Black Lagoon

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Japanese: BLACK LAGOON
English: Black Lagoon
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 9, 2006 to Jun 25, 2006
Premiered: Spring 2006
Broadcast: Sundays at 02:35 (JST)
Studios: Madhouse
Source: Manga
Genre: ActionAction
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, Organized CrimeOrganized Crime
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.031 (scored by 493519493,519 users)
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Ranked: #5902
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #155
Members: 1,006,553
Favorites: 18,787

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Synopsis

Salaryman Rokurou Okajima spends his days trying to climb his company's corporate ladder, until one day when a business negotiation in Thailand goes awry. During the botched deal, he falls hostage to the Lagoon Company—a band of ruthless pirate mercenaries. Left to the whims of his captors after his managers refuse to pay his ransom, Rokurou does the unthinkable: instead of begging for his life, he joins the very crew who kidnapped him.

Now a member of the group, Rokurou must adjust to his new residence in the dissolute hellscape known as Roanapur, a city where corruption and crime run rampant, and even the smallest slipup could cost him his life. If not for one of the many crime syndicates on the island, Rokurou also constantly finds himself at odds with his brash, gunslinging colleague, Revy.

As Rokurou struggles to abandon his past—and with more than just the profits from the Lagoon Company's illegal trading on the line—he must quickly find the resolve to make tough decisions in high-stress situations while keeping his humanity intact.

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Background

Black Lagoon was released on DVD by Geneon Entertainment from May 22, 2007 to September 18, 2007. Following a 2008 agreement regarding distribution rights, Funimation Entertainment also published the series in the same format on August 19, 2008. The company later released the anime on Blu-ray on November 17, 2015.

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Characters & Voice Actors

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Tomizawa, Michie
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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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Shenhua

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Sasaki, Yuuko
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Leigharch

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Oomori, Akimasa
Japanese

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"Don't Look Behind" by EDISON




Reviews

Mar 28, 2024
If you imagine the most ruthless American action movie, where there is no justification, but only senselessly cheerful gunfire - you'll get a little closer to the essence of "Black Lagoon". Blood for the Blood God! And no rigor. It's interesting to see how pious and most likely absolutely friendly to the law Japanese people, see the underworld and the "bottom of life". Cardboard mafia, slightly caricatured murders of about the same quality as in Russian TV series about cops in the late 90s. While watching Revy will constantly throw in unfunny jokes and allusions to action movies that you hardly watched, to music ...
Aug 22, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Every once in a while, two different teams, with different ideas and sometimes even at a different point in time, create two very similar pieces of media. Whenever that happens, most reviews start with a sentence acknowledging this fact and usually stating which work is superior. If you want to see an example of this happening, look up the user reviews for Deep Impact on IMDB and watch out for the word Armageddon. In a similar way, I have to start this off by saying that Black Lagoon is just Cyberpunk:Edgerunners only worse in every way imaginable. When I reviewed Edgerunners I gave it a ...
Aug 9, 2022
This anime gives Deadman Wonderland a run for its money for my "Most Juvenile Anime I Have Ever Seen" award. This anime is BLATANTLY targeted at angsty teenagers in every way and it's cringe-inducing to watch.

The writing is unbearably bad. Expect constant lines along the lines of "Shit is bullshit! Let's go F some shit up!" or "Let's go start some shit" or "I'm going to show that F ing C the definition of pain". It's offensively mindless and juvenile and could only possibly appeal to unhappy teenagers.

It's not just the writing either. All the characters try really really hard, and not the least bit ...

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