The idea originally came from higher up Her, well, the subtitles used "Auntie", but you know how these sorts of things are. Whether she's related to Shirogane Misaki or not, they're close, and this woman's a lot closer to the actual politics threatening to shatter the town.
She was given six months And the idea of their own heroine, instead of having to beg someone like Kamidaio to come and get some attention. And in the now, she insists to her right-hand, Roko, that she won't be bothering her with it. This is her fight. Thus the arc of the episode reveals itself. We have our title. We have our titular Roko. And we have an implied history. When two girls come wheeling on in, one literally and one metaphorically.
Misaki immediately breaks her promise as she sends Roko off to get drinks for their esteemed guests, and I already kind of love the simple fact that we're cutting through the typical Student President Facade so fast. So here's Midorikawa. She wants to work on costumes, and her family has access to space that would be useful for training!
And then there's Aoyama in the wheelchair. The girl from last time who did the sound work, and she wants in on this officially.
She can do sound, lighting, programmed effects Basically all of the back-of-the-house production logistics. Roko quietly watches her friend be so happy Aaand clearly feels she can't admit her desires. Thus it's an exit at the end of the day. Okay, am I parsing this right? Because it looks like Roko lives in a decommissioned train car at the station at the edge of town. Hold that thought, we'll come back to it I'm sure. But the important thing is, she and Misaki have been like peas in a pod for years.
Closer to siblings than mere friends. Her photos on her shelf are all of the two of them. Club events. All of it. She gets out a scrapbook of their tennis time Misaki injured her elbow, and Roko had to play as substitute, salvaging their school's investment in the game But both lost the real thing they'd been hoping for. The chance to duel eachother. There was this one match, where just Everything went wrong. Misaki's bra came undone and fucked up a swing.
A large, angry cicada went right for her face and knocked her down. The match ended up going to the other school Misaki put on a brave face, but Roko saw her later. Saw her quietly sobbing at the water fountains, where nobody could see.
Back in the now, Roko's left thinking. And we get a sign of one of two possibilities. Either, this is secretly Anime World. Or Roko has a very active imagination she's been hiding.
Because either way she's processing her issues with a country-accented train robot. While we see to the space that Midorikawa Mana can offer. It's a full on temple grounds, and oh she's got complicated feelings about that. Also, she wasn't able to get them free usage, just a heavy discount, so she's got to charge them yen because life is cruel to even the faithful.
But listen. Meanwhile, Roko watches the footage of that first Kamidaio imitation show, continuing to neglect her own emotions because of the need to present a certain persona Back to the temple, the whole gang's started to put some plans together And Mana offers them food to keep the session going. At discount. Listen do you have any idea how much money it takes to keep a historic temple in a small town going in this day and age?
Roko's already starting to plan, and she's studying actual Kamidaio shows She will not let Misaki down. Another flashback. The funeral of her grandfather. The whispered harsh words of others Her possibly-imaginary train robots try to convince her to abandon this traditional "don't wanna be a bother" attitude.
She is your friend, your best friend, you are basically family, go to her and fucking tell her you want to support her efforts. Back to the team! They're starting to work out logistics, because they're thinking they might do their next show here.
The park's great, but it doesn't exactly get, like, revenue. A free show at the temple, where they can sell food and entice people to come back for services and to give donations Much better for the city. Also, Aoyama, interestingly enough, doesn't seem to be completely wheelchair-bound.
She's able to walk around a bit with a cane, enough to start making plans around the circuits and assets here.
Oh, they gotta talk costumes. What's the costume plan? As good as they can possibly be. Enough to stun audiences! They gotta think budget, though, especially if the longterm plan is to pivot to original heroines. Blowing a ton of money on a Kamidaio suit when they have no rights to the name is a bad play. And Ann's been thinking about that, and coming up with her own off-brand Kamidaio, the Ultra-Natural Kajudaio!
The next day, they've got Aaand tries to get her friend to just break down and ask her so she doesn't have to put herself out there. Roko listen I understand your plight.
I sympathize. But also you played yourself. Back to the temple! Where Mana's cooked up a solid Kamidaio cosplay. It still needs to be fit and properly sewed instead of just glued and pinned, but it's solid, and she cooked it up with nothing more than available supplies.
