Baccano

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Baccano!

バッカーノ！
Genre	Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shōnen
Light novel: Baccano!
Authored by	Ryohgo Narita
Artist	Katsumi Enami
Publisher	MediaWorks
Publish date	2002
No. of volumes	10
TV anime : Baccano!
Directed by
Studio	Aniplex
Network
Original run	Summer 2007 –
No. of episodes
Manga: Baccano! 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad
Authored by	Ryohgo Narita (story) Ginyū Shijin (art)
Publisher	MediaWorks
Serialized in	Dengeki Comic Gao!
Original run	February 2007 –
No. of volumes

Baccano! (バッカーノ, Bakka-no^?) is a light novel series by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Katsumi Enami. The first volume won Gold in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize and the series will be made into a TV anime in the summer of 2007 by Aniplex.^[1] The second storyline in the series has also been adapted into a manga.

[edit] Story

Baccano is Italian for noise, but Narita translates it as "stupid commotion." Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies.