Also, the fight scenes are absolutely GORGEOUS, with fluid battle sequences from the characters and jaw-dropping gun plays that will leave the audience awe-struck. All of the characters’ designs, outfits, and facials are so unique to one another, which helps the viewers recognize which characters is which. If there was an actual live-action series, I would watch it in a heartbeat-kind of like I said in my review for Nana.įor an anime made in the year of 2006, the animation outshines a lot of the other anime made during that year.
While I would watch the series, I kept visioning myself watching Black Lagoon as a live-action TV series on NBC or FOX, which was very strange because the show has a lot of elements that are similar to a crime/violent series. Don’t worry, though, the ending for this arc brought a big bang and left me in tears because of the ending song used, The World of Midnight. The story for this arc spreads out and just ends up a mess by the middle of it. While some arcs blew me away, there was an arc with these two vampire twins that made me feel a bit uneasy. Instead of the smaller and exciting arcs from the first season, the viewer will have few long arcs in the span of twelve episodes. I wanted to know a lot more about those two characters, such as where they came from, how they ended up joining the Black Lagoon crew, etc., but to replace the development, Hiroe shines the spotlight on their characters during their fight scenes to make their characters extra special.Īs for the season season of this anime, mostly everything was the same except for the plot. The two other main characters, Dutch and Benny, have just the tiniest but of development, but not enough to make me feel the sympathy I had for Rock and Revy. He also enhances some of his main characters developments-mainly Rock’s and Revy’s-to bring his story to life for his audience. Since the main protagonists are considered villains (according to those who do not watch anime), there are times where the story aims towards bashing the characters for trying to steal expensive ships and goods. But as always, I will give you readers the insights of why I adore this anime.įirst of all, while this story line seems cliché for an anime in the gangster genre, creator Rei Hiroe spices up the plot in the first season by adding some unique twists and turns to give an in-depth story about the real world of trading goods, adding some of the coolest fights in anime history, and to put the cherry on top, tons of hilarious and dark comedy aimed for the mature audience.
I love almost… almost everything about Black Lagoon, except for a few flaws that somewhat let me down when watching. After viewing the first episode, though, my opinion about the anime changed immediately! From the lively English voice acting and catchy music to the mind-blowing action and pure dark comedy, this series had me watching every night after coming home from school. Now, when first learning about the series, I was a bit skeptical about watching it because of how much mature content I read in some reviews of this show. While on the job, they run into criminals and get into outrageous fights on the streets and a few boats.
They smuggle goods around the seas of Southeast Asia in the mid-1990s and send them to different clients in the Southeastern Asia area. In the 2006 twenty-four episode animated series Black Lagoon, the viewers follow a Japanese business man named Rock, who gets kidnapped by a group of pirate mercenaries called the Black Lagoon, hence the title.