Netflix Drops New Teaser for SPRIGGAN Anime
Spriggan is a manga that was written by Hiroshi Takashige and illustrated by Ryoji Minagawa that was released in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1989-1996. Then, the anime took the world by storm in 1998. It’s still heralded as an amazing anime by fans. Now, Netflix has dropped a new teaser trailer for their original series based on the same manga. Spriggan is being handled by david production and directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi with a screenplay and series composition by Hiroshi Seko. Shuhei Handa serves as character designer and supervising animation director, JNTHED will be lead production design, Norihito Ishii is CG director, Osamu Mikasa is head color design, Yuji Kaneko is art director, and Yosuke Motoki will be the director of photography.
This story depicts the adventures of Yu Ominae, a young man who serves as a “Spriggan,” a special agent of the ARCAM corporation, an organization established to seal away the relics of an ancient civilization.
The Netflix Original Anime Series of Spriggan is slated to release in 2022. Here’s the announced cast:
Yu Ominae: Chiaki Kobayashi
Jean Jacquemonde: Youhei Azakami
Director Yamamoto: Kenji Hamada
Yoshino Somei: Mariya Ise
A great civilization once existed on this Earth. Possessing knowledge and scientific prowess far exceeding that of modern man, the relics of this ancient civilization remain hidden across this world even now. As high-speed communications networks cover the globe and the peering eyes of satellites are able to expose all secrets, the armies of great nations clash as they seek to uncover and research these artifacts, which possess an unfathomable “power.” A member of this ancient civilization carved a message into a plate: “Protect our legacy from evildoers.” Taking this message to heart, one organization aims to seal away this ancient civilization for good. The elite secret agents of this organization are known as... Spriggans.