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.
From the second I hit play, I knew Black Lagoon was two-hands of awesome. I love the opening of the show. It’s got guitar on shredd, pounding drums, and some rock diva screaming into the microphone. Lately, openings have been very pop driven, glossy, and polite. An opening with shredded guitars like in Black Lagoon feels so old-school. It’s like the nineties again and a TNS girl like Priss is what’s hot for an anime babe. That feeling of old-school extends beyond the opening of Black Lagoon, which makes all the difference.
Black Lagoon follows the Lagoon Company, a mercenary band of pirates on the seas off South East Asia. These are adult characters who live in a rough world, cutting deals and risking their lives to put food on the table…and to buy more guns. The non-school-age of the characters is one of the things that appeals to me about Black Lagoon, which in this era of anime seems to be exceedingly uncommon for the main cast to be. Every now and again it just feels good to see anime characters on the screen that won’t be late for school.
