Today we’re looking at an anime that was suggested by a reader I know only as “Naturealmondco”; they listed it as one of their favorites and I certainly had heard of it as its pretty dang popular.
Baccano! was originally a Light Novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and drawn by Katsumi Enami that began in 2003 and is still ongoing (Uh oh…). An anime adaptation was produced by Brain’s Base in 2007 and FUNimation Entertainment released it in North America in 2009. It’s a shorter series; originally thirteen episodes with a three episode OVA released later (In the American release they were all packaged together). It’s no secret that this is an acclaimed anime series, one of the best rated ones of the last decade, but I hadn’t seen it yet at all and everything I heard about it I’d pretty much forgotten about. So the question is did I agree with everyone else or was it an overrated, overhyped mess.
Full review after the jump.
