After watching quite a lot of Naruto, and then Bleach, I realised that I’d like to watch a grown up anime instead. Don’t get me wrong, both Naruto and Bleach are great animes, and an excellent way to spend some free time, but both of them are aimed at children and young people. So I had a quick look at what else has been released over the past few years and was aimed more at grown ups.
Black Lagoon is definitely the answer to that. An anime for grown ups doesn’t mean that it’s all serious and that there is no humour, far from it actually, there’s plenty of humour in Black Lagoon. But what makes it for grown ups, is the setting, the concepts and ideas, as well as problems that they handle, and of course specifically in Black Lagoon’s case, all the violence that comes with the place and storyline that it is set in.
Another interesting thing about the series is that it doesn’t draw a line of what is morally right or wrong. Instead it shows the situation, or the problem from different perspectives, because of what the main characters are. Be it a tough, murdering gun(wo)man or a caring person who does not want to kill.
I’m not going to spoil anything by saying what’s it about, other than it is about a group of mercenaries who sometimes brush against the law to do their job as delivery men. So I’ll just say that you should go out and get it instead, it’s well worth it. And as with almost every other anime, the original Japanese version with English subtitles is a lot better than the English dubbed version.