Iwao Akatsuki
Iwao Akatsuki is a male anime and manga character who features in Spriggan.
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Biography
Iwao Akatsuki (Japanese: 暁巌, Hepburn: Akatsuki Iwao) was a male human born in the modern age where by adulthood be came to be a soldier and eventually a mercenary. At some point, he came to join the ranks of the Trident Corporation's mercenary force.
Akatsuki was later part of a Trident force dispatched into the cursed Forest of No Return in search for Soma, the mythical nectar of immortality. Once there, they were beset upon by people reanimated by the forest. This saw many of the Trident mercenaries being killed until only Iwao was left the only survivor. He would later encounter an ARCAM Corporation expedition that had similarly entered into the woods to find the nectar. Iwao stated that he wished to team up with Yu Ominae and escape the Forest of No Return. They were joined by the tomb robber Yoshino Somei to fight off ghosts and cursed spirits and attempt to retrieve Soma, the nectar of Indian gods. Yu saw Akatsuki as an enemy as the ARCAM Corporation and Trident Corporation were rivals battling for control of the out-of-place artifacts. However, his first impression left Yu shocked when Iwao explained about his Armored Machine Suit, which made him faster than his ARCAM adversary. The two teamed up with Yoshino Somei to defeat the cursed forest and escape India with their lives.
He later resurfaced in Romania as part of a Trident taskforce to eliminate Yu and the other Spriggan agents assigned to investigate their presence. Even though Larry Markson ordered the destruction of the medieval fortress that they used to use the Spriggans in, Iwao came into the rubble and rescued Yu, showing that he has a sense of honor. He was later placed in charge of the SS Eugenio E, which was secretly transporting the Ark of the Covenant hidden in the passenger ship. Yu and Iwao have encountered each other again, but the two had joined forces to see what the Ark had to offer and to ensure the safety of the civilians after Sidewinder had retrieved the Ark via C-130 aircraft, which led to Yu failing his mission to secure the said artifact.
Iwao had been targeted for termination alongside Yu, Jean and Bo Brantz by COSMOS forces in the forests of Japan, barely defeating them when Bo died after sustaining multiple wounds suffered after fighting COSMOS soldiers off them. The trio ventured on to the South Pole, where they defeated Trident forces stationed in the region in order to disrupt Larry Markson's plans to militarize the use of the South Pole Shrine.
He was last seen slugging Larry when he tried to escape via helicopter. In a twist of events, Iwao graciously helped Larry stand up even though his termination was ordered by his superior. It is unknown on what happened at this point.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He has two scars above his right eyebrow.
Iwao appears to be a typical grunt who follows orders and returns alive from every mission, given the alias Boomerang by his Trident comrades. But Iwao has a sense of honor and is sometimes willing to forego adversarial ties in order to assist them in escaping out of a situation that they themselves can't escape from.
Iwao, from his conversation with his Spriggan enemies, claimed that he enjoys being a Trident operative and mercenary since it gives him the ultimate thrill of hunting down a worthy opponent to fight with, especially since Yu Ominae gave him a good fight in the field. In fact, he had said that he was not interested in a life without death. He believed that a life of conflict was his idea of a good time where to him it was a game of life and death. Iwao had said that he had entered into the mercenary life for the thrill of it
Powers and abilities
Iwao Akatsuki was a male human born with all the natural traits of the species. By adulthood though, he had trained to be a soldier.
An operative working for the Trident Corporation, he is one of the known bearers of the Armored Machine Suit. He came to be a rival of Yu Ominae since he wears the Armored Muscle Suit, where the Armored Machine Suit was based on. Iwao claims that the suit was made with combat data analyzed between Fatman and Little Boy against ARCAM Defense Unit soldiers stationed in the ARCAM Mount Ararat research center.
Notes
- Iwao Akatsuki was created by Hiroshi Takashige and Ryōji Minagawa where he featured in the setting of the Spriggan universe.
- In the Japanese version, his original alias was Returning Man. Boomerang is the translation used by Viz.
In other media
Television
- In Spriggan, Iwao Akatsuki appeared in the setting of the 2022 anime adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actor Yoshimasa Hosoya and by Kaiji Tang in the English dub.
Appearances
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