Baccano!? More Like The Unkillables!

[spectralbovine]

Certain combinations of words pique your interest. Zombie dinosaurs. Guitar ninjas. Plane golem. So allow me to introduce you to Baccano! with the following two words:

Immortal gangsters.Sold? Good, that was easy. But I'll continue. "Baccano" means "ruckus" in Italian, and, my God, is there ever a ruckus in this series. There are ruckuses. Rucki.

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[the_narration]

...I meant to comment on this.

I've heard of this, but never seen it. Never really took much interest in seeing it, probably because nobody could ever seem to say what exactly it was about, beyond "immortal gangsters." So I guess I'll ask you: is there an overarching plot to this, or is this a Pulp Fiction-esque collection of interconnected vignettes?

I'm intrigued by the idea of a dub that goes to that much effort, however. Most dubs tend to be minimal-effort affairs, but especially they tend not to even bother when it comes to giving characters appropriate accents (Full Metal Panic and the Read or Die OVA might be the worst offenders for this, not even bothering to make the British characters sound British) or recognizing that a character had a particular way of speaking that informed their character and giving them more generic voices instead. Sometimes the dub's script will actually be quite clever in places (use of gratuitous French in Noir, for instance), but the voice actors usually are unimpressive.

[spectralbovine]

So I guess I'll ask you: is there an overarching plot to this, or is this a Pulp Fiction-esque collection of interconnected vignettes?
Oh, there's totally a plot. Like I said, each character has his or her own story, and they all get mixed together. But it's definitely hard to identify, say, one overarching plot that would encompass the whole series. That being said, it's more than simply interconnected vignettes because the interconnectedness informs the story more than it does in Pulp Fiction.

I'm intrigued by the idea of a dub that goes to that much effort, however.
The dub director auditioned 140 actors over 6 days. He got the right talent!