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REVIEW: Black Lagoon GN 1

I can't believe releasing manga in larger sizes is now considered a bad thing. Are prettier shelves really more important than prettier contents?

Her loose-cannon attitude and the wild, savage glee she takes in shooting up or beating up anyone and everything makes her convincing as an action heroine;

Hiroe delivers on pleasing character designs, an almost amusing style of expressiveness in facial features, and ample detail, but the way he paces things with his paneling and carefully stages his action scenes put him as much amongst the elite manga-ka as his raw artistic skill.

Viz' owns 'Shonen Jump'. 'Black Lagoon' runs in the 'Shonen Sunday DX'. Which also runs 'Berserk' and 'Shin Angyo Onshi'. Never once made the connection.

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Her loose-cannon attitude and the wild, savage glee she takes in shooting up or beating up anyone and everything makes her convincing as an action heroine;

Maybe a tsundere action heroine doped up on meth; not really an action heroine I could buy IRL, though.

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Hiroe delivers on pleasing character designs, an almost amusing style of expressiveness in facial features, and ample detail, but the way he paces things with his paneling and carefully stages his action scenes put him as much amongst the elite manga-ka as his raw artistic skill.

Personally, I thought he's just a hack desperately trying to cash in on Hellsing [He even seems to be swiping from Hirano's proto-version of the manga.], but that's just me.

I'd probably give it a C at best, especially since I take issue with characters who seem to show no remorse over-and may even have prior experience with-child-trafficking.

Also, I don't really see the connection between this and hellsing. What makes you think they're similiar?

An elite squad of gun-toting mercs who deal with unsavory characters...And one of them's a loose cannon who likes heavy metal, while their leader's a no-nonsense woman.

I made perfect sense. You're just reacting to my bursting of another bubble. Black Lagoon [at least in manga form] is generic and lazy. Revy
is like every other bounty hunter, except she's a chick. And her partners are just a bunch of grunts who're only good at one-liners and the occasional specialized task. But I guess people bought into it for the same reason they bought into Boob Raider. Plus, the Hellsing comparison is validated by the maid in Black Lagoon looking like the nun in the proto version of the former series near the end of the first book.

Uh, right. Sure. A maid who's actually a retired FARC assassin (FARC is a real-world organization, BTW) has anything to do whatsoever with the aforementioned nun.

The Black Lagoon manga is not trying to be much more than the all-out action title that it is, and as manga of that genre goes it succeeds quite well.

Rock's motivations for getting into the lifestyle, and his fish-out-of-water behavior, do plenty enough to separate this title from others of its ilk,

and Revy stands apart from other action heroines by having one of the single crudest and nastiest dispositions you'll ever see in a woman in manga.

If you've not seen your fair share of action films, then I can understand liking Black Lagoon, but I'm not sure why else you'd want to read it. I got more out of that new Rambo movie than this manga.

He doesn't have any motivation. He's just doing it, because he's bored.

He felt like he was merely a drone trapped in a lifeless existence of drudgery in Japan but found his experiences with Black Lagoon to be very liberating. He also had little regard for his former employer, or the system which produced him as an employee, when he saw what little value his company truly placed on his life.

Key: No, I don't find you bizarre, though you might have low standards. Not Mad Bull low, mind you-more like Die Hard 4 low.