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This is a list of episodes of the Black Lagoon anime, covering the two seasons of the series. The episodes of the first season of the anime are directed by Sunao Katabuchi, animated by Madhouse Studios, and produced by Geneon Entertainment and Shogakukan.[1] In the second season, known as Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, Shogakukan was not involved in the production.[2] The English adaptation of the episodes is licensed by Geneon Entertainment.[1][2] The plot of the episodes is based on the Black Lagoon manga by Rei Hiroe, and features the adventures of a Japanese businessman, Rokuro Okajima, after he is abducted by pirates of the ship Black Lagoon and joins their crew under the moniker "Rock."

The first season aired from April 8, 2006 to June 24, 2006 on Chiba TV in Japan.[1] The second season began airing on October 3, 2006 on KBS Kyoto, TV Nagoya, TV Kanagawa, and Sun TV, and concluded its run on December 19, 2006.[2] The English adaptations of both seasons were aired continuously from October 26, 2007 to April 11, 2008 on G4techTV Canada; the English episodes were also broadcast in the United States from February 26, 2008 to May 13, 2008 on Starz Edge.[1][2]

Four pieces of theme music are used for the episodes; one opening theme and three closing themes. The opening theme is "Red fraction" by Mell. The three closing themes are "Don't Look Behind" by Edison, used for all the episodes of the first season and the second season save episode fifteen, which featured "The World of Midnight" by Minako Obata, and episode twenty-four, which utilized "Peach Headz Addiction" by Breath Frequency. The original soundtrack for the series, containing all the ending and closing themes, was released on August 30, 2006 in Japan.[3]

Six DVD compilations, each containing two episodes of the first season, have been released by Geneon Entertainment, with the first compilation released on August 26, 2006,[4] and the sixth compilation released on December 27, 2006.[5] The episodes of the second season have been released in six DVD compilations; the first on January 31, 2007 and the sixth on June 27, 2007.[6][7] The English adaptation of the anime is also distributed by Geneon Entertainment; three DVD compilations each containing four episodes were released between May 22, 2007 and September 18, 2007.[8][9]

Contents

[edit] Season 1

# Episode name Original air date English air date
1 "The Black Lagoon"   April 8, 2006 October 26, 2007
While on a business trip at sea for his company, Asahi Industries, Rokuro Okajima is abducted by the members of the Lagoon Company: Dutch, Revy, and Benny. After obtaining a confidential disk for their client, Balalaika, the head of Hotel Moscow and a part of the Russian Mafia, Revy takes Rokuro as a hostage onto their ship, the Black Lagoon, for ransom purposes. Despite this, Rokuro begins to sympathesize with the members of the Lagoon Company during their trip, and Dutch gives him the nickname "Rock." Meanwhile, the board of Asahi Industries gives Kageyama, Rock's superior, the authority to pursue the missing disk, resulting in a hired mercenaries attacking the Lagoon Company when they make a stop in the port city of Roanapur. The group manages to escape to the Black Lagoon. However, the Lagoon Company is contacted by Kageyama, who informs Rock that he has been declared dead by the company, and shortly afterwards, a heavily armed helicopter gunship from the same mercenary group starts chasing the Black Lagoon. 
2 "Mangrove Heaven"   April 15, 2006 November 2, 2007
The gunship forces the Black Lagoon into traveling down a river, only for them to hit a dead end. Realizing the futility of their situation, the members of the Lagoon Company begin to plan for the worst. Despite this, Rock concocts a plan to defeat the gunship, deducing that the pilot of the gunship is akin to a duelist wanting to face their opponent face-to-face. His plan results in Dutch using a sunken ship as a springboard to launch the Black Lagoon into the air and destroy the gunship with torpedoes. The Lagoon Company manages to deliver the disk to Balalaika, who subsequently gives the disk to Kageyama, who had made a deal with the Russian Mafia as a contingency. Instead of returning with Kageyama, however, Rock decides to stay with the Lagoon Company, who accept him as a new member. 
