Yu Ominae

Infobox animanga character
name = Yu Ominae
series = Spriggan


caption = Yu Ominae being spoken to by Jean Jacquemonde during an operation in Romania
first = Fire Snake Arc (Canon) First Mission (Gaiden)
last = Gold Rush (Gaiden)
creator = Hiroshi Takashige and Ryōji Minagawa
voiced by = Showtaro Morikubo (Japanese)
Chris Patton (English)
alias = Number 43 (As COSMOS soldier) Fairy [Used in Berserker Arc]
age =
born =
nationality = Japanese
occupation = High School Student
ARCAM Corporation Spriggan operator
relatives = Unknown Mother and Father (Deceased) Takashi Ominae (Adopted father and uncle) Akiha Ominae (Adopted sister and cousin) Yamamoto (Guardian)
paux1 name = Affiliations
paux1 = COSMOS (Former) Spriggans (Current)
aux1 name = Weapons
aux1 = Combat knife with Orihalcon-made blade IMI Desert Eagle [Only used in Legend of the Mask Arc] Sig Sauer P226
HK MP5SD6Only used in Dragon Veins Map Arc]
HK G3A3 HK G3A4 [Only used in Forest of No Return Arc] M60 GPMGOnly used in Dragon Veins Map Arc]
aux2 name = Equipment
aux2 = Armored Muscle Suit
Arms Bands with wire anchors
aux3 name = Skills
aux3 = Known expertise in small arms Booby trap expertise Semi-augmentation by COSMOS, resulting in meta-human strength, speed & reflexes Martial arts/ Combat knife expert Accelerated healing Commando/infiltration specialistnihongo|"Yu Ominae"|御神苗優|Ominae Yū is a fictional character in the manga series "Spriggan". He is the manga and OVA's main leading protagonist, stationed at ARCAM's Japanese branch. In the video game, Spriggan: Lunar Verse, he is a secret character.

Known for being a high school delinquent to his teachers and classmates, he is secretly a special Spriggan agent for the international conglomerate ARCAM Corporation. As such, Yu gets thrown into missions in and out of Japan when OOPArts are involved in a mission.

Origin

Pre-Spriggan

Early history

Yu Ominae was born in Japan, though records concerning the country of his birth was never specified. Because of his parents' occupation as archaeologists, Yu enjoyed the majority of his early childhood on an archaeological expedition in Iran.

Childhood nightmare

While visiting a neighboring village, a platoon of heavily-armed men stormed the archaeological camp and gunned down all those present, including his parents. Upon his return, the scene of carnage and the bodies of his dead parents devastated young Yu severely. [Yu continues to suffer experiencing his parent's death under Post-traumatic stress disorder, which was only shown in the Dragon Veins Map arc.]

New life

Yu was subsequently adopted by his cousin, Akiha Ominae, who became a surrogate foster mother to the adolescent. Takashi Ominae acted as a father figure while Yu was in the United States. The two tried to raise Yu in a normal setting, helping him forget about the traumatic experiences back in Iran.

ignificant event

During his pre-adolescent years in the United States, Yu was kidnapped by CIA operatives as a part of amassing child soldiers for the US Army's COSMOS program and underwent training, including combat knife training by Bowman. [Yu addresses Bowman as "Instructor" when the two meet up again in Phantom Island.] Although he was claimed to be "rescued" and brought back to Akiha, she swore that something was not right with Yu, especially when he began to fight back against an evening home invasion by himself with military-style techniques. Takashi reprimanded Yu when he found out that he was responsible for killing some of the robbers.

COSMOS operation

During his time in COSMOS, Yu had participated in a black ops mission in South America in raiding an archaeology camp. After he and his team killed the camp's armed security guards and its archaeologists, Yu began to recall from his subconscious the death of his parents. Due to this, Yu was able to regain most of his original memory. However, he went berserk and began to kill his fellow COSMOS soldiers and critically wound his commander [This differs between manga and OVA material. In the former, Colonel Ralph Khoury was critically wounded, having his left eye and arm taken out after he was gunned by a hail of 7.62mm NATO bullets before he had an eyepatch to cover his exposed eyehole and a cybernetic arm replacing his lost arm. In the OVA, Fatman was the commanding officer of the South American operation before being forced to wear an Omihalcon suit, similar to what he wore in the manga as well.] before meeting with Oboro. Hiking in the forests alone before encountering Yu, who was armed with an M60 GPMG before Oboro was able to disarm him by using his Qigong martial arts after he paralyzed him with minimal force by pressing his palm on his head.

Back in Japan

Yu was then brought back to his native Japan by Takashi and Akiha with possible assistance from Oboro, possibly after deciding that it would be best for him to get back to his roots and to be safe from whoever changed Yu's life (Although they didn't know that the CIA was responsible for his brainwashing) before Oboro had saved his life. Yu was then brought into ARCAM's Japanese branch as a ward of Yamamoto and subsequently stationed at ARCAM's Japanese branch as well.

