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Super Atragon is an anime movie produced in 1995 and distributed by Toho Studios. Its main focus is the super-powered Imperial Japanese undersea battle sub named the Ra, and its crew. It was followed by Super Atragon: Part II, which continues to follow the Ra's fight against the subterranean forces which want to destroy humanity and claim the surface world.

Synopsis
Fifty years after World War II, a young sailor becomes caught up in a fight to save the humanity from a race of powerful, subterranean humans. Assisting him is his friend, who is revealed to be a subterranean agent, and his father- who abandoned his family years earlier to rebuild the one ship that can fight the subterranean forces.

Plot
During the events of World War II on a parallel Earth, the Imperial Japanese battle sub Ra intercepts a warning that is being broadcast to all American vessels in the area. Decoding the message, it's revealed that an atomic bomb has been dropped on Hiroshima and all American vessels are ordered to stay clear. With no choice but to stop fighting, Captain Hyuga and his executive officer Commander Kageyama take the advice offered to them by a strangely dressed woman who is also on the bridge of the Ra with them. However, sonar readings reveal that another vessel is in the area with them, giving off the same power readings which the Ra employs. As both vessels rise to the surface, it's revealed that the other battle sub in question is American, and that it's based on the same technology being using by the Ra. At that moment, the woman feels a familiar energy and it is revealed that her companion- Avatar, is aboard the American vessel, known as the Liberty. Desperate to stop a battle before it begins, the captain orders his crew not to fire upon the Liberty. As the woman shouts at Avatar to stop her attack, the Liberty begins to fire upon the Ra. Because of the psychic link shared between them, the woman screams at Avatar to stop one final time and unleashes a psychic attack which renders both women unconscious. Desperate to avenge his brother who died in the Hiroshima attack, one of the Ra's crewmen defies the captain's orders and fires one of the main guns upon the Liberty, which immediately retaliates by launching a new volley of fire at the Ra. Captain Hyuga realizes that he has no choice but to order the Ra into battle, and orders Commander Kageyama to abandon ship, taking the lady with him. Kageyama protests, knowing that the captain has a pregnant wife waiting for him at home, but Captain Hyuga counters by telling the commander that his job is with his ship and crew. After Kageyama's departure, the captain orders the crew to go to battle stations and engages the Liberty in a fight to the death encounter. The battle ends as both ships ram each other at full speed with their battle drills fully engaged, resulting in both crews being killed.

Years later, a researcher at a remote listening post in Antarctica is killed after being exposed to highly lethal waves of microwave radiation. This incident prompts the investigation of a U.N. task force, as the same radiation is also melting the ice at the polar ice cap. Aboard one of the U.N. vessels is Go Arisaki, and his friend Annette Sugawara, both of whom have requested a transfer to the U.N. investigation task force. At the briefing, the commander of the investigation team reveals that a large column of unknown origin has been spotted at the south pole and their mission is to find out what it is. Go and Annette take a helicopter to get visual confirmation of the column, when it suddenly fires upon them and kills the rest of the investigation team. In response, the U.N. task force vessels simultaneously fire two nuclear missiles but neither of the missiles have any effect upon the column. The enemy force destroys the U.N. task force at the south pole, and it's revealed that another column has been observed rising over the north pole. A secret U.N. panel discusses the appropriate actions to take, and one of the members gains unseen information from an administration report which was prepared by the Sugawara Foundation.

At the south pole, Go is rescued and awakens to find himself in an unknown dry dock. While trying to get his bearings, he stumbles upon the remains of his father's old ship, the Tatsunami- which was reported to have gone missing years ago when he was a very young child. Go has the good fortune to run into Chief Engineer Tachibana, who explains to him that he's in the dry dock of the undersea battleship Ra, which is being prepared to get underway. After reporting in to the main bridge, Go meets the current captain and the commander of the Ra, as well as the bridge crew. Captain Huga gives the order to engage and the Ra leaves its drydock.

Meanwhile, Mr. Sugawara- the founder of the Sugawara Foundation, talks to the Prime Minister of Japan and his subordinate about the report which was prepared by his foundation. The report has been passed along from one administration to another, and Mr. Sugawara also begins the task of informing the Prime Minister about the true enemy- a race of superior subterranean beings. He reveals that the earth is hollow, and that the only two ways are the massive holes at the north and south poles. He also reveals that only one force is capable of stopping the enemy, and that force is about to get underway. Because the Prime Minister doesn't believe him, Mr. Sugawara then reveals his final secret- that he is actually Commander Kageyama, formerly of the Ra and also its sole survivor.

Vice Admiral Bogard, the commander of the U.N. special peace keeping force orders his forces to attack the enemy machines, but the attack results in many of the U.N. aerial forces being destroyed. Before the task force can retaliate, the Ra appears and begins battling the enemy war machinery, completely devastating many of the machines that are being used. In the midst of the battle, Go sees that the captain of the Ra is carrying a small blade that his grandfather kept. At the end of the battle, Vice Admiral Bogard demands for the Ra to be turned over to the U.N. task force, but Captain Huga refuses the intervention of any other nation's help against the enemy forces. Go finds Captain Huga and challenges him about why he left his wife and child. After seeing the blade that the Captain was carrying, Go deduced that Captain Huga is his father. Just as Go prepares to fight his father, Annette shows up and stops him. Annette is now dressed in the same outfit that she wore over fifty years ago when Go's grandfather was the captain of the Ra. As they look at each other, Annette's companion- Avatar, laughs and plots the destruction of the Ra and everyone aboard it, concluding part I.