Product Details

• Actors: J. Michael Tatum, Caitlin Glass, Ian Sinclair
• Directors: Tyler Walker
• Format: NTSC, Color, Widescreen, Subtitled
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: December 29, 2009
• Run Time: 400 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002R0LRGW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,873 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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BACCANO:COMPLETE BOX SET - DVD Movie

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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The series never dies. Literally., December 14, 2009

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Jonathan Oyama "Anime is my middle name." (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baccano! The Complete Series Box Set (DVD)

Sometimes the best anime comes from really demented ideas, buckets of blood and sassy Italian mob violence. "Baccano!" is this type of series.

This anime about mobsters mashes together alchemy, gang wars and gunfights in a dark, action-packed series that will satisfy anyone thirsty for incomprehensibly blood-drenched fights.

In fact, the narrators in episode one puzzle themselves over which character takes the leading role. The truth is that all the characters stand on their own, since all of them suffer from the same curse of immortality. Nearly 300 years ago, a group of people aboard the Advenna Avis ship attained these powers from a priest.

Centuries later, in New York in the 1930s, these immortal people are still alive, with dreams of living and dying, killing before they get killed. Each group is defined by their unique charm and brutal fighting style. However, they each have different desires for love, marriage and sadism.

All the stories culminate in an outstanding mish mash of cast members who stand out for their courage and their sense of humor. The two comedians, Isaac and Milly, humor their friends with their jokes and eccentricities. The crybaby Jacuzzi Splot gains self-confidence by defending his girlfriend against a monster on a train. Firo Prochainezo risks his life to protect a young woman subjected as the slave of someone else.

Conflicts of pain litter the series as well. A boy named Czeslaw Meyer wishes to defend himself by killing everyone who tries to torture him. The girl Eva Geonard wishes to find her lost big brother, who is presumably dead. A mute woman named Chane Laforet wants to escape from her father's plot to hold all the people in a train hostage.

The anime is filled with countless numbers of uplifting stories, despite the brutal, shocking violence. "Baccano!" holds a special place in fans' hearts as one of the most revelatory displays of courage, romance and unity. This show is one of the pinnacles of Japanese animation for the 2000s.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Its Freakin' Unbelievable!, February 8, 2010

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Shaun R. Fitzpatrick - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baccano! The Complete Series Box Set (DVD)

Baccano! isn't your run of mill anime series. From its setting to its style of story telling this show does things its own way and I damn well love it for that reason. With its huge cast of wonderfully crafted characters and its multiple overlapping story lines this show is a viewing experience unlike anything I have ever seen. By revealing latter parts of the story early on this show grabs the viewers attention and holds onto it firmly as the mysteries are slowly revealed over the course of 13 episodes plus 3 OVAs. The majority of the show takes place in the Prohibition years or more specifically in the early 1930s. Throughout Baccano! we run into everything from demons and immortals to sadistic murderers and comical thieves. The current price for the entire show is terrific and you would be doing yourself a favor to pick it up right now. If your still not convinced that the show is worth your money then by all means head over the Funimations website ([...]) and from there you can view a lot of the episodes for free to see how you like it. I leave this show with my highest recommendation. Oh, one more thing, I highly suggest that you watch the dubbed episodes over the subbed ones. This is probably one of the best dubs I have heard in a very long time.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's that Miria my dear? Baccano complete?!, February 28, 2010

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J. Saylors "nutmeg" (tx) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baccano! The Complete Series Box Set (DVD)

(1931) Some bad things are going down aboard the Flying Pussyfoot-Rail Tracer, black suits, white suits.

(1932) A young girl searches for her brother, but she's not the only one.

(1930) One of the original immortals takes the lives of many as he seeks to create the elixir he drank long ago.

Jumping from character to character, event to event to create one big picture in 16 episodes? Pure genius. (+) Awesome story. Great characters. English dub is insane! (-) The story is not told chronologically. But that is not necessarily a bad point...

Why did they have to come out the complete collection after I made the big decision to buy the individual dvds back when they were $14 each?!?!?! Well, wether I lost money or not, I own it, I love it, you gotta see it!