Review of Black Lagoon

Rei Hiroe's explosive masterpiece is a beautiful homage to Hong Kong action movies and crime dramas with more than few references and nods to things you might just recognize on the way. Black Lagoon comes at you fast, but once you blink the flash blinding explosions out of your vision, it can bring you some serious food for thought too. Good, evil, and the nature of both are examined in detail and there's plenty of action courtesy of devil may care Revy to keep the pace up. This blend of philosophy and serious drama with action movie fun is intoxicating. The sound is gorgeous, music,voice acting. Hell this is one of the few animes where I think the English dub is the definitive one! (Yeah I went there, come at me. They're all supposed to be speaking English any way. Lagoon Company is three Americans and a Japanese salariman ffs.

I could keep going. I could go into exhaustive detail. I love this series. I have a tattoo of Revy, the female lead, for the love of the gods. I'll spare you the details. Go strap in and watch Black Lagoon instead.