3 "Ring-Ding Ship Chase"   April 22, 2006 November 9, 2007
While staying in Roanapur, where the Lagoon Company is situated in, Dutch is accosted by Chin, a gangster who warns Dutch from working with Balalaika. Dutch ignores his warnings and receives a job from an anonymous employer. As the group leaves on the Black Lagoon, Chin contacts Luak, the head of a pirate gang, to kill the members of the Lagoon Company. As Luak approaches the Black Lagoon with a squadron of boats, Dutch tricks two of the boats into destroying each other via friendly fire, and Revy destroys the rest with a grenade launcher while leaping from boat to boat. Afterwards, the job is revealed to be a hoax set up by Chin, who is killed by Balalaika. 
4 "Die Rückkehr des Adlers"   April 29, 2006 November 16, 2007
The Lagoon Company is dispatched to retrieve a painting, The Twelve Knights led by Brunhilda, from a sunken World War II-era U-boat that left Germany at the eve of Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and was sunk by the United States Navy near Jakarta. Dutch purchases scuba equipment for Rock and Revy to use in the retrieval of the painting, and Benny instructs the two to enter the submarine via its torpedo tubes and create a hole to exit. After the two begin descending, however, the Black Lagoon comes under attack from a group of neo-Nazis who fire TOW missiles at the ship. 
5 "Eagle Hunting and Hunting Eagles"   May 6, 2006 November 23, 2007
The Black Lagoon manages to evade the TOW missiles, but are forced to watch as the Nazis send a team underwater to retrieve the painting. Inside the submarine, Rock and Revy locate the painting, but Revy insists on searching the ship for medals and other valuables. When Rock voices his disapproval, Revy asserts that her turbulent childhood pushed her to reject God, love, and other emotions and that everything has no value except for the money it can bring. The two are attacked by the Nazis and in the midst of the firefight, Rock loses the painting, allowing the Nazis to retreat with it. Revy attempts to pursue them, but Rock forces her to abandon the fight once the Nazis begin firing machine guns into the water. Rock and Revy return to the Black Lagoon, where Dutch plans an assault on the Nazis' ship to retrieve the painting. 
6 "Moonlit Hunting Grounds"   May 13, 2006 November 30, 2007
Dutch and Revy leave the Black Lagoon on a motorboat to raid the Nazis' ship. With the Nazis celebrating their retrieval of the painting, the two easily enter the ship, and Dutch instructs Revy to distract the crew while he searches for the painting. Revy obliges, killing all the Nazis she comes across, but Dutch is forced to stop her when she tries to kill the civilian crew members, something Dutch attributes to Revy's unease at accepting Rock into the crew. Dutch eventually finds Ratchman, the Nazi commander, talking to Sir Alfred, a former SS member that ordered Ratchman to retrieve the painting. Dutch deduces that Alfred hired the Lagoon Company as well to doubly insure that he would acquire the painting, and Ratchman is furious that Alfred created the situation. Afterwards, Dutch and Revy kill Ratchman, finishing their mission. 
7 "Calm Down, Two Men"   May 20, 2006 December 7, 2007
Dutch dispatches Rock and Revy on errands throughout Roanapur, with Revy displeased that she is forced to perform them with Rock. When they stop at the Church of Violence, an organization posing as religious missionaries in order to traffic drugs and illegal weaponry, Rock manages to use his business savvy to repair a broken agreement with Yolanda, the head of the Church of Violence, after Revy draws a gun on her. Yolanda is impressed by Rock's skill and asks Revy to emulate him. Afterwards, the Rock and Revy begin a violent disagreement, with Rock furious that Revy is beginning to act like the superiors in his old business, leaving Revy at a loss for words.. Chief Watsap, the head of the corrupt Roanapur police, is forced to stop them, and the two reconcile in the police car. 
