Sho Kanaya

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Sho Kanaya
Sho Kanaya
Publisher Shogakukan VIZ Media (Defunct) Glenat Planet Manga Jade Dynasty Elex Media Komik Remaja Big Balloon Chuang Yi (English) Junior Special Comics (Original), Daiwon & Gang Dok Mok? (Collector's Edition) Youth Comic Series First appearance Spriggan, Volume 4 Created by Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa
Characteristics Full name See Character Name Species Human Affiliations COSMOS in United States Army, Trident Corporation Notable aliases Number 71 (Before psychic augmentation by Trident), Number 0 (After psychic augmentation by Trident) Abilities - Psychic powers used to communicate with his fellow COSMOS soldiers before and after his augmentation in the US military and Trident.

Sho Kanaya in his student disguise when he infiltrated Yu's school in order to locate him.

Sho Kanaya (金谷唱, Sho Kanaya^?) is a fictional character from the manga series Spriggan.

A braiwashed child soldier of Japanese descent, he is one of the many enemies that Yu and his fellow Spriggan comrades confront during the middle and climax of the series.

[edit] Origins

[edit] Early History

Nothing is known about Sho Kanaya, though it's assumed he is of Japanese origin and was kidnapped by CIA agents in his youth from Japan before he was brought over to the United States.

[edit] Indoctrination

During his forced indoctrination into COSMOS, he was severely brainwashed to the point that he believed in serving the causes of the US Army, asserting itself as the most powerful country in the world. In order to do this, he participates in several unknown covert missions for COSMOS, making him one of the unit's most valuable soldiers.

During his missions, he was given the codename Number 71 as most COSMOS soldiers were addressed by Colonel Gwenson by their serial numbers.

[edit] Infiltration

Deployed into Yu's school secretly in order to locate him on the orders of Colonel Gwenson, he was able to fool many of the school's student and faculty body that he was a regular student. Though Yu Ominae was able to uncover his real identity when he noted the reactions of his classmates on the scars found on his back when he changed his shirt, Sho wounded him with a knife when he confronted him alone at the school's rooftop before detonating C4 explosives as he escaped. Yu managed to escape the explosion with minor injuries. Before leaving, he mocked Yu by addressing him under his old COSMOS codename, Number 43.

Later on, he lead a mission with several COSMOS platoons in raiding ARCAM Japan's headquarters and kidnap Rie Yamabishi and Akiha Ominae in order to lure out the Spriggans from hiding as they were an obstacle in the US Army's attempt to locate and study the pieces of the Mappa mundi after they threatened ARCAM by killing all the members of an expedition party sent out somewhere in Japan. Though it was a failure, he met up with an unknown man during his escape. ^[1]

[edit] Reappearance

While in the hands of the Trident Corporation, Sho was augmented so as to increase his psychic powers in communicating with his fellow COSMOS soldiers. It was shown when he ordered the platoon leader to commit suicide since his unit was overwhelmed by the combined forces of Yu Ominae, Jean Jacquemonde, Iwao Akatsuki and Bo Brantze.

He tossed his headband that connected his mind onto a computer used to help increase his augmentation strength after the failed assassination mission, indicating his frustration with Larry Markson and the others. It's not known if Sho still keeps a grudge against them for being the ones responsible for failing his mission.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• COSMOS
• Larry Markson
• Yu Ominae
• Trident Corporation