Black Lagoon, Vol. 1

A great classic in new factory condition. Brand new and as advertised.

Great installment

I watched the anime and was sad, when I found there was more to the story. So I ended up buying the manga.I’m really surprised I didn’t start with the manga it covers a lot from the anime that was shown. I highly recommend it. The book is build to last to be honest

Black Lagoon was the first anime I ever purchased and it still ranks as one of my favorite. Naturally I had to have the manga, too, right? This series is packed full of action and I love the whole "under" world Mr. Hiroe created in Roanapur. And the characters? The headline says it all. Rock, Dutch, Balalaika, Chang, Eda, and the rest are all interesting and well...badass. Highly, highly recommend the read for the action junkies out there.

Wow. This book immediately made me want to buy the next one. We are introduced to Revy, Rock, and the crew. I was immediately hooked and I thought that it was a pretty good intro for a series. Modern day setting about pirates, problems solvers, or whatever is needed all for the crew of the Black Lagoon.

I absolutely love this manga and now I have the first volume. The artwork is simply gorgeous which is almost ironic in a way because of how violent and gory this manga has been known to get in terms of the situations and actions some of the characters choose to take, but it can still be surprisingly funny. I saw the anime first before I read this manga, but it is literally taken straight from the beautiful drawings. I love this and I recommend this to anyone who wants a deep morality questioning piece of art that even in its darkest moments still has the ability to make you laugh in the next moments.

The graphic novel isn’t too bad. The manga is amazing. The storyline is a little slow.

Black Lagoon is a brilliant but mature action-packed crime story told with all of the style of a classic John Woo film, and is my personal favorite manga (and anime). The author, Rei Hiroe, describes his action as a "bullet ballet" as made famous John Woo, and his character Mr Chang - the Triad boss, is almost certainly inspired by Chow Yun Fat's character Mark Lee from John Woo's "A Better Tomorrow".The series follows a small band of smugglers operating out of the fictitious city of Roanapur in Thailand, which has become somewhat of a gangsters paradise unofficially run by the before mentioned Mr Chang. Black Lagoon has some brilliant story arcs with complex plots, unexpected twists and high octane action but the series really stands out for its exceptional cast. Pretty much all of the characters in the series, major or minor are well written and given detailed personalities, motives and secrets so don't expect to find any generic one dimensional bad guys or damsels in distress, rather you will find characters that feel alive (or at least they start out that way!).The art of Black Lagoon is not as strong as the story, it's not to say it's bad in any way it's just very average when compared to Rei Hiroe's own art books. The characters have a natural look and even the female characters have realistic proportions and are not overly sexualised. The Manga (up to Volume 9) is the same as the anime series 1, 2 and the Roberta's Blood Trail OVA, so if you've already seen the anime then you won't find any new material in the manga until volume 10. I highly recommend this series to adult readers who like action and are looking for a deep story, but be aware that it does get very dark in places and touches on some taboo/sensitive subjects occasionally so you might want to do a bit more research if you are easily offended. A final warning before committing to this series is that the author is extremely slow at getting volumes finished and released so be prepared to wait literally years between volumes, it's worth the wait though as I've loved every one so far!

When Japanese salaryman Rokurô Okajima is kidnaped by a group of mercenary `curriers' he is thrust feet first into an underworld of Russian Mafia, Columbian drug cartels and crazy assassins.`Black Lagoon' is a very entertaining series with some very nice action, some good artwork and some nice funny moments here and there as well. The series also has some very interesting characters. This first volume of the series is split into three relatively self-contained storylines with my favourite being the third story, mainly for Roberta who is a brilliant character. The series does have an explicit content warning which seems to mostly be for the bad language than anything else and I wouldn't let that put you off because it is a very entertaining series.This first volume of `Black Lagoon' was very entertaining and is well worth a solid four stars, if not four and a half.

Having watched the anime first I fell in love with the series and the manga is brilliant.

Came damaged like it was 2nd hand.

Over the top Japanese comic.