8 "Rasta Blasta"   May 27, 2006 December 14, 2007
The Lagoon Company is contracted to deliver a hostage for a Columbian cartel, and Dutch assigns Rock to watch the boy in transit. Rock learns that the boy is Garcia Loveless, the heir to one of the wealthiest families in South America, and that the cartel had abducted Garcia after his father refused to allow the cartel to extort him. Concerned, Dutch contacts Balalaika for information on the Loveless family and the cartel. As they enter Roanapur, Garcia is confident that he will be saved. Meanwhile, Roberta, the Loveless family maid, roams around Roanapur looking for Garcia, and is confronted by members of the cartel in a bar. As the members of the Lagoon Company and Garcia enter the bar, Roberta begins a firefight with the cartel members. 
9 "Maid to Kill"   June 3, 2006 December 21, 2007
Roberta dispatches the majority of the cartel members, with Garcia shocked that she possessed such abilities. Revy inadvertenly reveals the Lagoon Company during the firefight, and is knocked unconscious when Roberta fires a rocket-propelled grenade at her. Garcia, afraid of Roberta, asks the Lagoon Company to take him with them, and they manage to escape. At the bar, one of the cartel members identifies Roberta as a former FARC guerrilla with a large bounty on her head. Roberta destroys the bar with grenades and steals a car to pursue the Lagoon Company. Having determined Roberta's identity, Balalaika mobilizes soldiers to aid the Lagoon Company. When Roberta catches up to the Lagoon Company, Dutch manages to destroy the engine of her car before being pulled out of the car by Roberta and Benny attempts to drive into the side roads to avoid Roberta. As they turn back onto the main road, however, Roberta drives another car into them and latches onto the back of the car with a trench knife. 
10 "The Unstoppable Chambermaid"   June 10, 2006 December 28, 2007
Roberta forces Benny to crash the car in the port, but Revy awakens in the process. The two begin a firefight, evenly matched against one another. They finally end at a standoff as Balalaika arrives with a full complement of soldiers. Balalaika forces the two to stop fighting, and explains to Garcia that Roberta is a famed FARC guerrilla wanted around the globe for numerous assassinations, bombings, and related terrorist activity. Despite this, Garcia exclaims that Roberta is an accepted member of the Loveless family. To finish their duel, Roberta and Revy begin a fistfight, with the onlookers making bets on the winner. The two knock each other out, and Garcia leaves for home with Roberta. Afterwards, Rock asks about the background of Balalaika and her soldiers, and Benny reveals that they are former Soviet special forces that distinguished themselves in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. 
11 "Lock'n Load Revolution"   June 17, 2006 January 4, 2008
The Lagoon Company is approached by Chang, the head of the Triad, to transport a briefcase containing information on the Protectors of the Islamic Front, a terrorist group, to the CIA. While they are conversing, they come under attack from the terrorists, but Chang and Revy manage to dispatch the attackers. The group leaves on the Black Lagoon, but they are pursued at sea due to the foresight of Masahiro Takenaka, one of the leaders of the Protectors of the Islamic Front. Revy and Rock are forced to leave the Black Lagoon and seek a land route. Takenaka attempts to pose as their getaway driver, and although Revy sees through his charade, he manages to take Rock and escape. Revy is saved by Shenhua, an assassin in Chang's employ, and she convinces Shenhua and the actual getaway driver Leigharch to save Rock in order to retrieve the documents. 
12 "Guerrillas in the Jungle"   June 24, 2006 January 11, 2008
Takenaka begins interrogating Rock, revealing that he was formerly a member of the Japanese Red Army, and that he continues to fight in order to give meaning to what he did in the past. Due to Takenaka's jovial treatment of Rock, Ibraha, Takenaka's comrade, is incensed, and asks to torture information from Rock, but Takenaka refuses. Revy and Shenhua raid the camp and manage to escape with Rock, only to be followed by a fleet of vehicles under Ibraha's command. Revy and Shenhua dispatch the majority of the vehicles, and Ibraha orders his men to continue the pursuit against Takenaka's judgment. When Ibraha refuses to sound a retreat, Takenaka shoots him and makes the order. Revy makes the delivery of the documents to the CIA agents, and angrily reminds Rock not to be captured again. 

