Arpeggio of Blue Steel
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Cover of first volume featuring main character Iona and the I-401.
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蒼き鋼のアルペジオ (Aoki Hagane no Arupejio) |
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| Genre | Military science fiction |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Ark Performance |
| Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young King OURs |
| Original run | November 2009 – present |
| Volumes | 12 |
| Anime television series | |
| Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova- | |
| Directed by | Seiji Kishi |
| Written by | Makoto Uezu |
| Music by | Masato Kōda |
| Studio | Sanzigen |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | MBS, Tokyo MX, BS Nittele, AT-X |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 7, 2013 – December 23, 2013 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Anime film | |
| Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova DC- | |
| Directed by | Seiji Kishi |
| Written by | Makoto Uezu |
| Music by | Masato Kōda |
| Studio | Sanzigen |
| Released | January 31, 2015 |
| Anime film | |
| Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova Cadenza- | |
| Directed by | Seiji Kishi |
| Written by | Makoto Uezu |
| Music by | Masato Kōda |
| Studio | Sanzigen |
| Released | October 3, 2015 |
| Manga | |
| Salty Road | |
| Written by | Ark Performance |
| Illustrated by | TALI |
| Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young King OURs |
| Original run | December 2014 – present |
| Volumes | 3 |
Arpeggio of Blue Steel (蒼き鋼のアルペジオ Aoki Hagane no Arupejio?) is a Japanese manga series produced by Ark Performance and serialized in Shōnen Gahosha's Young King Ours. Twelve manga volumes have been released and an anime series by Studio Sanzigen aired from October 7, 2013 to December 23, 2013. The same studio also produced two films based on the series. The first film was released on January 31, 2015 while the second film was released on October 3, 2015.
Due to global warming and rising sea levels in the early 21st century, much of Earth's landmass has been lost. In 2039, fleets of powerful sentient warships, armed with advanced technology and possibly 'alien' weaponry, mysteriously appear and devastate the world's naval forces. These ships, collectively called as 'The Fleet of Fog', impose a worldwide naval and aerial blockade, preventing humanity from both traveling the oceans and to other nations. During the blockade, the Fleet of Fog created Mental Models, humanoid avatars containing a ship's Union core, as a means to develop self cultivation and to overcome their lack of creative thinking of tactics that humans possessed, which at the same time made the Mental Models develop their own unique personality.
In 2056, 17 years after the blockade began, Gunzō Chihaya, a former student of the Japanese National Marine Academy, is the captain of a small group of privateers called the 'Blue Steel'. The Blue Steel are infamous for possessing a Fog submarine, the I-401, along with its Mental Model Iona, who defected to the human side. Due to I-401's technology and Gunzō's tactical skills, the Blue Steel have not only survived several encounters with the Fleet of Fog but managed to sink one of their most powerful warships.
Gunzō and his crew are hired by a faction of the Japanese government to deliver the prototype of the vibration warhead, a powerful weapon that may finally allow mankind to fight back against the Fog, to the United States. The United States is the only country with the resources and capability to mass-produce the weapon system. However, the Blue Steel will face obstacles on their journey not only from the Fleet of Fog and their human allies, but from other governments and factions with their own agendas. Along the way they will also gain allies of their own from both sides, increasing their chances against seemingly overwhelming odds.
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