Black lagoon season 1 subtitles12/7/2022 Ring-Ding Ship Chase A blind statue of a Buddha stands guard to the port of Roanapur, home of Black Lagoon. As compensation, he does get a post-mortem promotion though. Asahi is having none of this, and they hire mercenaries of their own to destroy the disc, Black Lagoon, and throw Rokuro to the sharks. The pirates are just middlemen, and intend to take the disc to the Russian mafia, who will ransom it back to Asahi Industries. A simple act of piracy grew more troublesome when mercenary Revy decided to make a little money on the side and ransom Rokuro as well. The Black Lagoon mercenary group waylaid his vessel, and captured the disc. Mangrove Heaven All Rokuro "Rock" Okajima had to put up with was hard workdays at the office and abusive superiors until the fateful day he was chosen to act as courier for a data disc. This Blu-ray collection collects the first season of Black Lagoon, all twelve episodes spread across two discs, chronicling the adventures of unlikely white-collar pirate Rock, borderline psychotic gunman "Two Hands" Revy, Vietnam vet Dutch, and tech specialist Benny.ĭisc 1 1. Okay, so that doesn't happen to your average Reginald Perrin, but it does happen to Rokuro Okajima, in the acclaimed anime Black Lagoon. Then, while acting as a courier, you're kidnapped by mercenaries for the sensitive data disc that you're carrying, disowned by your superiors as an unfortunate loss, get caught up in battles and gunfights with the mercs your company send to retrieve the disc, and start a new job as a pirate. You spend years of your life, make sacrifices of your family and free time, pledging eternal loyalty to the company, all in the hope that one day, you'll be the one doing the abusing instead of being abused. As the lowest of the low, you get the toughest work and all the abuse from the higher ups. Years of hard competitive education just to get your foot on the first rung of the corporate ladder in a big firm. The life of a salaryman, or white-collar worker isn't an easy one. You have to wonder if the Blu-ray of Black Lagoon is really worth it. Ergo Proxy also dates from 2006, and it's practically the first. The second thing is that Black Lagoon's original series dates from 2006, not exactly an era replete with high definition television anime. The rest of Europe gets it on the same day as the original series, but in the UK, we'll have to wait until 2013 at least. The first is that we have to wait on Funimation for the dub of Roberta's Blood Trail. Unfortunately, there are one or two snags. They've picked up the series and are releasing it on DVD, and they are releasing it on Blu-ray as well. But it's Kazé who are first to the finish line when it comes to releasing it all outside of Japan. Roberta's Blood Trail sparked interest in the show once again, and in the US, Funimation picked up the rights to the OVA and the first two series too. Roberta's Blood Trail, a 5 episode OVA that continues the adventures of the Black Lagoon crew was released in Japan, and to go alongside the Blu-ray release of that series, the original 24 episodes were re-mastered for high definition release. A lot of fans missed out, and it's been pretty much out of print ever since. That would normally take 3 or four years, but MVM put Black Lagoon through its lifecycle in half the time, going from six single volumes, to two series collections, to one Complete Barrage boxset in little more than eighteen months, and it sold out really quickly. Licenses have a typical duration, allowing for a set lifetime of releases for a show, and back in the mid 2000s, that was from single volume release to collections, to budget. It meant that when the show did get to MVM, they had a shorter window than usual to release it. Its localisation and dub was a fraught affair, full of delays. Black Lagoon was one of the last series to be licensed by Geneon in the US before they stopped distribution. The first time around, MVM released it in the UK, both the first series and the Second Barrage. Introduction You may be surprised to see Black Lagoon back on UK shop shelves, but it's a very welcome return for this action show, an anime that stands above its peers in terms of content, character and sheer balls to the wall attitude.
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