Main article: List of Black Lagoon charactersīlack Lagoon features a wide cast of characters, many of them involved in the criminal underworld and its dealings in and around Roanapur. The team takes on a variety of missions-which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles-in various Southeast Asian locations and when not doing much, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights. Lagoon Company does business with various clients, but has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. When on land, they move around and conduct business using Benny's 1968 Plymouth Road Runner, although in episode 24 he's seen driving a 1965 Pontiac GTO after his Roadrunner is blown up in episode 17. Their base of operations is located in the fictional city of Roanapur in Thailand, and they transport goods in the 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. The story follows a team of pirates/ mercenaries known as Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early 1990s. At Anime Expo 2010, Funimation announced that they have licensed Roberta's Blood Trail and will be released in 2011.
Black Lagoon was one of several titles involved in the deal. While Geneon Entertainment will still retain the license, Funimation Entertainment will assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. On July 3, 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation Entertainment announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. The English language version of the manga is distributed by Viz Media, and the first volume was released on August 12, 2008. The third season (an OVA) started July 17, 2010. A second season, subtitled "The Second Barrage", ran for twelve weeks starting on October 2, 2006.
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An animated television series based on the manga aired in Japan from April 8, 2006, to June 24, 2006, totaling twelve episodes. Black Lagoon ( ブラック・ラグーン Burakku Ragūn ?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe, and published in Shogakukan's Sunday GX since 2002.