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!!General

* TheWikiRule: The Spriggan wiki [[https://spriggan.fandom.com/wiki/Sprigganpedia is found here]].
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: With Chuang Yi going bust in Singapore, it's a lot harder to get a hold of ''Spriggan'' in English.

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* 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.
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** Due to the Netflix series being released 13 years after the film's release, everyone was inevitably recast.

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** Due to the Netflix series being released 13 years after the film's release, everyone was inevitably recast.recast, both living and dead.
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** The film's English dub was recorded at ADV Films in Houston. For the ONA, the dub was instead recorded 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.

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** The film's English dub release was recorded dubbed at ADV Films in Houston. For the ONA, the dub it was instead recorded 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.
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* 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.
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* CastingGag: Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time Creator/KyleMcCarley [[Manga/{{Gantz}} took over a role previously done by]] Creator/ChrisPatton.
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** The film's English dub was recorded at ADV Films in Houston. For the ONA, the dub was instead recorded at VSI's Los Angeles studio and everyone was recast.

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** The film's English dub was recorded at ADV Films in Houston. For the ONA, the dub was instead recorded 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.

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* CastingGag: Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time Creator/KyleMcCarley [[Manga/{{Gantz}} took over a role previously done by]] Creator/ChrisPatton.



** Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time Creator/KyleMcCarley [[Manga/{{Gantz}} took over a role previously done by]] Creator/ChrisPatton.
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** Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time Creator/KyleMcCarley [[Manga/{{Gantz}} took over a role previously done by]] Creator/ChrisPatton.
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Moving to Spriggan 1998.


!!Film

* ActingForTwo: Yamamoto and the narrator are both played by John Paul Shepard in the film's English dub.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: In the film, Major Fatman is played by retired professional wrestler Shunji Takano, who was billed as Kenji Takano.
* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Ryuji Aigase and Kevin Corn, the Japanese and English voice actors for Col. [=McDougal=], were around the same age as the character when they recorded their lines.
* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/SpikeSpencer has frequently cited Little Boy as one of his favorite roles.
* DirectedByCastMember: In the English dub, Matt Greenfield was the ADR director and one of the additional voices.
* FakeNationality: The French Jean-Jacques Mondo is voiced by Creator/TakehitoKoyasu in Japanese and by Creator/AndyMcAvin in English.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: With ADV Films' liquidation in 2009, their releases of the film are now out of print.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/SpikeSpencer in the English dub, who is best known for his (in)famous role as [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]], was almost unrecognizable in his role as the voice for the cybernetically enhanced crazed lunatic Little Boy.
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* DirectedByCastMember: In the Latin American Spanish dub,
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* DirectedByCastMember: In the Latin American Spanish dub,


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*** Tomohisa Aso voices Mayzel instead of Ken Shiroyama.
*** Margaret is voiced by Creator/SanaeKobayashi instead of Creator/SakikoTamagawa.
*** Yasuhiro Mamiya and Creator/MitsuoIwata respectively voice Fat Man and Little Boy instead of Shunji Takano and Creator/KatsumiSuzuki.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Due to the Netflix series being released 13 years after the film's release, everyone was inevitably recast.
** Creator/ChiakiKobayashi voices Yu Ominae instead of Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo.
** Creator/KenjiHamada plays Yamamoto instead of the late Creator/KinryuArimoto, who died of esophageal cancer in 2019.
** Creator/YoheiAzakami voices Jean Jacquemonde instead of Creator/TakehitoKoyasu.
** Creator/AyumuMurase plays Colonel [=MacDougal=] instead of Ryuji Aigase, who aged out of the role.

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* TheOtherDarrin: TheOtherDarrin:
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Due to the Netflix series being released 13 years after the film's release, everyone was inevitably recast.
** *** Creator/ChiakiKobayashi voices Yu Ominae instead of Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo.
** *** Creator/KenjiHamada plays Yamamoto instead of the late Creator/KinryuArimoto, who died of esophageal cancer in 2019.
** *** Creator/YoheiAzakami voices Jean Jacquemonde instead of Creator/TakehitoKoyasu.
** *** Creator/AyumuMurase plays Colonel [=MacDougal=] instead of Ryuji Aigase, who aged out of the role.role.
** The film's English dub was recorded at ADV Films in Houston. For the ONA, the dub was instead recorded at VSI's Los Angeles studio and everyone was recast.
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* CelebrityVoiceActor: Gilli Messer voices Lieutenant Colonel Maria Clemente.
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* CrossDressingVoices: Colonel [=MacDougal=], a young boy, was performed by a woman (Tiana Camacho) in the English dub.

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* CharacterOutlivesActor: 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.

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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.Creator/KenjiHamada.
** 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.
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* ActingForTwo: Some of the English-speaking cast get at least two roles.
** Creator/KaijiTang as Iwao Akatsuki, Viktor Stolov and Instructor Bowman.
** Creator/XantheHuynh as Suzuko Kawahara and Rie Yamabishi.
** Creator/AleksLe as Little Boy, Sho Kanaya and Kazama.
** Creator/DCDouglas as the anime narrator and Captain Lyman.
** Michael Pizzuto as Professor Mayzel and Bob.
** William Salyers as Fatman and Professor Mauser.
** Creator/ArmenTaylor as Koichi Moroha, Larry Markson and Colonel Kutheimer.
** Creator/FeleciaAngelle as Kagaho Sasahara and Yayoi Okabe.
** Kellen Goff as Hans Schneider and Ed.
** Creator/KyleHebert as Major Hummingbat and Bo Brantz.
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* TheWikiRule: The Spriggan wiki [[https://spriggan.fandom.com/wiki/Spriggan_Wiki is found here]].

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* TheWikiRule: The Spriggan wiki [[https://spriggan.fandom.com/wiki/Spriggan_Wiki com/wiki/Sprigganpedia is found here]].
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* DirectedByCastMember: In the English dub, Matt Greenfield was the ADR director as well as the voice of Yu's younger self.

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* DirectedByCastMember: In the English dub, Matt Greenfield was the ADR director as well as and one of the voice of Yu's younger self.additional voices.
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** Averted as of 2022, Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment has the rights to publish it in English.

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