Mecha and Monsters from Submarine Super 99

The following is a list of the many mecha and monsters that appeared in the 2003 anime series *Submarine Super* 99.

## Oki Ocean Lab

* **Kairyumaru**: Appears in episodes 1 and 2. It was a white bathyscaphe used to investigate the Japanese Trench and transport the Kuroshio.
	+ **Kuroshio**: Appears in episodes 1 and 3. It was a white submarine designed to explore the Japanese Trench. It had six searchlights including five on the bow and one on the top. It could fire three green flash torpedoes from the front.
* **Super 99**: First appears in episode 2. It was powered by an I engine so it would not require diesel or nuclear energy. It was armed with a 4-barreled machine gun turret, four torpedo launchers in each side of the bow, decoy torpedoes from the left side of the bridge; can reach a maximum depth of 20 kilometers, four anti-torpedo flares in each side of the hull, mine launchers from each side of the rear, 4 rocket propelled anchors in each side of the stern, shown to fly in the final episode. In the epilogue thirty years into the future it was able to fly in space helmed by the Zess with a structure similar to the titular ship from *Space Battleship Yamato*.
	+ **Repair Craft Submarine**: Appears in episodes 5 and 2. It has two laser torches on the front of the cockpit. It was shown being piloted via remote control and could imitate the sounds of the I Engine.
	+ **Exploratory Craft**: Appears in episode 13. It is a jet used by the Super 99 crew to observe the homeland of the Aquatics. It was stored in the port of Super 99 used to explore the Zess homeland. It was seen capable of floating on top of water.
* **Black Rescue Raft**: Only appears in episode 4. It was used to save Susumu from a pair of Suction Torpedo explosions going off.

## Japanese Military

* **Onami**: Appears in episodes 1, 2, and 7. It is a black patrol boat used to escort the Kairyumaru. It is armed with a cannon on the bridge. Notably it had the number 300 painted on each side of its bow. Two other similar patrol boats were seen with it in episode 7.
* **ASW Helicopter**: It is a white coast guard helicopter that surveyed the maiden voyage of the Kairyumaru.
* **F-104J**: Appear in episode 1. They are armed with a pair of vulcan guns in the nose.
* **Coast Guard Tug Boats**: Appear in episode 2. They were used to secure the Onami and Kairyumaru into the harbor.
* **K-6**: A diesel fueled training submarine that appears in episode 3. It had no known weapons and was destroyed by the Ocean Empire as bait to lure the Submarine Super 99.

## Ocean Empire

* **Ocean Empire Nuclear Submarines**: Appear throughout the series. It is a gray and red submarine used by the Ocean Empire, nuclear powered, speed 40 knots. They were armed with a pair of torpedo launchers in each side of the hull and a pair of V-3 missiles in the bow.
* **X-0**: Appears in episodes 3, 4, and 9. It was armed with a pair of torpedo launchers in each side of the bow.
* **Suction Torpedoes**: Appear in episode 4. They were vehicles for the Zess stored in the X-0, noted for having four suction pistons on the rear to attach to the underside of ships and explode via a timer bomb.
* **Ocean Empire Tank**: Only appear in a film reel in episode 4 before appearing proper in 10. They were armed with twin cannons and machine gun on the top.
* **Z-Type Super Submarine**: Appears in episode 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11. It was powered by a J Engine and doubled as an aircraft carrier for three bombers. It was armed with three torpedo launchers in each side of the bow and five paralysis gas emitters in the port side.
* **Ocean Empire Bombers**: Appear in episode 9. There were armed with depth charges.
* **Imperial Flagship**: Appears in episodes 10, 11, and 12. It was armed with an ultrasonic sound wave from the bow, three torpedo launchers in each side of the bow, and a pair of 4-barreled machine gun turrets on the back of the bridge.
* **Escort Submarine**: Appear in episodes 11 and 12. These two submarines were used by Zess loyal to General Hell. They were armed with three missiles on each side of the bow, three missiles in each side of the hull, a mine dispenser in the stern, and two torpedo launchers in each side of the bow.
* **Relic Submarine**: Appears in episode 13. It was a nuclear submarine General Hell used to find the Aquatic homeland. It was eventually abandoned in the Tree of Life. General Hell used it as a self destruct device in a final attempt to destroy the Super 99.

## Undersea Life

* **Zess**: Amphibious ocean people that were forced to serve the Ocean Empire and were frequently referred to as simply Aquatics. Notably their eyes had a low tolerance to sunlight and required sunglasses in daylight while on dry land. Their hearing that allows for communication with sea life. In the final episode it is stated there are only two hundred members of their species remaining.
* **Tree of Life**: A 70 million years old tree that is said to be the origin of the Zess. From it spawns animals from across different eras in Earth's history. General Hell of the Ocean Empire found this decades before the events of the series and vowed to return with his army, the Ocean Empire, to claim it for himself. Elements of this would be reused in *Ozma* which was also made by Leiji Matsumoto.
* **Servant Animals**: Various marine animals the Zess have used to chase down General Hell in the Imperial Flagship. These consisted mostly of dolphins and manta rays although Queen Ze Violencia used a Whale Shark.
* **Ancient Sea Animals**: Appear in the final episode which consisted of the dunkleosteus, the icthyosaurus, and the anomalocaris.
* **Archaeopteryx**: The first known type of bird, was briefly seen in the final episode inhabiting the base of the Tree of Life.