Baccano!

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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Dian, Isaac Main

Onosaka, Masaya Japanese

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 Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Harp, Clarine Producer

Yokoyama, Shuko Producer

Satou, Yumi Producer

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Aug 28, 2024

BaselessFall

Recommended

The worst thing about watching an anime you love for the first time is that you can never watch it for the first time again.

This, somehow, ended up being the first anime i actually ended up finishing. Usually i liked spending my time, seeing weebs talk about their favourite type of media and arguing about it, but i always struggled to get into this kind of shit myself. Even now, i can't really say that i like anime. I just need a place to just throw my thoughts out, since my friends won't watch it >:(

This is the first time i fell in love with ... something from this type of media. Baccano is amazing! It features a wide set of characters, all related to a series of incidents that happened around America on the 1930's. The anime focuses on a incident which ocurred on a train called "The Flying Pussyfoot" (Hehe). As the series went on, all on the incidents that happened start to connect themselves to eachother and many occurences are explained. The characters are amazing! As the series progressed, i found myself loving most of them. Even Jacuzzi Splot, a character whom i initially viewed as just a scaredy-cat. Then there's music... I genuinely believe that, if mastered, Anime and Jazz fit perfectly.

Go watch it. Seriously. Even if you don't like it, give it a chance. Or else...

I know where you live.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 15, 2024

PrivateJoe

Not Recommended

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I don't understand why others consider Baccano an underappreciated anime. Its non-linear storytelling is hard to follow. Having just finished the series, I find it difficult to remember much. I'm left scratching my head, wondering, 'Who are these characters, and what is happening?'

Moreover, the characters themselves are forgettable. I can't recall any of their names, and there are simply too many to keep track of. Nearly all of them are violent and goofy, which I found to be quite annoying, contrary to my expectations.

Perhaps my disappointment stems from expecting a serious tone, only to find a cartoonishly goofy show with fantasy superpowers. I believe it ... should be listed under comedy and fantasy genres, which would better reflect its nature.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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