As of December 18, 2020, two volumes have been released. The first tankōbon volume was released on July 17, 2020. "Black Lagoon: Sawyer the Cleaner - Dismemberment! Gore Gore Girl"), illustrated by Tatsuhiko Ida, began in the October 2019 issue of Monthly Sunday Gene-X, released on September 19, 2019. The first volume was released on August 12, 2008.Ī spin-off about Sawyer, titled Black Lagoon: Sōji-ya Sawyer - Kaitai! Gore Gore Musume ( BLACK LAGOON 掃除屋ソーヤー 解体!ゴアゴア娘, lit. The manga has been licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media. In the June 2019 issue of Monthly Sunday Gene-X, it was announced that the manga would resume in September 2019.
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The December 2018 issue of Monthly Sunday Gene-X announced that Hiroe would resume the series in spring 2019 however, the series did not resume its publication as planned. In the January 2017 issue of Monthly Sunday Gene-X, it was announced that the manga would resume in May 2017 it went on hiatus again in September 2018. It resumed in the February 2013 issue of Monthly Sunday Gene-X, before being put back on hiatus in February 2014. The series first went on hiatus in May 2010. The first was released on December 12, 2002, and to date twelve have been published, the last in 2021. Chapters run monthly and are later collected into tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. Written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe, the pilot chapter of Black Lagoon was published in the April 2001 issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X the main series premiered in the May 2002 issue. Main article: List of Black Lagoon chapters The "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise" arc showed that most of the characters throughout the series actually speak English, with the Japanese simply being done for the audience. In an interview with Otaku USA, Rei Hiroe stated that Black Lagoon was inspired by James Ellroy, John Woo, Quentin Tarantino and Stephen King, as well as hearing about actual piracy cases in the South China Sea in the 1990s. When they are not working, 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. 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, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam.
It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself). The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.
See also: List of Black Lagoon characters
In the UK, the anime television series and the OVA were licensed by Kazé and they are currently licensed by Anime Limited. Funimation has acquired the distribution rights to the series since a distribution agreement with Geneon in July 2008. The anime was dubbed and originally licensed in English by Geneon Entertainment in July 2006. In North America, Viz Media began releasing an English translation of the manga in August 2008. A 5-episode original video animation (OVA) series, titled Roberta's Blood Trail, was released from July 2010 to June 2011. A 12-episode second season, subtitled "The Second Barrage", ran from October to December 2006.
It has been published in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X since 2002, and twelve collected volumes have been released as of August 2021.Ī 12-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Madhouse aired in Japan from April to June 2006. Sawyer the Cleaner - Dismemberment! Gore Gore Girlīlack Lagoon (stylized as BLACK LAGOON) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe.