Baccano!

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Japanese: バッカーノ！

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 27, 2007 to Nov 2, 2007

Premiered: Summer 2007

Broadcast: Fridays at 00:30 (JST)

Producers: Aniplex, Sakura Create, Happinet Pictures

Licensors: Funimation, Aniplex of America

Studios: Brain's Base

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Mystery, Supernatural

Themes: Adult Cast, Historical, Organized Crime

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.36¹ (scored by 381,850 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #210²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #190

Members: 904,904

Favorites: 23,284

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Synopsis

During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir. In addition, a war between the mafia groups is getting worse. On board the Advena Avis, in 1711, alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality.

Based on the award-winning light novels of the same name, Baccano! follows several events that initially seem unrelated, both in time and place, but are part of a much bigger story—one of alchemy, survival, and immortality. Merging these events together are the kindhearted would-be thieves, Isaac and Miria, connecting various people, all of them with their own hidden ambitions and agendas, and creating lifelong bonds and consequences for everyone involved.

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Background

Baccano! is based on Ryohgo Narita's award-winning light novels of the same title and mainly adapts the first 4 novels. While more faithful to the first 3 novels, the 4th novel (1932) is followed more loosely and is mostly an anime-exclusive story. In addition, content from later novels is briefly included in the anime as well. Unlike the novels however, which follow a mostly linear narrative per book, the anime adopts a non-linear storytelling style; the tale of each novel is told simultaneously with one another, with the focus jumping back and forth in time between and within the different plotlines.

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Adaptation:	Baccano!
Sequel:	Baccano! Specials

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Characters & Voice Actors

Dian, Isaac

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Onosaka, Masaya
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Stanfield, Claire

Main

Morita, Masakazu
Japanese

Harvent, Miria

Main

Aoki, Sayaka
Japanese

Russo, Ladd

Main

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

Prochainezo, Firo

Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki
Japanese

Splot, Jacuzzi

Main

Sakaguchi, Daisuke
Japanese

Laforet, Chane

Main

Hirohashi, Ryou
Japanese

Gandor, Luck

Main

Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Ennis

Main

Kobayashi, Sanae
Japanese

Meyer, Czesław

Main

Kanda, Akemi
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Cook, Justin

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Harp, Clarine

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Kananiwa, Kozue

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Oomori, Takahiro

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

"Gun's & Roses" by Paradise Lunch

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Ending Theme

"Calling" by Oda Kaori

Reviews

Mar 25, 2024

No_following247

Recommended

This has always been a personal favorite of mine and one that I always recommend to first time anime viewers. Now as much as I love to talk about this show, I don't wanna spoil it for people who haven't seen it. Because as it stands, this show is just really solid.

Without giving too much away the show is kinda similar to Sin City, where it revolves around a few individual stories that connect and tie into one another. And it’s all done in a nonlinear order like I’m watching Momento. And you might think that sounds confusing, but this show is very well edited ...

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Aug 20, 2023

szrmx

Mixed Feelings

Baccano is a work created in an unconventional way, i.e. it does not have a rigid time frame and is not limited to the real world, because we are dealing here with the theme of immortality, which in turn gives the creators a lot of room to show off when it comes to the possibilities of creating a storyline. In the first episode I really wanted to stop the screening because I didn't understand what was going on, the way of showing the action is very chaotic and gives us more questions and embarrassment than answers, which will be bothersome for the first few episodes, ... then the creators show the same scenes a few times so we'll get it What is it about.

Story:
The plot is about a group of different freaks whose destinies come together in a strange train, where various intrigues take place, such as kidnappings, murders, immortal children, torture, sadists, freaks, thieves, politicians, mafia, idiots, killers and stuff like that. Due to such diversity, it was not easy to maintain coherence and sense, especially if we add to it the way of presenting the action described in the introduction, but you can say that theoretically everything adds up to some strange twisted whole. The screening is quite ok, due to the mass of characters we like more or less, I liked "Rail Tracer" the most and "Jacuzi" the least, the speed of the action throughout the series remains at a stable, non-tiring level.

Characters:
There are many characters and everyone should like something, but I wouldn't count on their overwhelming depth, because they are typical one-dimensional characters, a psychopath behaves like a psychopath, an idiot, and so with everyone. on the plus side, there is their number, on the minus side, their development, moreover, the number of episodes effectively limits the possibility of their development, it is worth mentioning that the baccano manga was created in the years 2003-2016 and has 22 volumes, so there is no doubt that the story is for 10 seasons and not one, but for reasons unknown to me, the continuation did not appear, which is a pity because throughout the series I had the impression that the prologue was presented to me much longer and more interesting intrigue, as if the animated series was to be created for a very long time.

Enjoyment:
I had fun throughout the series quite ok, thanks to the fast pace of the action, the episodes were not boring, however, I was waiting for a very interesting finale, but I was disappointed because there was no special climax or it was not very expressive, the plot is engaging, the characters are less.

Overall:
I recommend the series to fans of action, brutality, mafia, and twisted intrigues, but I do not think that the series deserves the average rating of MAL users, because there is nothing amazing here, knocking you off your feet, once again I will emphasize that the series would be much better to watch knowing that we will be able to see much more, but we were given the introduction of the manga, so to speak, which begins a great adventure and shows us many possibilities for the development of the story and we get such a foretaste, the annoying fact is that the viewers are shown threads that may be interesting, but which I will never know unless I reach for the manga... well, that's what makes me treat the series as a manga advertisement, which is a pity because the potential is there.

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Jun 25, 2021

Lil_esketit

Not Recommended

Never have I ever been so dissapointed in a show, all the reviews on the internet made it out to be one of the best anime of all time, but its far from it.

The show has one of most and forgettable characters I have ever seen, a day after finishing the show I already forgot most of the names. The art style is also some of the most unoriginal and generic I have ever seen, many of the characters look the same, only difference being that they have different hair colors.

The animation is also a thing I dislike a lot about this show, ...

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