She's got a longtime interest in clothesmaking, cosplay and the whole range, so she already has a ton of supplies. And that's the one thing she can provide for free. Everything else will cost you. Back to Roko's place, where she's trying to learn the posing and dialogue styles aaaand cracks her foot against the side of her traincar bench. I sympathize, but you played yourself. The next day again, Roko's waiting for Misaki And no sign of her.
Where the hell is she?! She's out in the school garden, talking plans with the rest of her heroine team. Roko keeps trying to convince herself she's okay with this That she can be like the track inspectors, who work tirelessly, thanklessly, in the night to ensure all is well.
And then she gets home that evening and there's inspectors working on the tracks. Because when something is needed, you can't just wait until nobody's looking, you know?
And then she gets there and is full of fears and can't make herself do it. While we see Misaki watching over the girls getting measured for costumes And she sees Mikan's bandages and cold compresses all over her body from muscle strain.
Indeed, when Roko comes around to the other side of the temple, and sees the girls starting to practice, she can easily spot Mikan's not moving right. She's moving like she's in pain And inevitably, she slips. She's fine this time But Misaki immediately calls a hard stop. She's seen enough. They need to change the plan, because no city is worth risk of injury. Come on. Just-- Ann volunteers to be the villain! You're the best heroine they've got.
And you're too adorable to be evil. And oh, what she would give for someone to finally show up! Okay she doesn't put it quite so harshly. She instead calls Roko her gallant prince.
Kiss her, you fool. Roko can't deal with this. Misaki, though, can deal with it just fine. She loves Roko and eventually it'll sink in, you dork. But anyways, it's the day of the show! Where they make a solid gag out of the fact that they've swapped the villain Lotti King's archival dialogue to Roko playing the villainess. She is Lotti King's distant relative, Jolotti King!
She's here to continue his work since he's getting too old to make the trip all the way down here! You know what. That's a great fuckin' villain motivation, you kids are doing a solid job at this and you've got a bright future ahead of you all.
And also they do the big reveal of their off-brand Kamidaio getting powered up by local produce into Kajudaio. The children in the audience are enthralled , and the parents end up buying quite a few hastily-printed t-shirts By the end of the month, with only three iterations of this preliminary show, they've sold fully a million yen in goods.
Obviously a lot of expenses went into the show, and getting an entire city into an economically stable state is gonna take a lot more than that, but they're genuinely in a really good spo-- Mana's dad can't let them use the temple hall anymore.
The parishioners are furious that children are playing hero games on sacred ground. And his hands are tied They simply won't survive without their longtime economic support. This reeks of someone with a bee in their bonnet. But who And then we get a cut away to rich girl Kanon sipping her tea, and being very smug! OH NO It's interesting that the girls have, to some degree, solved their original problem so quickly. The core of the crew is already assembled, they've successfully put on shows, and then suddenly they get a whole new set of problems.
I'm really eager to see how all of this comes together. Something kind of amusing about the characters' names: they have a colour theme to them, but many of them don't match their actual colour schemes. Aka gi, Shiro gane and Kuro ki have "red", "white" and "black" in their names but their hair is brown, black and red respectively.
They do match their show costumes, though. But what villain could possibly steal the smiles from the mouths of children?! But they do have delicious kazusaberries, a fruit that they haven't seen locally before I'd bet a dollar that's a pun, but also they look to be a strawberry cultivation of some sort, and it's far from the first time I've heard of specially named local cultivars.
And that's when Kanon shows up. And Ann has a degrading nickname for her. Also, she has a solution to their problems! In exchange Her favorite hero, a blatant Gavan ripoff, had a show going the same time as a gymnastics meetup. You gotta understand. They just straight up cut to a low-rent recreation of the Toei Films waves-over-the-shore logo drop.
Stage 03! Originating in , the classic show is a sci-fi piece within the classic framework of occult comedies of the era! A vintage glory, a true legend of its era, available now only in reruns on deep cable! She wanted, needed , to see it properly in real time like her foremothers of fandom before her! Kanon thinks that's utter bullshit.
