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Super Atragon
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Episode 1
Japanese VHS cover for "Zero Hour to Extinction"
Episode 2
Japanese VHS cover for "Ocean Remembrance"
Air date December 18, 1995 – July 25, 1996
Directed by Kazuyoshi Katayama, Mitsuo Fukuda
Producer(s) Masamichi Fujiwara, Shigeru Watanabe, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, Hidetoshi Shigematsu, et al.
Written by Nobuaki Kishima
Music by Masamicz Amano
Funded by Kaitei Gunkan Seisaku Iinkai[a]
Production company Astro Vision
Distributor Bandai Visual/TohoJP, A.D. VisionNA
Rating 15+ (suggested age)NA
Genre(s) OVA, science fiction, war, adventure
Episodes 2
“
It has revived from a long sleep, and begun to move at the bottom of the sea. They call it "Ra-goh", the great warship. It is the crisis of Mother Earth that awoke Ra-goh. Armed with the gigantic drill machine, it crosses the waters. The countdown to extinction has already started. Can Ra-goh save the Earth?
„ 

— English tagline on Japanese VHSes

Super Atragon (新海底軍艦,   Shin Kaitei Gunkan, lit. "New Undersea Warship") is a Japanese direct-to-video animated science-fiction adventure series, consisting of two episodes directed by Kazuyoshi Katayama and Mitsuo Fukuda and written by Nobuaki Kishima based loosely on Shunro Oshikawa's 1900 novel The Undersea Warship. It also takes uncredited inspiration from Toho's 1963 film adaptation of the novel, Atragon, which is its English title's namesake. Funded by the Kaitei Gunkan Seisaku Iinkai[a] (consisting of Toho, Bandai Visual, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing, King Records, and Astro Vision) and animated by Astro Vision in cooperation with Phoenix Entertainment, the series stars the voices of Tomokazu Seki, Junko Iwao, Kikuko Inoue, Tetsuro Sagawa, Koji Shimizu, Shinsuke Chikaishi, Kazuhiko Inoue, Chikao Otsuka, Yasunori Matsumoto, Kaneto Shiozawa, Rin Mizuhara, and Kazuya Ichijo.

The two episodes, "Zero Hour to Extinction" (滅亡へのゼロアワー,   Metsubō e no Zero Awā) and "Ocean Remembrance" (メモリー・オブ・オーシャン,   Memorī Obu Ōshan, lit. "Memory of Ocean"), were released in Japan in 1995 and 1996, respectively, on LaserDisc through Bandai Visual's Emotion label and on VHS through Toho Video. In the U.S. and Canada, A.D. Vision released the episodes on VHS under its ADV Films label, with either English subtitles or dubbing. They debuted in 1996 on separate tapes, but were re-released in 1998 on a single tape billed Super Atragon: The Motion Picture.

Episodes and plot

No. Title Directed by Unit directors Storyboards by Release date
1 "Zero Hour to Extinction" Kazuyoshi Katayama Keiichi Sugiyama,
Kazuyoshi Katayama		 Kazuyoshi Katayama December 18, 1995
2 "Ocean Remembrance" Mitsuo Fukuda Keiichi Sugiyama,
Takeshi Serizawa,
Kazuyoshi Katayama		 Mitsuo Fukuda,
Toshifumi Takizawa		 July 25, 1996

"Zero Hour to Extinction"

"Ocean Remembrance"

Staff

Main article: Super Atragon/Credits.

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

English dub

  • Aaron Krohn   as   Go Arisaka / Masashi Hyuga
  • Amanda Winn   as   Annette Sugawara / additional voices
  • Tiffany Grant   as   Avatar / young Go Arisaka / additional voices
  • Rob Mungle   as   Magane Hyuga
  • Robert Peeples   as   Mitsugu Kageyama / additional voices
    • Brett Weaver   as   young Mitsugu Kageyama / adjutant / additional voices
  • Rick Peeples   as   "Doc" Kotaro Nishimura / chief / additional voices
  • Jason Lee   as   Storner / additional voices
  • Brian Granveldt   as   Masayoshi Tachibana / Milias / additional voices
  • Marcy Rae   as   Shino Arisaka / additional voices
  • Allison Keith   as   Saib / additional voices
  • Todd Greenfield   as   Daniel Hamada
  • Doug Smith   as   Hino / additional voices
  • Kurt Stoll   as   Yoshioka / Takano
  • Spike Spencer   as   Ichiro Mikoshiba / additional voices
  • Tristan MacAvery   as   Admiral Bogart / Tachibana's elder brother / additional voices
  • Jeff Campbell, Jeff Gardner   as   UN recruits / additional voices
  • Charles Campbell   as   island controller
  • Laura Chapman   as   newswoman
  • Angel Fisher, Tiffany Harris, Lorraine Reyes, Dan Rockwell   as   additional voices

Appearances

Weapons, vehicles, and races

  • Ra
  • Subterraneans
  • Liberty
  • Bell-Fortress
  • Indra
  • Hyoryu

Gallery

Main article: Super Atragon/Gallery.

