Talk:I-401/@comment-24301104-20131225132033/@comment-1637496-20131225180903

Her design is perfectly fine, definitely better than that loli-amoured-carrier or those two new Kongo class remodels.

>they're not even have a good service record

I-400 series is popular, between people who don't know them only because of a little anime girl, because they were the first example of submarine based power projection, their concept predated Tomahawk equipped nuclear submarines by several decades.

I wouldn't call it "iconic" perhaps, but it's qthe most well known Japanese submarine, National Geographic even made a pair of documentary about them some years ago.