Arpeggio of Blue Steel Series

SECRETS REVEALED

The National Maritime Institute of Technology’s school festival is in full swing! Beneath the hustle and bustle, Takao and Atago face off against Kirishima and Haruna, who are trying to break in to Facility Number Four. Meanwhile, on Hashira Island,  Gunzou plots his escape!

No Rest for the Weary While protecting the White Whale from an approaching Fog patrol fleet, I-401 is ambushed by the Mutsu…but there’s something strange about the battleship’s tactics. Meanwhile, Takao, now tasked with guarding Facility Number Four, faces off against Haruna and Kirishima, who are desperate to discover the secrets within!

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS Amidst the preparations for the National Maritime Institute of Technology’s school festival, Takao and 402 make their way into the heavily guarded “Facility Number Four.” Deep below the burned-out ruins of the facility lies a strange secret. Elsewhere, in order to protect the White Whale from an encroaching Fog patrol fleet, the crew of the I-401 creates a diversion, only to find themselves ambushed!

WELCOME BACK In recovery on Hashira Island, a resurrected Chihaya Gunzou meets the Siren, a mysterious figure who offers him a new perspective. Meanwhile, the White Whale’s journey slows to a crawl in order to avoid the Fleet of Fog. With their mission in jeopardy, Iona, Hibiki, and Komaki draw ever closer to their hour of reckoning.

KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE… The Fog and humanity have been at war for decades, but only recently have the two sides started to try and understand each other. Several mental nodes have even enrolled in a human school, becoming students at the Maritime Academy of Technology. But are they there to work towards peace, or to better learn humanity’s weaknesses?

SECRET AGENDA Gunzou might still be missing in action, but Iona is determined to make sure that his plan to smuggle a warhead across the Pacific Ocean goes ahead. If it’s successful, it will give humanity a much needed win against the Fog. But in order for the plan to work, the I-401 will have to act as a decoy and go toe-to-toe against a dangerous enemy.

The popular science-fiction series of naval strategy and political drama continues! It’s been seventeen long years since the Fleet of Fog—a mysterious, unmanned fleet of powerful vessels that appeared out of nowhere—took control of the oceans, barring humanity from traveling between continents or islands.Now, a weapon powerful enough to damage the Fog’s vessels has finally been invented, and there’s just one way of getting the critical information and prototypes from Japan to America, where the weapon can be produced. The submarine I-401, with its humanoid avatar—a “mental model” named Iona, who’s taken the shape of a young girl—was once part of the Fleet of Fog, but has chosen to side with humanity. Captained by Chihaya Gunzo and his crew, the I-401 is the only ship under human control that can move freely through the seas. But she answers only to her captain, and he answers to no one.

The science fiction epic continues, with an anime now available from Discotek Media! In the early twenty-first century, the majority of Earth’s landmass is submerged due to rising sea levels. Enter the Fleet of Fog, a host of sentient alien battleships of unknown origin who easily decimate earth’s naval forces. Humanity is now on the verge of extinction. In the year 2039, the stalwart Captain Chihaya Gunzou and his intrepid crew on the Blue Steel fleet may be humanity’s last chance to fight off the alien invaders. The Blue Steel fleet happens to contain a secret weapon that could turn the tide of war: a mysterious I-401 submarine that can transform into a girl.

THE UNLIKELIEST OF FRIENDS The mansion where Professor Osakabe and Makie live is under attack, and nobody is happy about it: not the government, not the residents, and not even the attacking soldiers, who find themselves face to face with Haruna and learn firsthand that even without their battleships, the Fog’s mental models are a force to be reckoned with! Haruna’s world has been turned upside down since the I-401 destroyed her and Kirishima’s battleships. She’s learned that Osakabe Makie has also become her friend. And now Haruna is quickly learning the meaning of both “friendship” and “loss”-concepts she’s never had to grapple with before.

THE FOG ROLLS IN Chihaya Gunzou, captain of the sentient submarine known as I-401, is renowned for his unorthodox tactics. His unpredictability is a strength when it’s just him and his crew against the world, but with two massive Fog battleships attacking their home port, Yokosuka, the I-401 has to team up with a human-built submarine to try to take them down—without letting the Fog ships anticipate their next move! The good news is that the other sub is a “White Whale,” representing the most cutting-edge technology Japan can produce. What’s more, Gunzou has an invaluable advantage: a former crew member is temporarily serving as part of the White Whale’s crew, and she knows how Gunzou thinks. Meanwhile, the Fog battleships Kirishima and Haruna are determined to be the ones to capture the renegade I-401, and they have a plan that no one can see coming.