snaps out of a HeroicBSOD in what, up to that point, was a CurbStompBattle with Fat Man, taking off his hand with one knife swipe and gutting him with another. ''This just gets him riled up.''
-->'''Fat Man''': FINALLY, YOU BEGIN TO FIGHT!
* RazorFloss: Little Boy's preferred weapon, which he use to slice up several people into chunks.
* SeeYouInHell: Yu yells one to Col. [=McDougal=] before giving the latter the final blow.
* SuperSpeed: Jean can outrun machine-guns fired at his direction thanks to his powers.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Colonel [=McDougal=] is still a genocidal CreepyChild with AGodAmI complex, but here he's a WellIntentionedExtremist who thinks [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves humanity will destroy the world beyond repair]], so plans to use HostileTerraforming, and the lifeforms frozen in time in Noah's Ark, to destroy and then repopulate the Earth. When his plan fails he activates the SelfDestructMechanism, feeling he has no reason to exist other than the Ark.
* BatmanColdOpen: The ActionPrologue of the first episode sets up the basic premise of the series; a government team led by a HollywoodCyborg discovers LostTechnology beyond our comprehension, goes insane with powerlust and religious fervour and turns on his own side so he can activate it to destroy the world, only for Yu to turn up and stop him with a [[GeniusBruiser combination of badassery and thinking on his feet]].
* CollapsingLair: JustifiedTrope; Noah's Ark is frozen in time, and activating the SelfDestructMechanism causes the flow of time to continue. As the Ark's mass is too great to sustain its weight in three-dimensional space, it collapses.

* NightOfTheLivingMooks: The Forest of No Return is a HiveMind of [[VengefulGhost angry ghosts]] of all the people who have died [[ImmortalitySeeker seeking the recipe for the soma that grants immortal life]]. This includes the corpses of the [[RedshirtArmy ARCAM]] and [[ArmsDealer Trident]] expeditions sent into the forest, [[WhenTreesAttack now animated by tree spirits]].

* ThePowerOfFriendship: [=McDougal=] calls out Yu for SavingTheWorld when ItIsBeyondSaving. Yu replies that he doesn't care about the world; [[FamilyOfChoice everyone he cares about is in ARCAM]] so he fights to save them.
* RightInFrontOfMe: Yu's ChildhoodFriend asks for ARCAM help in tracking down her friend from the orphanage in Japan, not realising he's her Spriggan bodyguard.
* SaveTheVillain: Discussed when Yu and Jean Jacquemonde get into an argument over whether they should [[SaveTheVillain spare Little Boy's life]] after taking him prisoner, with Yu saying [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim they have to be better than their enemies]] and Jean arguing that they need to be [[TheDreaded ruthless to deter them]].

* TemptingFate:
** Yu assures Rie that they'll get out at the first sign of trouble. Seconds later an AntiAir missile strikes their helicopter, so Yu has to grab her and jump out so they can parachute to safety.
** Yu is pondering WhoWouldBeStupidEnough to grab the SchmuckBait treasure when Yoshino rappels down into the temple and grabs it. Cue CollapsingLair.
* TechnologyPorn: Comes with every BadassBoast by a cyborg. Even Yu is NotSoAboveItAll, as he's quite proud of his muscle armor.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: The ending of Episode 3, "The Forest of No Return": [[spoiler:[[TheRival Yoshino]] manages to escape with the recipe for Soma, an immortality serum, but Yu meets her a few days later and tells her that the serum cannot be replicated because it depended on a type of plant that has long since gone extinct because of global warming.]]

* NightOfTheLivingMooks: The Forest of No Return is a HiveMind of [[VengefulGhost angry ghosts]] of all the people who have died [[ImmortalitySeeker seeking the recipe for the soma that grants immortal life]]. This includes the corpses of the last three ARCAM expeditions sent into the forest, [[WhenTreesAttack animated by tree spirits]].

* [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks Yanks with Tanks]]: A major enemy of the ARCAM Foundation throughout the series. Among these include [[spoiler:COSMOS, its elite black-ops child soldier unit]] aside from regular American special forces. [[spoiler:In the manga, COSMOS and the Machiner's Platoon are the major enemies from the US.]]

* MegaCorp: ARCAM and Trident are described as this at various points in the manga series.

** The Machiner's Platoon is called the "U.S. Machine Corp" in a riff on US Marine Corp.

* MadeOfIron: Yu Ominae and the other heroic Spriggans.

* WorthlessTreasureTwist: The ending of Episode 3, "The Forest of No Return": [[spoiler:[[TheRival Yoshino]] manages to escape with the recipe for Soma, the element that created the titular forest and all of the monstrous mutations within, but Yu meets her a few days later and tells her that the serum cannot be replicated because it depended on a type of plant that has long since gone extinct because of global warming.]]

* BatmanColdOpen: The ActionPrologue of the first episode sets up the basic premise of the series; a HollywoodCyborg discovers an ancient artifact of incredible power, goes insane and turns on his own side so he can activate it to destroy the world, only for Yu to turn up and stop him with a [[GeniusBruiser combination of badassery and thinking on his feet]].

* SettingUpdate: The anime is updated from the ColdWar to the present day. For instance, Moroha's now an SVR agent instead of being a KGB agent. The Machiner's Platoon is armed with FN SCAR assault rifles and wore Ops-Core-type helmets.

* SettingUpdate: The anime's set to be updated to the present day. For instance, Moroha's now an SVR agent instead of being a KGB agent. The Machiner's Platoon is armed with FN SCAR assault rifles and wore Ops-Core-type helmets.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Colonel [=McDougal=] is still a genocidal CreepyChild with AGodAmI complex, but here he's a WellIntentionedExtremist who thinks [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves humanity will destroy the world beyond repair]], so plans to use HostileTerraforming, and the lifeforms frozen in time in Noah's Ark, to destroy and then repopulate the Earth.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Colonel [=McDougal=] is still a genocidal CreepyChild with AGodAmI complex, but here he's a WellIntentionedExtremist who thinks [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves humanity will destroy the world beyond repair]], so plans to use HostileTerraforming and the lifeforms temporarily preserved in the Noah's Ark to destroy and then repopulate the Earth.

It was announced that [[http://moetron.net/post/183307870700/a-new-anime-for-hiroshi-takashiges-manga-series the manga will be adapted again]] on March 2019 with animation by David Production in collaboration with Netflix. It’s due to be released by 2021. However, the anime is delayed to stream worldwide by June 18, 2022.

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Indeed. A couple of them were deployed to Japan to apprehend Rie for her knowledge of [=OOPArts=] under orders from the American government when Yu foiled them. Strangely in the North American release, this was not censored out.