Review of Black Lagoon

I remember when I started watching anime in high school as an edgy teenager. I was on some bs about anime needing being a mature medium that can be taken seriously and it can be. However Mature doesn't always mean super violent with lots of swearing. This show has plenty of that and at the time it was a great catharsis for my hormone pumped teenage mind. but now almost a decade later I've watched it again. Story/Characters: Plot wise the show is pretty basic. What really drives the series is the character development and interactions. Rock and Revy's relationship develops and evolves as they are putin various situations and even but heads at time and we begin to watch Rock's perspective on live change for better or worse. Most of this first season focuses on the employees of the Lagoon company. The world building is strangely subtle as the city of Roanapur feels very lived in. Black Lagoon at first seems like a fun action show but it isn't mindless.

The Dub:
Honestly if you're going to watch this subbed than don't bother watching it at all. I'm normally pretty impartial to something like this but it really isn't Black Lagoon without the dub. It just doesn't make any sense that international characters such as chinese, russian, american would all speak Japanese in port city in Thailand. The Dub is that good that hearing this show in Japanese makes me cringe. The voice performances feels so natural. I mean where else are you going to hear VA that's done Barbie movies drop the F-bomb so frequently.