Fact: Roberta is the best.

Superior spin-off is superior.

>>48266
... Not sure what to make of that.

>>48268
Why make anything of it? Just take it as it is~

Oh Hiroe.

Only partly related but...

http://anonygoo.blogspot.com/2010/01/tex-mex.html?zx=484d7a757e81d0cb

Enjoy your Hiroe Doujin Pack.

Yet another series I keep telling myself to find time for. The fact that it has a sexy scarred lady is itself plenty of reason, but it I know contains even more awesomeness that that.

Show was pretty awesome. Never understood why people don't try to turn something like this into a live series and go for DBZ and Cowboy Bebop

>>48276
Because adapting anime into live action series is a bad idea?

Actually, considering how much Hiroe HATED the DBZ movie, I don't think we'll be seeing a Black Lagoon movie. Ever.

>>48277
I've heard the Great Teacher Onizuka live action series was pretty good.

I never had much interest in Black Lagoon- you could see it had plenty of style, but not much else. Then I caught some bits of pieces about Rock's ongoing character development, which got my attention enough to give the series a closer look.

That's when I realized the shocking truth: Black Lagoon is actually one of the smartest mangas I've ever read. It doesn't try to act like it's intelligent/realistic/sophisticated- if anything, it loves to behave in the opposite fashion- but it has those qualities all the same.

>>48284
It still tends to get old after a while.

>DEM FUCKING TWINS
So Second Barrage sure didn't waste any time in getting crazy.

>Finished the Hansel and Gretel Arc
JESUS CHRIST. That was the most depressing thing I've seen in an anime since... fuck, I dunno, Hughes dying in FMA? I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU from Metropolis?

Fuck, I'm going to go play Tales of Destiny or something.

So...Manga, Anime or OVA? I'm only doing one for now.

>>48308
Anime. It covers a good deal of the manga, which is heavy on action scenes anyway so you might as well go with that.

The OVAs are effectively a 3rd season, but they aren't all out yet.

>>48309
I disagree, though not too strongly. My two reasons, beyond a general preference for manga over anime:
-I like the art style. Rei Hiroe's got some nice stuff going on with visual storytelling and does neat stuff with faces.
-The pace of the action in the anime is too slow- not in the visceral sense, but in the sense that Revy & co. are moving too slowly for their heroic bloodshed antics to be vaguely feasible.
-When the discussion turns to underworld politics, I like to be able to take my time & reread any lines whose meaning isn't clear to me the first time around.

>>48311
All your arguments are blown away by the fact that the anime has Red Fraction.

>>48307
Same thing happened to me. It didn't help that those episodes happened to be the first ones I saw of the series.

Why... ;_;

>>48311
I've got mixed feelings on it. First off, there's >>48312

That said, stuff with this style of action seems better off with awesome-tacular smooth-as-fuck animation which I kind of feels the anime lacks...note that I've only seen the first few episodes so I don't know if they pull out all the stops later with their animation budget or not.

  >>48312
So play it in the background as you read.

http://twitter.com/hiroerei/status/21746147147
>'To those people who download my manga, I hope you die of cancer.'
He mad apparently. Or just drunk posting.

>>48350
Probably both, considering the publishers have him so thoroughly buttfucked that he has to live at his parents house.

>>48350
Pancreatic cancer, specifically.

>>48351
>the publishers have him so thoroughly buttfucked that he has to live at his parents house.

Details?

>>48352
That's all there is to it really. They don't pay Hiroe (or, indeed, most mangaka) jackshit.

>>48350
I don't download it, I read it online! Watch it too!

>>48354
I don't think that's helping him any...

>>48355
Yeah, I'm fucking around, I'll probably buy it at some point.

>>48277
But of all the anime series there are Black Lagoon actually lends itself to Live action Hollywood movie the most. Makes a hell of a lot more sense than making a live action Bleach movie.( Which they are doing btw)