Blue Submarine No. 6
#4: Minasoko
Bandai
50 minutes
English/Japanese
English Subtitles
10/03/2000
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Blue Submarine No. 6
Bandai
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Huang : What's the mister bear? I'm gonna come right out and say it. I've been lying to you since day one. The captain of the sixth blue sub is indeed NOT Cheech Marin. Not even close! What the hell were you people thinking believing me anyway? How would Cheech get into the Navy? The man's always high! Always! Remember when Cheech and Chong crossed over the border in the van made out of weed? How the hell did that work anyway? And how didn't the drug dogs manage to catch it? I don't know, some questions are better left unasked. Questions like, what the hell is that little girl's name? I don't know myself. It starts with an H, but that's about all anyone's been able to puzzle out. Does it matter anyway? She's had like four lines the entire show and they all made her sound about as smart as my brother after half a fifth of Goldschalger.** As far as I'm concerned she should stay in her damn psychic sphere with her damn teddy bear and not bother the rest of us. |
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It was about this time in the show that I realized that fellow named Novo was a robot or an artificial intelligence or something. I thought he was just an uptight guy or something, really. And what the hell is with Hayami apparently being in the same graduating class as all these guys who seem like they're 40 years old? I mean, the audience isn't retarded no matter how much you'd like to think they are... Production Coordinator KEI ONISHI. You didn't think I knew who you were, but I do and I'm on to you. You're gonna pay, I swear to fucking god you're gonna pay. You know what else? This show is rated thirteen and up. Does that not seem absolutely crazy to anyone else? I mean, like seriously, we've been given copious glances of fish girl boobies and if that doesn't scream R rated then I don't know what does. Thirteen year olds shouldn't be allowed to look at this stuff. I remember when I was thirteen I'd shoot off at the mere mention of a word that even -started- with nipple. Like, uh, nippleography or something. I don't know, whatever! |
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As you can probably tell I'm trying not to give any spoilers away here. It's kinda tough though and I'm only giving myself another two paragraphs, tops. I'm gonna say the dub was pretty good overall. Except for Verg, Verg kinda sucked. Though I'm sure that was due more to whoever decided that he'd sound better recording his lines in the Grand Canyon or something. What else? CD = bad, but not THAT bad. This isn't some stark contrast thing or something like in Rurouni Kenshin or Cowboy Bebop but it's still there. It feels a bit more natural considering that a good majority of the show includes it. And hey! The runtime on this one is like forty five or fifty minutes. Not bad I'd say, that's almost a reasonable time for a disc. Though it might give the impression of one of those shitty 60 minute discs. Anything 60 minutes is bad, as the old saying goes. You know, the old saying made up two days ago to describe the fact that Nanako sucked, and sucked it hard. It's all good, though I'm worried that Blue Sub could now be lumped into the category of stuff like Wild Cards and the like. Was that show spelled with a Z? Do I even care? |
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One thing I have refrained from mentioning is Testu's best buddy and now fish person Katsuma. Seems Katsuma got the short end of the stick in a mission at Antarctica and came back with an extra set of gills. That is, aside from the gills he already had, not that he had any gills before. Anyway, it seems that the boy has a serious need of a razor. I guess nobody warned him that becoming half fish comes with a bad case of five o'clock shadow. He comes into play later. As does our best friend Zorndyke. Well, to be honest... he's actually kind of a dick. You know, making a whole race of beast people and submerging most of the world in water and all. But he'll get his come uppens, even if we're all not really sure how it happens. The main thing I want you to come away with from watching this show is that short haired redheads are always gonna be hot. It doesn't matter that they're in like every anime ever made, they're never gonna get old with me. |
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**Seriously. We once convinced him the the cold burn on my
leg was a bullet wound.