Given the usual cutthroat nature of the residents, these killers are making quite an impression, especially as they are preying on the rival gangs in the city. Swan Song At Dawn It’s a rainy day in Roanapur, and there are a couple of new serial killers in town, preying on the populace.

If the first season could be considered the introduction to the show, where we got to know the characters, and had some fun with the various life and death situations they found themselves in, season 2 is where it starts to get dark and personal for Rock and Revy.ĭisc 1 13. This Blu-ray collection collects the second 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.

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. Of course if you are fluent in a European language, you can import the OVA from Europe, where Kazé released it on the same day as the original episodes. We’re going to have to wait on Funimation to deliver on that in the US before we can see it in Britain. Unfortunately, the whole point of this high definition upgrade, the Roberta’s Blood Trail five episode OVA that it’s supposed to accompany, has been delayed because of a lack of an English dub. As a matter of fact, The Second Barrage is released in its HD glory on the same day as season 1. Introduction I’ve already reviewed Black Lagoon, Season 1 on Blu-ray, and it was inevitable that Season 2 would make its way here as well.

Black lagoon season 1 trailer