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The Silent Service

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Written by
  
Kaiji Kawaguchi

Demographic
  
Seinen

Volumes
  
32

Adaptations
  
Silent Service (1995)

Studio
  
Sunrise

Genres
  
Drama, Military

Published by
  
Kodansha

Original run
  
1988 – 1996

Directed by
  
Ryōsuke Takahashi

Magazine
  
Weekly Morning

Publisher
  
Kodansha

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The Silent Service (Japanese: 沈黙の艦隊, Hepburn: Chinmoku no Kantai) is a manga series written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi. It was published in Kodansha's Weekly Morning manga magazine from 1988 to 1996 and collected in 32 tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted into an anime TV special and OVA series by Sunrise. The first two episodes of the anime were later spliced together and released in North America as a single volume. The rest of the series remained untranslated, though excerpts of the manga were published in Frederick Schodt's Dreamland Japan, however.

Contents

The manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1990.

Plot

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". The American navy pursues "Yamato", repeatedly failing to capture or destroy the rogue submarine.

References

The Silent Service Wikipedia