Black Lagoon V. 1 (Animé/Geneon/DVD-Video)
Picture: B- Sound: B Extras: C Episodes:
B
Okajima
Rokuro a typical average business man gets caught by pirates "Black Lagoon." But when his company leaves him for the sharks
and leaves him for dead, he decides to instead join the pirates. He gives up
his past and becomes 'Rock.' Looking for
a way to survive his new and dangerous world he is coached by his new crewmates
Dutch, the shrewd Captain, Benny their communication/engineer, and finally the sexy
but deadly gun loving Revy. Together the
sail the waters taking odd jobs or anything to earn them their next quick buck.
This is
definitely an anime that is filled with action, danger and explosions. The
anime is short, but well drawn with interesting and crazy situations. If you crave action and constant danger then
this is a good Animé. Plenty of gun crazed
bad guys. The pirates sorta become the
cool underdogs that you know even they are doing something illegal you are
still rooting for them to win in a world that is more corrupt and crazy as they
are. So far there isn't any over all
plot, but the series definitely develops interesting characters and each one
with a story.
The Animé
has excellent DTS 5.1 sound and decent Dolby Digital 5.1 sound quality mixes
and sharp and well colored anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image quality. Scenes are fairly well detail and have good
graphics. Extras include Behind the
Scenes of the English Adaptation, "Red
Fraction" Music Video (Performed by Mell), previews for other Geneon
releases and Promotional Videos. An
upscale version with a metal case that will fit the future DVD volumes is also
available.
The
episodes on this first volume are……….
Episode
1: The Black Lagoon
Okajima
Rokuro is captured while carrying a top secret disk and left for dead in the
hands of the pirates Black Lagoon. To
his dismay he finds out he is abandon and there are a bunch of crazy military
mercenaries who would like nothing more than to just blow the Black Lagoon (and
him) away.
Episode
2: Mangrove Heaven
Being
chased by mercenaries the Black Lagoon is out gunned and trapped in a shrinking
river. Rokuro decides to join the Black
Lagoon, not to win but to survive.
Episode
3: Ring-Ding Ship Chase
The
competition is not happy with the Black Lagoon's current employer and their success.
Things start exploding when pirates
start going after pirates. The Black
Lagoon is soon surrounded pirates... that want them dead.
Episode
4: Die Ruckkehr des Adlers
The Black
Lagoon is after a sunken treasure hidden in a sunken U-boat from WWII, only
thing is they're not the only ones after it...
- Ricky Chiang