You would denigrate rhythmic gymnastics with this children's show?! Don't disrespect the sport by acting like it's small time like that! It wasn't just a children's show, it was important enough to her to be worth making that decision! Also it comes out in Kanon's ranting that she's the one who pushed to get them out of the temple. But if you want her to stop Ann has to face her down! If she wins, she'll let off the pressure. Wait isn't that usually what happens if the challenger loses?
Ann would like to formally surrender now kay thanks bye. Hard cut to the school gymnasium, where Kanon just straight up had her gymnastics leotard on under her own school's uniform. Now then, you rabblesome lot will be the judges! Be impartial, would you? Absolutely not that's impossible.
You're asking for impartial judgment of you, a stranger, against their friend and comrade, in a highly subjective creative sport in which they have no experience either performing or judging!
God, I love the expressions these girls get sometimes. And I'm back, by the way, definitely didn't get this done before game started. It was impossible. So the girls have to take Ann away and ask if she's gonna throw this so it can all be done and over with. And then it's out to the track, where Kanon, yep, has a whole history.
Her greatest day, and when she was ready to finally become the best in her circle Ann's sudden withdrawal from the competition drew more eyes.
And when she tried to issue a proper challenge, Ann effortlessly bested her with one final display, before leaving. Kanon could have been happy being Ann's rival. To lose against someone giving their all, to put yourself to the limit and both push eachother to new heights There is a dignity in that. But then she learned that she'd happened to quote a fucking kid's show to Ann, and that was what spurred her to action!
She will NOT be a mere reference machine for you! So it's back to the race, where Kanon is well ahead And on this, her birthday, June 6th, she will finally reclaim her pride! She will be blessed by the gods themselves! She just quoted Kamidaio. I don't know if she's a secret tokusatsu head or fucking cursed and I can't wait to find out.
But suffice to say, that was the exact wrong thing to do, because it awoke Ann's hot-blooded heroic spirit , her body charging forward on its own at full power!
Kanon desperately tries to keep up But the photo finish doesn't lie. Ann won. And she's so lost in her own passion that she's full of thrill before she realizes she meant to lose.
Wait, shit! Kanon, why would you quote Kamidaio at her like that if you wanted to win? That was a low blow! And Kanon, in her shame, refuses to ever end her tirade against the Cheer Fruits production community. So cut to the girls, later, trying to figure out their options.
The community center is booked solid. The local gym is used by not just the school clubs, but a local women's volleyball team. And the culture hall costs 20, yen for use, which means that their training and setup sessions would cost them over , yen in a week. And seeing as they're not operating as a school club, their school can't give them facilities And if they worked as a school club, they couldn't earn a profit. Okay, last ditch effort. Roko offers up her place And the girls get to see the old train station!
It's not perfect, but it's functional , as the girls start putting together a plan. Alright, what are their resources, and equally important, what do they lack?
Right now, the biggest problem is simple lack of manpower. They need more warm bodies for more roles in and behind the show. Set changes, larger scenes, it's all made extra difficult when they've got one heroine, one villainess, and Mikan who's got distinct limits to how much she can get the shit kicked out of her and still walk the next day. But, they can work around those, and plan, as they start to prep for the climax of Kajudaio and work towards their own storyline.
Thus begins a lot, a lot, of just Design sketches, production work, set design. The girls grind it out day after day, sometimes all ending up crashing in Roko's car Until the day comes for a proper test of the new set and assets. Unfortunately, it's the rainy season, so the skies are grey. But even so, the modifications to Roko's suit and her new weapon look stellar And Mikan?
Mikan would like to never exit backstage ever please. She is so not used to wearing a bodysuit, and it's feeling like she's wearing nothing at all. Yet you can only push through that shame by, well, pushing through it, as the girls get her out Just in time for a train to come through the station, packed with kids coming back from school. Kids eager to see the practice run, as their parents start getting photos for the kids. Alas, Mikan. Meanwhile Kanon's at home casually name-searching Ann.
Kanon, dear. I think you have an obsessive crush and you need to either ask her out or work through it somehow. And of course, what she's finding is people talking about Ann's hero show , not her rhythmic gymnastics. Oh, she's furious and confused in equal measure The day of their proper show, they've got a problem. It's raining. And yet people showed up anyways. They're under the overhang, so they're fine But the stage sure as hell isn't.
