Baccano!
Cinematography:
Yoshihiro SekiyaComposer:
Yoshimori MakotoCast:
Masakazu Morita, Atsushi Imaruoka, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Masaya Onosaka, Daisuke Namikawa, Keiji Fujiwara, Sayaka Aoki, Kenta Miyake, Ken Narita, Miki Itō (more)Episodes(16)
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The Vice President Doesn't Say Anything about the Possibility of Him Being the Main Character (E01)
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Setting the Old Woman's Qualms Aside, the Flying Pussyfoot Departs (E02)
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Randy and Pecho Are Busy Getting Ready for the Party (E03)
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Ladd Russo Enjoys Talking a Lot and Slaughtering a Lot (E04)
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Jacuzzi Splot Cries, Gets Scared and Musters Reckless Valor (E05)
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The Rail Tracer Covertly, Repeatedly Slaughters Inside the Coaches (E06)
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Everything Starts Aboard the Advenna Avis (E07)
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Isaac and Miria Unintentionally Spread Happiness Around Them (E08)
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Claire Stanfield Faithfully Carries Out the Mission (E09)
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Czeslaw Meyer is Forced to Rework His Tremble-Before-the-Specter-of-Immortals Strategy (E10)
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Chane Laforet Remains Silent in the Face of Two Mysterious People (E11)
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Firo and the Three Gandor Brothers are Felled by Assassins' Bullets (E12)
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Both the Immortals and Those Who Aren't Sing the Praises of Life Equally (E13)
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Graham Specter's Love and Peace (E14)
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The Delinquents That Arrive at the High-Class Neighborhood Are the Same as Always (E15)
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Carol Realizes That the Story Cannot Have an Ending (E16)
Plots(1)
Hot off the 'Roaring Twenties' and headfirst into the uncertain volatility of the 'Dirty Thirties', criminal syndicates stormed into power by bootlegging alcohol during the Prohibition Era, but the most notorious 'liquor' of all time is about to set off a violent chain reaction within the mafia underworld! Each of the gritty stories in Baccano! involves an eclectic cast of innocent and not-so-innocent, turbulent characters in several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral further and further out of control. Immortal alchemists, Mafia-operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction are brutally mashed together for a explosive massacre straight out of crime noir movies. (Anime Ltd)
(more)Reviews (2)
Not a pure 5 stars as I wasn't really hooked for the first few episodes. But after that... wow, what a ride! :-) And the best was Isaac and Miria anyway – robbing the museum... You have to pay a little more attention here, you have to really watch and pay attention. And wow, I was tense until the end, I didn't get upset over the long speeches because there weren't any, it was action – fun. And yet it had a story, yet it was moving somewhere, yet it ran beautifully to the end. I'm in such a great mood because of it! :-) Probably because of all the landed, nailed and generally likeable characters, most of whom were gentlemen or psychopaths or both. Just awesome. Just a mishmash. Just a mess. Just awesome! And don't forget the OVA :-) EDIT. 12 Apr 2010: Watch it once and it might be a "dirty" 5 stars, but watch it a second time and it's a full-blooded 5 stars... :-D
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Baccano! is a brilliant mix of fun, action, suspense, mystery, and romance. In addition, you get a perfect show when you add amazing characters, a great atmosphere, and really interesting processing, which requires a lot of attention so that the viewer does not miss the individual connections. Almost everything has already been said on FilmBooster by other reviewers, so I am just going to confirm that Isaac and Miria are a brilliant duo. Besides them, I liked Firo, Ennis, Ladd, and Rail Tracer. However, the other characters were great, and even Jacuzzi, who was a bit of a pain in the ass for the first three episodes, showed what he was made of. I also have to say that this was an anime series where I never once skipped the opening, not only because almost all the characters are introduced for the sake of orientation, but mainly because I just liked the music.
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