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Black Lagoon

Black Lagoon
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Cover of the first Japanese manga volume featuring Revy.
ブラック・ラグーン
(Burakku Ragūn)
Genre Action, Crime drama, Dark comedy
Manga
Written by Rei Hiroe
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X
Original run April 19, 2002January 19, 2014 (currently on hiatus)
Volumes 10 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by Sunao Katabuchi
Produced by Jun Nishimura
Mitsutoshi Ogura
Junya Okamoto
Written by Sunao Katabuchi
Music by Edison
Studio Madhouse
Licensed by
Original network CTC, Tokyo MX, KBS, tvk, NBN, TVN, abn, GYT, ITV, TVS, GTV, OX, KBC, NCC, ITC, SUN
English network
Original run April 8, 2006June 24, 2006
Episodes 12 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage
Directed by Sunao Katabuchi
Studio Madhouse
Licensed by
Original network OX, KBC, SUN, KBS, tvk, NBN, abn, TVN, ITC, GYT, ITV, GTV, TVS, CTC, Tokyo MX, NCC
English network
Original run October 2, 2006December 18, 2006
Episodes 12 (List of episodes)
Light novel
Written by Gen Urobuchi
Illustrated by Rei Hiroe
Published by Shogakukan
Demographic Male
Imprint Gagaga Bunko
Published July 18, 2008
Original video animation
Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail
Directed by Sunao Katabuchi
Studio Madhouse
Licensed by
Released July 17, 2010June 22, 2011
Runtime 35 minutes (each)
Episodes 5 (List of episodes)
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Black Lagoon (Japanese: ブラック・ラグーン Hepburn: Burakku Ragūn?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe. It has been published in Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X since 2002, and ten collected volumes have been released so far. It was later adapted into an anime television series by Madhouse, that aired from April to June 2006 for twelve episodes. A second season, subtitled "The Second Barrage", ran for twelve weeks starting on October 2, 2006. A five volume original video animation series, titled Roberta's Blood Trail, was released from July 2010 to June 2011.

Viz Media began releasing an English translation of the manga in North America on August 12, 2008. Madman Entertainment licensed the anime in Australasia and the United Kingdom. The anime was dubbed and originally licensed in English by Geneon Entertainment in North America; it is now licensed by Funimation. Funimation later licensed the OVA, which also was licensed by Kazé in the UK, for release in spring 2013.

The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself). The island is home to the Yakuza, the Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian and French cartels, and a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and Gunmen of all sorts. They transport goods in the 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. Lagoon Company does business with various clients, but has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam and when not doing much, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.


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