Warning! The following will have major spoilers for the anime Baccano!
So you think every story needs a beginning, middle and end? Ha! How naïve you are! Baccano! has no definite beginning or end and the story jumps from time period to time period and from character to character, so the story is very loose. And that’s the point, it introduces you all these characters and then takes you on all their adventures in a nonlinear fashion as you try to fit all of the pieces of the story together. It does have some drama and suspense in it but Baccano! is more like a fun joyride rather than an inspiring journey of love and sacrifice and hope. And while I do love inspiring dramatic and suspenseful stories, I love dark comedy more, and Baccano! is a perfect example of dark comedy. No, Baccano is THE dark comedy, It’s my favorite anime next to Fullmetal Alchemist.
Stealing from the mafia with baseball bats… epic.
But enough about Baccano! as a story or genre, this is a character analysis, dynamic duo analysis to be exact. Baccano! is more character oriented than story oriented, so it has a lot of great characters and character duos. But I chose to talk about Isaac and Miria because, well, they’re my favorite characters in this series. They’re the most fun out of all of them, and I think the best scenes are the ones with Isaac and Miria in them. If things are getting too hairy, you can always count on Isaac and Miria to lighten the mood.
Why? Don’t ask why, this is Baccano! screw logic and consistency.
Isaac and Miria are two very odd lovers that also happen to be robbers. The two have a very strange sense of logic. For example, they believe that a train robbery consists of using the train to get to their destination, performing the robbery, and then using the train to escape. They also like to dress up in various costumes as they are carrying out their heists which can range from stealing millions of dollars from a mafia family to stealing the door of a museum. The two are very upbeat and they don’t seem to be affected by what’s happening around them, which may be why they’re so successful in almost everything they do despite how illogical they are. They later become immortal after mistaking an immortality elixir for a bottle of liquor, but they don’t realize they’re immortal until about seventy years later.
Isaac and Mira may be idiots but they’re loveable idiots.
GuardianTree12 out!