It's the old train platform, so it's completely open to the sky. But damn, that's a decent crowd of kids who showed up. Decision time. Do they take the risk? So, Misaki steps out there to welcome their audience, and get things starting While Kanon's limosine arrives to demand answers. The show begins!
The girls are acting more carefully, of course, but even their light strikes get really impressive with the rain spraying off their weapons Kanon inevitably leaves, unwilling to face this. And the next weekend, still in the rainy season, they've got more clouds. They'd tried to coordinate this to catch a dry patch, but timing always gets fucky Also, the girls have started to use their train station position to their advantage, as Roko's dad gets on the PA to let incoming passengers know a local hero show is about to start.
And it begins, with an innocent child oh my god is that Mikan's baby sister she is adorably acting captured by the footsoldiers! Oh no! Misaki as the announcer needs to call for Kajudaio right-- Jolotti snatches her up from behind, refusing to let her summon the heroine! OH NO! What a devilish twist! But even as the rain falls, and the skies rage, Kajudaio appears! The battle is on With the rain leading to a fake strike actually hitting Ann, and sending her skidding backstage.
But she springs straight to her feet, still in fighting condition. The show keeps going on! Kanon is there again, full of confusion and fury And Kajudaio inevitably slips, as Roko puts on the show.
While Kanon starts getting mad that this farce keeps going, getting out of the limo to demand Jolotti King beat this farce Ann actually rolled her ankle in that last slip. She was in fighting shape. Now she's not, and thus Roko has to quickly adlib her exit. With the rain getting bad, the show has to end here, kids, but don't worry, Kajudaio will return-- Cue Kanon, who REFUSES to let this end, because her rival must be bested properly to end this whole charade!
She has completely lost her goddamned mind. And Ann's got no choice but to clash, using her own gymnastic training to keep her weight off her bad ankle, as sword meets Also Ann has absolutely lost her own track of what she should have been doing, as she so eagerly goes in with a Rider Kick against Kanon And when it's all over, everyone is super happy with the show, and Ann eagerly hugs Kanon who gets all tsundere about it.
And wow, you must have a lot of free time to come swing by just for this, but thanks! Which is when a van from city hall shows up. I mean Listen, out of all the fates that could have happened, this was the inevitable one. You can get away with a lot so long as you don't make money off of it, but Okay, let's look at the good news.
The town isn't mad about the train station. While Geneon will still retain the license, Funimation will assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. Black Lagoon was one of several titles involved in the deal. The series aired in Australia on the Sci Fi Channel.
The first season was released on six DVDs, each containing two episodes, between August and December In , the series was released in four, two for each season, boxsets from August to September. Geneon's North American dub was released on three DVD compilations, each containing four episodes, between May 22 and September 18, After being released individually, with volume one having a limited edition version containing a steelbook box that comes with a bonus disc with slots for all 3 volumes, the boxset of the entire first season was released December 30, The fourth bonus disc, available in the season one box set or the volume one steelbook edition, has a 15 minute behind the scenes with the English crew and voice actors, the "Red Fraction" music video performed by Mell, promotional videos, the creditless opening and ending, and Japanese opening.
The series returned to American television on the Funimation Channel on February 15, As of October , the manga series has sold over 3 million copies in Japan.
In English no less. The draw of a full bitrate 5. Black Lagoon Wiki Explore. Black Lagoon. Recent blog posts Forum. Initially, Rock is shown as a very well mannered kind of person but slowly as the show proceeds, he becomes more accustomed to the criminal activities around and starts transforming into a different person. He is mostly responsible for activities like account management, negotiations, and interpretation in the Black Lagoon due to his past experience as a businessman.
He is an ex-American Naval Officer who used to be the captain of a boat that had the same name as his present mercenary group. Dutch is a Christian and he avoids being a part of the fighting involved in their business. He instead manages relationships with clients and passes orders to the team members. He has a huge muscly frame that demands power and often he is seen sporting a pair of black sunglasses.
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Revy shows a lot of contempt towards Rock during his initial days with the group and almost kills him once.
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