Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Vintage:
July 27, 2007
Status:
Completed
Summary:
Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies.
Baccano takes place in a historical setting but it isn't completely realistic. At first it's hard to follow and I still don't fully understand the position of the first episode in the story or some of the mysteries.
The story is really good. All the charcters and plots are connected somehow which makes it interesting to keep watching to solve more of the mysteries. I should warn you though. Pay attention to the year in which something takes place. I think I was too relaxed when I started watching resulting in it being like some characters where in multiple places at the same time.
The dialogue isn't particularly good and again, it's a bit difficult to follow when you start watching especially if you're not paying attention. There are a lot of characters and a couple of maffia families so it's kind of important to remember some names. Luckily the intro helps you with that and it doesn't even make it boring.
The animation is also very good. It really captures the tension or the horror in some scenes. The effects are convincing and so is the sound.
It's weird. I can come up with a couple of good reasons why this is a good anime but still I didn't have the urge to keep watching one episode after another. I wanted to know what was going to happen next but I think I wasn't really being suckt into the plot because of all the different main characters
or because I was usually pretty tired when I started watching ^^
