Yu Ominae

Yu Ominae (御神苗優) 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.

Background
Yu was orphaned at a young age after his archaeologist parents were killed by unknown men in Iran. Taken by relatives in the United States, he was kidnapped and was brainwashed to be a COSMOS commando. before his involvement in an operation helped restore his memory. He was eventually found by Oboro, who took him back to the ARCAM Corporation and was made as a Spriggan field agent back in Japan.

He had been called upon by ARCAM to conduct black ops for the company, which results in several disruptions from his studies.

Depending on the question of canonicity, it may or may not have been canon for Yu to make his first appearance in the First Mission Gaiden.

Post-Spriggan
After the successful operation to eliminate the rampaging Fire Snakes 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.

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.

Sprigggan: 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. 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.