is a Japanese

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series produced by

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. The series focuses on both a technologically-advanced

Imperial Japanese Navy The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: Shinjitai: ' 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or ''Nippon Kaigun'', 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender ...

and a radically-different

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that were brought about by Admiral

Isoroku Yamamoto was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until he was killed. Yamamoto held several important posts in the IJN, and undertook many of its changes and reor ...

's revival by unexplained circumstances. The

original video animation , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA s ...

(OVA) series is also notable for using the

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calendar, instead of the

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, in denoting the years in which the events of the series take place. It also spawned a 1997 OVA

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, , one

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sequel, and two

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s for the

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and the

Super Famicom The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), commonly shortened to Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Euro ...

. ''Konpeki no Kantai'' is based on a novel series written by

Yoshio Aramaki Yoshio Aramaki (, ''Aramaki Yoshio'', 12 April 1933 –) is a science fiction and mystery writer, critic and art collector. His original given name was Kunio Aramaki (, ''Aramaki Kunio''). He has changed his name to Yoshimasa Aramaki ().''Nihon Gen ...

, whose first volume was published in December 1990. The novel's popularity reportedly rose dramatically because of the start of the

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the following month. Aramaki later wrote a different series, (literally "Fleet of the Rising Sun"), elements of which were used in the OVA sequel. Both series eventually sold more than five million copies. Between 1997 and 2000, Aramaki wrote two sequel series: ''Shin Konpeki no Kantai'' (新・紺碧の艦隊, 9 volumes) and ''Shin Kyokujitsu no Kantai'' (新・旭日の艦隊, 18 volumes). The title is a reference to the series depicting an advanced submarine force.

Point of divergence

In the first episode, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's death still proceeds on April 18, 1943, just as in reality. Just before his damaged plane crashes into

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, Yamamoto blacks out before he awakens in a ship quarters as his younger self. Unaware of what has just happened, Yamamoto speaks with a crewman and discovers that he is on board the Japanese cruiser ''Nisshin''. He is then informed that the date is May 28, 1905 and that the

Battle of Tsushima The Battle of Tsushima (Japanese:対馬沖海戦, Tsushimaoki''-Kaisen'', russian: Цусимское сражение, ''Tsusimskoye srazheniye''), also known as the Battle of Tsushima Strait and the Naval Battle of Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日 ...

has just ended. Yamamoto discovers that he has somehow been transported back in time or to a parallel world. With his memory from the original timeline intact, Yamamoto decides to revert to his old name of Isoroku Takano, and vows to use his advanced knowledge of the next 38 years to ensure that Japan does not make the same mistakes as in our timeline. Yamamoto's first priority is to spearhead a massive naval construction program that involves building a large fleet of advanced battleships and supercarriers, nuclear submarines based on the design of the real-life I-400 ''Sen Toku'' submarine, and advanced combat aircraft that were in prototype or concept form during the late stages of the actual

Pacific War The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast ...

. His plan for success begins with a ''coup d'état'' against the hardline government of

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General

Hideki Tōjō Hideki Tojo (, ', December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a Japanese politician, general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistan ...

in late 1941, on the eve of the

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, and he installs an ally, Lieutenant General Yasaburō Otaka as prime minister. Otaka, who has also been transported back in time, agrees to work with Yamamoto to change history and ensure that the

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emerges victorious against the United States in the Second World War.

Alternate Pearl Harbor attack

The first episode of the series depicts the Japanese

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on December 7, 1941. Yamamoto uses his advanced knowledge of the future and the now-superior technology of the

to ensure that the strategy and the outcome of the attack are considerably different from in our timeline:

After Pearl Harbor

Following its successful invasion, Japan uses Hawaii as its main North Pacific base. In subsequent episodes have the Japanese military easily defeating

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forces in

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and granting nominal independence to all of the territories that had been under European and American colonial rule under the banner of the

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. In subsequent battles in the

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and the

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, the Navy further cripples American naval power and advances across the

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to strike at the

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. A Navy submarine-carrier flotilla destroys the

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, which significantly hinders American efforts to transfer ships from the Atlantic Fleet to the Pacific theater. The US suffers more crushing setbacks, including a second Panama Canal attack and a long-range surgical airstrike on the

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's Los Alamos facilities. They prove too much for US President Henry Roosevelt, who dies of a stroke after learning of the destruction of Los Alamos. His successor, Bill Truman, realizes that the US cannot continue the war and so sues for peace and accepts the surrender terms offered by Japan. Although the Japanese are initially allied with

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, the German dictator, Heinrich von Hitler, becomes concerned about their string of victories and the rapid growth of Japan's technological and military power, which was boosted partly by the expertise of

