[Anime] Arpeggio of Blue Steel

Plot Summary: Due to global warming and rising sea levels of the early 21st century, humanity lost much of the Earth's landmass. At the same time, fleets of powerful sentient ships of unknown origin armed with advanced technology and weapons, known collectively as the "Fleet of Fog", mysteriously appeared and easily vanquished the world's naval forces. The Fleet of Fog impose a worldwide naval and aerial blockade, thus preventing humanity from traveling across the seas.

In the year 2039, 17 years after the blockade, Gunzō Chihaya is a former student of the Japanese National Marine Academy and Captain of his crew, the Blue Steel fleet. The Blue Steel are infamous for possessing the only Fog submarine to have defected to the human side, the I-401, along with its avatar Iona. Gunzō and his crew are hired by a faction of the Japanese government to deliver plans of a powerful weapon that may allow mankind to fight back against the Fleet of Fog to the United States, the only country that did not suffer from the blockade, thus capable of mass-producing the weapon. However, the Blue Steel fleet faces obstacles not only from the Fleet of Fog and their human allies, but from other factions of the government with their own agenda, while gaining allies from both sides to increase their chances against such overwhelming odds.

• Genre: Action, Sci-fi, Seinen
  
• Air Date: October 7, 2013
  
• Animation Studio: SANZIGEN
  
• Director: Seiji Kishi
  
• Original Story: Ark Performance
  
• Official Website
  
  
• Read Manga: Batoto
  

Saw the PV for this a week ago. The CG characters are a big turn off for me, but it looks like it'll be a decent action series.

Haven't read the manga.

Yeaaa, i cant say the same for the Beserk movies.

CG can be awesome if used right.

See Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet or Majestic Prince.

CG bugged me at first but I learned to ignore it. Dat chick with blue hair dogh

Pretty decent first episode. A few minutes in and I already got over the CG.

this is was the first thing i thought of when i saw the title lol


cute warships doing cute things

but anyway, if the battles are good i dont give a crap about the cg animation

I was a little nervous about the cg, but it seems that it isn't degrading the show any so i will have to give it a shot.

FullArmageddon wrote:

MikuHatsune wrote:but anyway, if the battles are good i dont give a crap about the cg animation

The battles get fucking epic:

lol holy crap that all sorts of ridiculous

ep2 was pretty sweet. It would be cool if Takao joined forces with Chihaya and co.

Destructo wrote:It would be cool if Takao joined forces with Chihaya and co.

 

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oh thank god she didnt get blown to pieces, i really liked her lol

FullArmageddon wrote:

Destructo wrote:It would be cool if Takao joined forces with Chihaya and co.

 

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my kemosabe!

she wants a human unit in her        

enemies in the middle of the ocean and no one thought about launching a nuke or 2....smart group of people. where's ma loli!!!

10 bucks says a nuke wouldnt hurt them, i believe someone said the shields can withstand several billion tons of tnt

Takao, the cutest heavy cruiser ever!

bet shed look great in some doujins  

ep 4: THAT WAS SO AWESOME!!

this guy's tactics is just like those of captain keyes from halo, in fact it was very similar to keyes loop maneuver! so kewl

goddamn, worth the 741mb filesize. My laptop almost crashed during the scene when the two cruisers docked and cut the sea in half. All those special effects

wonder if hes gonna make more allies or something, create a battlegroup, codename: battlegroup harem :o