Why do you want to be a submarine pilot?
There are some things I have to see with my own eyes.
That's the universe in the Shinkai that my father talked about.
One day, you'll get to see it for yourself
The universe of the Shinkai.
Your father's goal, you can't accomplish it.
No one will ever discover the universe in the Shinkai.
I don't think a rookie submariner
can handle the Shinkai 6500 on her first dive.
Director.
I'm disappointed in you because all the researchers here are so unprogressive and stagnant like you
We're almost to the universe in the Shinkai.
JAMSTEC is about to undergo a huge transformation.
Today's voyage will be the first monumental step.
The first female submariner to take on the role of co-pilot.
She's 23 years old and has a great future. She is Amagai Miyuki
I heard that you have inherited your father's legacy and are determined to become a submariner.
How do you feel now?
I'm just trying to do my best.
That's not all, is it?
Smile! Smile!
As Japan's first female submariner, the world is looking forward to your achievements.
Can you say a few words, please?
Don't get too frustrated.
I don't think I should say that either.
Miyama
Jinnai.
What are you doing here?
INTERNATIONAL OCEAN HEAVY EQUIPMENT INDUSTRIES JINNAI KIMIHIKO
Kokukai Heavy Industries?
JAMSTEC are conducting a joint study on Resource Development.
I've been making arrangements in a hurry.
I'm so lucky.
Lucky?
But it's at the discretion of the new Director.
That's enough.
This is our geological researcher Takamine.
He was my colleague in university.
It's you.
You're the lead researcher who was removed from the dive, right?
Don't get too frustrated.
In this world.
You can't do research if you don't work hard and move around.
Good luck.
Bye. Okay.
On this expedition, this is the first time JAMSTEC has used a female submariner
Amagai Miyuki is the co-pilot and has received a lot of attention
This time round, this is the lead researcher of the engineering team, Satake.
This mission is a joint research mission with Kokukai Heavy Industries.
Jinnai-san, please say a few words.
I am Jinnai of Kokukai Heavy Industries.
This dive between JAMSTEC and Kokusai Heavy Industries
is a major milestone for future cooperation in resource development research.
They just want to make a lot of money from the resources.
What?
Nothing.
Although there was a sudden change of plan, it was a bit confusing.
But the original intention to achieve the purpose of mutual research remains unchanged.
You're right.
Here is the plan
Amagai.
I was under your father's care when I was a rookie researcher.
What?
Come on, Junior.
We've been waiting for this dive for three and a half years.
Okay.
What's the meaning of this?
I'm considering changing the budget allocation.
The submarine resources budget, which has been 20% of the total research funding so far.
will be increased to 50%.
That's not good. It's half of the budget.
What about other fields?
Geology, environment, biology, etc., compared to resources.
The budgets have been reallocated to the resource area, as I said earlier.
That's not going to change.
Director...
It's a little bit too sudden, isn't it?
Sudden? I think it's too late.
JAMSTEC is a national institution.
As such, we need to give priority to research related to national interests.
Considering the current situation where the overall budget may be cut.
We need to clarify the meaning of the existence of this institution both internally and externally.
What else is there other than resources,
that can make an impact on the public?
The public can see that our research is making a difference to the community.
You have a point.
What are you doing?
Kamio-san.
I'm preparing the steps for tomorrow's deep dive.
Don't force yourself.
It's your first time on a ship and you're under a lot of pressure.
It must be hard to find
the universe in the Shinkai.
Following in your father's footsteps.
That's right.
If anyone can find it, it's you
Wake up early tomorrow and get some rest.
Thank you.
It's coming.
Full speed ahead.
It's too late.
I know. Full speed ahead.
Is it coming?
Hold on! Hold on!
It's crowded!
External power is good.
Now check the power inside the ship.
Spindle battery management panel Confirm power on.
Power on confirmed
Power operation panel
Primary power source, Main battery NFB on
Main control room, this is Shinkai.
Please proceed to synchronize the system.
This is the main control room.
Confirm. Please transmit.
Shinkai, copy.
System synchronization is now in progress.
Ready, start.
Confirm completion.
Shinkai to Yokosuka, ready to go.
This is Shinkai, roger
It's finally here!
That's right.
