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Black Lagoon (TV + OAV)

I just found out they animated the omake from the end of each volume, and...

Oh. My. Gawd.

Sea Lion wrote:

I just found out they animated the omake from the end of each volume, and... Oh. My. Gawd.

Where did you hear this, I love those omakes! My favourite is the one when you see them as kids. Revy is soo adorable
That gender switching one is also hilarious.

MAL Entry: http://myanimelist.net/anime/8440/Black_Lagoon_Omake

That should be proof enough right?

Baby Naruto wrote:

MAL Entry: http://myanimelist.net/anime/8440/Black_Lagoon_Omake That should be proof enough right?

Thanks. I have also just found them online. How the hell did this skip my radar, I heard nothing!

Oh wow, animated omake! Thanks for the heads up.

That's... *chokes* almost better than Shana-tans.

I just started watching the first season of Black Lagoon and have only seen five episodes, so I cannot comment on the show as a whole. It is fun as far as light entertainment goes, but I cannot say that I am blown away by anything I have seen so far. One main weakness of the show, as I see it, is that the characters lack depth: Rock is a candyass whiner (sort of like a salaryman version of Shinji from NGE, Dutch is the token black guy who reminds me of Jet from Cowboy Bebop, and Revy is the badass chick with guns we've seen a thousand times before. I suppose it's fine to have stock characters in anime as long as the plot gives them something new and exciting to do. As it stands, I do like the show but would like it a lot more if the protangonists were more interesting or complex. Cowboy Bebop was effective because its main characters were genuinely likeable; the same cannot be said about the ones in Black Lagoon.

Boomer wrote:

I just started watching the first season of Black Lagoon and have only seen five episodes, so I cannot comment on the show as a whole. It is fun as far as light entertainment goes, but I cannot say that I am blown away by anything I have seen so far. One main weakness of the show, as I see it, is that the characters lack depth: Rock is a candyass whiner (sort of like a salaryman version of Shinji from NGE, Dutch is the token black guy who reminds me of Jet from Cowboy Bebop, and Revy is the badass chick with guns we've seen a thousand times before. I suppose it's fine to have stock characters in anime as long as the plot gives them something new and exciting to do. As it stands, I do like the show but would like it a lot more if the protangonists were more interesting or complex. Cowboy Bebop was effective because its main characters were genuinely likeable; the same cannot be said about the ones in Black Lagoon.

On regard to the characters you have only watched a couple of episodes and usually, and I mean usually in a show characters change over time so if I were you I wouldn't really think that what you see is what you get right away. I'm not going to go more depth it's for you to see how they develop.

I agree. I am up to episode 10, and I am certainly enjoying the plot. There is a bit of character development, but the story itself is what is keeping me hooked. Overall, it's a good series that I do not regret owning, and I will probably pick up the second season.

I'd say the possibility of a dub is likely. Amongst all of Geneon's licenses, I personally think this and Hellsing Ultimate were among my favorite dubs. The only question is, if someone like say.. FUNimation were to pick up the license from Geneon, would they craptize it with in-house dubbing to save money or would they actually go through the trouble of hiring Ocean Vancouver to continue their high-quality work? Oh, the irony that was once DBZ...