# Where to Watch Black Lagoon

**Black Lagoon streams on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix. It's the definitive guns-blazing crime anime — a Japanese salaryman thrown into a den of mercenaries, pirates, and the best gunfights of the 2000s.**

## Where to Watch

- [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/black-lagoon)
- [Hulu](http://www.hulu.com/black-lagoon)
- [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/70308852)

Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix all stream it — the whole first season is easy to find on any of the three.

## Synopsis

Rokuro Okajima is a nobody businessman couriering a disc for his employers when modern pirates hijack his boat in Southeast Asian waters. His company writes him off without blinking — so when the dust settles, he does the unthinkable and joins his captors. Rechristened 'Rock,' he becomes the negotiator for the Lagoon Company, a small mercenary crew anchored by Revy, a ferociously violent gunslinger with two pistols and zero patience for Rock's lingering morality. Every job pulls the crew deeper into Roanapur, a city where cartels, churches, and crime syndicates all carry automatic weapons.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** TV
- **Episodes:** 12
- **Premiered:** 2006
- **Studio:** madhouse inc.
- **Score:** 7.8

## Watch Order

Start with this first season; The Second Barrage continues the story directly after.

- Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage — sequel

## If You Liked This

- **[Cowboy Bebop](https://hozuna.com/anime/cowboy-bebop)** — Cowboy Bebop is the smoother, jazzier take on criminals-for-hire drifting between jobs and their own pasts.
- **[Great Pretender](https://hozuna.com/anime/great-pretender)** — Great Pretender brings the same globe-trotting criminal underworld, swapping bullets for long cons and style for days.
- **[Banana Fish](https://hozuna.com/anime/banana-fish)** — Banana Fish matches the crime-syndicate intensity with a more emotionally devastating center.
- **[Frieren: Beyond Journey's End](https://hozuna.com/anime/frieren-beyond-journey-s-end)** — 
- **[Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood](https://hozuna.com/anime/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood)** — 
- **[Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc](https://hozuna.com/anime/chainsaw-man-reze-arc)** — 
- **[Re:Zero Season 4](https://hozuna.com/anime/re-zero-season-4)** — 
- **[Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2](https://hozuna.com/anime/attack-on-titan-season-3-part-2)** — 

## FAQ

### Where can I watch Black Lagoon?

It streams on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix.

### How many episodes is the first season?

Season one runs 12 episodes.

### Where do I start with Black Lagoon?

Right here with the first season — The Second Barrage follows it, and the Roberta's Blood Trail OVA comes last.

### Is Black Lagoon style over substance?

The style is glorious, but Rock and Revy's clashing worldviews give it a real spine — it interrogates the violence it revels in.