Protagonists and characters modeled on ships of WW2 fights against “The Fleet of Fog”. In 2039, fleets of powerful sentient warships, armed with advanced technology and weaponry, mysteriously appear and decimate the world's naval forces. Since these mysterious ships are covered in a fog, they are called 'The Fleet of Fog'
After several years, the I-401 appears along with its humanoid avatar known as Mental Models, Iona in front of the protagonist Gunzō Chihaya suddenly by instructed to contact and follow Gunzō.
Gunzō feels confused since I-401 is an enemy of human. But he thinks he needs power to overcome the current situation and he becomes the captain of I-401 over the opposition of the government. He fights against “The Fleet of Fog” with Iona and friends to take "Vibration Warhead”, the last hope of human, to America.
Gradually, Gunzō thinks human and “The Feet of Fog” can understand each other. What is more, those Mental Models who just follow the Admiralty Code at first have human-like feelings gradually within the battle with Gunzō.
The appeal of Arpeggio of Blue Steel is the gap between the cool sips and battle scenes and cute Mental Models! (*´∀｀) There are also gags, for example, teddy bear fighting scene and heavy cruiser Takao falls for Gunzō and becomes very tsundere lol
My favorite character is a flag ship Kongou who wears black dress and is always ice maiden with a poker face♪ Kongou always says “We are weapons. We just follow the Admiralty Code.” Kongou is such a stuffed shirt that a heavy cruiser Maya who behaves together with Kongou calls her “hard headed!” In anime series, there is a scene they carry on conversation with her enemy Gunzō and they have dinner together. At that time, the stuffed shirt Kongou-san smiles seeing Maya enjoying! The scene made my heart missed a beat. I thought “she loves Maya with all her heart”. At this moment, I was hit by love’s arrow (*ﾟ∀ﾟ)lol As story progresses, Kongou builds an emotional wall by an incident. Iona goes to help Kongou but Kongou denies Iona and they fight against each other... . The scene that Kongou is scared says “Stop!” fleetingly even she is strong-minded and cold always is very awesome!! And the scene Kongou cries with her knees to her chest made me excited. “I want to hold your hand!!” (;ﾟ∀ﾟ)=3 Actually, Iona held her hand instead of me lol.
The original of Arpeggio of Blue Steel is a comic. Anime version is an original story from the middle. In the comic, Shōzō Chihaya, the father of Gunzō, who cheated on human and the supreme flag ship modeled on Imperial Japanese Navy Yamato-class battleship Yamato appear and there are many storied which are not mentioned in anime. You can enjoy comic and anime in different way. I’d like you to enjoy bothヽ(o･∀･o)ﾉ
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