Ao no 6-gou

Yet another anime I remember watching during my Toonami days. I remember not liking it very much when I was younger, due to the dark plot. But I've recently rewatched it again (years later) and I must say, this was a kickass anime.

I was rewarded with a great plot, jazzy music, excellent animation, and a good moral lesson.

The story itself had a pretty interesting and original twist on the End of the World genre of movies. With the theme's of man vs nature and such (it does this much better then The Happening, but that isn't very hard to do).
I only wish that they'd ... have made a few more episodes. I'd really have liked to have seen the plot deepen somewhat, which we didn't get the chance to see with just 4 episodes.

The animation was great, at least the hand drawn portion. It flows very nicely and the colors are vibrant. The drawn stuff has aged very well... the CGI not so much. They added quite a bit of CGI, which probably looked cool 10 years ago. But now you can CLEARLY see the age. This can be an eye sore at times.

The soundtrack was quite interesting. You'd think that something like this would have an epic orchestra score. But instead, the soundtrack consists of a group of jazz tracks. The jazz actually fits very well with the anime, who would've thought...

The characters aren't very complex save for Zorndyke, who ends up being a very complex and deep character. Other than him, the other characters remain 2 dimensional. Hayami is your standard antihero, Kino is your standard annoying female counter part, and Verg (who is actually my favorite) is your standard bad guy, up until the end where we see a completely different side to the monster shark captain.
Once again, I blame the lack of episodes for this. We're just not given time to watch these characters develop at all.

Overall, this is a pretty good anime from beginning to end. It has and uses some very interesting idea's, some elements work (the concept and story) while others don't (the CGI).
I recommend this to any action/apocalypses junkies.

I shall preface this review by letting you, the reader, know that I have not reviewed a show before. It is something I have always wanted to start. There is no time like the present, so let us begin.

Blue Submarine is a fresh spin on a post-apocalyptic man vs the world story. I believe the true strength of the anime lies in it's unique story in a seemingly oversaturated market (granted it was made 20 years ago as of this write-up) while it's true weakness is it's inability to do anything tangible with it in a 4 episode setting

It is of this reviewers belief that ... this OVA would have perhaps been formatted better as a movie or a longer series. My largest pet peeve was the character and their progression or rather I should say lack thereof. The main characters felt hollow and only serving as a placeholder of sorts for the character they COULD become. Abysmal.

The sound was that of the funky fresh jazz variety that seems to be a beloved attribute of 90s anime sci-fi, of which I will not complain. It gives a particular vibe that can trigger nostalgia in the older anime peruser, myself having been a young viewer of Toonami, often sneaking up late to watch shows such as Dragon Ball, Gundam and the like.

The last item I will touch on are the visuals. For the show being 20 years old, the art is impressive in 1080p. It looks as good or better than some currently airing anime, but...
There is one tiny part of the visuals that didn't quite hold up so we'll, and that's the CGI. Watching it now in 2019 it feels like watching science mystery theatre 3000, it's that comical. But for the era, I'm sure it was well done.

Well, that's it. I'm sure that this review will likely go unnoticed as the show is not popular and rarely discussed, but I wanted an opportunity to try to write something up.

If you do happen to read this, please leave me feedback on how to improve upon my reviews.

Thankee-sai.

It's a lot like the Evangelion Rebuild 3.0. There's very little plot or character depth, just a post-apocalyptic excuse for action sequences and overall surface-level childish morality questions of: war is bad? bigotry is bad? The antagonist is effectively just a Posadist Hitler a 2d cutout spouting hypocritical nonsense, throwing away the only opportunity the anime allows itself to have any depth in it. One of the only other actual characters is effectively mute and goes nowhere while the other antag is just a mentally deficient manchild soldier who can barely talk. You'll note the main character Hayami goes through an immediate character 180 after ... his 1st scene which immediately makes no sense.
Everything about this show is surface-level and thrown together nonsense. And the art is a ton of CG that while technically cutting edge at the time still looked bad way back then and now.