Black Lagoon (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series writt and illustrated by Rei Hiroe. It has be published in Shogakukan's sein manga magazine Monthly Sunday Ge-X since April 2002, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes as of August 2021. In North America, the manga is licsed for glish release by Viz Media.
The series follows the Lagoon Company, a four-member team of pirate mercaries smuggling goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia with their PT boat, the Black Lagoon. The group takes on various jobs, usually involving criminal organizations and resulting in violt gunfights.
The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Madhouse, which was broadcast for two seasons of 12 episodes each in 2006, followed by a five-episode original video animation (OVA) series released from July 2010 to June 2011.
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By January 2022, the Black Lagoon manga had over 8.5 million copies in circulation. The series has be overall well received, with critics particularly praising the action sequces.
A team of pirate mercaries known as the Lagoon Company smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.
The Lagoon Company consists of four members: Dutch, the leader; Revy, the main gunfighter; Bny, the mechanic, computer specialist, and researcher; and Rock, an ex-salaryman hijacked by the team and abandoned by his departmt chief, evtually becoming their negotiator and professional face of the group, retaining his old job skills.
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Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself). The city is home to the Japanese yakuza, the Chinese triad, the Russian Bratva, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortmt of pickpockets, thugs, mercaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunm. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975.
Lagoon Company transports goods for various clits in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat, Black Lagoon. It has a particularly fridly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violt firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, ev going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. Wh they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spd much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is oft destroyed in firefights.
Manga author Rei Hiroe said that wh he was approached by the publisher Shogakukan to work for a manga project, he offered them differt prototype stories that he had planned, including Black Lagoon, which was finally selected.
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For the basis of the story, he was inspired by watching news about piracy cases in the South China Sea in the 1990s, which he thought that fitted perfectly with his desire to make a dynamic and original series, adding that pirates know no borders and are truly free, and that it seemed interesting to work on the subject.
Hiroe also commted that at first, the original idea was about medieval pirates, but he changed his mind and made the story about modern day pirates instead.
Hiroe stated that he has be influced by writers James Ellroy, whom he called his favorite novelist, and Steph King, stating that he learned how to create the atmosphere of Black Lagoon based on his works.
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Hiroe also called Mikiya Mochizuki [ja]'s manga series Wild 7 almost like the DNA of that sort of action gre, and mtioned influce from Akihiro Ito (Geobreeders author) and Kichi Sonoda (Gunsmith Cats author).
Apart from manga, Hiroe stated that, from a purely graphic point of view, he was influced by the Franco-Belgian comic series Soda, and commted that he liked the atmosphere and storytelling of Blacksad by Spanish authors Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido.
Hiroe is particularly influced by films, mtioning influce from directors John Woo, Qutin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and by the 1990s Hollywood films and triad Hong Kong films from the 1980s and 1990s.
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Hiroe said that although the series is much influced by American works, he was not worried about the referces being lost on the Japanese readers, stating that it can be ssed wh the American culture is coming from a Japanese person, so there's a style in it that can be ssed by Japanese readers, adding that conversely, if people in America read it, there is more pottial for awkwardness and weird parts.
Regarding accuracy, Hiroe declared that he had not done too much research on modern day pirates, commting that ev on the internet is difficult to find good information on them, also stating that the crew of Black Lagoon is a bit differt from what we are used to seeing. Regarding the weapons, on the other hand, Hiroe said that he was a big fan and that he had a personal collection, being well-versed on the subject, adding that he bought cyclopedias in order to befit from more precise details.
Due to the fact that the series is a period piece of sorts, which features mafia and military themes, Hiroe commted that he did a lot of research for those subjects, watching documtaries and reading books.
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Hiroe also stated that he would sometimes find some interesting facts that he would like to incorporate into his work, and that he tried not to go towards currt evts, but use past information for the tertainmt value.
He said that the setting is loosely based on reality and that it would not be interesting if it were unrealistic, adding that he at least wants to maintain a semblance of realism, emphasizing, however, that the sse of realism is very subjective, adding that a character like Roberta, a Terminator-like maid, would not work in a novel, but she will in a comic; she has to be over-the-top because it's a comic.
Hiroe commted that while film is an active medium, manga is like having still frames, so for the action sces he needs to find the best momts in time to convey meaning and movemt, adding that one of the advantages of manga is that you're not anchored to reality, commting that he is able to make guns bigger than their physical counterparts and make explosions far larger and more gaudy.
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He said that from the start, it was agreed with the publisher that the series would include action and violce, so there were never issues regarding that, adding that he would go towards ev more ssationalism if it is necessary for the plot, but Hiroe added as well that he does not want it to be confined to its violce either.
Hiroe said that from the start, he wanted a story without nationalities, without specific idtities, adding that we are still in a criminal context, and by mixing differt cultures in the story, he wanted to see the reaction of each culture to this thorny subject, without making any judgmt.
Referring to whether the manga could be perceived as a political statemt, due to actual piracy issues in Africa and elsewhere, and since the manga is about pirates, Hiroe said that as long as there are various people's opinions being voiced, it won't cease to be political, emphasizing, however, that there is not just one possible way of reading it, such as America is bad or Russia is bad, and that the series is writt to be perceived from differt perspectives.
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Although Hiroe noted that his series is tertainmt, he commted that he would like to make people who read it feel the backdrops, like characters with poverty backgrounds or living in the world with international conflicts.
Hiroe also said that it is fine if the readers only joy the series purely for the action, but commted: [t]here are a few things hidd in there, so I'd be the happiest if on a second or third read-through, those things become appart.
Hiroe said that gerally it takes him about a month to produce one chapter, adding that there are a lot of details and he puts a lot of work into it. Regarding the process, Hiroe explained that he has the initial thought, th the publisher would give him input as to what’s good and what’s bad and what’s good for the audice, what they might like. They discuss it and if something might not work so well, he redoes the plot line. Hiroe commted that while there are a lot of manga artists who do not have good relationship with the publishing company, and they have to do what they are ordered, in his case, it is more mutual and he can do more of what he likes at the same time.
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Hiroe's editor, Akinobu Natsume, commted that at first, the story was very simple, but that after having introduced more characters, they had to think about their respective stories, as well as the relationships
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