Apple TVBlack Lagoon (2006)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.0
Overview
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand near the border of Cambodia.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVBias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Female Combat: Yes
Christianity: Negative
Overview
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand near the border of Cambodia.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Black Lagoon receives a neutral rating because its central themes explore moral ambiguity, corruption, and individual survival in a lawless world without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology or offering a partisan solution to its depicted problems.
The movie features a highly diverse international cast, with characters from various racial, national, and gender backgrounds integrated naturally into its world. The narrative explores the complexities of a criminal underworld without explicitly critiquing or negatively portraying traditional identities, focusing instead on character-driven conflicts and survival.
Secondary
The show features female characters who demonstrate exceptional physical prowess. Roberta, a former FARC guerrilla, repeatedly engages in and wins brutal close-quarters fights against multiple male adversaries using martial arts and melee weapons. Shenhua also defeats male opponents using her bladed chains.
The film prominently features the 'Church of Violence,' a criminal organization that uses Christian iconography and rhetoric (nuns, crosses, biblical references) as a front for drug trafficking and extreme violence. This portrays religious institutions as deeply corrupt, hypocritical, and easily perverted for nefarious purposes, with no significant counterbalancing positive depiction of genuine faith.
Black Lagoon does not explicitly feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The show's focus lies elsewhere, primarily on action, crime, and the morally ambiguous lives of its characters, without engaging with queer identity in any explicit capacity, either positively or negatively.
The anime adaptation of "Black Lagoon" faithfully portrays all established characters with the same genders as depicted in the original manga. There are no instances of significant characters having their gender altered from the source material.
The anime "Black Lagoon" faithfully adapts its manga source material, maintaining the established racial identities of all major characters. No character originally depicted as one race in the manga is portrayed as a different race in the animated series.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
8.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
7.9
8.0
Critic Ratings
N/A
N/A
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