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. Hitler declares war on Japan, whose first thrust against Germany comes in the form of a precision attack by three intercontinental flying-boat bombers on the Germans' atomic weapons research facility. German forces start the invasion of

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and the

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. On the Indian Front, the German

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conducts an airborne assault on

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and sends troops south to

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to meet other German forces coming down the western coast. Japan intervenes by deploying armored forces to support surviving British and Indian units. Another Japanese Navy carrier fleet is also deployed to the

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. The Americans lend their support by bombing German convoys. The submarine-carrier flotilla that attacked the Panama Canal, which now exists as a long tunnel to prevent future air attack, is later redeployed to the

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to ambush a ''

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'' force being sent to the Indian Ocean. Germany, meanwhile, defeats the

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's forces surrender in the

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. US forces invade

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to ease the pressure off the German

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, but the Wehrmacht holds its ground and drives the US forces into the sea, with the last troops forced to leave from their redoubt in

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. Germany eventually conquers the southern half of

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. The German forces in India, meanwhile, are driven to a stalemate after Japanese bombers destroy the Wehrmacht's headquarters in

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, and intensive

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ravages the ''Kriegsmarines

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force in the Indian Ocean. Despite the attack on New Delhi, the conquest of India prompts Hitler to establish the Great European Empire. Nationalist Chinese forces stop the German advance in

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, and Japan sends military forces to bolster the People's Republic of East Siberia, a new state created in the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admini ...

after the fall of the Soviet Union, as part of a new "Asian Defense Force." At the same time, a change of government in

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, helps Japan return Hawaii to the US. While the Germans are stopped in

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, Britain and Japan conduct joint naval operations in the

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. British troops and Japanese air and sea forces hold down the German invasion of Britain. At the same time, Japanese commandos infiltrate Hitler's main command center and destroys it with explosives, but Hitler survives. Japan fights off the ''Kriegsmarines attacks in the South Atlantic while the allied British-Japanese forces in England muster enough combat power to push the Germans back and to liberate

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. The turn of events forces peace talks between Germany, Japan, Britain, and the US. The war ends by late 1950.

''Shin Kyokujitsu no Kantai''

In the 1997 side story ''Shin Kyokujitsu no Kantai'' (新旭日の艦隊: "The New Fleet of the Rising Sun"), Japan builds up on its success in the earlier series by expanding its blue-water capabilities to reach the Atlantic Ocean. The story further details the presence of the Navy's Atlantic fleet revealed in the latter half of ''Konpeki no Kantai'' and expound on events that had been given only a passing mention in the series. After Germany declares war on Japan, the Japanese Navy begins challenging the ''Kriegsmarine'' in the North Atlantic. In a climactic battle in the second episode, the Japanese Navy's Atlantic force flagship, the super-battleship ''Yamato Takeru'' (literally "The Brave of Yamato") engages and destroys Germany's own super-battleship, the ''Bismarck II.'' The Japanese Navy later attacks German naval facilities in

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, the government quarter in

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, and a French-based battery of ''Heracles''

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threatening London, and it is earned the

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, which is bestowed on fleet commander Admiral Oshii. The move paves the way for transpolar travel between Japan and Britain. Having defeated the Soviet Union, Germany turns its focus to the West by destroying the

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in a

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. It finally drives the US to rejoin the war, this time as Japan's ally, in the fight against Germany, which had launched a modified

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against Britain on August 15, 1947.

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falls to the Germans, and the British government evacuates to

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. However, the Japanese fleet arrives in time to destroy the German beachhead and to stop the invasion forces, many of which are found in

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and

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Characters

To keep in line with the World War II theme, ''Konpeki no Kantai''/''Kyokujitsu no Kantai'' also features some characters who closely resemble actual historical figures from the 1940s, whose articles are linked. In all cases, only one part of their name is changed (given name or surname).

Japanese Empire

* Yasaburō Otaka -

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

() * Isoroku Takano - War Minister and Chief of the

Combined Fleet The was the main sea-going component of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Until 1933, the Combined Fleet was not a permanent organization, but a temporary force formed for the duration of a conflict or major naval maneuvers from various units norm ...

) * Saigo Nanshu -

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() * Takayoshi Kido -

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() * Kazuyuki Maebara (Issei Maebara) - Admiral, I-601 ''Fugaku'' skipper and Deep Blue Fleet commander () * Heihachiro Togo - Admiral () * Imperial Duke Kokonoe () * Yoshiko Kawashu - Japanese Secret Agent () * Eisaku Takasugi - Vice-Admiral () * Otowa Kuki - Vice-Admiral and SNLF commander () * Yajirō Shinagawa - Commander () * Hideki Nanjō - Prime Minister prior to being replaced by Yasaburō Otaka in a coup d'état (in the novel only?). * Shingo Genda - Naval aviator who led the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor.

