Line #0 Trivia/Spriggan


1	!!Manga
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3	* BadExportForYou / NoExportForYou: The Spriggan manga series was not finished completely in different parts of the globe. In some parts of the world where Spriggan was serialized in different languages, certain chapters were censored for either political/religious reasons, one of them being the American military as a hostile enemy for ARCAM. This led to the halting of further releases of Spriggan to North America.
4	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: With Chuang Yi going bust in Singapore, it's a lot harder to get a hold of ''Spriggan'' in English. Viz also discontinued translations of Spriggan back in the 1990s.
5	** Averted as of 2022, Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment has the rights to publish it in English.
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7	!!Netflix Series
8	* ActingForTwo: Some of the English-speaking cast get at least two roles.
9	** Creator/KaijiTang as Iwao Akatsuki, Viktor Stolov and Instructor Bowman.
10	** Creator/XantheHuynh as Suzuko Kawahara and Rie Yamabishi.
11	** Creator/AleksLe as Little Boy, Sho Kanaya and Kazama.
12	** Creator/DCDouglas as the anime narrator and Captain Lyman.
13	** Michael Pizzuto as Professor Mayzel and Bob.
14	** William Salyers as Fatman and Professor Mauser.
15	** Creator/ArmenTaylor as Koichi Moroha, Larry Markson and Colonel Kutheimer.
16	** Creator/FeleciaAngelle as Kagaho Sasahara and Yayoi Okabe.
17	** Kellen Goff as Hans Schneider and Ed.
18	** Creator/KyleHebert as Major Hummingbat and Bo Brantz.
19	* CelebrityVoiceActor: Gilli Messer voices Lieutenant Colonel Maria Clemente.
20	* CharacterOutlivesActor:
21	** Creator/KinryuArimoto, who voiced Yamamoto in the film, succumbed to esophageal cancer in 2019. Thus, for the Netflix series, he is played by Creator/KenjiHamada.
22	** Mike Kleinhenz, who voiced Fatman in the film's English dub, suffered a fatal heart attack in 2008. In the series, the character is voiced by William Salyers.
23	* CrossDressingVoices: Colonel [=MacDougal=], a young boy, was performed by a woman (Tiana Camacho) in the English dub.
24	* TheOtherDarrin:
25	** Due to the Netflix series being released 13 years after the film's release, everyone was inevitably recast, both living and dead.
26	*** Creator/ChiakiKobayashi voices Yu Ominae instead of Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo.
27	*** Creator/KenjiHamada plays Yamamoto instead of the late Creator/KinryuArimoto, who died of esophageal cancer in 2019.
28	*** Creator/YoheiAzakami voices Jean Jacquemonde instead of Creator/TakehitoKoyasu.
29	*** Creator/AyumuMurase plays Colonel [=MacDougal=] instead of Ryuji Aigase, who aged out of the role.
30	*** Tomohisa Aso voices Mayzel instead of Ken Shiroyama.
31	*** Margaret is voiced by Creator/SanaeKobayashi instead of Creator/SakikoTamagawa.
32	*** Yasuhiro Mamiya and Creator/MitsuoIwata respectively voice Fat Man and Little Boy instead of Shunji Takano and Creator/KatsumiSuzuki.
33	** The film's English release was dubbed at ADV Films in Houston. For the ONA, it was instead dubbed at VSI's Los Angeles studio and everyone was recast. For example, Yu, voiced in the film by Creator/ChrisPatton, is now voiced by Creator/KyleMcCarley.
34	* StudioHop: The film was animated by Creator/Studio4C and the Netflix series was produced by Creator/DavidProduction.
35	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVI6RG-eXxw A Netflix interview with the production crew]] mentioned that avex was making plans to do the anime adaptation by themselves until some of them were in meetings with Netflix Japan representatives on the anime as they wanted to back a production studio doing it.

Context Trivia / Spriggan