Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Vintage:
April 9, 2006
Status:
Completed
Summary:
Okajima Rokuro is a Japanese businessman…in a town full of Japanese businessmen. His normal day consists of social drinking with clients and being kicked around by his bosses. He finally gets a break though, as he’s sent by his company to the tropical seas of Eastern China to deliver a disc…only his boat gets hijacked by a band of mercenaries that were hired to steal it. “Rock” (as he is newly dubbed by his captors) catches the interest of the only female merc “Revy” as she thinks he’s worth a ransom, taking him hostage. However, the disc turns out to be more trouble than its worth, and complicates things both for Rock, and the mercenaries known as Black Lagoon.
So much has been said about this show already, but I´ll try adding something of my own, just for the heck of it. The show moves at a great pace, almost never going slow, and it has some great characters, from all across the moral spectrum(get ready to learn how many shades of gray there is on the wrong side of the law). One of my favorite characters(a character which I am sure I am not alone in picking) is Revy. Not only is she smoking hot, but she also has this ass-kicking attitude, and a bloodlust that makes her male peers look like harmless kittens in comparisons. Oh, and she has a thing for big guns. So all in all, a pretty entertaining show. If you like gangsters and a lot of guns(I think they must have used about 1000 bullets per episode or something) you won´t be dissapointed in checking this out. Hoping the sequel will be just as satisfying when I move on to it :)