BACCANO! (Anime)

is the anime adaptation of Ryogo Narita's Light novel series of the same name. It was produced by Brain's Base and aired for 13 episodes between July and November 2007. A 3-episode OVA was released with the DVDs between February and May 2008.

Synopsis
During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir. In addition, a war between the mafia groups is getting worse. On board the Advena Avis, in 1711, alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality.

Based on the award-winning light novels of the same name, Baccano! follows several events that initially seem unrelated, both in time and place, but are part of a much bigger story—one of alchemy, survival, and immortality. Merging these events together are the kindhearted would-be thieves, Isaac and Miria, connecting various people, all of them with their own hidden ambitions and agendas, and creating lifelong bonds and consequences for everyone involved.

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Theme Songs
OPENING THEME:
 * Gun's & Roses by Paradise Lunch

ENDING THEME:
 * Calling by Oda Kaori

Characters & Cast

 * Firo Prochainezo (VA: Hiroyuki Yoshino)
 * Ennis (VA: Sanae Kobayashi)
 * Jacuzzi Splot (VA: Daisuke Sakaguchi)
 * Isaac Dian (VA: Masaya Onosaka)
 * Miria Harvent (VA: Sayaka Aoki)
 * Ladd Russo (VA: Keiji Fujiwara)
 * Czeslaw Meyer (VA: Akemi Kanda)
 * Luck Gandor (VA: Takehito Koyasu)
 * Claire Stanfield (VA: Masakaza Morita)
 * Chane Laforet (VA: Ryou Hirohashi)
 * Szilard Quates (VA: Kinryuu Arimoto)
 * Eve Genoard (VA: Marina Inoue)
 * Nice Holystone (VA: Yu Kobayashi)
 * Huey Laforet (VA: Susumu Chiba)
 * Rachel (VA: Shizuka Itou)
 * Dallas Genoard (VA: Atsushi Imaruoka)
 * Ronny Schiatto (VA: Nobutoshi Canna)
 * Lua Klein (VA: Eri Yasui)
 * Maiza Avaro (VA: Mitsuru Miyamoto)
 * Graham Specter (VA: Tomokazu Sugita)
 * Elmer C. Albatross (VA: Shintarou Oohata)

Adaptation Notes
Baccano! is based on Ryohgo Narita's award-winning light novels of the same title and mainly adapts the first 4 novels. While more faithful to the first 3 novels, the 4th novel (1932) is followed more loosely and is mostly an anime-exclusive story. In addition, content from later novels is briefly included in the anime as well. Unlike the novels however, which follow a mostly linear narrative per book, the anime adopts a non-linear storytelling style; the tale of each novel is told simultaneously with one another, with the focus jumping back and forth in time between and within the different plotlines. (SOURCE: MyAnimeList.net)