That's a really good point, actually. I actually recced it to my brother, despite the fact that it's anime and he's not really a huge anime fan. Mostly because I'd noticed pretty much the same thing, even if I hadn't quite put it into words.
Something I'd add that I noticed, along the same lines of how it tends to come across as a very American show, is that all the people on the ship are American except Rock. (Well, I mean, I'm assuming Dutch is American still even after the revelations in the latest manga arc.) Plus Revy's bff is CIA, and so I tend to guess that the others in the Church of Violence are American too. They're certainly branded as Western with the whole Church thing, at least. In terms of Roanapur's racial/national tensions, the Black Lagoon company is almost certainly seen as an American group, and the fact that they work most closely with the Russians and another American group tends to reinforce the whole racial tensions to me. Partially due to the way they're of course working most closely with another American group, but really when I think about Balalaika and Dutch's relationship in terms of national tensions, I do find it even more interesting.
Dutch and Balalaika obviously trust and respect each other a lot despite the fact that Russia and America have, to say the least really not had good relations in their lifetime and the fact that Roanapur is the kind of environment that makes people more inclined to clump up. The fact that Balalaika and Dutch both were originally claimed to fight in wars that were caused by the Cold War, even if it wasn't directly against the other nation, is probably a point of parallel that I find interesting. Even though I'm not sure what it means, especially in light of the recent revelations about Dutch.
And Balalaika's hotness should always be mentioned. Which is hotter, the car scene or the scene where she talks the gun out of the other dude's hands?
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Something I'd add that I noticed, along the same lines of how it tends to come across as a very American show, is that all the people on the ship are American except Rock. (Well, I mean, I'm assuming Dutch is American still even after the revelations in the latest manga arc.) Plus Revy's bff is CIA, and so I tend to guess that the others in the Church of Violence are American too. They're certainly branded as Western with the whole Church thing, at least. In terms of Roanapur's racial/national tensions, the Black Lagoon company is almost certainly seen as an American group, and the fact that they work most closely with the Russians and another American group tends to reinforce the whole racial tensions to me. Partially due to the way they're of course working most closely with another American group, but really when I think about Balalaika and Dutch's relationship in terms of national tensions, I do find it even more interesting.
Dutch and Balalaika obviously trust and respect each other a lot despite the fact that Russia and America have, to say the least really not had good relations in their lifetime and the fact that Roanapur is the kind of environment that makes people more inclined to clump up. The fact that Balalaika and Dutch both were originally claimed to fight in wars that were caused by the Cold War, even if it wasn't directly against the other nation, is probably a point of parallel that I find interesting. Even though I'm not sure what it means, especially in light of the recent revelations about Dutch.
And Balalaika's hotness should always be mentioned. Which is hotter, the car scene or the scene where she talks the gun out of the other dude's hands?