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

Satou, Yumi Producer

Yokoyama, Shuko Producer

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Mar 1, 2025

Collingswoodkm

Recommended

When I first watched Baccano, the first episode made me think this anime was one of those shows with a slow start. It was uninteresting, but the potential was there. Usually, with this typa thing, I would guess episode 3-5 would be where the show starts to get good, especially considering Baccano is only 13 episodes.

By the time I finished episode 6, the show was still unappealing to me. I began to seriously consider dropping it, as I was just so uninterested and didn’t wanna watch the rest of it because of how boring I found it. However for some weird reason, every few ... days or so, I would decide to watch one more episode — just because.

When I watched episode 7, I began to think the show might finally be starting to pick up, as things were starting to come together more and more.

Watching episodes 8-9 furthered these hopes, as the plot began to become more and more interesting to me. Unfortunately though, I still didn’t like the show too much or anything. It was just alright.

Episode 10 is when I realized just how good this story really is. After watching episode 10, I binged the rest of the show. Baccano truly is a near-masterpiece of a plot. It’s the type of show where the first time you watch it, it may be just alright, but if you ever rewatch it, it would be amazing since you know the story.

Overall, this was a great watch that I would recommend. Personally, I thought it was a slow start, but the way the plot unfolds and perfectly all fits together to make sense is worth the wait.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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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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Dec 10, 2024

Yunice

Not Recommended

I don't have a tendency to want to finish an anime too fast usually, but with Baccano!, i just feel that if I have to drag it on much longer, I might end up breaking a lot of things. The voice acting for Miria was not bad, but the voice for the character itself drove me insane. The constant jumping to and fro between time lines in a show did not sit well with me either. Only the soundtrack appealed to me.

The hype on this animation seemed to be very overrated. Not recommended unless you enjoy ear piercing voices and erratic scenes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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