Black Lagoon v2

Before I started watching Black Lagoon from what I heard the show was Revy, Revy, Revy, she’s so freaking awesome. After two dvds, I gotta say I think she’s a whiny coward. To make it clear, I find Revy annoying. She’s like Shinji Ikari with the way she uses self pity to excuse herself.

What’s her redeeming feature? She’s awesome with guns. A killing machine. Big deal. She’s still a loser, hiding behind those guns. Her back story didn’t do much to make me sympathetic to her current condition at all due to the way she’s just being a Shinji about it. Plus the fact that everyone she takes out apparently is such a bad shot, they couldn’t shoot their own foot if they needed to, kind of nulls her gunfu mastery. I seriously don’t understand the erections she apparently causes.

This volume is where Rock steps up and calls Revy on her bullshit. Given how much she’s backed herself into a corner with her self pity, it’s a ballsy thing for Rock to do. Maybe he was still pumped from tea time with the nuns, but he’s going where nobody is really willing to go. I was like, you the man! Put that whack-job in her place. The scene where Rock calls her out is a great scene, because it really turns the way Revy was presented at first completely upside down. She’s not tough. She’s a coward. And it wasn’t a sudden twist either. Her front has been hinted at for a while now.

Hey, it’s still got a bit to go and I might understand later why everyone thinks Revy is so hot, but right now I find Black Lagoon interesting, but don’t see Revy as awesome. I like the other characters more than Revy, yeah even Benny — anyone who always has cold ones sunk in ice for his mates is a-ok. But, yeah, I don’t think we’re supposed to admire these characters, so it’s okay.

Now it looks like in the next volume we’ll be in for a good fight.