Rei Hiroe (広江 礼威, Hiroe Rei, born 5 December 1972) is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his latest manga, Black Lagoon. When he is working on doujin comics he goes by the name Red Bear and TEX-MEX. Hiroe's manga were originally published by Kadokawa Shoten in the 1990s but none were complete. As a response Hiroe transferred to Shogakukan in the early 2000s, where all of his manga released before Black Lagoon were republished and re-released.
Vol 9 concludes the Roberta’s Revenge storyline (which spanned over 33 parts). I’m so over this storyline and am glad to move on with the crew of the Black Lagoon to other things. I’m also looking forward to a bit more character development in the coming chapters...
She literally got ex soviet paratroopers and United States marines to team up just to kill her and they didn't even succeed
This is also the volume in which we see Rock becoming the male manipulator that he truly is
I'm unsure if this is in this specific book but the final chapters of Roberta's Blood Trail has the exact atmosphere as any scene out of Alien/Aliens, with US marines trying their best to escape whilst being hunted by Roberta, the Bloodhound of Florencia
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Ah, finally the Roberta arc concluded. The Black Lagoon gang took mostly backseat in this volume (as so often during this storyline) which is probably the biggest reason I wasn't so into it. The ending was good though and action cool.
Still fun, but Hiroe's seemingly fetishistic like of all things military kind of gets out of control and starts distracting from the story at times, I think.
It took two-and-a-half volumes, but we're finally through that arc. It ran a bit long and arc fatigue set in a bit, but it was satisfying, if incredibly depressing.