A train robbery. That singular event is what this anime is all about. A group of thugs are robbing a passenger train. Wait, now it appears that there are multiple groups of people robbing this train at the same time. Furthermore, some psychopathic killers that escaped from an asylum and bathe in people's blood have decided to board this train. Also, the conductor is a murderer. NOW, throw in Alchemy! BOOM! BACCCANOOOO!!!
Baccano is about mob life during the Great Depression. There are a bunch of mobs with Italian surnames and there are many members in each of these mob organizations. You have to know them all to understand the story. Sorry, but you just have to. This requires a cumbersome amount of memorization, so to help you with this, the intro video has a visual slideshow of the characters and their dispositions.
The first few episodes of any anime are always a drag. That is because you always have so much difficulty understanding what the fuck is going on. Oh god, now the story is being shown in reverse sequence. Backward and sequentially interrupted, like in Memento. So you are watching the third episode and now you've seen the ending, but you don't know how it happened or why everyone is obsessed with this fucking train. Why why why does anime do this. It starts off great, has some good fights, and then ends with fairies and unicorns getting sodomized by Piccaso. Christ sake.
Rating: 40%
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