There are two things you need to know about me before you read this review. First, I’m a ride-or-die Godfather II fan, the kind of person who’s obsessively watched and re-watched Robert DeNiro’s [...]
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By Ryohgo Narita, Shinta Fujimoto and Katsumi Enami. Released in Japan by Square Enix, serialized in their magazine Young Gangan. Released in North America by Yen Press. Translated by Taylor Engel. [...]
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It may not rank anywhere on my ‘Best of 2009′ list but Baccano Vol. 1 from Funimation certainly qualifies as one of the hardest to review in recent memory! Filled with blood, violence and a twisted story involving alchemists creating the secret of eternal life Baccano does little to impress with its [...]
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I can’t say I’m likely to make posts about every volume of the R2 Baccano! DVD release, simply because there isn’t likely to be much of any real interest about it until the last volume with the DVD-only episodes, but I figured I’d at least go through the motions for this first volume.
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Series Information ANN Encyclopedia | AniDB | AnimeNfo Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen OP: [Gun’s&Roses] by Paradise Lunch ED: [Calling] by Oda Kaori BACCANO! -バッカーノ- [ Episode 1: The Vice-Director doesn’t talk about the possibility of him being the lead character ] Dear lord. There’s so many characters in this show that it’s almost bursting at the seams! While watching the episode it [...]
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Synopsis: Carole, assistant to Daily Day’s Gustav Saint-Germain investigates about a series of stories that started in November 1930. Baccano! is Italian for “noise”. According to the author of the novels from which the series was based on, he wanted it to mean “stupid commotion”. True enough, the first episode is dissonant [...]
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And finally Baccano! airs. The promo-art looked really cool, and I was intrigued by the premise. So, after having seen the first episode, what is my first reaction? HUGE cast of characters! Seriously, this anime has an amazingly big cast of main characters, and an even bigger cast of side-characters. The episode felt twice as long [...]
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