Review of Black Lagoon

This is a review for season 1 and season 2 of Black Lagoon. Black Lagoon is a good anime overall. I would recommend it to someone who is really into action and doesn't really care that much about realistic-ness or overall story. STORY- The story is about a group of modern day pirates going around doing other people's dirty work. They steal things, escort people, attack targets, and search for valuable items in East Asia. That's pretty much the overall idea to the story. Each episode is a different mini arc consisting of 1 to 3 episodes. They generally just get a contract from someonein each episode and they do it. Although most of theses episodes are entertaining, they were not entertaining enough and became kind of stale for me after the first 8 episodes.The story never really goes anywhere and is generally repetitive. The last arc was hard for me to get through because I was so uninterested. The last arc is one of the most boring arcs in the series and is a bad way to end the series. I know that isn’t the true end to the series because the manga is still going but it was still a bad way to end the anime. I give the story a 7/10
ART- The art is very good but not great so I give it an 8/10.
SOUND- The opening song has a nice beat but some of the lyrics were weird ex: “You make me violate you, no matter who you are”, “No time for sissy pig” and “I just wanna feel you”. The soundtrack is nothing special because none of the songs are very memorable for me. 6/10
CHARACTERS- The best part about Black Lagoon is its characters. One of the only reasons I stuck around and kept watching was because of the characters. Not only are they all unique and pretty cool people, several of them get very good character development and are very complex and realistic. I really liked the development between Rock and Revy and their characters as well. I will give the characters 8/10.
ENJOYMENT- I enjoyed Black Lagoon overall except for some of its flaws. One of the major flaws that really annoyed me was the fact that everybody will have a very accurate aim or a really bad aim whenever it is convenient to the plot. For example, one character is surrounded by 30-some people and they are all shooting at her at the same time and she manages to dodge all the bullets and kill almost all of them. It really takes away from the immersion when stuff like this happens and it happens waaaay too much. This would be acceptable in some unrealistic battle shonen with super powers or something but this show is supposed to be in the real world and it is supposed to be very realistic which it is most of the time except for the gun fights. Because of this, in every fight that involves the main characters I know that they are never going to be shot or die because they can just dodge bullets for no reason. This really impeded on my enjoyment of the show so I give my enjoyment a 7/10
OVERALL- overall I give Black Lagoon a 7/10. I would still recommend it to those of you that like action heavy stories with realistic characters in the real world.