Review: Baccano

The closest thing I can equate Baccano to is Lost because both of them would raise more questions every time previous questions got resolved.

Baccano is a 16 episode anime about the lives of numerous people in 1930s (mostly) and how they intertwined during a train ride on the Flying Pussyfoot.  Some are on the train to hold a Senator's wife and daughter hostage, some are there to kill people in the dining car for some great sacrifice, some are there to rob it, and there's the Rail Tracer who just seems to be out to murder everyone on board.  Oh and I guess I should mention that many of the characters are immortal.

Baccano had me hooked from the opening theme song (most of my favorite animes have amazing music, I'm not sure if there is a correlation or if there is, which way it goes).  This is one of the few times I had to watch the opening theme for many episodes because it shows most of the characters names and it was a good way to try to keep track of things early on.  That's really the only downside to this anime, you really have to pay attention.  There are so many characters and the story takes place in four separate times (1711, 1930, 1931, and 1932) and it starts to jump back and forth pretty freely between each one of those.  So it can be very tough to keep things straight.

All of that doesn't matter, though, because of Isaac and Miria.  I promise you, that you will be cracking up every single time they are on the screen.  These two, I think, are trying to be Robin Hood-esque thieves to try to atone for their previous robberies that weren't so good.  They're usually hindered by the fact that their logic is less logical than even mine can be:

"We once tried to steal an entire museum as well."

—Isaac to Miria

"That proved impossible though."

—Miria to Isaac

"Yes! So at least, in order to make it impossible for people to enter, we stole the entrance [door]!"

—Isaac to Miria

"It sure was heavy!"

—Miria to Isaac