But it's only when you're actually walking the streets you see it for the Hell it is. From a distance, Roanapur seems quite beautiful as a seaside city.
I'm glad the animators didn't go the cartoony route and make Roanapur look like a post-apocalyptic ghost town with an "evil" red sky to match. Seems like the only sacrifice Roanapurians make is whether or not to kill their youngest child so everyone gets enough to eat for dinner. What is it made out of for it to be eroding already? Or is it not being maintained because everyone stopped giving a shit about ending human suffering through sacrifice? Here's an excellent example of irony: a blind Buddhist statue rests before the crime-choked, whored-out city of Roanapur. So, let's go over what happens next so we can wrap up our first story arc: Joan trying to go around the Black Lagoon ship, so we have to assume that they're just lazy and stupid. It's never explicitly stated or shown, but what if the ship has tried to move out of the way, but Black Lagoon kept looming in front of it? A logical explanation, but there's no indication that this is the case. Joan) that decides to keep riding Black Lagoon's ass instead of going around them.īut maybe I have this wrong. His first official mission comes almost immediately when the team ambushes a ship (St. So, Rock is invited to become part of the team. A quick recap: Black Lagoon has successfully killed a member of Extra Order, thanks to Rock's ingenious plan to launch their ship into the air GTA-style and fire torpedoes at them.