Burn Burn Burn

The burning downtown of Vancouver …

Wait, what?

Vancouver, Roanapur … same thing right?  I mean, minus geographical placement.  And the fact that one is featured in a 24-episode anime and the other is not.
I’ll let you figure out which one is which.

Black Lagoon, a quick summary: Good beginning, alright middle, great end.
My opinion: watch it.  In English.
Brad Swaile (Amuro from Gundam UC fame) is Rock, a Japanese salaryman who is betrayed by his company and taken on by the Lagoon company.

I don’t want to spoil anymore for you, so I leave you with the strong urge to go watch it if you haven’t already.

You see over the course of the two seasons how the characters change as the newcomer Rock enters their midst, and how everyone reacts to this.  Few series manage to pull such a thing off that well.

The season 1 “finale” makes me wonder how the series was originally aired, and if it was separated into two seasons at that time.  Maybe there was a six-month break between 12 and 13 like some recent anime have been doing.  All I know is I would hate to end a show, even temporarily, on a note like that.

–CanadaMan eh?

P.S. This post has been sitting in limbo for a looooong time.  If there was a reason that I held back, I certainly don’t remember it now.