Keep going Spriggan, the saga of the supernatural warriors to recover the lost relics. And this time all the armies of the world know where the next artifact is!
In Spriggan Vol 4, as the world turns, hidden technology from alien gods who visited earth thousands of years ago threatens mankind. Yu is still in the gap, but this time he will find himself facing very different enemies than he is used to. The supernatural is no stranger to him. But this time he will have to face necromancers and denizens of the night, and maybe his partner. Ok, it’s not that they are very close friends, but they have fought side by side, will they finally have to face each other?
With this volume we reach the meridian of the collection that publishes Panini Manga in Spain. In the absence of four other volumes, we find a series that continues to raise many things, but has not yet developed the definitive line. The pasts of the characters have been reviewed, specific objectives have been achieved and a good secondary team has been presented. But like any development in the manga, after many short sagas, and creation of the world where Yu moves, it’s time to start looking for something more than unique adventures like Indiana Jones.
Hiroshi Takashige already has so many elements to work on that it seems that he does not want to start for fear of losing details that he could have raised much earlier. In this issue, we again see how he expands on the demonstrations of alien powers and technologies that can take place. As well as a new terrestrial species. Putting it all together and giving Jacques a rich and rather stranger past than it seems considering what “finolis” what the character looks like at first glance.
Again Ryouji Minagawa makes it clear that each page he draws is a new challenge. Both to pose the action, and to design enemies or powers and their physical effects. He stylizes his line by letting the composition and movement flow without the need to fill the vignettes with kinetic lines. A very clear and classic drawing that does not cloud a story that is full of action, but needs its pauses to be told.
In short, what made Spriggan great and a classic within the manga and allowed it to have its anime adaptation, one of the few that landed in Europe in those 90s, works in the same way today. An action play that no shonen fan should miss.