Anime review: Submarine 707r

Submarine warfare in the near future.

This Japanese Animation is really a mixed bag. The base concept is relatively realistic but the execution makes for a glaring style clash. On the namesake sub, the 707, there are little kids who are employed as pilots of “mini subs”. I know that this kind of stuff happens all the time in Japanese animation and that actually the majority of giant robots pilots are teenager but in a realistic setting with sonar torpedoes they look really out of place.

The big submarine battle in the end is kinda nice. Probably the main attraction of this kind of setting is the chance to play this kind of battle like an underwater version of chess with the two captains out scheming each other at every turn.

The main bad guy is also depicted in an interesting way, contrary to what countless other villain have done before him he keeps his cool to the very end and is certainly the coolest character around.

It’s a shame therefore that this anime take forever to go to the final battle which, by the way, is not really final. I suspect that they were planning sequels down the road.

All the characters also are really dull and unengaging so, in the end, this is one to skip.