Baccano! The Complete Series Box Set |  | Director: Tyler Walker
Actors: J. Michael Tatum, Caitlin Glass, Ian Sinclair
Studio: Funimation Prod
Category: DVD
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 3124
Format: NTSC, Color, Widescreen, Subtitled
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 400 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.8 x 1
MPN: 9625
UPC: 704400096259
EAN: 0704400096259
ASIN: B002R0LRGW
Release Date: December 29, 2009
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Description
Don't let nobody tell you there's no future in a life of crime, because some rackets can last forever. But we'll get around to all that immortality jazz later. A mafia turf war is raging on the mean streets of the Big Apple, a place where regular joes bounce between backdoor booze joints and the breadline. But this caper ain't about a simple gangland brawl. It's about hoods who can't seem to die proper after catching a bullet or five between the eyes. Sadistic hit-men and the dames they love, mad bombers going boom, monsters going bump and soul sucking alchemists bootlegging an elixir of eternal life. Just remember, Baccano! ain't about beginnings and ends. It's about the twists and turns, bub. Paths don't cross in this story - They collide. Every Dick and Jane plays the lead and it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
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The series never dies. Literally. December 14, 2009
lain4ever (Los Angeles, CA)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Sometimes the best anime comes from really demented ideas, buckets of blood and sassy Italian mob violence. "Baccano!" is this type of series.
This anime about mobsters mashes together alchemy, gang wars and gunfights in a dark, action-packed series that will satisfy anyone thirsty for incomprehensibly blood-drenched fights.
In fact, the narrators in episode one puzzle themselves over which character takes the leading role. The truth is that all the characters stand on their own, since all of them suffer from the same curse of immortality. Nearly 300 years ago, a group of people aboard the Advenna Avis ship attained these powers from a priest.
Centuries later, in New York in the 1930s, these immortal people are still alive, with dreams of living and dying, killing before they get killed. Each group is defined by their unique charm and brutal fighting style. However, they each have different desires for love, marriage and sadism.
All the stories culminate in an outstanding mish mash of cast members who stand out for their courage and their sense of humor. The two comedians, Isaac and Milly, humor their friends with their jokes and eccentricities. The crybaby Jacuzzi Splot gains self-confidence by defending his girlfriend against a monster on a train. Firo Prochainezo risks his life to protect a young woman subjected as the slave of someone else.
Conflicts of pain litter the series as well. A boy named Czeslaw Meyer wishes to defend himself by killing everyone who tries to torture him. The girl Eva Geonard wishes to find her lost big brother, who is presumably dead. A mute woman named Chane Laforet wants to escape from her father's plot to hold all the people in a train hostage.
The anime is filled with countless numbers of uplifting stories, despite the brutal, shocking violence. "Baccano!" holds a special place in fans' hearts as one of the most revelatory displays of courage, romance and unity. This show is one of the pinnacles of Japanese animation for the 2000s.
Its Freakin' Unbelievable! February 8, 2010
Shaun R. Fitzpatrick
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Baccano! isn't your run of mill anime series. From its setting to its style of story telling this show does things its own way and I damn well love it for that reason. With its huge cast of wonderfully crafted characters and its multiple overlapping story lines this show is a viewing experience unlike anything I have ever seen. By revealing latter parts of the story early on this show grabs the viewers attention and holds onto it firmly as the mysteries are slowly revealed over the course of 13 episodes plus 3 OVAs. The majority of the show takes place in the Prohibition years or more specifically in the early 1930s. Throughout Baccano! we run into everything from demons and immortals to sadistic murderers and comical thieves. The current price for the entire show is terrific and you would be doing yourself a favor to pick it up right now. If your still not convinced that the show is worth your money then by all means head over the Funimations website ([...]) and from there you can view a lot of the episodes for free to see how you like it. I leave this show with my highest recommendation. Oh, one more thing, I highly suggest that you watch the dubbed episodes over the subbed ones. This is probably one of the best dubs I have heard in a very long time.
What's that Miria my dear? Baccano complete?! March 1, 2010
J. Saylors (tx)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
(1931) Some bad things are going down aboard the Flying Pussyfoot-Rail Tracer, black suits, white suits.
(1932) A young girl searches for her brother, but she's not the only one.
(1930) One of the original immortals takes the lives of many as he seeks to create the elixir he drank long ago.
Jumping from character to character, event to event to create one big picture in 16 episodes? Pure genius. (+) Awesome story. Great characters. English dub is insane! (-) The story is not told chronologically. But that is not necessarily a bad point...
Why did they have to come out the complete collection after I made the big decision to buy the individual dvds back when they were $14 each?!?!?! Well, wether I lost money or not, I own it, I love it, you gotta see it!
Baccano's non-linear format and unique setting in the prohibition era with the sci-fi element makes this anime something special June 12, 2010
Haunted Flower (Indianapolis)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RVL79CSIZQVH8 Gina from Haunted Flower's Anime Review this week is "Baccano!," a bloody, violent anime about a range of all sorts of different prohibition gangster types brought together by a strange drink that causes immortality.
crime can live forever December 31, 2009
Elise Atwood-youngstrom
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is one of the best Anime's i've seen in years. it's funny and the story keeps twisting. you see the story at lest parts from everyones perspective. so something that looked one way to one person was completely to another. great characters, plot and over all idea. this goes in my top ten Anime's. you should watch it for your self and see what your missing!
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