Anime "Spriggan" No. 1 on Netflix's "Today's Top 10"! Illustrations and comments from the author's delight and additional scene cuts were released!

The Netflix series "Spriggan" ranked No. 1 on the "Top 10 TV Shows of the Day (Japan)" as of June 23. In addition to the joyful comments and illustrations posted by the original creator, additional scene cuts have also arrived.

Sprigan" (original story by Takashi Gehiro / illustrations by Ryoji Minagawa) is an adventure drama about Yu Mikamiinae, a special agent of "Arkham" who seals the legacy of a super-ancient civilization, as "Sprigan". The series was first published in 1989 in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. The series was serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Sunday" from 1989 to 1996 and has sold more than 10 million copies in total.

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The anime "Sprigan," which began distribution on June 18, 2022, has received high praise from manga artists, animators, musicians, and other celebrities, and was ranked No. 1 on Netflix's "Top 10 TV Shows of the Day (Japan)" as of June 23. (original story) and Ryoji Minagawa (illustration), the authors of the original story, posted comments and illustrations on SNS expressing their joy over the anime adaptation.

Comments
Takashige Sora
What do you think, Spriggan? The image is almost the same as the original while shifting the time to the present, isn't it?

Ryoji Minagawa
I am very impressed that it was really distributed!
I've watched it many times myself for the privilege of being the original author, and I think it's still wonderful no matter how many times I watch it!
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do!

Illustration by Ryoji Minagawa (Yu Mikinae and Jean-Jacques Monde)

*Comments are in Japanese only.

Viewers were also "astonished at the high quality! The staff's love for the original story can be clearly felt. Even those who had never heard of "Spriggan" commented, "It's hard to believe that this is a manga from the 1990s! It's like watching a movie, episode by episode. I can't take my eyes off it.

In addition, additional scene cuts have been released this time. You can see the unique characters and tense battle scenes.

Film Information
Netflix series "Spriggan
Worldwide exclusive distribution from June 18, 2022 (Sat.)
＜STAFF＞ ＜Original Story
Original story: "Sprigan" by Takashi Gehiro and Ryoji Minagawa (Shogakukan "Shonen Sunday Comics")
Director: Hiroshi Kobayashi
Assistant Director: Shohei Miyake
Series Composition/Screenplay: Koji Seko
Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Shuhei Handa
Sub-character Design/ Chief Animation Director：Nao Naito
Production Design：JNTHED
Art Director：Yuji Kaneko
Color Design: Osamu Mikasa, Azusa Sasaki
CG Director: Norihito Ishii
Director of Photography: Yosuke Motoki, Nobuyuki Murakami, Ryo Kujirai
Editing: Akinori Mishima
Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
Mixer: Yoshio Obara
Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi, Tadika Shiraishi
Sound Production: Dax Production
Production: david production
Production: Spriggan Project

＜CAST
Yu Mikinae: Chiaki Kobayashi
Jean-Jacques Monde: Yohei Azaue
Director Yamamoto: Kenji Hamada
Steve H. Foster: Akio Otsuka
Yoshino Somei: Marina Ise
Koichi Moroha: Ken Narita
Colonel McDougal: Ayumu Murase
Iwao Dawn: Yoshimasa Hosoya
Mirage: Takehito Koyasu
Beau Blanchet: Toru Inada
Larry Marcusson: Ryota Takeuchi
and others

<INTRODUCTION
Once upon a time, there existed a superior civilization on this earth. The legacy of these super-ancient people, who possessed knowledge and scientific power unmatched by the modern world, is said to still be lying dormant in various parts of the world, unnoticed.
Now that high-speed communication networks cover the world and satellite lenses are revealing all the secrets, the militaries of major powers have intervened to discover and study this heritage of mysterious "power" and have begun a battle to seize it.
In the midst of all this, there is an organization that sincerely accepts the message "Protect our heritage from the evil ones" written on a plate by someone from a super-ancient civilization, and works to seal off the super-ancient civilization.
The organization's special agents were called "spriggans.

The legendary comic that took the 90's by storm has been vividly visualized using 2D drawings and 3DCG!
Experience a new, royal adventure action drama filled with extreme action and ancient romance, which has been born anew after 30 years!

(2021) Space Takashige, Ryoji Minagawa, Shogakukan/Suprigun Project