Sayrune

Sayrune is the personal Gunman of Adiane, and it makes its entrance launching from the flagship Dai-Gunkai during the chase after the stolen Dai-Gunzan. It ranks among the rare Gunmen able to shift between two separate builds. Its default look is loosely humanoid, fitted with butterfly-style wings marked by menacing painted eyes. The design is deliberately provocative: read one way it is a long face crowned with a crest, insect-like bulging eyes, and a fanged mouth, yet the same shapes also suggest a female figure, the crest standing in for the head, the eyes for the chest, and the mouth for the lower body.

Its second layout takes the form of a scorpion, low and many-legged with enormous claws and a stinging tail, a streamlined shape that grants far better speed through water. The name traces back to Seiryuu, the eastern Azure Dragon, counted among the four guardian symbols of the Chinese constellations.

Above the waterline, Sayrune leans on a set of energy whips and tendrils potent enough to rip through rival machines, while its wings let it take to the air. The scorpion configuration fights with its pincers and stinger but handles poorly in the sky. Where the Gunman truly comes into its own is beneath the surface: both of its forms swim with striking speed and agility, and Adiane exploits this by hurtling into her targets at full velocity. She leaves the whips unused underwater, though whether that is a limitation or simply circumstance is never clarified. The wings also power a signature move called the Bloody Clasper, in which the machine spins at high speed and turns its wing edges into whirling blades that shred anything close by.

Adiane pilots Sayrune, deploying it to disable the Dai-Gurren as the giant Gunman crossed the sea toward Teppelin. After wearing the vessel down, she locked Gurren Lagann in a grapple while Viral used the Dai-Gunkai to drag Dai-Gurren beneath the waves. Gurren Lagann bored through Sayrune's pincers and rescued the ship by spinning its drills as propellers, becoming quicker than Sayrune, which then lost its wings attempting a Bloody Clasper on the fleeing mecha. Cornered, Adiane resorted to seizing Nia in Sayrune's claws as a hostage, but Yoko fired through the machine's shoulder and forced it to release her. Stripped of any remaining defense, Sayrune was blown apart together with Adiane when the Dai-Gurren's cannons struck it at point-blank range.