One moment, you could be watching Isaac and Miria pulling a job in silly outfits while loudly exclaiming their emotions, then instantly skip right to the Rail Tracer turning someone's skull into mush by smashing it into the ground from outside a moving train. The entire show is like this, and it's kind of amazing. The first episode informs you of this fast, as some newspaper reporters go over some of the basics of the story, shifting around the entire show from end to beginning to second act to end again and at infinite until the chaos eventually ends with bits and pieces from supposed end points of each store, with context completely absent.
BACCANO ENGLISH DUB HD SERIES
I don't just mean that the three stories are told side by side and the series jumps from time to time, I meant that even in the same episode, one story can be completely skipped around to focus on different characters or show scenes from an entirely different point in the story's current focus. No, it's not the amount of characters present or even the lack of a lead that makes Baccano interesting, but that the entire series is told out of order. There's plenty more I didn't list, but that isn't where the series gets interesting. Among the cast, the most important characters are the lighthearted gangster Frio and his friend Maiza, the theatrical thieves Isaac and Miria, the innocent Eve and her jerk brother Dallas, the murderous lunatic Ladd, mysterious old man Szilard, the strange boy Czes, the bootlegging gang lead by the scared Jacuzzi and pyrotechnic Nice, the Rail Tracer, and the quiet and mysterious women Ennis and Chane, each appearing in the 1930 story and 1931 story (respectfully). The show is loaded with characters, and nobody is really a main protagonist. There's also some really batty stuff I can't get into here due to massive spoilers, but suffice to say that the simple explanation I just gave you isn't even close to accurate. It followed a mess of characters from the years 1930 to 1932 in the good old US of A, dealing with a bunch of mafia families having bones to pick with each other, a young girl trying to find her missing brother, and a train robbery aboard the flying Pussyfoot that goes wrong as some sort of monstrosity called the Rail Tracer appears out of nowhere and starts killing people in incredibly gruesome ways. This is an anime to treasure and savor - one of my absolute favorites.Baccano's anime debuted in 2007, four years after the light novels started print. There's a second season too, which isn't as good as the first and introduces new characters. This is an anime with very strong episodic writing there's a lot of emotion to be found in the stories of these mysterious, broken individuals, and it's one of the only anime series I've ever seen that actually earns its angst. A wonderful narrative arc during the first season, whereby each fascinating member of the main cast, which also includes detectives with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and a private detective named Guy Kurasawa, is given an episode focusing solely on them. Troy Baker gives such a great performance. Great side characters, including a variety of MI-6 operatives from the UK, one of whom is probably one of my favorite anime characters ever: the suave, sarcastic blond British hitman/contractor named Jack Simon, codenamed November 11. A fascinating setup, where part of Tokyo is taken over by a bizarre spatial anomaly and the world's intelligence agencies employ individuals with X-Men-like abilities to do their dirty work each time these contractors use their supernatural abilities they have to "pay the price" in some fashion, whether through an OCD-style tick or some form of self-harm.
As Hei's daytime identity Li Shenshun, Liebrecht channels friendliness and warmth as Hei, Liebrecht gives the character both a mysterious apathy and a subtle, smoldering anger that crackles underneath the surface of his personality like the electricity his body generates to assassinate targets. Special commendations must go to John Swasey as the grizzled badass Huang and Jason Liebrecht as the befuddled Chinese exchange student-by-day, cloak-wearing electric-powered masked hitman-by-night named Hei.
This show fits the bill: it takes itself seriously and has a "Western" feel, in a similar fashion to other anime I enjoy like "Baccano!" and "Cowboy Bebop." Highlights include: -A phenomenal English dub - simply one of the best I've EVER heard. I'm someone who is always on the lookout for anime productions that aren't too weird and wacky, with ridiculous "fan service" and silly storytelling.
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