[edit] Season 2

# Episode name Original air date English air date
13 "The Vampire Twins Comen"   October 3, 2006 January 18, 2008
Due to a spree of killings aimed at Hotel Moscow, Chang calls a meeting between the major crime lords of Roanapur: himself, Balalaika, Abrego, a Columbian cartel boss, and Verrocchio, the leader of the Roanapur branch of the Italian mafia. Balalaika spurns Chang's attempts to foster cooperation, and insists that Hotel Moscow will find and eliminate the assassins. The following morning, two of Balalaika's subordinates have been killed, and Watsap reveals that they were a pair of twin children. A bounty is placed on the twins, and as the city begins to fill with bounty hunters, Eda, a member of the Church of Violence, suggests to Revy that they join the hunt as well. At the twins' hideout, their sponsors are disgusted to find that the twins are brutally torturing one of Balalaika's subordinates. Meanwhile, Balalaika contacts Rock concerning the twins' odd speaking mannerisms, and Rock realizes that they are related to vampires. 
14 "Bloodsport Fairytale"   October 10, 2006 January 25, 2008
Rock determines that the twins are from Romania, and Balalaika contacts Rowan, the owner of a strip club, for all the Romanian snuff and pornographic films he has. Balalaika organizes a meeting with Chang, in which she reveals the twins are orphans from Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime named Hansel and Gretel that were sold on the black market and forced to participate in paedophilic snuff films. Chang agrees with an alliance with Balalaika to eliminate the twins, and Balalaika mobilizes her Visotoniki, or special forces. Chang, realizing that the two are working for Verrocchio, arrives at Verrocchio's headquarters, only to find the twins killing him, and the twins manage to escape despite Chang's gunslinging talents. To distract the bounty hunters looking for them, the twins set up a decoy car, but are confronted by the Visotoniki and ultimately cornered by Eda and Revy. 
15 "Swan Song at Dawn"   October 17, 2006 February 1, 2008
Eda and Revy begin a gunfight with the twins, but the Visotoniki arrive, putting an end to their fight. Hansel and Gretel decide to separate, and Revy returns home. Gretel manages to corner Eda, and while holding her as a hostage, requests that she find a getaway boat for herself and her brother. Meanwhile, the Visotoniki encounter Hansel and despite his best efforts, suffer no casualties while engaging him for an entire night. Hansel eventually encounters Balalaika in a park, but is sniped from above by her men. Elsewhere, Gretel has hired the Lagoon Company to transport her, and Rock listens to the story of her past. Sickened at the situation she had to endure due to Ceauşescu's regime and black marketeers, he vents his anger at Benny, who asserts that Rock cannot prevent the injustice in the world. When the Black Lagoon reaches the getaway point, Gretel is killed by a hired gun from Hotel Moscow, but Rock notes that she died peacefully staring at the sky. 
16 "Greenback Jane"   October 24, 2006 February 8, 2008
Greenback Jane, a money counterfeiter working for a Florida crime syndicate, angers her bosses by exceeding a deadline, and is forced to escape to Roanapur. She comes to the Church of Violence, where Eda and Revy are present, but Eda turns her away at the door. When the Florida mafia members arrive, however, they fire into the church, angering Eda and causing her and Revy to fire at the mafia members. They are joined by Rico, an apprentice priest, and Yolanda and the mafia members are driven away. Inside the church, Jane demonstrates her counterfeiting skill, and Eda gives her a motel to stay at, but betrays her location afterwards. Russel, a member of the Florida mafia, begins to collect bounty hunters, including Shenhua, Sawyer the Cleaner, a mute that uses a chainsaw to make examples of people, the flamethrower-wielding Claude Weaver among others, although Russel is criticized for his inexperience in the city and his cowboy appearance. As the bounty hunters depart, Rock, Eda, and Revy arrive at Jane's motel. 