Shinkai to Yokosuka.
Commence the dive
Hey, turn on the main view.
Yes
Shinkai to Yokosuka
Entering co-ordinates
0901
Shinkai to Yokosuka
Check UQC
How's the picture on your side?
Yokosuka to Shinkai, picture is clear
This is Shinkai, roger
Depth 200.
Shinkai to Yokosuka
Depth 500, please advise.
Stop!
Amagai, hey!
Let go! Let me out!
Amagai, what's wrong with you?
Amagai!
Shinkai to Yokosuka.
Amagai is not in good condition.
Please terminate this dive and request to surface.
Yokosuka to Shinkai, please tell us more about the situation.
Shinkai, understand.
Amagai's physical condition is not good. Please advise.
Amagai, are you okay?
Amagai?
Hey! Amagai?
Excuse me.
What's going on?
The dive to the Kii Peninsula seems to have been aborted.
What?
I've never heard of a pilot losing consciousness during a deep dive.
Amagai!
Why did you have a panic attack?
What were you doing? Say something!
Hey, Kondo!
I won't be satisfied if I don't say something to her.
I told you, didn't I?
I've been waiting for three and a half years for this dive.
But because of your mistake, it's all gone.
You pilots have it good. You get to go on dives all the time.
But for us, it's once a year at most.
What kind of mood do you think the researchers are in preparing all this time?
I'm sorry.
JAMSTEC SUBMARINE EXPEDITION FAIL!! Shinkai 6500 exceptional cancellation of dive Something happened in the deep sea
This weekend, we confessed to nine media outlets, TV, magazines and newspapers.
(similar headlines across multiple newspapers)
This weekend, we had to admit our mistakes to nine media outlets.
And this time, I even bragged to them and recommended you highly.
I'm extremely sorry.
Amagai-san.
Go to the Director's office.
This is a problem.
I can't believe the pilot failed so badly
After such an incident.
We'll have to reconsider the use of manned submarines.
This is Amagai.
I'm coming in.
MEDICAL REPORT
You don't seem to have any major conditions
Then why are you suddenly having panic attacks?
Do you have any ideas?
No, I don't.
This time, I....
I apologize
I take full responsibility
Commander
If such a disgraceful thing happens again.
I'll have you dismissed.
Please prepare yourself.
I understand.
We'll discuss your disciplinary action later
Stay home for now.
Next on the news.
A scheduled deep-sea resource development survey was abruptly cancelled this morning
The submarine performed an emergency surface to the Yokosuka mothership.
Here's a report from the frontline at JAMSTEC
Resource development in Kii Peninsula....
Miyuki
If you go to the deep end of the sea
There will be stars!
I used this to explore the bottom of the sea.
They're spinning around and shining
like the universe.
It's so beautiful.
It was so close.
Just a little closer
Why?
Because of the failure of the dive a few days ago.
The budget for research outside of resource development
has been cut again.
Can you stop it?
The budget for resource development was already half of the total budget.
Can't you do something else?
There's nothing else. It's already been decided.
But don't cut my budget!
If you want to cut it, cut the engineering team's budget.
Hey, why are you bothering me?
Settle down
Please talk to the boss.
Please, I'm begging you.
I've tried already
What's this?
The Tohoku (Northeast) Japan Ocean Trench Dive Plan.
Didn't I tell you that we don't need to talk about anything other than resources?
We just need to produce results, right?
We just need to focus on the investigation here.
Maybe we can figure out the mechanism of earthquake triggering.
We can't produce results right away, right?
How long do you mean right away?
If we imagine the history of the earth as one year.
Then a thousand years or two thousand years is like a moment, right?
In the first place,
who knows which research will really contribute to society?
That's why we're doing this research.
Stop nagging!
Now all that's left is the research on undersea resources.
The failure of the dive a few days ago was a fatal blow.
There's no point in talking about it. It's already decided.
Hello, this Amagai.
Don't I look weird?
No, it's not weird.
You look like a new employee, it's fine.
I feel like I can't get used to it.
Listen to me,
you have to do what you can.
Okay, it's time, right?
I'm leaving
Have a good trip!
Now that you've joined the publicity department, I'll be taking care of you
Yes
Look, the most important thing in public relations is appearance.
