Black Lagoon

What is Black Lagoon about?

Black Lagoon is a TV anime series of 12 episodes animated by MADHOUSE, adapted from a manga. It aired from April 9, 2006 to June 25, 2006. AniList classifies it as action, adventure, drama and thriller.

Synopsis from AniList. The summary above it is written by FreeAnime.xyz from AniList's data.

Themes AniList users associate with it: Ensemble Cast, Crime, Guns, Seinen, Pirates, Primarily Adult Cast, Travel, Anti-Hero, Gangs, Mafia.

Main characters

Characters AniList lists in a main role, with spoiler-free notes.

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  Revy レヴィ

  Main character

  Revy, sometimes referred by her full name Rebecca Lee, is the female protagonist of the series. She does most of the fighting for the Lagoon Company. Very little is revealed about her past, although portions can be pieced together through the series.

  Japanese voice: Megumi Toyoguchi

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  Rokuro Okajima 岡島緑郎

  Main character

  Rock, formerly known as Rokuro Okajima, is the protagonist of the series. He was a Japanese salaryman for Asahi Industries in Tokyo until he was taken hostage by the crew of the Black Lagoon.

  Japanese voice: Daisuke Namikawa

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  Dutch ダッチ

  Main character

  The leader of Lagoon Company and captain of the ex-American Navy PT boat Black Lagoon. He is a former American soldier who fought in the Vietnam War. He tends to stay away from the fighting associated with Lagoon Company's activities.

  Japanese voice: Tsutomu Isobe

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  Benny ベニー

  Main character

  Benny is a college dropout from a Florida university where he studied until getting into trouble with the FBI and the mafia. He works as the Lagoon Company's mechanic, computer specialist, and researcher. He is of Jewish descent as he puts it himself and is often called "Benny-Boy" by Dutch.

  Japanese voice: Hiroaki Hirata

Supporting characters

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  Balalaika バラライカ

  Supporting character

  Balalaika is the boss of Hotel Moscow. It is revealed in the novel that her real name is Sofiya Pavlovena, though this name is never used in her presence. She is sometimes referred as Vladilena reduction from Vladimir Ilich Lenin. She was brought up by her grandfather, the military head of the USSR.

  Japanese voice: Mami Koyama

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  Eda エダ

  Supporting character

  Eda is a nun in a convent in Roanapur with ties to the underground (since the convent is mainly a smuggling operation). She is friends with Revy but that doesn't keep them from pointing their guns at each other in business matters as they share the same hotheaded personality.

  Japanese voice: Jun Karasawa

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  Roberta Cisneros ロベルタ・チスネロス

  Supporting character

  Roberta is a maid who worked for four years at the Lovelace household in Venezuela. Although her domestic skills, such as cleaning and cooking, were poor, she has developed a close friendship with the young scion of the Lovelace family, Garcia.

  Japanese voice: Michie Tomizawa

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  Bai Ji-Shin Chang 張維新

  Supporting character

  Wai-San Chang (also known as Mr. Chang) is the boss of a branch of the Triads based in Thailand. Like Revy, he is adept with wielding a pistol in each hand (Beretta 76 and AMT Hardballer) in a fashion similar to that of gun fu.

  Japanese voice: Toshiyuki Morikawa

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  Shenhua シェンホア

  Supporting character

  Shenhua is a Taiwanese assassin in the employ of Mr. Chang. She prefers to use various edged weapons in close combat, in particular a pair of kukri knives linked together with a length of leather rope at the handles. She is also skilled in the use of throwing knives.

  Japanese voice: Youko Sasaki

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  Garcia Lovelace ガルシア・フェルナンド・ラブレス

  Supporting character

  Garcia Fernando Lovelace is the only son of Diego Jose San Fernando Lovelace. He was heir to the Lovelace family line, and as such, is its current head, the twelfth in succession after his father was assassinated.

  Japanese voice: Kazue Ikura

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  Luak ルアク

  Supporting character

  Luak was a pirate captain who was based in Roanapur and often raided the coast and rivers of nearby Thailand. Although he was good, he had the bad habit of attracting unwanted company (Chin once commented that a warship had once pursued him). His latest contract was with the minor crimeboss Chin.

  Japanese voice: Naoya Uchida

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  Bao バオ

  Supporting character

  Originally an ARVN officer (army of South Vietnam), Bao is now the owner and bartender of the Yellow Flag Bar (the name is a reference to the old flag of South Vietnam, which was yellow with three narrow yellow stripes running through it), the favorite watering hole for the Lagoon Company.

  Japanese voice: Shirou Saitou

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  Chin 陳

  Supporting character

  Chin is a Chinese crime boss who made several serious attempts to replace Balalaika as one of the major powers of Roanapur. Balalaika found out about his plans and personally murdered him, which consisted of tying him to a chair and then blowing up his apartment using plastic explosives and gasoline.

  Japanese voice: Shuuetsu Tookaichi

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  Leigharch レガーチ

  Supporting character

  Leigharch is an Irish driver who worked with Shenhua at one time. A compulsive smoker of marijuana (in the manga he actually snorts cocaine), he has a distressingly frequent tendency to hallucinate at inopportune times, such as in the middle of a car chase.

  Japanese voice: Akimasa Oomori

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  Yolanda シスター・ヨランダ

  Supporting character

  Sister Yolanda is the leader of the Church of Violence, often called "the Rip-off Church" by much of Roanapur. Located on the mainland of Thailand, the facility operates as an active Roman Catholic church – although it is heavily active in arms and drug smuggling, and often undercuts operations by the other Roanapur…

  Japanese voice: Akiko Takeguchi

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  Rowan Pidgeon ローワン

  Supporting character

  The African-American owner of the Roanapur strip club 'GoofFest', Rowan "Jackpot" Pigeon also operates in the trafficking of child pornography and "snuff" films within Southeast Asia.

  Japanese voice: Masaki Aizawa