Yamamoto (Spriggan)

Yamamoto (山本) is a fictional character in the manga series Spriggan. He is the head of the ARCAM Corporation's Japanese branch. He is also linked to be a former Spriggan operative himself in his younger days.

Pre-Spriggan
According to information from the last volume in Spriggan, it was said that Yamamoto had been a Spriggan agent himself under ARCAM's Japanese branch when he participated in several covert activities against those who want to harness the power of the Out-of- place artifacts. After he retired, he was subsequently placed into the ARCAM workforce, presumable rising through the ranks to become the chairman of the ARCAM Corporation's Japanese headquarters.

Post-Spriggan
Now head of ARCAM's Japanese headquarters, he took in Yu Ominae in his youth as a ward after he found out that he was an ex-COSMOS child soldier rescued by Oboro in South America. He then trained Yu in military and guerilla tactics in order to let him be activated as a Spriggan agent while being his handler.

Yamamoto became more and more involved with the company when he fought against COSMOS soldiers from raiding the interior of ARCAM's Japanese headquarters. Later on, he was forced to work with Henry Garnum when he went to the South Pole with Rie Yamabishi and other ARCAM personnel so as to harness the power of the Fire Snake. At the last minute, he and the others turned on Henry Garnum and Larry Markson, defeating their forces stationed in Antartica and quelling the Fire Snake before it went out of control.

Character
Since his days as the chairman of the ARCAM Corporation's Japanese branch, Yamamoto is a known smoker who would always make it a point to take a cigarette during his office hours. Aside from this, he cares for Yu's welfare like he was his own son ever since he became his ward, always making sure that Yu was all right before and after a mission was completed.

In the field, Yamamoto is not hesistant to use his firearms and will use them if he has too if he has to safeguard his lives or his colleagues. It shows that he is competent in holding his own ground.