I don't really have much on this series, "Blue Submarine Number Six." It is more of a movie than anything really. Four episodes, three being about twenty-four minutes and one being forty minutes long. By my math, that makes one hour and fifty-two minutes. The only thing that they could have done to make it feel more like a movie would have been taking out the end credits for the first three, and not showing the beginning text credits for the last three. It didn't really have any intro theme to it, just some shout outs, or whatever, to the original makers of the manga. Which I thought was weird... slightly...
I'll explain the picture eventually. I wasn't able to find a plot to the anime when I was a kid (more on that too) but I managed to find it now. The whole point of it is to kill this mad scientist and destroy his evil machines and creatures. The nut job, Zoindike (I think that is how it is spelled), is hanging around Antarctica, along with his machines and some of the creatures. One of the reasons everyone wants him dead is because he is fucking with the poles. This is where I lost track. I kind of heard what he was doing and then thought, "You know what? He's just going to drown everyone." And that is kind of true. In the beginning they show what looks like Tokyo with about thirty to forty feet of water covering it. Along with this he has his little creatures, which look like someone crossed an animal with a human (above is an example), and they, for reason unknown to them, are killing humans. Of course the humans aren't just going to let this happen with out a fight, so they use subs. to kill the creatures. I don't really know how many people live in the world today (six billion?) but in this time (you should have assumed the future by now) ten billion people have already been killed. I don't know how long it took for that to happen, but that is still a shit load. They never really stated how many people are left while they are fighting, so I'm going with maybe a billion. So let's go through a check list here: explained evil scientist plan, what the surviving people are doing... I haven't explained what the fuck they plan on doing to actually stop him! This is brilliant, nuke him. Yeah, that's right. They took the biggest sub. they had, filled it with about twenty-six(?) nuclear warheads, and then escorted it down to Antarctica so they could launch them. Yeah... that doesn't seem like a bad idea at all...
Ok, that makes up the overview (or something) of this series. The finer details involve a washed up mariner, a "eighteen" year old mariner (she's sixteen, I know it), the hybrid fish girl (above), and the actual submarine, Blue Submarine No. 6. Side thought: do they actually call mariners that work on a submarine... submariners? I don't know, I'll have to ask Dad. Anyways, the show starts off with recruiting this washed up submariner, Haiyami (English voice actors kept fucking up with people's names so I'm going with the one I heard the most.) Kino (the sixteen year old submariner) is left with the task of doing this. She fails miserably. Afterwords she and her companion (didn't catch his name) wonder back to Sub. 6. Along the way the city of Tokyo (or whats left of it) is attacked. The two of them are caught in between two giant ass robots but are saved by Haiyami. Once at the sub., Kino and Haiyami jump into a... battle sub?... and they start to fight that way. They disable one of the machines. For reasons unknown, Haiyami stops by it and gets out of the battle sub. The "cockpit" of the enemy machine opens up and spits out the fish girl, Mutia (I'm relying on other people for this one), shown above. Kino, being an actual soldier, tries to stop him from going near her... and she fails at this, too. After all of this Haiyami agrees to join the crew of Blue Sub. No. 6.
That was episode one, in a bit of detail. Episode two is less interesting. This one actually reveals Zoindike's plan and what they plan to do about it. They held a meeting in "Blue Dome" (just some underwater repair place. There is more to it... but that is all they did there. Meet to talk about what Zoindike was doing and repair the sub.) and of course it ends up being attacked. Hayami runs out to try and help, but in the end he just ends up getting screwed over. The only other thing worth mentioning about his episode is the hints of worth. Kino and Haiyami are doing repairs on the sub. Kino mentions that the sub is very valuable. They made a big deal about this in episode one as well. I was hoping that they would reveal what was so great about it... but they don't. Though Haiyami made a great point, "if it is so valuable why don't you put it in a vault?"
Episode three starts off with Haiyami in the middle of the ocean. He's stranded on a piece of a sub when he sees Mutia with a fish in her mouth. She had saved him and brought his current safety. As he waits around for someone, who is human, to save him, more of Mutia's kind appear. They're all screaming for his blood... kind of.. and she defends him from attacking him. After a few minutes of this, a giant whale (Mushika, was what they were called?) appears and starts to speak to Haiyami. The mushika explains that he doesn't understand what it is he is supposed to be doing by killing the humans. As this is going on, Blue Six, along with an armada of other subs., are heading down to Antarctica for the finishing blow. As they travel they encounter a mushika. It end up being the mushika that Haiyami and Mutia are on. Blue Six shoots it down (or sinks it?) and Haiyami returns to explain what he learned.
Final episode: Haiyami jack a sub. and Kino jumps in for the ride. While these two are going off to Zoindike, Blue Six and the other subs. are fighting a costly battle. They manage to win and set up the nuke sub. to fire. On the other side of the episode, Kino and Haiyami manage to get to what looks like a tropical island (too much to explain...) and appear to get captured by the local wildlife. They are then dragged to Zoindike, where a long conversation ensues. The two main points of it are something like this, "Humans need to get along with my creations and my creations must do the same," and "I know that you have a giant ass sub. out there with a shit ton of explosives. Guess what? You're fucking yourselves over if you fire it." (that's pretty funny) So in order to stop the evil plan it is simply a matter of shooting Zoindike, which Haiyami takes upon himself. They relay the good news to Blue Six and the whole thing is over... or is it... This is just something you have to watch in order to get... because dear fucking god does it suck...
So... how many questions are there that are unanswered? "Why is Blue Six so important?" I don't know... While there aer many more... I think it would be better just to have you watch it and then listen to those to see if they can be answered... One more, "What the fuck do they sound like in Japanese?" That would be interesting to hear.
Other problems with it. Not in Japanese. It would of helped a shit load if it were. I swear there were five different pronunciations for Haiyami. There is also a shit load that appears to be missing. I'll have to look up the manga later. O yeah, there is this really annoying monster that appears a lot. the english voice is so annoying...
This anime actually has been around for a while. I remember watching one of the episodes when I was a kid... the thing is it was only one and they never showed the other three. At least that is how I remember it. Reason for being taken off the air: America can't show a nipple to anyone without an "R" rating. Mutia up there shows up a lot and of course she doesn't have any clothes, so bye bye anime. So why bother going back? Just to see if I could make sense of it, which I didn't really...
By the way, the next time you two are looking for something to watch, I'm going to make you watch this since it is in English.