Baccano! (2007 Anime)

Baccano!  (バッカーノ!, Italian for 'ruckus') is an anime series by studio Brain's Base based off the light novel series of the same name by Ryohgo Narita. Funimation announced on July 21, 2008 that it had licensed the anime, a license which expired on February 08, 2016.

Background
Aniplex held a focus panel for their already announced anime adaptation of Baccano! at the Tokyo Anime Fair (TAF) on March 23, 2007. Though a broadcast network had yet to be determined, the broadcast was expected to air that July. The panel members were: Baccano! author Ryohgo Narita; confirmed director Takahiro Omori; Suzuki, one of Narita's Dengeki Bunko editors; and Aniplex Chairman Masuo Ueda.

Production
In an interview, Omori recalls that he had started work on the anime adaptation by 2005 at the very least, and that Noboru Takagi's script took over a year to be 'firmed up' due to the constant necessary rewriting of earlier episodes' scripts. For the sake of accuracy and atmosphere, Omori took five days off between recording sessions of the second season of Hell Girl in Autumn 2006 to do location scouting with other Baccano! staff members in New York. As a result, many of the locations in the anime are based off real places that the team visited during scouting.

Omori notes that Brain's Base was a small studio compared to others at the time of production, and that the making of Baccano! must have demanded completely unfamiliar tasks from the studio. However, he notes that a larger studio may not have allowed constant changing and amending of previous episodes while work on the next episode was already underway.

Staff
For full staff, see Anime News Network.

Brain's Base

 * Director: Takahiro Omori
 * Screenplay: Noboru Takagi
 * Character Design: Takahiro Kishida
 * Music: Makoto Yoshimori
 * Art Director: Akira Ito
 * Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
 * Director of Photography: Yoshihiro Sekiya

Funimation

 * Producers: Carly Hunter; Justin Cook


 * ADR Director: Tyler Walker
 * ADR Engineer: Kory Charlot
 * Translation: Steven J. Simmons
 * Script:
 * Eric Vale (E01)
 * Leah Clark (E02-E03)
 * Chuck Huber (E04-E16)

Music
''Main Article: Baccano! Original Soundtrack - Spiral Melodies''
 * Opening: "Gun's & Roses" by Paradise Lunch.
 * Ending: "Calling" by Oda Kaori

List of Episodes & OVAs

 * 1) The Vice President Doesn't Say Anything about the Possibility of Him Being the Main Character
 * 2) Setting the Old Woman's Qualms Aside, the Flying Pussyfoot Departs
 * 3) Randy and Pecho Are Busy Getting Ready for the Party
 * 4) Ladd Russo Enjoys Talking A Lot and Slaughtering A Lot
 * 5) Jacuzzi Splot Cries, Gets Scared and Musters Reckless Valor
 * 6) The Rail Tracer Covertly, Repeatedly Slaughters Inside the Coaches
 * 7) Everything Starts Aboard the Advenna Avis
 * 8) Isaac and Miria Unintentionally Spread Happiness Around Them
 * 9) Claire Stanfield Faithfully Carries Out the Mission
 * 10) Czeslaw Meyer is Forced to Rework His Tremble-Before-the-Specter-of-Immortals Strategy
 * 11) Chane Laforet Remains Silent in the Face of Two Mysterious People
 * 12) Firo and the Three Gandor Brothers Are Felled by Assassins' Bullets
 * 13) Both the Immortals and Those Who Aren't Sing the Praises of Life Equally
 * 14) Graham Specter's Love and Peace (OVA)
 * 15) The Delinquents That Arrive at the High-Class Neighborhood Are the Same as Always (OVA)
 * 16) Carol Realizes That the Story Cannot Have an Ending (OVA)

Gallery

 * Height and Model Sheets