Live Blogs 1930s style for a 1930s economy: / liveblogs Baccano!

/2010-12-11 17:07:36

Ah, the opening theme is apropriately funky/awesome. But yeah, you're right, the first episode really does end up with a great big "uh... what the hell just happened?" but things become fairly clear after a while, even for a gent who has problems remembering names, such as myself.

Baccano is the italian for "ruckus" and one theme of the series seems to be that the smae events can play very different parts in a story depending on whose perspective you use. The series is mixing elements from the first 3 novels in non-linear order. It's very good, but the first episode is very confusing even though it shows elements from the very ends of some of the storylines - they just don't make any sense out of context.

I saw this series some time ago in my local Anime club and loved it - the DVD set came out recently here in the UK and I started to rewatch it this weekend.

Oh, one bit of warning - sometimes in an episode they'll indicate which year an event occurs in, but at others they'll expect you to recongnise which year/chain of events a scene belongs to without explicitly pointing it out. If it helps to keep track, Firo is most prominent in the 1930 strand, the train is in 1931 and the search for Dallas dominates 1932. (These are the events of books 1, 2&3 (a two-parter) and part of book 4 respectively.) If you watch the DVD-only episodes 14-16, are mostly book 14, the aftermath of the TV broadcast events. There's also one scene in episode 1 that we never get more than that glimse of in the series (Isaac meeting a group of others in a mansion) because it's from another book, but pretty much all the rest of epsiode 1 makes perfect sense by the time you finish episode 13.

I am left amused and bemused. I must continue to read this liveblog. You must continue to do this liveblog.

Watch it dubbed. D=<

To be fair, I have heard the sub is good, and the bit I've seen was good, but... THIS IS AMERICA BEYOTCH.