Jormungand

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Until Black Lagoon starts getting released again, Jormungand is where its fans should look for their psychotic lady sexiness + guns fix. The blend of light-hearted interaction, death and serious subject matter in general, as well as the emphasis on scary-but-hot ladies, makes them easy to place together. Both deal with the transporting of cargo as mercenary teams attempt to protect the goods until they reach their destination; shooting anything that gets in their way. Women lead the way with insane smiles/laughter in Jormungand, as well as Black Lagoon. The most deadly characters in the two are female and in Jormungand the heroine is the lead in a seinen--a rarity. I prefer Black Lagoon because Jormungand starts out by throwing ten characters at the reader at once, instead of slowly introducing everyone--meaning it takes time to remember names and start caring. Jormungand's more global, country-to-country episodicness also gets in the way of attachment, compared to Black Lagoon's clusterfcuk setting. Without the Revy-Rock interaction, Jormungand isn't as good as Black Lagoon, but it's still a damn good read. read more 

while the setting, characters, and premise are different, the overall grittiness is similar 

Both series has a similar feeling that deals with a realistic and dangerous job that often puts the main characters' lives at risk. Both series' main protagonist are cunning and often plans their moves ahead in order to accomplish tasks assigned. The tasks are sometimes considered controversial and not legal by public standards. Of course, they do come with great rewards. Both series has action, drama, and gives off a seinen feeling. 

Seinen with action, bullets, blood and child soldiers. 

A lot of weapons and even more action... there's nothing else you need to know. 

The premise might be different but their style is similar. Characters involved in their perspective stories have violent pasts that made them whom they are in the present. Yet, they seek to live their new life with goals to fulfill. There is a lot of action present in both series, mostly involving with firearms. The characters are exceptionally skilled at using such firearms during missions/tasks that they do on a daily basis. Expect violence, revenge, and secrets that unfold as their stories ties in together characters collectively to formulate something to talk about.