He is a Japanese salaryman who joins the crew of the Black Lagoon after they kidnap him. Rock (Rokuro 'Rock' Okajima) is the main protagonist of the series, voiced by Daisuke Namikawa.Main article: List of Black Lagoon charactersīlack Lagoon features a wide cast of characters, many of them envolved in the criminal underworld and its dealings in and around Roanapur. The team takes on a variety of missions-which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles-in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam and when not doing much, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights. Lagoon Company does business with various clients, but has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. They transport goods in the 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself). The story follows a team of pirates/mercenaries known as Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Funimation later licensed the OVA, which also was licensed by Kazé in the UK, for release in Spring 2013. The anime was dubbed and originally licensed in English by Geneon Universal Entertainment, now licensed by Funimation Entertainment, in North America. Madman Entertainment licensed the anime in Australasia and the United Kingdom.

Viz Media began releasing an English translation of the manga in North America on August 12, 2008. A five volume original video animation series, titled Roberta's Blood Trail, was released from July 2010 to June 2011. A second season, subtitled 'The Second Barrage', ran for twelve weeks starting on October 2, 2006. It was later adapted into an anime television series, by Madhouse, that aired from April to June 2006 for twelve episodes. It has been published in Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X since 2002, and nine collected volumes have been released so far. Black Lagoon (ブラック・ラグーンBurakku Ragūn) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe.

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