Black Lagoon/Episodes

Black Lagoon is a 24 episode Japanese anime series animated by Madhouse and based on the manga series created by Rei Hiroe. The series was directed by Sunao Katabuchi and produced by Geneon Entertainment, it consists of two seasons and one 5 episode original video animation series. The two seasons, each twelve episodes in length, are titled Black Lagoon—which was co-produced by Shogakukan—and Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage. The OVA series, titled Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail, consists of only five episodes.

The first season premiered on Chiba TV from April 8, 2006 through June 24, 2006, the second from October 2, 2006 through December 18, 2006 on Sendai Television and Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting. All twenty-four episodes were then released in Japan on DVD across twelve volumes from July 26, 2006 through June 27, 2007. Blu-ray Disc releases—eight volumes in total—followed from December 23, 2009 through March 25, 2010.

In North America, these seasons were first released across six DVD volumes with English and Japanese audio tracks and English subtitles from May 22, 2007 through October 28, 2008. The first three of these were distributed by Geneon Entertainment itself before Funimation Entertainment took over distribution of the series in mid 2008, and released a hybrid DVD and Blu-ray Disc collection of both seasons on December 4, 2012. The English dubbed version of the series premiered in the U.S. on the Funimation Channel on February 15, 2013. The series began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami block on March 22, 2014.