Battleships that take the form of girls in a time where Kancolle is popular in Japan... what happens? It sells like hotcakes. The local fanbase is sometimes realllllly weird.
While my initial expectations were quite low the show didn't turn out that bad. The basic gist of the story goes like this: Global warming caused large areas of land to get flooded and shortly after, a mysterious fleet of ships called "The Fog" appeared on earth and claimed the waterspace for themselves and pushed the humans away. Serval years later our protagonist gets visited by one of the Fog, taking form of a little girl asking him to be "her captain". In the process, he and his crew become fugitives and get on the task of transporting the weapon that is key on fighting back against them to the US for mass production.
I take it they departed quite far from the source material by leaving the politics of the various nations and "The Fog" aside and focusing instead on the interactions between them and the main sub and crew, I-401 then somehow that seems to mess up their reason of existance as weapons and causing them to develop more human traits. What is most noteable about the show is it's visuals. While there has been a constant increase of 3D blended with regular 2D animation they went a step further here and made the 3D the core. The result of this is sometimes weird to look at but works generally well enough and even more so for the action-sequences. I would not straight up recommend the show but if loli-subs and shipbattles are your thing give it a go.
Review by sp1tiVIP OG 13BlockedParent2014-01-22T22:58:01Z
Battleships that take the form of girls in a time where Kancolle is popular in Japan... what happens? It sells like hotcakes. The local fanbase is sometimes realllllly weird.
While my initial expectations were quite low the show didn't turn out that bad. The basic gist of the story goes like this:
Global warming caused large areas of land to get flooded and shortly after, a mysterious fleet of ships called "The Fog" appeared on earth and claimed the waterspace for themselves and pushed the humans away. Serval years later our protagonist gets visited by one of the Fog, taking form of a little girl asking him to be "her captain". In the process, he and his crew become fugitives and get on the task of transporting the weapon that is key on fighting back against them to the US for mass production.
I take it they departed quite far from the source material by leaving the politics of the various nations and "The Fog" aside and focusing instead on the interactions between them and the main sub and crew, I-401 then somehow that seems to mess up their reason of existance as weapons and causing them to develop more human traits.
What is most noteable about the show is it's visuals. While there has been a constant increase of 3D blended with regular 2D animation they went a step further here and made the 3D the core. The result of this is sometimes weird to look at but works generally well enough and even more so for the action-sequences.
I would not straight up recommend the show but if loli-subs and shipbattles are your thing give it a go.