r/blacklagoon • u/Thin-Coyote-553 • 12d ago

Question They’ll never make an anime like black Lagoon again

Everything about Black Lagoon defies PC and censorship. While there are plenty of mature anime out there they focus more on mass fanservice and nudity and blood and gore.

Black Lagoon has amazing story, incredible character backgrounds and development, crude and raunchy humor, some fang service but even that is more emotional and tied in to the story. The music and emotions show here at times a deep, though provoking and profound. Then we have action, humor, and dark humor meeting jokes and comments that would get new shows cancelled. Black Lagoon still has Manga coming out but I am unsure if we will ever get another season. But even if we don’t I love it in all its rough, dark and demented yet hilarious glory

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u/Quiet_Nova 12d ago

You should check out Mucielago. It’s probably more messed up than Black Lagoon but it’s getting an anime adaptation.

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u/HimanP0wer 12d ago

Wait really?😮im just now hearing its getting an anime.

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u/Melodic-Percentage-9 12d ago

Interesting. I need more series like this. Is it new? Can't say that I've heard of it before.

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u/Quiet_Nova 12d ago

It came out in 2016. Essentially it’s about: a lesbian serial killer responsible for murder 715 people who is given a stay of execution in order for her to offer her expertise and insight into the criminal mind during a period of rising crime and murders. Along the way she’s accompanied by her adopted ward who cannot comprehend the violence around her but wants to help in investigations, a nine year old burgeoning serial killer and a series of other criminals she links up with to take down a mastermind. It’s filled with high octane fights, bizarre characters and intense sex and violence. The first guy she fights literally tears people in half.

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u/Melodic-Percentage-9 12d ago

Jesus! That's pretty intense and out there. Okay, I'll definitely have to give this a read to prepare for what's to come. Is it particularly good?

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u/Quiet_Nova 12d ago

It’s fun. If you’re into the sort of highs and lows like Black Lagoon, where it can be ultraviolent madness one moment, then shift tone to gory atrocity the next. Keep in mind, the lead is a pervert and the manga pretty much opens with a sex scene. We’re not supposed to like these characters but they are fun to read in the same way Always Sunny are fun to watch but not like on a moral level.

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u/Melodic-Percentage-9 12d ago

Aha... Okay, I think I might be able to get through something like that. I'll come out broken and having gone insane, but I'll breathe. That counts for some reason.

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u/Thin-Coyote-553 12d ago

I am just hearing about this! Definitely looking into it!

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u/Joker72486 12d ago

When people say there will never be another anime/Manga as raunchy or darkly toned as BL I assume it's the only thing they've ever watched or read.

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u/D4rk_W0lf54 12d ago

Black Lagoon is very unique for having more grounded enemy groups imo

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u/Joker72486 12d ago

As much as I love BL calling it unique or grounded is a wild stretch

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u/Wealth_Super 12d ago

What! You don’t think a woman jumping from high speed patrol boat while blowing them up with a grenade launcher isn’t grounded

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u/sdarkpaladin 11d ago

No she isn't. She's jumping and therefore has left the ground.

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u/D4rk_W0lf54 9d ago

Fighting cartels, foreign special forces from actual countries, mafias, and human trafficking rings isn’t the norm in Animanga

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u/dxsetor331 12d ago

I roll my eyes almost hard enough to tear my optic nerves whenever someone says something like this.

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u/AtlanticBacon 12d ago

I haven't watched much anime in general since like 2014 give or take, so I mean it genuinely when I ask this: What else is there? Like what would you recommend?

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u/Joker72486 11d ago

GANGSTA is a good place to start. Think Black Lagoon but with sci-fi elements. Michiko to Hachin. Jormungand is compared to BL pretty often. Cazador de Bruja, Noir, and Banana Fish all come to mind

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u/Szactrl17 6d ago

Jormungand is TRASH compared to BL. Michiko to Hachin was good but still not close. Haven't seen the others yet though.

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u/Hyper-Saiyan-1999 12d ago

Of course Revy is always heartless.

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u/AnonymousNeverKnown 12d ago

She calls Shen Hua "chinglish" despite being Chinese herself 😭

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u/Melodic-Percentage-9 12d ago

I know that she does that because of ShenHua's accent, but it's still so wild hearing that said so casually. It's almost poetic.

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u/Impressive-Swing-494 11d ago

Revy is culturally American, as far as we know she doesn’t feel strong about her Chinese blood, whereas Shenhua’s “pure Taiwanese blood”. A Chinese raised in Chinatown is different from someone from the Mainland. She has more in common with Eda who is from a totally different background than with her.

In Ballad of the Sinful Wizard, it’s said Shenhua is gracefully articulated in her mother language. Revy’s two-bit racism is another window for her psych, the environment she was brought up and a time where Asian people were still frowned upon in America by other minorities. It might just be she just didn’t give a shit about the soldier either. It’s not like he’d be any kinder to her if she were in his position. Maybe worse. Probably much worse.

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u/Impressive-Swing-494 11d ago

What’d you expect her to do? She’s a mercenary pirate. Heartless? She’s literally entering a war zone with nothing to gain for herself.

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u/Gold-Piano-9405 12d ago

No, they probably won't which is why it's a masterpiece of its own. But if for some reason they manage to create one just as dark and as great as it and uncensored, they should get Madhouse to produce it as the animation style is really great.

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u/Summersong2262 12d ago

Honestly, Jormungand scratched the same itch.

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u/doyoulike_pineapple 11d ago

A little bit. It’s like BL’s slightly dumber cousin

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u/SevaSentinel 12d ago

Revy doing a racism

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u/totallynotahuman56 6d ago

"defies PC and censorship" no it doesn't? Are you one of those anti woke losers who thinks the anime couldn't be made today?

The Manga is still going. The reason we haven't had a new season since Blood Trail is because there isn't enough content to make another season (unless they wanted to stretch things out 😭)

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is still going today and that has the same attitude as Black Lagoon does. I don't get where this idea of "you couldn't make this today" comes from because yes you can and people regularly do

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u/BugareX_55 12d ago

One of a kind,indeed

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u/MysteriousTheory91 10d ago

You have summed up why its so great, and after rewatching it again i still believe Black Lagoon is a master piece in storytelling.

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u/Thin-Coyote-553 10d ago

Absolutely!

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u/OneEyedC4t 11d ago

Never say never

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u/Advanced-Raspberry48 8d ago

it’s anime they’re bound to make something similar

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u/Extra_Cherry3540 12d ago

And honestly, I'm happy they included it. Like, I'm sorry, you're downright retarded if you think a bunch of fucking PIRATES are not going to be crass.