Peter's Japan blog

Black Lagoon, another anime that I'm liking very much!

The story kicks off with a Japanese salary man, Okajima Rokuro, who needs to deliver a special disc, but is being kidnapped by the Black Lagoon company. Black Lagoon are a bunch of pirates/deliverers for those who pay for dangerous jobs.
However the company that Rokuro works for leaves him behind, and he decides to stay with the people that kidnapped him and join them on their dangerous missions. He is nicknamed "Rock" by the other team mates.
The other people of Black Lagoon include:
- the sexy but dangerous Revy aka 'Two-Hands', an american of chinese origin, who dangerously wields double Beretta 92F. She does most of the shooting, and she always picks on Rock, whom she cares for, but doesn't show that at all, cause she's the tough girl.
- the leader of the Black Lagoon, Dutch, is an african-american ex-vietnam soldier. He is the boss and the captain of the Black Lagoon boat.
- Benny, an american of jewish origin, handles all the technical aspects of Black Lagoon like communication, computers and hacking.

So that's it for a little introduction of the story (only the very beginning though).
There are a lot of action scenes and the animation is done very well and realistic. The series can be pretty dark at times, but sometimes there's a funny moment of course. The characters are explored quite deep in the first season, while the second season focuses more on the action. But nevertheless, I really started liking all the characters, especially Revy (she's hot as hell ;p).
It's also features an awesome OP song by MELL called Red Fraction.
I give this anime a big 10!

Also, I SO want this t-shirt (which you can buy here) :D.

Black Lagoon is now being released by Geneon on R1 dvd with english subtitles and an english dub.
Buy them at Amazon:
- Black Lagoon, Volume 1 Limited (with Art Box)
- Black Lagoon, Volume 1
- Black Lagoon, Volume 2 Limited (with Dog Tag)
- Black Lagoon, Volume 2
- Black Lagoon, Vol. 3 Limited Edition (to be released Sept 18th 2007)
- Black Lagoon, Vol. 3 (to be released Sept 18th 2007)