Arpeggio Of Blue Steel Vol 4

ENEMY UNKNOWN The Fog battleships Haruna and Kirishima have been destroyed through the combined efforts of the I-401 and the Japanese government's "White Whale" sub, and the port of Yokosuka is safe-but the same can't be said for the I-401. While still damaged from the battle, the 401 comes face to face with a Fog submarine that Iona doesn't recognize, and it's not exactly friendly! Back on land, Haruna, the mental model of the destroyed ship, is found by Osakabe Makie. The mental model and the precocious human child strike up an unlikely friendship, and Haruna learns that there's far more to Makie than meets the eye.

HOME SWEET HOME? The I-401 and her intrepid crew, captained by Chihaya Gunzo, have escaped the trap set for them by the Fleet of Fog outside their home port of Yokosuka. Successfully returning home after two years away should be a triumphant occasion, but there are those who think otherwise. In fact, if they have their way, they will take the I-401—along with her mental model, Iona—away from Gunzo entirely and bring her back under government control. Human politicians aren't the only players with rival factions. The ships of the Fleet of Fog have very different ideas about how to pursue the I-401, and what to do once they've located her. Worse, some are just as interested in Gunzo himself as they are in his ship! Yet all these forces have failed to reckon with Gunzo's determination to control his own destiny, or with Iona's willingness to join him wherever he leads!

ALL HANDS ON DECK In the fight against the Kongo, Iona’s mustering all the strength she can get–including Ashigara and Haguro, who are now stuck aboard the 401. With the Kongo on the hunt and nowhere else for them to go, the mental models have no choice but to lend their enemies a helping hand. The end of the battle between Kongou’s hunting fleet and the 1-401 draws nigh!

Arpeggio of Blue Steel is a gripping, action-packed manga series set in the near-future where humans must wage an aquatic war of survival against a mysterious alien invader. Humanity's only hope is to launch a sentient superweapon: a girl able to transform into a deadly submarine.The Japanese animation studio, Sanzigen, that worked on the Attack on Titan anime, recently adapted Arpeggio of Blue Steel into a thirteen-episode anime, which debuted on Japanese television in Fall 2013.Each meticulously illustrated volume of the manga Arpeggio of Blue Steel contains color inserts and features futuristic and explosive submarine battles that are sure to captivate readers.In the early twenty-first century, the majority of Earth's landmass is submerged due to rising sea levels. Enter the Fleet of Fog, a host of sentient alien battleships of unknown origin who easily decimate earth's naval forces. Humanity is now on the verge of extinction.In the year 2039, the stalwart Captain Chihaya Gunzou and his intrepid crew of the Blue Steel fleet may be humanity's last chance to fight off the alien invaders. The Blue Steel fleet happens to contain a secret weapon that could turn the tide of war: a mysterious I-401 submarine that can transform into a girl.

The popular science-fiction series of naval strategy and political drama continues! It’s been seventeen long years since the Fleet of Fog—a mysterious, unmanned fleet of powerful vessels that appeared out of nowhere—took control of the oceans, barring humanity from traveling between continents or islands.Now, a weapon powerful enough to damage the Fog’s vessels has finally been invented, and there’s just one way of getting the critical information and prototypes from Japan to America, where the weapon can be produced. The submarine I-401, with its humanoid avatar—a “mental model” named Iona, who’s taken the shape of a young girl—was once part of the Fleet of Fog, but has chosen to side with humanity. Captained by Chihaya Gunzo and his crew, the I-401 is the only ship under human control that can move freely through the seas. But she answers only to her captain, and he answers to no one.

THE FOG ROLLS IN Chihaya Gunzou, captain of the sentient submarine known as I-401, is renowned for his unorthodox tactics. His unpredictability is a strength when it's just him and his crew against the world, but with two massive Fog battleships attacking their home port, Yokosuka, the I-401 has to team up with a human-built submarine to try to take them down—without letting the Fog ships anticipate their next move! The good news is that the other sub is a "White Whale," representing the most cutting-edge technology Japan can produce. What's more, Gunzou has an invaluable advantage: a former crew member is temporarily serving as part of the White Whale's crew, and she knows how Gunzou thinks. Meanwhile, the Fog battleships Kirishima and Haruna are determined to be the ones to capture the renegade I-401, and they have a plan that no one can see coming.

In the post-apocalyptic Junkyard, a mysterious religious order known only as the Church watches over the brutal competition between warring tribes as they vie to unify six territories and thereby gain access to Nirvana, the promised land. But the rules of the competition have changed, and the Junkyard has been thrown into chaos after its inhabitants are granted not only demonic transformation powers, but their first taste of human emotion. The Church demands that any tribe seeking entry to paradise must also deliver the strange girl named Sera to them. Serph and the other members of the Embryon struggle to keep Sera safe from enemies on all sides, all while striving to find whatever allies they can in order to beat the Church at their own game. Avatar Tuner, Vol. 2 continues the Quantum Devil Saga, a series inspired by the Shin Megami Tensei video games, which are widely popular in their native Japan and have gained a considerable following in the West. Translated into English for the first time, experience the story of Serph and his tribe as they fight not only to win, but to understand the supernatural forces that govern the Junkyard.

An all-new science fiction manga epic about how the fate of humanity against alien invaders lies in the hands of one unique girl... and an unstoppable military weapon LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Alliances and subterfuge are the order of the day! Japan’s military, anxious to prevent the the sentient submarine 401 from leaving for the United States, takes desperate action. What they haven’t banked on is Gunzou and his crew getting help from two Fog ships: Hyuga, who’s kept the 401 in good repair and maintained the crew’s base of operations, and the opportunistic Takao, who’s allied herself with them in pursuit of her own goals. On the other side of the world, Gunzou’s father-the 401 ’s former captain, Chihaya Shouzou–supported by the Musashi and other likeminded Fog vessels, announces a new approach for making Earth’s oceans once again safe for humanity and Fog alike, but under his authority. Gunzou has plans of his own for bringing peace to the world, if only Japan can be persuaded to go along with them...