In reality black lagoon is a poorly written melodrama with mediocre action scenes.

Black lagoon anime review. Black lagoon is an ongoing manga series written and illustrated by rei hiroe. It was later adapted into an anime television series by madhouse that aired from april to june 2006 for twelve episodes. Black lagoon is the rock n roll of anime. But in generally the story is fine and balanced to watched.

It is high action and a good deal of fun. It has been published in shogakukan s monthly sunday gene x since 2002 and ten collected volumes have been released so far. Seriously critics who attack other anime for trying to be dark and edgy praise black lagoon for doing the same thing. Art 7 10 for the period of 2005 anime black lagoon s art is well comparable with other anime.

One reason black lagoon is praised is for the sheer amount of melodramatic dark and depressing shit that happens. Black lagoon is a 90s 00s story that embraces a kind of violent escape fantasy from the values of a secure petite bourgeois lifestyle as one antagonist puts it. Black lagoon have a live and well produced plot the writer place many combinations of elements in 12 episodes. Although black lagoon did a poor and a little confusing opening on their story.

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