Black Lagoon (ブラック・ラグーン) is a manga series written and illustrated by Hiroe Rei, and published in Shogakukan's Sunday GX since 2002.
The story follows a team of pirates/mercenaries known as Lagoon Company, who smuggle goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
An animated television series based on the manga aired in Japan from April 8, 2006 to June 24, 2006, totaling twelve episodes. A second season, subtitled "The Second Barrage", ran for twelve weeks starting on October 2, 2006. A third season was announced on the cover of the first volume of the novel adaptation.
