Black Lagoon 19
Once again a dissapointing episode. This will be the final arc of the Black Lagoon anime and they are going to Japan. At least, Levi and Rock go to Japan. Dutch and Benny are left behind. It’s a real shame because those guys are also the guys that made Black Lagoon shine in the first season. But now the creators have decided to focus on putting Rock and Levi in all kinds of situations. Their actions become forced. And it is annoying. And the other really, really dissapointing thing of this episode was the Engrish. Oh that was so painful. The creators realised that Levi can only speak English and Chinese, but she can’t speak Japanese. Balalaika can speak English and Russian. Not Japanese. But all the characters have been speaking Japanese since the beginning. Now Rock, Levi and Balalaika in a surrounding that only speaks Japanese and not English, the creators were forced to Levi and Balalaika to only speak English. But it doesn’t relaly work but they switch to Japanese all the times when the sentence became too difficult for the voice actors. They sounded HORRIBLE. It was so annoying that I even didn’t try to understand what they were saying. It’s a real shame because this episode was going to be a episode to build up the tension towards the crazy gunfight that is going to happen. But because the Engrish, it wasn’t believable anymore.
Further. Ah well it was a bit boring. Rock has accepted a translate job from Balalaika who is making some deals with the yakuza, the Japanese maffia. Levi came along because she was worried about him and they talked a bit. Finally the feathers appeared in the anime that are in the OP, and it showed the first time that Levi had killed someone. They talked about the parents of Rock and that he would have make a visit to them because he isn’t arrested yet. There is still time. But Rock well.. he doesn’t want to see them, even when he doesn’t want to show Levi that he doesn’t want to see them. There is going to be a story behind this, but this.. it was dissapointing. Really. Please, make the last episodes better! Onegai!
