Review of Black Lagoon
Talking about Black Lagoon should be as simple as the premise and story of the aforementioned anime, but considering that this is one of the best manga adaptations of Madhouse, for the sake of this review I cannot be objective nor impartial. Let's talk about the weakest part: the story. To be fair, no one who came to watch this are interested in any plot, and so were the writers since 90% of what we got is raw action and guns with almost infinite ammo. If it's so simple, why didn't people (or at least myself) drop Black Lagoon? Maybe because it didn't try totake it so seriously and the main goal was to pump up the adrenaline. It's pure entertainment and charisma (but that's for later) in contrast with a "girls with guns" classic stuff.
Art is good and the OST helps enough in the scenes where our "girls with guns" go berserk and annihilate everything with their weapons. Credits for Madhouse, again. There's a reason why their animes are adored most of the time and this one is between my favorite examples of how to adapt a manga flawlessly.
Enough about technical terminology and weak points and let's talk aabout the EXCELLENT pros of this.
The protagonist duo of naive Rock and harsh Revy have a contrasting chemistry that in this case worked perfectly and I have zero complaints with them. The side characters have their own charisma as well and help to carry the drag that is to have basically a simplistic premise to the point that most of them (especially Balalaika, Chang, Roberta, Dutch and Bao) have enough personality to replace any bland mc from a lot of mediocre animes. In terms of entertainment, if you expected explosions everywhere like in a good old action film, stop for now your research and enjoy this until you get bored.
To sum it up: from time to time people are just not interested in complex stories and they need just to watch something simple, but not insufferable like harems or crap of the sort. Black Lagoon is pure, unrestrained adrenaline and it serves to relax for a couple minutes or hours and it accomplishes that idea.
Overall score: 7/10.