Rei Hiroe's "Black Lagoon" is a two-season-thus-far anime series that plays like a grounded "Cowboy Bebop". Except forget the ground: The mercenaries and bounty hunters of the Black Lagoon company are saltwater mammals, and high-seas piracy is their bread, butter and bombs.
An unfolding amoral tale of maritime hi-jinks, "Black Lagoon" follows subservient office drone Rokuro Okajima as he becomes the hostage, (and then willing member), of said pirate crew, which includes tough calculating Dutch, support-techie Benny, and the irrepressible Revy- the kind of anime girl who spends so much money on bulletproof vests that she forgets to buy jean shorts long enough to actually cover the full roundness of her ass.
But who's complaining?
The plots are by turns exciting, slightly quirky, and philosophically pretentious, as any otaku can expect: A deep-sea quest for Hitler's last known painting becomes a scathing satire of neo-Nazism and then becomes an examination of wheter any war can be called good when it ends with corpses rotting in sunken submarines. The fish swimming through the eye-sockets can't tell between Axis or Allies.
A third season- or "barrage"- is announced to premiere in Japan this August.
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