When I first heard about Black Lagoon I thought to myself: oh great, another Cowboy Bebop clone. I placed Dutch as Jet, Revy as Faye, Benny as an older Ed, and Rock as a Spike-in-training. Damn, was I wrong. Black Lagoon is just a mix of hardcore, no-holds-barred action, foul, harsh language, and enough intriuge to fill [...]
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I write this post in lieu of discovering that Black Lagoon, surely the best anime airing in Japan at the moment, will only last a measly 12 episodes, and although I have heard rumblings that it should be continued in OVA form (no doubt adapting as yet unwritten manga chapters), 12 damn episodes just isn't enough for a series as outright fun and exciting as Black Lagoon.Now with that emotional outburst cleared from my system, it is with a reluctant joy that I can say that episode 8 is possibly the best yet. In terms of sheer climat..
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Revy awakens and takes on Roberta in the container yard - resulting in a Mexican standoff until Balalaika intervenes. Hotel Moscow has also defeated the Manisera mafia. Much sentimental blah blah between Garcia and Roberta. To placate Revy, Balalaika oversees a fistfight between pirate girl and meido. It results in another draw but both are [...]
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A Word From Some Jabroni If there's a silver lining with my computer taking the ASX out of commission for a couple of weeks, it's that I managed to get up-to-date on most series. Working from a backlog is in a word: "wack as hell." For one, I hate recapping more than one ep at a time; and two, while writing about a show twenty weeks after the fact is retro, writing about it five weeks after is
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The ticking time bomb of Revy's personality finally explodes in the face of Rock, though gratefully he also snaps back and unfurls a passionate rant all of his own. It's easy to imagine Rock being your typical male doormat, but here he stands up for himself and proves he too has an unbreakable steely quality beneath his tentative nature.Revy, who often uses Rock's middle-class background as a reason to insult him, is firmly put in her place and suddenly they have a new-found respect for one another. Rock has proven to Revy that he..
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It's clear by now that Black Lagoon will be Rock and Revy's show; the action scenes in these episodes are as expected absolutely kick ass, though the majority of what Black Lagoon is driving at is Revy's humanity (or lack there of). Having slaughtered dozens of Neo-Nazi bastards, she nonchalantly explains to Dutch that she can no longer work with Rock.Revy's super human killing instinct is borne from an absolute disdain for life (including her own); she can kill so many people because to her they are nothing. However since Rock turn..
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“Calm down, two men” Polish jokes and Catholic jokes! Nuns selling guns! Fights in the marketplace! Black Lagoon has it all and more! Dutch forces Revy and Rock to do some errands for him. Since the submarine, Revy has been having “issues” with Rock, and this culminates in an argument in the square. This was a great episode [...]
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Calm down, two men?! What an interesting choice of words for this episode. Emphasis on men. BL, anyone? Lame quip? I agree. But gawd, I’ve been waiting to crack that one. Dutch possesses a great eye for finding diamonds in the rough. He understands his people. He [...]
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Meido Roberta breaks out the heavy artillery against the Colombians and the Lagoon crew take over. Garcia’s happy memories of Roberta are shattered by her skilled exercise of bloody violence. It’s not long before Revy goes head to head with Roberta, with the former getting knocked out cold as a result. The Lagoon crew flee [...]
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Black Lagoon assumes a facade of shallow waters when, in fact, it runs deep. The unexpected conversation with Rock in the U-boat triggers a uncontrollable response from Revy. Dealing with forgotten emotions is unnatural to her, so she lashes out in way she does best: a merciless killing spree. She intends to drown [...]
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Alright, gotta catch up on some other work, so nothing extensive here, but Black Lagoon is officially super awesome. So, apparently, when kwazy American pirates kidnap a Japanese sarariman, and his company would rather blow him up than rescue him, he gets SUPER-PISSED, and then he jumps a gun-yacht 50 meters into the air, and shoots [...]
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