Black Lagoon
Black Lagoon | |
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genre | Action , drama |
Manga | |
country | Japan |
author | Rei Hiroe |
publishing company | Shogakukan |
magazine | Sunday Gene-X |
First publication | March 19, 2001 - ... |
expenditure | 11 |
Anime television series | |
title | Black Lagoon (Season 1) / Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (Season 2) |
Original title | Black Lagoon / BLACK LAGOON The Second Barrage |
Country of production | Japan |
original language | Japanese |
year | 2006 |
Studio | Madhouse |
length | 24 minutes |
Episodes | 24 in 2 seasons |
Director | Sunao Katabuchi |
music | Edison |
First broadcast | April 9 - December 19, 2006 on Chiba TV (Season 1), Sendai Hōsō (Season 2) |
Original video animation | |
title | Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail |
Original title | BLACK LAGOON Roberta's Blood Trail |
Country of production | Japan |
original language | Japanese |
Year (s) | 2010-2011 |
Studio | Madhouse |
Episodes | 5 |
Director | Sunao Katabuchi |
music | Edison |
Black Lagoon ( Japanese ブ ラ ッ ク ・ ラ グ ー ン , Burakku Ragūn ) is a manga series by the Japanese artist Rei Hiroe . The action-oriented manga, which first appeared in 2001 and can be assigned to his genre, was filmed as an anime series.
action
Office worker Rokuro Okajima is supposed to ship an important diskette to Borneo for his Japanese company . He is attacked and taken hostage by the Lagoon Company , which works on behalf of the Russian Mafia . The group consists of the trigger-happy Revy, the African-American Dutch, who leads the group, and the technician Benny. After his company had him declared dead without further ado and Rokuro saw no reason to return to Japan, he joined the group and was given the nickname Rock .
The Lagoon Company smuggles with their speedboat , the Black Lagoon , in Southeast Asia and accepts orders from the Mafia and criminal syndicates, in particular the Russian syndicate Hotel Moscow , with which they have good connections. The boss of Hotel Moscow, the tough Balalaika, occasionally works hand in hand with them. The office is located in the fictional coastal city of Roanapur in Thailand . The characters spend the time between two assignments mainly in The Yellow Flag , a bar in Roanapur that is often razed to the ground by shootings. Revy and Benny grew up in New York, where Revy, who often shines with vulgar expressions, learned her skills at the pistol.
As the series progresses, the Lagoon Company faces a variety of organized crime threats such as: E.g. the Japanese Yakuza or the Chinese Triads , neo-Nazis , the radical Islamic Hezbollah militia, the American secret service CIA and a number of assassins . This framework also gives rise to a growing number of friendships with recurring characters, especially the nun Eda and the professional killer Shenhua (just called Miss Bitteschön by Revy ).
title
Just as the series title itself is English, all chapters and episodes - even in the Japanese original edition of the anime and manga - have English or German names (in Rōmaji script ). For example, the title of the fourth episode of the first anime series is The Return of the Eagle .
Publications
The manga was first published as a short story in issue 4/2001 on March 19, 2001 of the Japanese manga magazine Sunday Gene-X by the publisher Shogakukan . When this was well received by the magazine's readership, it was decided to turn the short work into an ongoing series. Since issue 5/2002 on April 19, 2002, a new chapter of the series has been published in Sunday Gene-X every month. The individual chapters appeared from December 2002 in 11 edited volumes.
Black Lagoon has been translated into Korean and is published in French by Kabuto , in English by Viz Media and in Spanish by Norma Editorial . The edited volumes, translated into German by Nadja Stutterheim, have been published by Carlsen Comics since September 2006 . Eleven volumes have been published so far.
Anime
In 2006, the studio produced Madhouse and directed by Sunao Katabuchi a twelve-part anime - TV series for manga. The character design was created by Masanori Shino, the artistic directors were Hidetoshi Kaneko and Takuya Iida. The series was first shown in March 2006 at the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair .
The broadcast on Japanese television began on April 9th on Chiba TV shortly after midnight (and thus on the previous television day) and ran until July 25th. Tokyo MX , TV Kanagawa , KBS Kyōto , Nagoya TV , Nagano Asahi Hōsō , Nara TV , Ai TV , Tochigi TV , Gunma TV , TV Saitama , Kyūshū Asahi Hōsō , Nagasaki Bunka Hōsō , Sendai Hōsō , Ishikawa TV and finally followed within a week from July 7th Sun TV .
The second season, also with 12 episodes, with the title Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage , was broadcast from October 3 to December 19, 2006 on Sendai Hōsō and immediately thereafter on Kyūshū Asahi Hōsō. Sun TV, KBS Kyōto, TV Kanagawa, Nagoya TV, Nagano Asahi Hōsō, Nara TV, Ishikawa TV, Tochigi TV, Ai TV, Gunma TV, TV Saitama, Chiba TV, Tokyo MX followed within a week or two October Nagasaki Bunka Hōsō.
This was continued by a 5-part OVA season called Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail , the first episode of which was released on July 17, 2010.
The series was broadcast in English by G4TechTV Canada and Starz Edge and in Italian by MTV Italia . The anime has also been translated into French, Portuguese, and Spanish, among others. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland both seasons and the OVA appeared on a total of eight DVDs on Kazé Germany . Five episodes of the second season (13, 14, 15, 16 and 21) were not approved for young people, all others were rated FSK 16. From December 7, 2007, the series was broadcast in Germany by the television station Animax , a free TV broadcast was to be seen on Tele 5 from June 17, 2013 .
synchronization
role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speakers |
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skirt | Daisuke Namikawa | Tobias Nath |
Revy | Megumi Toyoguchi | Antje von der Ahe |
Dutch | Tsutomu Isobe | Thomas Petruo |
Benny | Hiroaki Hirata | Christoph Banks |
balalaika | Mommy Koyama | Peggy Sander |
music
The music for the series was composed by Edison. The opening credits for the first and second seasons are Red Fraction, written and sung by Mell and composed by Kazuya Takase . For the end credits of the first season, the instrumental piece Don't Look Behind , composed and played by Edison, was used. Exceptions to this are episode 15, in which The World of Midnight , composed, texted and sung by Minako "mooki" Obata, and episode 24, in which Peach Headz Addiction , played by Breath Frequency were used.
Light novel
On July 18, 2008, a light novel on the manga was published by Gagaga Bunko in Japan. This was written by Gen Urobuchi , Rei Hiroe contributed the drawings.
Web links
- Anime Series Official Website (Japanese)
- Official website of Carlsen Comics
- Anime News Network about the manga and anime (English)
- Black Lagoon in the Internet Movie Database (English)