Series synopsis
Black Lagoon is a Japanese action & adventure animation drama crime television series that premiered on Chiba TV on April 9, 2006. It ended on December 20, 2006. It stars Megumi Toyoguchi, Daisuke Namikawa, Tsutomu Isobe and Hiroaki Hirata.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the 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 near the border of Cambodia.
Premise
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the 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 near the border of Cambodia.
Premise: More entertaining than Hollywood's ever gonna be
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Megumi Toyoguchi as Revy (voice)
- Daisuke Namikawa as Rock (voice)
- Tsutomu Isobe as Dutch (voice)
- Hiroaki Hirata as Benny (voice)
- Tomoko Kaneda as Gretel (voice)
- Omi Minami as Hansel (voice)
Guest cast
- Jouji Nakata as Director Kageyama (voice)
- Takaya Hashi as Vice President (voice)
- Ken'ichi Morozumi as Fujiwara (voice)
- Shirou Saitou as Bao (voice)
- Sayuri Ikemoto as Kageyama's Wife (voice)
- Rika Morinaga as Kageyama's Daughter (voice)
- Syuetsu Tookaichi as Chin (voice)
- Naoya Uchida as Luak (voice)
- Banjo Ginga as Verrocchio (voice)
- Ryuji Nakagi as Rachmann (voice)
- Shigeru Ushiyama as Captain Ahbe (voice)
- Takaya Kuroda as Lieutenant Colonel Spielberger (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 36 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 12 | December 23, 2009 | June 22, 2011 |
| Season 1 | 24 | April 9, 2006 | June 22, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
High School Life Rock is wondering why he's wearing a school uniform. It's not even the uniform he wore back during his school days! And so, he runs into everyone's counterparts in a high school setting. |
December 23, 2009 |
| 2 |
The Magical Girl Radical Revy-chan comes to Rock's aid and shows him that all of life's problems can be solved with guns. |
December 23, 2009 |
| 3 |
The Melancholy of Balalaika Balalaika is the mother of Hansel and Gretel. |
February 10, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Black Lagoon Abducted by modern-day pirates and declared dead by his company, businessman Rokuro Okajima joins his captors on their ship, the Black Lagoon. |
April 9, 2006 |
| 2 |
Mangrove Heaven Rock devises a plan to destroy the gunship that seems to have trapped the Black Lagoon. Meanwhile, the Lagoon Company accepts Rock as a new member. |
April 16, 2006 |
| 3 |
Ring-Ding Ship Chase A gangster named Chin lures Dutch and the crew of the Black Lagoon into a battle at sea against Luak, the leader of rival pirates. |
April 23, 2006 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Chiba TV |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 9, 2006 |
| Last aired | December 20, 2006 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Sunday at 23:30:00 |