Spriggan | |
![]() Manga volume 1 cover, featuring Yu Ominae | |
スプリガン (Supurigan) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Hiroshi Takashige |
Illustrated by | Ryōji Minagawa |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher |
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Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics Special |
Magazine |
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Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | February 22, 1989 – February 5, 1996 |
Volumes | 11 + 1 extra |
Anime film | |
Directed by | Hirotsugu Kawasaki |
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Written by |
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Music by | Kuniaki Haishima |
Studio | Studio 4°C |
Licensed by | |
Released | September 5, 1998 |
Runtime | 91 minutes |
Video game | |
Spriggan: Lunar Verse | |
Developer | From Liquid Mirror Software |
Publisher | FromSoftware |
Genre | Action, adventure |
Platform | PlayStation |
Released | June 17, 1999 |
Original net animation | |
Directed by | Hiroshi Kobayashi |
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Written by | Hiroshi Seko |
Music by | Taisei Iwasaki |
Studio | David Production |
Licensed by | Netflix |
Released | June 18, 2022 |
Runtime | 45 minutes |
Episodes | 6 |
Spriggan (Japanese: スプリガン, Hepburn: Supurigan) (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written by Hiroshi Takashige and illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazines Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Shōnen Sunday Zōkan from 1989 to 1996, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga was first licensed by Viz Media, under the title Striker; it was serialized in Manga Vizion and only three volumes were released in the late '90s. The manga was licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment, with its original title, in 2022.
Spriggan takes place in the last years of the Cold War where mysterious and unknown artifacts called out-of-place artifacts (OOPArt) are discovered in various parts of the world, leading to a secret war between various forces against the ARCAM Corporation, an organization that placed itself the guardians of the OOPArts in order to prevent them from being used as weapons.
The manga was adapted into an anime film by Studio 4°C in 1998; Katsuhiro Otomo was involved in adapting. A PlayStation game called Spriggan: Lunar Verse was also based on the manga with some material created for the game. An original net animation (ONA) series adaptation by David Production was released in June 2022 on Netflix.
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