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Anime Rec Week: Day 1
Sep. 29th, 2008 08:57 pmToday begins my anime rec week, where I recommend one different anime series every day. Series only, not movies unless they're a part of the series (I might take on single movies at some later time). The series will be listed alphabetically.
Black Lagoon
This is not a series for the squeamish. There's a lot of blood and killing going on, as well as some T&A (Revy's outfit) and swearing.
In the fictional city of Roanapur, violence rules. The best way not to get killed is to kill the other guy first, or ally yourself with someone who can do it for you. The latter is the option chosen by Rock, a Japanese salaryman who is betrayed by his employers, and ends up giving them the finger and joining the Lagoon Company, a small group (3 people + Rock) of mercenaries.
Black Lagoon has some of the scariest female characters you've ever met. The probable protagonist, Revy, is called Two-Hands because she's ambidextrous with her guns. TvTropes lists her as a "heroic sociopath", which really is an apt description. In an early episode, she takes on an entire boat full of gunmen by herself - with a grin - and wins easily. Don't try to monologue with Revy around - she'll shoot you mid-sentence.
Roberta is a former assassin/guerilla turned maid who'll do anything to get her master's kidnapped son back - including wiping out an entire branch of the Colombian mafia. When she and Revy get in a gunfight Dutch, the leader of the Lagoon company, comments that the two scariest women on the Earth are duking it out, and he has no intention of interfering.
One who's not afraid to interfere, however, is Balalaika, a former Russian military officer who took with her all the men who served under her in Afghanistan (and thus are completely loyal to her) to set up Hotel Moscow, the local branch of the Russian mafia. She also edits porn in her spare time.
Then there's Eda, a nun from the Church of Violence, and I'll leave it at that.
There's 24 episodes over two seasons, and the seasons are again subdivided into arcs, some of them darker than the others, some of them more lighthearted - as lighthearted as Black Lagoon gets, anyway. It's a dark comedy, with some arcs more comedic than the others. Unintended comedy comes in the final arc with the hilariously bad English spoken (apparently it's very good in the manga, though).
Note: While I haven't seen the English dub myself, it's apparently extremely good. They've only dubbed the first season, though.
Black Lagoon
This is not a series for the squeamish. There's a lot of blood and killing going on, as well as some T&A (Revy's outfit) and swearing.
In the fictional city of Roanapur, violence rules. The best way not to get killed is to kill the other guy first, or ally yourself with someone who can do it for you. The latter is the option chosen by Rock, a Japanese salaryman who is betrayed by his employers, and ends up giving them the finger and joining the Lagoon Company, a small group (3 people + Rock) of mercenaries.
Black Lagoon has some of the scariest female characters you've ever met. The probable protagonist, Revy, is called Two-Hands because she's ambidextrous with her guns. TvTropes lists her as a "heroic sociopath", which really is an apt description. In an early episode, she takes on an entire boat full of gunmen by herself - with a grin - and wins easily. Don't try to monologue with Revy around - she'll shoot you mid-sentence.
Roberta is a former assassin/guerilla turned maid who'll do anything to get her master's kidnapped son back - including wiping out an entire branch of the Colombian mafia. When she and Revy get in a gunfight Dutch, the leader of the Lagoon company, comments that the two scariest women on the Earth are duking it out, and he has no intention of interfering.
One who's not afraid to interfere, however, is Balalaika, a former Russian military officer who took with her all the men who served under her in Afghanistan (and thus are completely loyal to her) to set up Hotel Moscow, the local branch of the Russian mafia. She also edits porn in her spare time.
Then there's Eda, a nun from the Church of Violence, and I'll leave it at that.
There's 24 episodes over two seasons, and the seasons are again subdivided into arcs, some of them darker than the others, some of them more lighthearted - as lighthearted as Black Lagoon gets, anyway. It's a dark comedy, with some arcs more comedic than the others. Unintended comedy comes in the final arc with the hilariously bad English spoken (apparently it's very good in the manga, though).
Note: While I haven't seen the English dub myself, it's apparently extremely good. They've only dubbed the first season, though.
