6.024 minSeason 1 • Episode 24
LatestRock tries to force Yukio out of a life of crime, but events beyond his control may cause his well-laid plans for her future to spin out of control.
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.
Writing
Rock's slow corruption is chef's kiss character work.
Cinematography
Gun porn so pretty it borders on fetishistic.
Acting
Revy's unhinged energy—Toyoguchi didn't hold back.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The English dub was recorded in Canada with actors who had zero anime experience, giving it that weirdly authentic '90s action movie grit.
Roanapur is basically a love letter to Hong Kong cinema's Triad worship mixed with Japanese anxiety about Southeast Asian lawlessness post-bubble economy.
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