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Shelf Life - Dragon Lagoon

After Goku bested Beerus and ascended to the level of Super Saiyan God in the previous film,

Of course, that slow turn towards darker material won't necessarily suit all tastes. There's some genuinely unsettling stuff here, and one could reasonably argue that all the bloodshed and moral ambiguity detracts from the unfiltered fun that characterizes the series in its early episodes.

I bought the complete series based on just watching the first season, sold it after finishing the second.

Was I rooting for the child murderers- I mean murderous children to get their freedom or be put down like they were murderous children?

That aside, yeah, this review of the F movie is pretty much what I thought too; It's a fun time for fans of the franchise ... but it's 100% fluff, plot-wise.

So, is there going to be a follow-up movie to Resurrection of F since Super is retelling the movies?

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Of course, that slow turn towards darker material won't necessarily suit all tastes. There's some genuinely unsettling stuff here, and one could reasonably argue that all the bloodshed and moral ambiguity detracts from the unfiltered fun that characterizes the series in its early episodes.

I bought the complete series based on just watching the first season, sold it after finishing the second. I'm still not sure what they were aiming for, high school girl decides to spoiler[head a yakuza/mafia gang, fails, gets her love interest-body guard killed so then decides to atone for that by impaling herself with his katana through her throat... somehow] which had nothing to do with the main cast, world or moral implications. With everyone else being pragmatic, this comes off as some dumb girl's imagining of a samurai/yakuza hybrid. Really, it's a cosplay attempt that ends like a Shakespeare play. Why? A life took too lightly at the start, too seriously at the end is the perfect tone for the series that started with "boat versus helicopter"?

I liked the Greenback Jane story but as for Hansel and Gretel, my own take was that spoiler[if they were altered to be interchangeable as either sex then, how should I put this, both were mutilated where it counts? Rock's look of horror was for what he saw, not that his Japanese tastes were offended by the offer. Given his previous position as management dog, it wouldn't surprise me if he probably had to procure similar dealings so... where was I? Anyways, neither child had any hope of a normal life or any life outside that peculiar world.] Was I rooting for the child murderers- I mean murderous children to get their freedom or be put down like they were murderous children?

No, I was watching the series for its compelling main cast. Ah, that's the problem with Black Lagoon, it's not about Black Lagoon. May as well set it in Chinatown so I could end my post with "forget it, it's Chinatown." for all the point the setting has in the second season. Damn, they couldn't even have Rock or Revy do the final deed in that one, they just did a "Well, that just happened. Now let's move on like it never happened at all" because, um, status quo? Wait, All Black Lagoon stories end like that. Were they trying to make a point of how ineffectual the cast was or how much momentum the decay of the world had?

"Not true, Rock changed." No, we knew what he was, we don't know how he acted. It could be case of "same dog, different world". Once he learned how to apply his old tricks, he was just as effective. Seeing how he played mafia bosses like they were corporate executives, I'm not even convinced he grew a spine, he just learned how to show his teeth to people. Seriously, people who will simply take your life are less of a threat than those who can fire your butt.

What happened to Revy anyway? Nothing happened to her because nothing happened with her so what happened to her? She was so interesting in the first season too.