17 "The Roanapur Freakshow Circus"   October 31, 2006 February 22, 2008
Jane agrees to meet any price if Eda saves her, and Eda and Revy drive away the bounty hunters. When Russel arrives at the scene furious that they failed, Shenhua demands more money, as Eda and Revy are involved. Eda's plan to escape on the Black Lagoon is stymied since Dutch and Benny took it on a job, and they are forced to wait in the Lagoon Company headquarters. They are attacked by the bounty hunters, whose sheer numbers make it difficult for Revy and Eda to contend with. As Shenhua and Sawyer arrive, Revy curses their misfortune, and Rock and Jane are forced to head to the roof when Claude sets the building on fire. Meanwhile, Dutch begins speeding back into port as Revy sets a trap for Shenhua. 
18 "Mr. Benny's Good Fortune"   November 7, 2006 February 29, 2008
Shenhua manages to evade the trap, but Eda manages to shoot her after Revy deliberately takes multiple throwing knives to her arm. On the roof, Rock and Jane are confronted by Sawyer, but she goes into shock after losing her ultravoice in an explosion. As the building collapses, Dutch and Benny return to port, and Revy, Eda, Jane, and Rock jump onto the boat along with several of the bounty hunters. Dutch begins using evasive maneuvers to cause the men to fall off the boat, and Revy dispatches the remaining men save Russel, who manages to make it to the engine room, where he is confronted by Eda. As Eda has him at gunpoint, he realizes that he saw her before in Washington, D.C., and Eda reveals that she is a CIA agent before killing him. Elsewhere, Benny manages to access Jane's files using his hacking talents, and Jane kisses him in return. 
19 "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise"   November 14, 2006 March 7, 2008
Rock is hired by Balalaika to be a translator for her on a trip to Japan, and Revy accompanies him. Balalaika begins an agreement with the Washimine Group, a yakuza group fallen on hard times. Balalaika agrees to destroy the Kosa Council, another yakuza group, due to its ill treatment of the Washimine Group. As they agree, Balalaika orders an explosion at a Kosa Council base. Afterwards, Revy and Rock go to a Japanese festival, but after Revy causes a scene, she is stopped by Ginji Matsuzaki. His companion stops the fight, and she and Rock exchange pleasantries. As she leaves, she tells Rock that her name is Yukio. The following day, Tsugio Bando, the acting head of the Washimine Group, comes to ask Ginji to aid them, recalling that Ginji was feared among all yakuza for his use of a katana in battle. Ginji refuses, citing the lack of justice in Bando's methods. Elsewhere, Rock goes to visit his parents' home, but finds that they are not in the house, leading Revy to mentally remark that Rock is seemingly at home in Japan. 
20 "The Succession"   November 21, 2006 March 14, 2008
Due to the brutality of Balalaika's attacks, Bando calls for another meeting with her, only to learn that she will execute her plans as she sees fit. After the meeting, Rock is beaten by Chaka, a brazen Washimine Group member, and Revy promises to kill him the following occasion. After calling Benny, Rock meets Yukio once again, and the two have a discussion on philosophy with Yukio quoting Jean-Paul Sartre on freedom of choice, but Rock is shocked after Yukio reveals that her surname is Washimine. At her home, Bando and Ginji discuss the future of the Washimine Group, noting that only the direct descendant of the previous boss can claim his position. The following day, Bando attempts to assassinate Balalaika, but fails and is killed by Balalaika in the process. After hearing this, Yukio, as the granddaughter of the previous leader, agrees to become the leader of the Washimine Group and Ginji swears his loyalty to her. 