I didn't expect you to be cute.
I think it suits you
Thank you.
Come on, let's brighten the mood.
Go for it.
Yeah.
Right
This is Amagai Miyuki, who will start working in our publicity department today.
You all know her well, right?
Say something.
I will work hard.
Please take care of me.
Then you sit over there.
Yes
Look.
Isn't this little guy beautiful?
It's still full of mysteries.
We only know that it lives in part of the deep sea.
It's amazing!
Come, eat something
So the explanatory text on the home page, I look forward to it.
If you'll excuse me.
But...
Because of the failure of the previous dive,
I had to cut back on research costs.
She can't eat such good bait anymore.
Excuse me
Didn't we say we couldn't?
You should face the reality and be smart.
With this kind of research, no matter how many years it takes, you will not be allowed to dive.
JAMSTEC has changed.
If you don't change, you won't be able to make it here.
This is the information in the brochure.
I'll leave now.
I'm sorry.
She's the submariner who couldn't dive, right?
The publicity department must be suffering
She's such a burden.
Oh, aren't you the popular pilot Amagai? No, it's former pilot.
I'm sorry about the other day.
It's okay.
Actually, I'd like to thank you.
Thanks to you, JAMSTEC.
I'm now in charge of developing unmanned submarines.
If you want to conduct a resource survey.
It's more efficient to use unmanned submarines for such surveys.
Compared to a manned submarine, it can produce results more consistently.
You've given me a good justification. Thank you.
Amagai-san.
Amagai-san?
Yes
Come here.
Do I really have to wear this?
It's a really important job
Hello.
Here, take this and have fun!
Hello.
What's this 6K group member sighing about?
Thank you.
I heard you got kicked out of the publicity department.
So you're just sulking here?
Leave me alone
I want to ask you a question.
Why did you faint during the dive?
Even for a half-baked pilot like you.
You must have received training.
Even if...
you were a spokesperson, you wouldn't have been granted a dive permit, right?
Are you just going to give up?
Half-baked pilot,
I'm not like you.
I'm not going to give up.
I'm going to show them what I can do.
I'm not going to obey the director.
And I haven't even taken the 6K to the deep sea yet.
I won't let it end it like this.
You were going to follow in your father's footsteps, weren't you?
Is that all you're determined to do?
I was wrong about you.
Yokosuka to Shinkai, commence dive
Shinkai to Yokosuka, all systems go, commencing dive
Shinkai to Yokosuka. Depth 500, please advise.
Deep Sea Resource Development Plan
What's going on?
What are you doing here?
One more time.
I want to dive again.
I have to!
What were you doing at this late hour?
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Go home soon.
Well...
I want to show you something.
Now an ecosystem can be established around these bones
This area is a good marker.
We're about to reach the universe in the deap sea.
It's coming.
Full speed ahead.
We can't make it.
I know. Full speed ahead.
We can't go ahead.
Surface?
We can't
It's coming.
It's going to catch up with us.
What is this?
I don't know.
I found it the morning we sailed.
Why didn't you tell anyone?
The camera was found in my father's locker.
If it's something that belonged to my father after he died.
someone might have put it in there.
Who could it be? Someone from the 6K team n ?
I don't know.
I'm afraid to show it to others because I don't know what it means
Before he died, he said...
I'm so close to reaching the universe of the deep sea.
I'm so close.
I'm so close to finding
The universe in the deep sea.
The universe in the deep sea?
This is the mystery of the deep sea that my father, a researcher, was searching for.
I'm afraid that video was taken during my father's last dive to Okinawa.
SHINKAI 6500 DIVE RECORD
On the record, Commander Taki and Kamio-san were also in Okinawa.
It's been a long time everybody!
It's really been a long time.
It's my first time to see you.
Pleased to meet you
Yes
Where's Taki-san?
Isn't he coming?
He's working late.
He only has 6K on his mind.
Taki-san is still the same
And...
one of the researchers on the team was Ishido, our Director
I can't help but feel that the truth about my father's death is being kept from me.
Who is the best person to tell?
I don't know who to believe.
I've caused so much trouble for everyone.
I'm sorry.
Takamine-san, do you know anything?
No, I don't know.
