Like Valles said, Zipang treats itself with utter seriousness. I watched up to episode 15 or 16 before I stopped because I couldn't handle how dark the show gets, especially after reading the Wikipedia article on how the manga continues (it's around 28 volumes while the anime is solely 26 episodes). The crew of the Mirai essentially adopt the position that they'll do whatever they can to stop the war in the Pacific. Noble goal, but the execution goes horrifically wrong. Especially the IJN Naval Officer finds out the history of the war from the Mirai's library. A highly nationalistic officer...
To answer your question, it's actually very good story wise. Mechanical designs are really good still. Some of the in-motion CG is really bad but negligible. If you're a fan of military tech you'll be right at home; it's fun watching a 21st century Aegis cruiser whoop the crap out of whatever comes their way. Well, for a time, anyways. They'll run out of cruise missiles eventually.
Character designs are slightly dated, but meh. I still enjoy early 90s animation just as much as today's, so I don't really care. (Although the lack of whites in some character's eyes is a little creepy.)
Finally, I just want to reemphasive are realistically brutal Zipang is. No punches are pulled. As long as you're prepared for that, it's quite good.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org
To answer your question, it's actually very good story wise. Mechanical designs are really good still. Some of the in-motion CG is really bad but negligible. If you're a fan of military tech you'll be right at home; it's fun watching a 21st century Aegis cruiser whoop the crap out of whatever comes their way. Well, for a time, anyways. They'll run out of cruise missiles eventually.
Character designs are slightly dated, but meh. I still enjoy early 90s animation just as much as today's, so I don't really care. (Although the lack of whites in some character's eyes is a little creepy.)
Finally, I just want to reemphasive are realistically brutal Zipang is. No punches are pulled. As long as you're prepared for that, it's quite good.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org