During his time with Yamamoto, he began his covert military training in order to be a Spriggan agent. Oboro would train him in various martial arts, with the exception of allowing him to be taught the Qigong arts. Bownman trained him to use combat knives [Spriggan, Volume 7: The Forgotten Kingdom.] .

priggan life

Yu began to get involved in some of ARCAM's dangerous works, starting with his bodyguard duties to his ex-friend Rie Yamabishi, [If one were to disregard the First Mission one shot story, this would have been his first mission. Though it would seem unlikely since Yu knew of the dangers after he was supposedly shot by a CIA agent and would have been killed if he didn't have his Armored Muscle Suit] who was also an orphan like him when the two were in an orphanage in the United States before Yu was adopted by his relatives. Later on, Yu faces his adversaries in his assignments from various militaries like the British Army and covert groups such as Trident Corporation mercenaries and his former COSMOS comrades as he continues to contributes to ARCAM's role in destroying all known existing Out-of-place artifacts, even working with Yoshino Somei for a few times. He had also clashed with Iwao Akatsuki a few times, fighting him in India and Romania before the two placed their differences aside in order to stop Larry Markson from conducting his operations in the South Pole, making the two rivals.

As Yu continued to foil the attempts of individuals, organizations and nations in attempting to covertly acquire OOPArts, he was placed to the ultimate test when Trident Corporation forces lead by Larry Markson and with a shadow ARCAM Corporation team forced to collaborate with Trident under Henry Garnum, they tried to unleash the power of the Fire Snake hidden in the South Pole Shrine in a bid to conquer the world. Yu, Jean, Iwao, Yoshino and other members of the ARCAM shadow team under Dr. Percup Ramdi were able to oust Trident Corporation soldiers from the South Pole and were able to quell the fiery beast.

Post-Spriggan

After the successful operation to eliminate the rampaging Fire Snake from the South Pole Shrine and defeating Markson's Trident forces in the South Pole, Yu was seen attending college after graduating from his high school, but is still posted at ARCAM's Japanese branch, attending to a mission in Mexico to secure the Gold Statue of Pachacamac and secure the safety of his classmate, Nanako Kondo. [These and other events only occurs in the Gold Rush one shot story.]

Non-canon appearance

First mission

Yu made his first appearance in the Spriggan: First Mission one shot story where he had first mission to infiltrate a Machiner's Platoon building in Japan after being order to recover the Megiddo Flame from Major Humming Bat, a Machiner's Platoon officer who ran the facility. Yu had his first encounter as well with Yoshino Somei, who was working undercover under the alias of "Sakura Himeno". Though Yu defeated and disabled Humming Bat by removing his cyborg arms, he was outwitted by Yoshino when she gassed him and grabbed the Megiddo Flame before Yu recovered and waited for her inside her car.

Later recovering the said artifact, Yu met Yoshino again when the two were seen outside the gates of a nearby school somewhere in Tokyo.

prigggan: Lunar Verse

Yu appears in Spriggan: Luner Verse as a hidden character after a players beats the game and save the cleared game.

Character

A slacker at heart, Yu is the typical delinquent who happens to get in trouble with some of his teachers since he doesn't pay attention to some of his classes. In addition, he cuts classes for most of the time, leading to teasing from his peers to think that Yu wants to avoid school since these are only good times for him to conduct his Spriggan missions in secret before he graduated from high school (With one of them telling Yu that he should have a girlfriend). At one point, Yu wishes that he wasn't a Spriggan agent, but he doesn't regret where he was now. [ Yu: "Maybe I'm just being sentimental, but my only connection to normal life is there, at school. Without school I'd totally lose my grip on reality! And if I ever forget it, then I'm a "berserker." (Striker: Volume 2 - The Berserker. - Viz Media) - ISBN 978-1569312902] Despite his high school lifestyle, Yu is an expert in martial arts, firearms and commando tactics, thanks to his years of indoctrination with COSMOS and his military training with ARCAM. Yu can defend himself easily from all known threats.

Yu uses a Yamaha V-Max motorcycle as his personal means of transportation from school to ARCAM's Japanese headquarters in Tokyo and vice versa, with other trips to different places as needed. His current residence is in the top floors of ARCAM Japan's main building, furnished to accommodate Yu and possibly other Japanese or foreign Spriggan operatives with penthouse-style accommodations.

Yu has negative looks on Yoshino Somei, because she gets herself into trouble for most of the time whenever he is deployed in an ARCAM-sanctioned mission. [During the course of the manga, Yu always reacts when he sees or hears about Yoshino being involved in his mission. When she landed on the S.S. Rosinante, Yu scolds her a bit for landing on the ship while being uninvited.]

References

ee also

* Jean Jacquemonde
* Rie Yamabishi
* Iwao Akatsuki
* Sho Kanaya
* Oboro
* COSMOS