I see.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to find out for myself.
How did my father die?
I want to find out.
Wait a minute.
Although I don't know now.
But after analyzing it in detail, I might be able to find something.
Let me borrow this video.
What?
Don't you want to know?
But...
You may not be able to trust anyone
But this video is not a lie
What's the meaning behind this Shinkai video?
I will analyze it scientifically
Go home and rest
I'll be in touch.
What's that?
A 6K dive log.
That's none of your business, right?
You want to go back to being a pilot?
I'm sorry.
You know...
Let me be frank.
I didn't intend for you to stay in the publicity department.
Just for that one time, you were selected to be a pilot.
You're good-looking.
If you're selected again, you'll be able to publicize it.
Besides...
I'm already the good-looking one in the Publicity Department, that's more than enough.
But even I can't win against time
Got it?
So work hard now.
Uhm...
Thank you.
You're weird too.
As a girl,
why do you want to be a 6K submariner so badly?
There's a universe in the deep sea.
The universe?
This is the mystery of the deep sea that my father was searching for until the end.
Although I don't know what it is.
But I want to find it on behalf of my father.
It's weird, isn't it?
It's weird. You're really a weirdo.
But I've heard that before.
There was a rumor.
No one ever believed it, though.
My father seemed to have found it during his last dive.
10 years ago in Okinawa.
So that's why you're reading this?
July 2005: Okinawa Trough hydrothermal vent research expedition
July 1 - Departed Naha Port
3 dives
July 6 Approaching Naha Port
July 9 Returned to Yokosuka headquarters
They may have seen the universe in the deep sea during the dive on July 5.
But there is no record of it.
So you want to go on a dive?
I'm sorry.
Oh, good work
Thank you for your hard work.
It's been a long time.
When your father was alive, we were together every day.
You were here every day, and you stank of body odor.
Don't say that.
How's the publicity department?
Not too bad.
We're missing a beauty without you.
Hey, you, didn't you say
You always miss Amagai.
No, I didn't. Stop lying!
He said it. He said it several times today.
Stop it, I didn't say it, I didn't say it!
They are good people
They're here to encourage you, right?
Miyuki.
You can't do anything if you're depressed all day.
Yeah
But I miss it.
They used to come to the store all the time.
Your father hung out with them too.
What did you think of dad?
What kind of person did he seem to be in front of others?
I don't really know.
Why are you asking this all of a sudden?
Aren't you lonely?
Dad was going to the sea all the time.
Yeah, I might be feeling lonely
Lonely Prince, what are you doing here at this time?
Please retrieve a dive video.
2005 Okinawa Trough hydrothermal vent research expedition
Really?
Lonely Prince, you're still here.
Please bring up the images of the whale bones found off the coast of Japan.
Whale? Whale bone?
Whale bone.
You're working me to death
What time is it?
Good morning.
Good morning, Amagai.
Good morning
Come with me
Listen, don't say anything about the video to anyone.
What's going on?
After analyzing the video, I found something.
The original video had a huge narrow crevice and a bluntnose sixgill shark.
That was undoubtedly your father's last dive.
Central Okinawa Trough, no mistake about it
But the sand in the deep sea near Okinawa
has the characteristic of white sand accumulation.
The rest is gray.
In other words, the second half of the video is not in the Central Okinawa Trough. but somewhere else
This video was shot in two days.
Such a large area of white gourd shells can only be found in a few places off the coast of Japan
Here
And here
Considering that Yokosuka mothership was in the port of Naha on July 6
If we return to Yokosuka headquarters on the 9th
It is not possible to take a long detour
In that case
The second dive took place in the
Nankai Trough
This is a video of the Nankai Trough that I borrowed from the library.
It shows whale bones on the bottom of the ocean at a depth of about 4,000 meters.
Whale bones?
It's the bones of a whale.
Your father did not die in the Okinawa dive.
They moved to the Nankai Trough.
Diving again
Miyuki
I'm sorry.
But there's no record of this dive.
This time the record was erased.
It was erased.
Just like you suspected.
Someone tampered with the records and buried the truth.
Why don't you give up on your father's legacy?
It's all for nothing.
No one will ever discover the universe in the deep sea.
Why?
Who was it?