Anime · Chiba TV
Black Lagoon
More entertaining than Hollywood's ever gonna be
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Megumi Toyoguchi
Revy (voice)
24 eps
Daisuke Namikawa
Rock (voice)
24 eps
Tsutomu Isobe
Dutch (voice)
24 eps
Hiroaki Hirata
Benny (voice)
24 eps
Tomoko Kaneda
Gretel (voice)
3 eps
Omi Minami
Hansel (voice)
3 eps
Jouji Nakata
Director Kageyama (voice)
2 eps
Takaya Hashi
Vice President (voice)
2 eps
Ken'ichi Morozumi
Fujiwara (voice)
2 eps
Shirou Saitou
Bao (voice)
4 eps
Sayuri Ikemoto
Kageyama's Wife (voice)
1 eps
Rika Morinaga
Kageyama's Daughter (voice)
1 eps
Syuetsu Tookaichi
Chin (voice)
1 eps
Naoya Uchida
Luak (voice)
1 eps
Banjo Ginga
Verrocchio (voice)
3 eps
Ryuji Nakagi
Rachmann (voice)
3 eps
Shigeru Ushiyama
Captain Ahbe (voice)
1 eps
Takaya Kuroda
Lieutenant Colonel Spielberger (voice)
1 eps
Ken Narita
Kruppen Feller (voice)
2 eps
Mami Koyama
Balalaika (voice)
16 eps
Akiko Takeguchi
Sister Yolanda (voice)
2 eps
Jun Karasawa
Eda (voice)
8 eps
Hitoshi Bifu
Thai (voice)
2 eps
Masaki Aizawa
Rowan (voice)
1 eps
Masaaki Tsukada
Chief Watsap (voice)
2 eps
Michie Tomizawa
Roberta (voice)
3 eps
Taiten Kusunoki
Sergeant Boris (voice)
12 eps
Hisao Egawa
Abrego (voice)
4 eps
Kazue Ikura
Garcia (voice)
3 eps
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Chang (voice)
4 eps
Katsuhiko Sasaki
Takenaka (voice)
2 eps
Yuko Sasaki
Shenhua (voice)
5 eps
Toru Nara
Cho (voice)
21 eps
Ken Yamaguchi
Ibraha (voice)
2 eps
Yuichi Nakamura
Meyer (voice)
20 eps
Masahiko Tanaka
Kasuna (voice)
4 eps
Akimasa Omori
Leigharch (voice)
2 eps
Yosuke Akimoto
Executive Manager (voice)
2 eps
Youichi Nishijima
Stanford (voice)
21 eps
Komina Matsushita
Mami (voice)
5 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Black Lagoon actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Black Lagoon reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Spectacle.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand near the border of Cambodia.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E07
Calm Down, Two Men
Revy's resentment at being sent on assignment with Rock may change when he calms a potentially volatile situation with a dealer.
- Directed by Kenichi Kawamura, Yoshihisa Matsumoto
- Written by Sunao Katabuchi
S01E09
Maid to Kill
The Black Lagoon crew discovers too late that Roberta is a formidable opponent with a price on her head, as they attempt to flee with Garcia.
- Directed by Tetsuro Araki
- Written by Sunao Katabuchi
S01E10
The Unstoppable Chambermaid
Rock learns the truth about Balalaika's troops when they intervene in a no-holds-barred confrontation between Revy and Roberta.
- Directed by Tetsuro Araki
- Written by Sunao Katabuchi
S01E05
Eagle Hunting and Hunting Eagles
After finding the painting on the sunken sub, Rock and Revy argue over looking for more loot while the neo-Nazis' own divers approach the wreck.
- Directed by Kunio Katsuki
- Written by Sunao Katabuchi
S01E08
Rasta Blasta
The Black Lagoon crew must deliver a young hostage to a Colombian cartel, but Dutch has a crisis of conscience when he learns the boy's identity.
- Directed by Tetsuro Araki
- Written by Sunao Katabuchi
S01E06
Moonlit Hunting Grounds
Dutch and Revy's violent raid on the neo-Nazi ship leads to surprising revelations about Revy and the Black Lagoon's mission to recover the painting.
- Directed by Kenichi Kawamura
- Written by Sunao Katabuchi
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E08
Collateral Massacre
- Directed by Sunao Katabuchi
- Written by Sunao Katabuchi, Rei Hiroe
S00E07
Go For It! Manzai Grand Prix!
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Shinichiro TsuzukiExecutive Producer
- Jun NishimuraProducer
- Junya OkamotoProducer
- Katsuhiko TsurumotoExecutive Producer
- Jungo MarutaExecutive Producer
- Mitsutoshi OguraProducer
Writing
- Sunao KatabuchiWriter
Direction
- Kenichi KawamuraDirector
- Hiromitsu KanazawaDirector
- Sunao KatabuchiDirector
- Yoshihisa MatsumotoDirector
- Hisato ShimodaDirector
- Tetsuro ArakiDirector
Cinematography
- Yukihiro MasumotoDirector of Photography
Music
- EdisonOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- Crunchyroll Amazon ChannelStreaming
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