{"id":452,"date":"2006-04-16T23:58:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=452"},"modified":"2006-04-16T23:58:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T13:58:41","slug":"black-lagoon-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Black Lagoon &#8211; episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Black Lagoon&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-01.JPG\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Brought to you by Geneon, which means that it won&#8217;t be brought to me unless I choose to buy or rent the DVDs. <i>Black Lagoon<\/i> is pure modern-day pirate action anime. It&#8217;s a little rough around the edges in its production, but it is also pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Okajima Rokuro is a newly-anointed salaryman. His company requires him to ferry a disc across the South China Seas &#8230; on a boat. Unfortunately, a group of pirates have a contract on the disc and take Rokuro with them without a second&#8217;s thought.<br \/>\nThe pirates treat Rokuro well, and rechristen him &#8220;Rock&#8221;. Dutch, Levi and Benny begin to get into all sorts of fights and then realise that they may have bitten off more than they can chew as the incredibly well-organised, if arrogant, assassins of the world want to destroy Rock and the information that he held.<\/p>\n<p>The lines in <i>Black Lagoon<\/i> are ill-defined, which gives the entire show a too-soft feel. That pales in comparison to the situations on offer that result in only essential characters surviving shoot-outs and inexplicable getaways.<br \/>\nWhere did Benny get that car from? What kind of logic has Rock throwing his gun at a helicopter in a fit of rage? It&#8217;s just supposed to be fun action, so we&#8217;re not supposed to pay any heed to parabolas or physics or anything boring like that.<\/p>\n<p>The pedigree of the crew is amazing, packed as it is with a lot of the cast of <i>Monster<\/i> and other veterans in the mould of more &#8220;mature&#8221; seiyuu. Writer director Katabuchi Sunao has worked extensively with GAiNAX and Studio Ghibli, and is possibly capable of doing big things with the material on hand.<\/p>\n<p><i>Black Lagoon<\/i> kind of reminded me of <i>Geobreeders<\/i>, but a version thereof that made marginally more sense. I hope people have fun with it, because it&#8217;s that kind of anime. (Plus it&#8217;s got a surprisingly incisive view into the life of the salaryman; study this for business!)<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-02.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-03.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-04.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-05.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-06.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-07.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-08.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/bl01-09.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Black Lagoon&#8221; Brought to you by Geneon, which means that it won&#8217;t be brought to me unless I choose to buy or rent the DVDs. 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It&#8217;s a little rough around the edges in its production, but it is also pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-lagoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}