Review of Black Lagoon
“I have a big gun, and I took it from my lord”. The fictional town of Roanapur in Southeast Asia was the most corrupt and dangerous existing city. Gangsters, mercenaries, violence, prostitution, drug addiction and murder. It is in this city that is the headquarters of the Lagoon Company, a group of mercenaries who undertake any work as maritime smuggling, escort, assaults, and even hunting for rewards. It is composed by Benny, a technology expert, Dutch as the leader and the Beautiful and deadly killer Revy. After being kidnapped and discarded by his company on redemption, a guy named Rokuro felt so angry with everything andwith your lifestyle that he solves joining the Lagoon Company. He became know as Rock.
The development of the anime will be in accompany Rock, Revy and the Lagoon performing their jobs and engaging with many dangers in their missions in Roanapur.
If you're too young, you will be prompted to: There is a side of the new anime age that very few have the courage to show, and those who grew up watching Yu Yu Hakusho will remember with nostalgia: Violence debauched.
In an attempt to show a more naked, violent and gray reality, those animes made use of violence and debauchery to tell us the following: the world is violent, unjust and rotten. So, if you do not like it, fuck you. That's Black Lagoon.
Without focusing too much showing the past of the characters to compose them, Black Lagoon bet more on the actions and dilemmas of each one present to develop them using Rock and Revy as counterpart. He, an ordinary guy, with nothing more, is now engaging with people living in this world without feelings for a long time, as Revy. It's under Rock's point of view that the anime shows how much the world is violent, and it does not kill you, it's you who dies.
Do not wait here cuddly things, beautiful feelings or 'good overcome evil'. You must be prepared for all those cliches of the genre: the adrenaline, the destruction, the action and exaggeration. Revy and various characters doing everything so well with poses, smoking cigarettes or drinking and destroying everything with that aura of Chuck Norris (the main characters are never shot, but always kill 200 guys with a gun having 7 bullets in the clip).
But despite the cliches, we are presented with a great opening/ending and with a diversity of amazing characters that makes the show worthy. A round of applause for special women in the plot, as the former russian military Balalaika, the assassin with daggers Shenhua, the nun shooter Eda and the Venezuelan maid Roberta.
Violent, mocking, exaggerated, Black Lagoon presents us with those scenes of explicit action without requiring a lot like those old classics that will never comeback. With an amazing range of great characters, this anime shows that the world is rotten, and that's the world we live in.