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ItвЂ™s a massive cast, as befits a story which spans multiple centuries. And the greatest among them is surely Jacuzzi Splot, maybe my favorite anime character name of all time.

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And those names вЂ“ a bizarre melange of Anglo-Saxon, French, Italian and Easter European that suggests a random character name generator gone rogue. ItвЂ™s certainly bittersweet to hear Fujiwara Keiji as Ladd, maybe playing against type a little. What a castвЂ¦ You canвЂ™t really single them out, but Wakamoto NorioвЂ™s unmistakable delivery of вЂњCarol! is one of my lasting memories of Baccano!, and along with Koyama RikiyaвЂ™s вЂњShounen!вЂќ from Zetsuen no Tempest maybe the most memorable forms of address in anime. Or rather, to how the setting is depicted by the great American novel and Hollywood (which is probably more important than the reality now anyway). Baccano! is the exception вЂ“ yes, itвЂ™s a funhouse mirror and wholly Japanese take, but somehow it feels faithful to the setting.

Somehow, though, anime never seems to capture its potential as a dramatic canvas. Japanese popular media is quite obsessed with prohibition-era America вЂ“ perhaps because our organized crime is so different from JapanвЂ™s. It looks damn good for a 13 year-old show, and the music (BrainвЂ™s Base stalwart Yoshimori Makoto) is ideally suited to the material.

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My initial thoughts after watching the first two episodes are mainly that the series has not lost its charm. Baccano! is Baccano! вЂ“ everything else is everything else. IвЂ™ve seen very little over the years (maybe just 91 Days, a little) thatвЂ™s made me say вЂњthis reminds me of BaccanoвЂњ. It hails from BrainвЂ™s Base at a time when they were putting out good anime with a higher success rate than anyone else in the industry (IMO), features an all-star cast and staff (including director Omori Takahiro). This show is a pretty singular entity вЂ“ strange and deliriously zany. I find that Durarara has not aged as well as Baccano! has вЂ“ perhaps in part because itвЂ™s closer to what LNs would evolve into (and many of them copied it shamelessly). Narita Ryohgo is certainly an influential figure in the LN world, what with Baccano! and Durarara to his name.

Light novels have changed some in the intervening years, but so have my tastes as an anime fan вЂ“ which makes revisiting the series now an interesting mystery. ItвЂ™s entirely possible that Baccano! may be my favorite LN adaptation ever вЂ“ I suppose it depends on how loosely you define the term (if you included Shin Sekai Yori, that would have to take the top spot). ThatвЂ™s good with me вЂ“ itвЂ™s a show IвЂ™ve never rewatched and have very fond memories of, so IвЂ™d been thinking about it anyway. You spoke loud and clear with your votes вЂ“ Baccano! was the series you wanted me to reach back to 2007 and cover this season.

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