AniWorthSilent Service
Introduction
During the cold war, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force jointly developed a nuclear submarine with the United States Navy. On its maiden voyage, the captain of the submarine declares the submarine to be an independent state, "Yamato."
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Audience reviews
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Gsarthotegga
The Silent Service is a nearly forgotten OVA, filled with lengthy political exchanges and tense submarine battles. It's no surprise Ryousuke Takahashi, who was the perfect choice, stepped up to direct this, as it's a story of a military faction attempting to free Japan from America being its domineering mommy, referring to them as the "world police." People will put that in quotes, as I just have, sometimes intending to dispute the framing, but it's painfully obvious how well the U.S. lives up to the moniker, what with their 800+ military bases scattered everywhere and constant interference in world affairs.
While the character art is relatively generic manly realism, the art is decent enough, the naval fleets and submarines are detailed, and the animation is functional, with the effects…
Read at the sourceCaptainKenshiro
The first thing to clarify about this anime is that the databases have their information a bit wrong, there are technically three episodes but they are not 30 minutes long. In 1995 a 95 minute movie was released, covering all those 30 minutes you see there, and in 1997 and 1998 two sequel OVAS came out, each one being an hour long. So the episode count is right, but the duration of each and the total in your account if you add it as complete is not.
The second thing to clarify is how hard it is to even find it, the movie can be watched without a problem but the sequels can only found as RAW on YouTube by searching them by their English name, and the translation of the automatic subtitles in them is hilariously wrong more often than not. So unless you know Japanese you won’t really get the…
Read at the sourceDawnrazor
This anime was visible in my video recommendations for a while, and with a newfound affinity for older anime I finally decided to pick it up!
I haven't watched war-related anime much, and my expectations were quite low. I only knew this production was based on a manga, that there is another version of the series that has never been translated into English, and that this OVA was cut for a western release. I must say it does end quite abruptly and absurdly.
The plot progresses quite smoothly and quickly, but not too hastily. Details concerning warfare, politics and technical details seemed accurate enough. However, when it is time to contemplate the essence of war, Silent Service fails to deliver. Character development is nonexistent. A lot of things are conveniently explained through the…
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