Six episodes that each swing like a feature film, and they hit you in the sternum. Yu Ominae is a high schooler with a locker full of trauma and an Orichalcum Armored Muscle Suit, and SPRIGGAN never lets you forget the joke that ARCAM's whole creed is burying miracles instead of selling them. David Production animates the violence with actual weight: the knife work, the suit tearing under fire, Noah's Ark grinding open on Ararat while Colonel Macdougal, a child soldier built into a weapon, calmly explains why humanity doesn't deserve the keys. Jean Jacquemonde's werewolf agent and Yoshino Somei crashing in with grenades and zero respect for the mission keep it from turning into a lecture. It's 90s OVA DNA, globe-hopping relic hunts, government black ops, ancient tech that eats the men who touch it, rebuilt with a budget that finally does it justice. Watch it in one sitting. You'll want the suit.

Long ago, an advanced civilization ruled the Earth and was destroyed by the misuse of its own creations, leaving behind powerful relics and indestructible plates urging that they be kept from evil hands. Armies and private forces now hunt these artifacts in secret, and the ARCAM organization sends elite agents called Spriggans to stop them. When ARCAM finds what is believed to be Noah's Ark in Turkey's Ararat Mountains, the U.S. Machine Corps, a rogue arm of the Pentagon, moves to seize it for global domination. Japanese Spriggan Yu Ominae joins French Spriggan Jean-Jacques Mondo to fight them and their leader, Col. MacDougall, a genetically enhanced boy with lethal psionic powers, before he can use the Ark for his own ends.