21 "Two Father's Little Soldier Girls"   November 28, 2006 March 21, 2008
In a flashback, Balalaika recalls how as a young girl, she intended to enter the Olympic rifle shooting event to restore the reputation of her father, and found herself at the front lines in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Following the war and the death of her second-in-command, she and the soldiers formerly under her command joined the Russian mafia. In the present, Yukio orders a counterattack at Hotel Moscow, and Ginji personally leads the attack. Revy, after picking up her pistols that were sent by Benny, goes with Rock to speak with Yukio about withdrawing from the conflict. As Yukio returns home, she is kidnapped by Chaka and his thugs before Rock arrives. Ginji arrives shortly afterwards and Rock convinces him to let Revy aid him in recovering Yukio. When Ginji asks why Rock is aiding him, he responds that he cannot bear the notion that Yukio would throw away a normal life for that of the criminal underworld, which Ginji agrees to. 
22 "The Dark Tower"   December 4, 2006 March 28, 2008
Revy and Ginji arrive at a bowling alley where Chaka is holding Yukio, and begin they easily dispatch his men. Chaka attempts to leave, but Rock sets a trap for him and escapes with Yukio. Chaka meets Revy in the hallway and when he attempts to start a duel with her, she leads him to Ginji. Chaka attempts to shoot Ginji, but he cuts the incoming bullet in two with his katana, an act Revy is deeply impressed by. He then removes Chaka's arms with his katana and drowns him in the adjacent pool. Elsewhere, Yukio criticizes Rock for coming to save her from falling into the criminal underworld, as she believes he exists in a "twilight" between his old life in Japan and his criminal life in Roanapur, and is unwilling to let go of either of them. The following day, Balalaika begins her plans for the destruction of the Washimine Group. 
23 "Snow White's Payback"   December 11, 2006 April 4, 2008
Balalaika's attacks reduce the manpower of the Washimine Group to a third, and Yukio orders the Washimine Group members to abandon their strongholds to avoid the attacks. Discovering that Hotel Moscow is using electric company vans to execute their attacks, Yukio and Ginji use a similar van to rob a bank in order to point the police towards the Hotel Moscow vans. Following the robbery, Yukio muses about traveling to Roanapur with Ginji to start a yakuza group there. Revy and Rock meet with Balalaika, and Rock, feeling sympathy for Yukio, asks Balalaika to end the assault on the Washimine Group. Balalaika responds by holding Rock at gunpoint, but she releases Rock after he claims he is the same as her. In a park near Rock's parents' house, Rock admits that he returned to Japan to sever his ties with his former life, and that he has found the resolve to do so. 
24 "The Gunslingers"   December 18, 2006 April 11, 2008
Rock joins Balalaika in her talks with the Kosa Council, and Rock requests that Balalaika completely destroy the Washimine Group in order to force Yukio to adopt a normal life. Balalaika agrees and during her negotiations with the Kosa Council, kills their leaders. Balalaika informs Rock that Hotel Moscow's attacks on the Washimine Group will cease, and Rock leaves with Revy. As they leave, their motorcycle is rammed by a van driven by Yukio and Ginji, who force Rock to lead them to Hotel Moscow's base. Revy manages to steal a truck and force Yukio to stop the van. Ginji and Revy begin to fight, with Ginji's agility and ability to cut Revy's bullets giving him the advantage. However, Rock deduces that Yukio was forced into becoming part of the criminal underworld, leading her to admit that she wished her normal life could continue. This causes Ginji to pause from dealing the killing blow to Revy, allowing her to fatally shoot him. Due to the deaths she feels responsible for, Yukio apologizes to Rock and commits suicide using Ginji's katana. When Rock returns to Roanapur, Balalaika sends him a picture of Yukio, and Rock remarks that he wants to see Roanapur from the "twilight" he is in. 

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Black Lagoon
Episodes: Black Lagoon (Season 1) · Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (Season 2)
Characters: Revy · Rock · Dutch · Benny
Hotel Moscow · Roanapur Gangsters · The Church of Violence · Citizens of Roanapur · Bounty Hunters/Mercenaries · U-1234 Crew and Passengers · Neo Nazis · Terrorists · Yakuza · Lovelace Family · Other Characters
Media: Manga · Music
Other: Rei Hiroe