Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail

Crime never sleeps in Roanapur, and neither does Roberta—a devoted maid and skilled guerilla soldier in service to the Venezuelan Lovelace family. After the assassination of her superior by the US Secret Service, Roberta returns to the city of debauchery in search of vengeance and his killer's head.

Meanwhile, young Fernando Garcia Lovelace, the new heir to his father's estate, tails Roberta to Thailand alongside his bodyguard, Fabiola Iglesias. He enlists the help of the Lagoon Company, with the objective of deterring Roberta's warpath and bringing her back to the family. However, with the continued bloodshed and mounting tensions between Roberta, island crime factions, and the US military, it will take a significant amount of strategy—and weaponry—to stop her relentless quest for revenge.

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Adaptation:	Black Lagoon
Prequel:	Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage

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Revy

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Toyoguchi, Megumi
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Okajima, Rokurou

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Namikawa, Daisuke
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Roberta

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Tomizawa, Michie
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Dutch

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Isobe, Tsutomu
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Benny

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Hirata, Hiroaki
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Iglesias, Fabiola

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Yukino, Satsuki
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Fernando Lovelace, Garcia

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Ikura, Kazue
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Balalaika

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Koyama, Mami
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Eda

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Karasawa, Jun
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Chang, Bai Ji-Shin

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Morikawa, Toshiyuki
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Cook, Justin

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Ogura, Mitsutoshi

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Okamoto, Junya

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Katabuchi, Sunao

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Aug 24, 2023

Bensonas

Recommended

God damn I forgot how badass Black Lagoon is. The first two seasons were thoroughly enjoyable, and Roberta's Blood Trail doesn't disappoint.

First of all let's talk about the music. It is excellent. Properly scene accompanying music, in particular, the solo drums that pounds through the action sequences that are as perfect as ever. The music throughout is well balanced against the action, doesn't over stay it's welcome and doesn't invade the moment. Even the intro and outro music is good. We all know this is a rarity.

The animation is great. It's grimey, it's dirty and continues to convey the darkness that surrounds ...

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Aug 28, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Mixed Feelings

Notice: This review covers all three installments of the franchise. No reason to make different reviews about the same thing.

In a nutshell: A distillation of every bad or semi-competent Hollywood action flick cranked up to eleven, interspersed with some light philosophy, homage to other media (war films, Yakuza films) and some mature subjects like terrorism and child abuse. It got a cast like a Tarantino film, actually strong and competent female characters who don’t break down and need the male shoulder to cry on, and its tone and content is both over-the-top hilarious and at the same time features moments more mature than ten dozen ... Claymores and Narutos… That, AND boobs and guns.

Black Lagoon can be a highly entertaining anime if you go all myopic on it; meaning to watch only specific aspects of it and have a blind eye to all the rest. To put it bluntly, it is a guilty pleasure series and you are going to watch it for the violence and the profanity. One should see it as a fun ride and not a profound deep show. Here is a list of the things it does right:
- Very good production values, detailed backgrounds, exciting battle choreographies, good use of lighting effects, the BGM has its way of making your blood boil or making you feel the drama of the moment.
- Extremity in violence, character personalities, battles, profanity, death toll, explosions, smoking, drinking, usually all of the above at the same time.
- Gar fighters and butchy women. Uncommon at an era of moe girls and pitiful male protagonists.
- Hints of seriousness thrown at intervals. Despite being a guilty pleasure series aiming at entertainment and not at realism, it was constantly throwing at you info about the harsh reality and how the cruel world really works behind the scenes. That was making it seem a bit intelligent and with some substance.
- Making a parody of it all. It’s poking fun at the clichés of its own genre, thus becoming self-aware satire.
- Best “chicks with guns” anime ever made thus far.

You should not try to make sense out of it or you will hate it right away. The action scenes lack realism and a critical viewer will most likely bitch at how bullets never hit important characters while mooks die with instant headshots, or how the villains constantly freeze and stare like idiots or how useless they are at aiming at something standing half a meter away from them, or how the heroine can do some really impossible acrobatics to kill 10 men with a six-shooter.

Besides the badass attitude of the characters at shooting bullets left and right, cursing, and laughing maniacally, they also have a softer side to them. Meaning they are not just hollow FPS caricatures; they get some fleshing out by revealing their backgrounds and things which affected them and turned them to what they are today. There isn’t much character development though, outside the main duo and even then it only appears in the last part of the franchise almost for playing against the stereotype.

The story is mostly stand-alone arcs, but they don’t overstay their welcome and differ enough from each other in situations and gimmicks. Rock will be usually bitching about immorality, Revy will be shooting at everything that moves, and the discussions they will have with secondary characters during the intervals (while Revy is reloading guns, lol) provides a simple yet satisfying immersion to the story, leaving the viewer to ponder a bit about values… before Revy starts shooting again and all that matters is who remains standing up in the end of the battle. Since bullets change trajectory when they come near her and villains are complete idiots, well, there is little worry regarding if she wins or not.

A point of notice is the gradual swift from mostly action to mostly social drama. Later arcs are longer with less action and better fleshed out situations and adversaries. It’s as if the creators of the show got bored with animating elaborate action scenes and went for characters that got fed up with their line of work. The badasses wanted to be pitied, while Rock had no more tears to shed and suddenly turned to a Machiavellian anti-hero. This reversing of personalities didn’t sit well with most, since nobody expected or wanted characters to develop in this sort of show.

But anyways, if you manage to be half blind to the farfetched situations and don’t mind the emo-ness that slowly crawls in along the way, it is a great action show.

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May 5, 2022

SmoothlyF

Not Recommended

"Spoiler" alert including allusions to sexually graphic content

What a hugely disappointing finale to what was a very enjoyable series on a generally downward trajectory throughout the second series.

The story does little of note, spinning its wheels in a desperate attempt to build some kind of intrigue but fails to do that through janky pacing and character arcs that in no way dovetail into anything with a working structure.

The art and sound are the strongest points of "Roberta's Blood Trail" in large part because they are mostly in keeping with what came before: crisp, often dark and brooding but not overbearingly so, interspersed with colourful wide-angle ...

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