I think the thing that surprised me the most about this OVA series is that it was more intense and hectic compared to the first two seasons.
The story begins with the assassination of Garcia's father so Roberta goes on a mission to avenge his fathers death by finding the people who killed him which brings her to Roanapur, Garcia along with his new maid Fabiola asks the Lagoon crew for help to retrieve Roberta and bring her home.
What I really enjoyed with this part of the Black Lagoon series is that it starts off like another normal situation for the Lagoon crew, but even in 5 episodes the story paced incredibly well from turning into a hunt and into a massacre, it was intense, thrilling and goddamn suspenseful seeing Roberta killing anything in her path so she can accomplish her mission for avenging Garcia's father.
It felt even darker than the last series too the way people died was pretty damn gruesome and even some of the injuries that some of the characters attained was pretty messed up too especially for Roberta who lost quite a few body parts by the end of this show.
Once again the characters were as good as ever, the show certainly focused on Rock quite a bit once again since he is continuing with his internal battle of his morality and at some point the show even made him go to the dark side like the way Revy and the other criminals are mainly because he has become so used to the corruption and violence of Roanapur and it really brought out the terror in his character, but luckily he didn't stay that way forever.
The same can be said for Revy who's character had changed a lot in the second season was again changed further with the conversation that she had with Fabiola who said that Rock is someone she cares for because of his determination to help people and if he became like her she would lose that person she cared for which shows that Revy has changed a lot from the beginning of season 1 thanks to Rock.
You also get to see how messed up Roberta is and what this OVA showed was absolutely terrifying, she even use's pills just to make her stronger and more immune to pain which makes her go insane and delusional even seeing things that haunted her which even made her to believe at some point that Garcia wasn't even real which almost got him killed, Roberta can also be very creepily deceptive because she even tricked one of the enemies to have sex with her only to kill them with a special Gun belt so this OVA truly showed how much of a scarred, mentally unstable and deadly person she really was.
The show also focused on Garcia and the new maid Fabiola who is another deadly maid hell she stabbed a guy in the nuts with a shoe knife, but their combined effort to try and help Roberta showed they had heart and really cared for Roberta's well being and that meant even sacrificing themselves to get her back which almost did happen because Garcia took a bullet just to make her see straight again.
Again though Dutch, Benny and some of the other main criminals were put on the sidelines true it isn't about them, but it would be nice seeing them do something for once instead of being put aside.
The artstyle once again remained amazing, compared to the first two seasons it certainly increased the gore meter because like I said a lot the injuries or the way some people died was pretty damn gruesome especially when it came to Roberta's skills which definitely showed when she was fighting her enemies like for example during the final episode the ways she killed some of the American spec-ops guys was damn impressive and the injuries she sustained herself were pretty gruesome too.
The Action continued to blow me away the firefights that happened with Roberta and pretty much everyone around certainly turned into a war zone and I have to say well done because the gun battles in this OVA felt more thrilling and tense compared to the first two seasons which I have to give credit too. There was also a bit of fanservice in the mix too since we get to see both Revy and Roberta nude which probably gave the fans something nice to look at, I wasn't really bothered hell I enjoyed myself it just came out of nowhere for me.
Overall this was a great OVA and nicely continued the Black Lagoon story and hopefully one day there will be a season 3.....maybe, if you're someone who watched both seasons and is expecting hectic action then come and see this.
