Konpeki no Kantai

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Kantai Series
Cover of 1st. volume of Konpeki no Kantai
艦隊シリーズ
Genre	Alternate history
Novel series
Written by	Yoshio Aramaki
Published by	Tokuma Shoten
Original run	1990 – 1996
Volumes	20
Novel series
Kyokujitsu no Kantai
Written by	Yoshio Aramaki
Published by	Chuokoron-Shinsha
Original run	1992 – 1997
Volumes	16
Original video animation
Directed by	Takeyuki Kanda Hiromichi Matano
Produced by	Hiromichi Matano Osamu Sekita Rei Mano Takeshi Yamaguchi
Written by	Yoshio Aramaki Ryōsuke Takahashi
Music by	Yasushi Tsuchida
Studio	J.C.Staff
Released	1993 – 2003
Runtime	30–40 minutes
Episodes	32 (List of episodes)
Video game
Developer	MicroCabin
Publisher	NEC Home Electronics
Genre	Strategy
Platform	PC-FX
Released	March 31, 1995
Video game
Developer	MicroCabin
Publisher	Tokuma Shoten
Genre	Strategy
Platform	3DO
Released	April 21, 1995
Video game
Developer	Access
Publisher	Angel
Genre	Strategy
Platform	Super Famicom
Released	November 2, 1995
Original video animation
Kyokujitsu no Kantai
Directed by	Hiromichi Matano
Produced by	Takeshi Yamaguchi Hideki Okamoto Hirokazu Yamada
Written by	Yoshio Aramaki Ryousuke Takahashi Yuichiro Takeda
Music by	Yasushi Tsuchida
Studio	J.C.Staff
Released	1997 – 2002
Episodes	15 (List of episodes)

Konpeki no Kantai (紺碧の艦隊, literally "Deep Blue Fleet") is a Japanese alternate history series produced by J.C.Staff. The series focuses on both a technologically-advanced Imperial Japanese Navy and a radically-different World War II that were brought about by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's revival by unexplained circumstances. Both the published books and the original video animation (OVA) series are also notable for using the Imperial Japanese calendar, instead of the Western calendar, in denoting the years in which the events of the series take place. It also spawned a 1997 OVA side story, Kyokujitsu no Kantai (旭日の艦隊, literally "Fleet of the Rising Sun"), one manga sequel, and two turn-based strategy games for the PC-FX and the Super Famicom.

Konpeki no Kantai is based on a novel series written by Yoshio Aramaki, whose first volume was published in December 1990. The novel's popularity reportedly rose dramatically because of the start of the Gulf War the following month. Aramaki later wrote a different series, Kyokujitsu no Kantai (旭日の隊) (literally "Fleet of the Rising Sun"), elements of which were used in the OVA sequel. Both series eventually sold more than five million copies.^[1] 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.