Comments on: Baccano! Review - 93/100

by: skyhack

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:04:28 +0100

Almost skipped on this one, didn’t get it until the week before Funi licensed it.

I’ll be buying the box set, which I’ve done for every series I’ve liked. (42 boxes bought after watching the fansub so far)

Baccano rocks!

by: milo

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:07:24 +0100

Hi, I’ve just finished this brilliant anime, I was wondering if you know of any others that has the same feel as this?

Thank you.

by: Radlum

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:45:10 +0100

I loved this series; thanks a lot for your review, at first I wasn’t sure if I should watch this series, but reading the review made me take a good decision. Baccano is one of the best anime series I’ve ever seen and now I feel a little sad that it has ended.

by: KO-chan

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:51:20 +0000

I just finished watching this.
My friend just told me about it, because I don’t really watch that many anime right now. He was right.. It really was an awesome experience!

Perhaps one of the reasons why this anime didn’t have so much of a following was that it is so hard to watch it piece by piece. This series needs to be ‘marathoned’ because the layout of events is extremely complex and therefore hard to remember quickly.

I think what made this series a good watch is that it harnesses a lot of participation in the watcher’s part - like, you have to do more than watch what’s happening in a linear way. It stimulates you to get your brains up working and try forming the puzzle together yourself as the show reveals each piece to you.

As you all said, I was floored by the writing in this one too. If the events weren’t laid out strategically in such a particular manner, this wouldn’t have been so effective. I wouldn’t think of them doing it in any way other than this.

People should know more about it (well people who can tolerate blood/gore that is). So yeah, spread the Baccano (stupid ruckus) everyone! :3

by: Windspirit

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:57:48 +0000

OMG, just finished the series (13th episode came out today).

I thank you so fucking much for blogging this series, it’s basically you’re first entry that made me look this series out and I don’t regret it at all. Actually, if it hadn’t been you, I probably would never have bothered watching this series because I wouldn’t have come to be interested in it, as this is series is, as said, criminally underwatched.

I think this has the best storytelling of the year. Seriously, the story is just awesome and enjoyable, having elements of seriousness and humour, without it being a complete comedy. It’s very adult.

We need more animes like Baccano, you bet. This is the kind of animes done with a purely artistic intention, without wanting it to especially sell, we’ve seen with Monster that this gets the creators to avoid every “über-cool commercial” elements in their shows, which make it utterly awesome.

Thanks again for blogging this. Let’s hope we’ll see more stuff like this ! ;)

by: omo

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:43:37 +0000

It needs to be marathoned. The narrative format doesn’t lend itself to serialization very well, which explains why it’s hardly followed.

by: Westlo

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:07:54 +0000

It’s a shame how criminally under watched this series is. Thanks for the Baccano blogging and I’m looking forward to the dvd only episodes as well as the last 3 subbed of course.

by: Archer

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:39:38 +0000

i totally agree with you one this one for me this is one of my favorite anime of the year,i liked it from the first episode even if the second episode was the one that convinced me that Baccano will turn into a great series,to see Isaac and Miria appear more in that episode and in the later ones made them two of my favorite characters in this anime,but there are many other characters that i like,the story is very good and you can never really guess what will happen next and that is what i love about this show,also the music it fits perfectly and i cannot even complain about the animation i think even that was good,the only thing that might push people away is the gore but i think that is also a very important part of Baccano and they don’t use it without reason like in other anime i saw
overall a great anime,i would definitely recommend it to others and your review is also very good i hope it will make other people watch this too

by: moshi

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:17:05 +0000

buccano rulz :-)

by: Sapphire Pyro

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:14:59 +0000

I agree to everything you have pointed out ^_^

It’s not often that we get to see an anime as amazing as this. Sadly it needed to be squeezed to 13 episodes though it can actually show much more.

I’d like to thank you for blogging Baccano! *been reading your Baccano entries for a long time but have been lazy to comment* It’s really a huge mystery why very very few blog such an awesome series x_x Probably because many prefer the ones rich with moe and perverted stuff? -_-

Baccano’s indeed a highly recommended series! ^_^ I think it might be more popular if there weren’t much gore, since many can’t bear them x_x But it’s still so damn awesome with all those gory stuff xD Hehe