Black Lagoon, Vol. 1

Haven’t enjoyed a manga volume this much in a while. Do yourself a favor and read this masterpiece of a series

I watched the anime, which was my first anime. I watched ever I loved it so much bought my first manga, and I love the series and the characters can’t wait to read more.

I love the anime and the Manga is just as great

If you are a fan of the anime or just of action movies, this is a must read. It takes the story to the end of the first appearance of Roberta. It has humor, gun play and lots of action.

This is, literally a "boat book" . Rokasaburo is a normal salaryman drone at a big Japanese conglomerate. He gets involved in some shady dealings for his company and is thrown away like a used tissue. He takes up a new job with the East Asian Pirates who kidnapped him and proceeds to go native. A collection of short stories, with no discernible plot, but excellent characterization and artwork.

This manga is a fun read. The pirate-themed story has a great premise. The characters are wacky and memorable. The setting in southeast Asia is unusual and unique, which makes for a great adventure. It's got exciting action with crazy weapons and ridiculous (comical) situations. Black lagoon is a fun change of pace from the other darker, more violent mangas I read recently. I wish all mangas were this good.

It’s a crime that they never continued the anime, I highly recommend you read this manga because it’s a shame that we never got to see the rest animated.

Awesome

英語の勉強になります。 第一話が雑誌版なので注意してください。

İzlediğim ilk animelerden biri olan Black Lagoon aynı zamanda izlediğim ilk aksiyon animesiydi. Animeyi bitirdikten sonra hikayenin sonlandığını düşünmüştüm,fakat manga olarak devamını görünce seri bir şekilde toplamaya başladım.Kesinlikle hafızanızda yer etmesi gereken muazzam bir manga.

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Black Lagoon is a brilliant but mature action-packed crime story told with all of the style of a classic John Woo film, and is my personal favorite manga (and anime). The author, Rei Hiroe, describes his action as a "bullet ballet" as made famous John Woo, and his character Mr Chang - the Triad boss, is almost certainly inspired by Chow Yun Fat's character Mark Lee from John Woo's "A Better Tomorrow". The series follows a small band of smugglers operating out of the fictitious city of Roanapur in Thailand, which has become somewhat of a gangsters paradise unofficially run by the before mentioned Mr Chang. Black Lagoon has some brilliant story arcs with complex plots, unexpected twists and high octane action but the series really stands out for its exceptional cast. Pretty much all of the characters in the series, major or minor are well written and given detailed personalities, motives and secrets so don't expect to find any generic one dimensional bad guys or damsels in distress, rather you will find characters that feel alive (or at least they start out that way!). The art of Black Lagoon is not as strong as the story, it's not to say it's bad in any way it's just very average when compared to Rei Hiroe's own art books. The characters have a natural look and even the female characters have realistic proportions and are not overly sexualised. The Manga (up to Volume 9) is the same as the anime series 1, 2 and the Roberta's Blood Trail OVA, so if you've already seen the anime then you won't find any new material in the manga until volume 10. I highly recommend this series to adult readers who like action and are looking for a deep story, but be aware that it does get very dark in places and touches on some taboo/sensitive subjects occasionally so you might want to do a bit more research if you are easily offended. A final warning before committing to this series is that the author is extremely slow at getting volumes finished and released so be prepared to wait literally years between volumes, it's worth the wait though as I've loved every one so far!

il manga è stupendo ma attenzione che ordinarli è un po' un terno al lotto. tra stampe errate, condizioni di tenuta discutibili, almeno un paio di resi li ho dovuti fare per prendere tutta la serie