Soundtrack

Main article: Super Atragon/Soundtrack.

Alternate titles

  • New Undersea Warship (literal Japanese title)
  • Super Atoragon (aborted ADV Films title)
  • Super Atragon: The Motion Picture (ADV Films 1998 VHS title)
  • "Memory of Ocean" (episode 2, literal Japanese title)
  • Super Atragon: Part II (episode 2, front title on ADV Films 1996 VHS)
  • Super Atragon 2 (episode 2, back title on ADV Films 1996 VHS)

Reception

Video releases

Emotion LaserDisc (December 18, 1995)[1]

  • Catalog #: BELL-878
  • Discs: 1
  • SRP: ¥7,800
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: None
  • Special features: None
  • Notes: Includes episode 1.

Toho Video VHS (December 21, 1995)[citation needed]

  • Tapes: 1
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: None
  • Special features: None
  • Notes: Includes episode 1.

Emotion LaserDisc (July 25, 1996)[2]

  • Catalog #: BELL-879
  • Discs: 1
  • SRP: ¥7,800
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: None
  • Special features: None
  • Notes: Includes episode 2.

Toho Video VHS (August 1, 1996)[citation needed]

  • Tapes: 1
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: None
  • Special features: None
  • Notes: Includes episode 2.

ADV Films VHS (1996)

  • Tapes: 1
  • Audio: Japanese (subtitled version) or English (dubbed version)
  • Subtitles: English (subtitled version) or none (dubbed version)
  • Special features: Trailers for other ADV titles
  • Notes: Includes episode 1. Two versions were produced: a subtitled version reading "Original Japanese Dialogue with English Subtitles" along the bottom of the cover, and a dubbed version reading "English Language Version".

ADV Films VHS (1996) [Part II]

  • Tapes: 1
  • Audio: Japanese (subtitled version) or English (dubbed version)
  • Subtitles: English (subtitled version) or none (dubbed version)
  • Special features: Trailers for other ADV titles
  • Notes: Includes episode 2. Like the first tape, two versions were produced; see above.

ADV Films LaserDisc (October 1, 1996)[3]

  • Catalog #: CLVSA/001
  • Discs: 1
  • SRP: $39.95
  • Audio: Japanese, English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Special features: Unknown
  • Notes: Includes episode 1.

ADV Films VHS (1998) [The Motion Picture]

  • Tapes: 1
  • Audio: Japanese (subtitled version) or English (dubbed version)
  • Subtitles: English (subtitled version) or none (dubbed version)
  • Special features: Trailers for other ADV titles
  • Notes: Includes both episodes. Like the 1996 tapes, two versions were produced; see above.

ADV Films DVD (2002/2004)

  • ISBN: 1-57813-253-3 (2002) / 1-4139-1025-4 (2004)
  • Region: 1
  • Discs: 1
  • Audio: Japanese, English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Special features: Trailers for other ADV titles
  • Notes: Includes both episodes. The 2004 disc was part of the ADV Films Essential Anime Collection and includes new menus and a remaster of the English dub in 5.1.

Videos

Trailers

ADV Films promotional trailer

Episodes

Episode 1 (dubbed)

Episode 2 (dubbed)

Trivia

  • Further entries in the series were intended to be created; however, they were ultimately never made.

External links

First OVA (English) https://archive.org/details/g-p-super-atragon-01-x-264-c-86-cb-0-aa

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Japanese for "Undersea Warship Production Committee". The full-rōmaji spelling is used in all copyright notices, but "Kaitei Gunkan Production Committee" appears in ADV Films' credits.

References

This is a list of references for Super Atragon. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. ↑ eric_a (15 December 2002). "Super Atragon: vol.1 (1995) [BELL-878]". LaserDisc Database. Retrieved 4 June 2026.
  2. ↑ admin (15 December 2002). "Super Atragon: vol.2 [BELL-879]". LaserDisc Database. Retrieved 4 June 2026.
  3. ↑ tpgb12 (20 October 2002). "Super Atragon #1 (1995) [CLVSA/001]". LaserDisc Database. Retrieved 4 June 2026.

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