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 510266510,266 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #6172
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #158
Members: 1,048,515
Favorites: 19,563

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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.

Characters & Voice Actors

Roberta

Supporting
Tomizawa, Michie
Japanese

Eda

Supporting
Karasawa, Jun
Japanese

Chang, Bai Ji-Shin

Supporting
Morikawa, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Shenhua

Supporting
Sasaki, Yuuko
Japanese

Leigharch

Supporting
Oomori, Akimasa
Japanese

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"Don't Look Behind" by EDISON

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Reviews

Jan 20, 2025
This review includes my optics on ,,Black Lagoon" anime as a whole - not first season only.
I do believe that ,,Black Lagoon" is an inclusive proposition. It does not contain bright elements of japanese popculture you can see in Isekai like collecting harems or bright character designs in general. Its pretty ambitious but also contains half measures, which you will surely notice analysing world construction of this anime. I would personally call ,,Black Lagoon" one of ,,bigger" titles - similarly to e.g ,,Shingeki no Kyojin" - titles, which are ambitious enough to grow beyond fiction with problems they represent through their plot. When Rock(main character ...
Sep 28, 2024
Mixed Feelings
What in the Gary Stu school of character is this protagonist?

Never felt compelled to write a review on MAL but damn. Rock is so bland and uninteresting I actually rolled my eyes to some of the stuff he does and says, Revy should have been the protagonist.

Don't get me wrong, having a positive and regular guy in the middle of a chaotic situation is quite cool and a nice contrast to get such an action show going... but couldn't they just sprinkle a bit of personality on him? Just some flaws? They even tried giving him something to do in the few first episodes, which ...
Aug 27, 2024
One of the most overrated anime out there.

If you're a fan of watching people out run and dodge bullets then you'll enjoy it. Plot armor everywhere. Boring, forced characters, with generic personalities and cliches every other line. A very forgettable and uninteresting story, though this is supposed to be an action anime, but it even fails at that. The fights are terrible, akin to Star Wars troopers missing 100% of their shots, only to land that one plot-serving shot where the characters start having a long conversation.

In one of the episodes Revy jumps on a moving boat, sits down and stays still while shooting at ...

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