United States

* Henry Roosevelt -

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() * Lewis MacArthur - General of the Army () * Harriet Eisenhower - General of the Army () * Bill Truman - President (succeeds Roosevelt after dying of stroke) () * Arnold Fletcher - Admiral,

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() * (Admiral) Kimmel - Admiral, Commander of the US Pacific Fleet ()

Nazi Germany/Holy European Empire

* Heinrich von Hitler - Führer () * Erhardt Goering -

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chief () * Alfred Himmler - SS head () * Peter Joachim Goebbels - Propaganda Minister * Wilhelm Jodl - ''

'' admiral * Konrad von Rommel - Commander of German forces in India * Walter Manteuffel - Hitler's aide ()

Others

* Leon Trokki - Leader of the

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People's Republic of East Siberia () * Keiston Churchill - British Prime Minister () * Suavi Gandhi - Indian independence advocate * Nerovitch K Stalin - Leader of the Soviet Union ()

Media

Home video

''Konpeki no Kantai'' was released from 1994 to 2003 on LaserDisc and DVD, with each DVD containing two episodes. JC Staff eventually compiled it and ''Kyokujitsu no Kantai'' into three large DVD boxed sets. The first was released on July 29, 2005 by

Tokuma Shoten is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, m ...

and Happinet Pictures, only a few days before the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.Konpeki no Kantai, Kyokujitsu no Kantai Complete DVD Box 1
at Play-Asia.com (English). The first set in particular contains an art booklet and the 1997 special episode ''Secret Launch of the Sorai,'' a story of two Japanese engineers who develop the ''Sorai'' (the series' counterpart of the J7W Shinden fighter) and deploy it against a Tokyo-bound force of US B-30 long-range bombers launched from Alaska. The interception itself is featured in Episode 3. Pre-order rewards include a

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replica from 1941 and a

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of the I-601 submarine carrier. The second DVD

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was released on September 23, 2005. The last compilation was released on November 25, 2005. A Blu-ray release of the entire series was also developed, with the first set released on August 3, 2011, the second on November 25, 2011, and the last on February 24, 2012. The series is available for purchase over the Internet from a number of sites but is sold only in DVD Region 2 format, which is not compatible with most DVD players available in the

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and

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, which are Region 1 although some newer DVD players are or can be modified to be region-free. However, all releases, including those available over the Internet, do not include dubs or non-Japanese subtitles. Neither series has been or is planned to be translated for release outside Japan because of their Japan-centric content, such as the

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being depicted as villains and Japan's conduct during the war being depicted as noble. Since 2020 a crowdfunded

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project has been undertaken.

Games

In March 1995,

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released a ''Konpeki no Kantai''

developed by

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for the

. The 3DO version of the game, published by

, was released the following month. The

version of the game, developed by

Access Co. , founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, by Arakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa,isometric map. The player also has the capability to develop new weapons. However, although the anime series ends with Japan declaring victory with the US and Britain over Germany, Japan's survival in the war is uncertain when Otaka's government is deposed in another coup, Yamamoto dies in jail, and the Deep Blue Fleet's secrets are exposed.

References

Sources

* Aramaki, Yoshio. ''The Deep Blue Fleet Casebook''. Tokuma Shoten, 1992. * ''The War Strategy of Deep Blue Fleet''. Tokuma Shoten, 1993. * Yasuda, Takayuki. ''Kyokujitsu no Kantai FINAL'' (illustration book) Chuou Kouronsha Inc, 1996.

External links

''Konpeki no Kantai'' at JC Staff website

Official Bandai Channel ''Konpeki no Kantai'' website
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Official Bandai Channel ''Kyokujitsu no Kantai'' website
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Interview with Mitsutaka Oide

* ttp://www.dijtokyo.org/doc/JS17_penney.pdf Rising Sun, Iron Cross - Military Germany in Japanese Popular Cultureby Matthew Penney. See pages 181-183 (17-19) for review of the "Konpeki no kantai" series. * {{J.C.Staff OVAs 1993 anime OVAs 1995 video games 1997 anime OVAs 1990 Japanese novels 1992 Japanese novels 3DO Interactive Multiplayer games Alternate history anime Angel games Drama anime and manga Historical anime and manga J.C.Staff Japan-exclusive video games PC-FX games Strategy video games Super Nintendo Entertainment System games Tokuma Shoten games Video games developed in Japan World War II alternate histories

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