40 Fun Facts About Baccano!

The title of Baccano!, Ryohgo Narita's saga of Prohibition-era gangsters, is an Italian word meaning what?

Ruckus is what follows when thieves, mobsters and immortals who begin as strangers keep crossing paths, each collision pushing events further out of control.

In Baccano!, the transcontinental train the Flying Pussyfoot sets off for New York from which city?

Chicago is where thieves, a bootlegging gang, a cult and a hitman's crew all climb aboard, despite a woman's warning that the train is cursed.

In Baccano!, which part of a museum do Isaac and Miria steal so that nobody can get inside?

The front door is typical of their oddly kind-hearted crimes; the pair wear so many costumes on jobs that witnesses take them for performers.

In Baccano!, what alias does the assassin Claire Stanfield earn from the blood-soaked state he leaves his victims in?

Vino, Italian for wine, describes victims left looking drenched in it; the Gandor brothers who grew up with him simply count him as their fourth brother.

In Baccano!, what is the monster called in Isaac and Miria's tale that eats passengers on trains?

The Rail Tracer starts as a scary story told in the dining car, then turns real when someone aboard the Flying Pussyfoot takes on the monster's identity to slaughter the hijackers.

In Baccano!, the travellers who summon a demon at sea in 1711 to win eternal life share which profession?

Alchemists get more than they asked for: the demon hands over an elixir and the only way to end an immortal life, and trusts the formula to their leader alone.

In Baccano!, the tearful gang leader Jacuzzi Splot has a large tattoo of which object across his face?

A sword was inked for Nice Holystone's sake: he got it after she was badly scarred in an accident, and in the anime it is so that she would not feel alone.

In Baccano!, Nice Holystone, who wears her glasses over an eyepatch, is her gang's expert in making what?

Explosives cost her an eye in a childhood accident with a homemade batch, yet she still carries some hidden under her clothes for emergencies.

In Baccano!, what does the hitman Ladd Russo lose to Claire Stanfield during the Flying Pussyfoot hijacking?

His left arm is later replaced with a metal prosthetic fixed directly to the bone, and he ends the journey in custody for the killings on board.

In Baccano!, the Gandors seal Dallas Genoard in a barrel of cement and sink him in which body of water?

The Hudson River holds him for years as punishment for killing Gandor men; being partly immortal he cannot die down there, and his sister has the bottom dredged to find him.

Baccano! author Ryohgo Narita also wrote which light novel series about a dullahan courier in Ikebukuro?

Durarara!! reunited him with the same anime director, Takahiro Omori, and Isaac and Miria turn up in it for a cameo.

In Baccano!, which job on the Flying Pussyfoot lets the assassin Claire Stanfield reach his targets easily?

A conductor crosses the country without drawing notice, and when a hijacker murders his retiring colleague, the uniform puts him in the right place to hunt the gangs down.

In Baccano!, the Lemures hijack the Flying Pussyfoot to seize the wife and daughter of which kind of official?

A senator is the lever they need: the cult wants him to free its jailed leader, though what its members are really after is the secret of immortality.

In Baccano!, Ennis, whom Szilard Quates created from his own cells, is which kind of being?

A homunculus is where she ended up: in the author's early drafts she was a succubus and her creator a magician.

In Baccano!, what did Chane Laforet ask her father Huey to take away so she could never betray his secrets?

Her voice was the price she chose for his trust, so she speaks to others through gestures and written notes while reaching him by telepathy.

In Baccano!, what does a newly promoted Martillo executive go out to buy with one of his fellow executives?

A hat marks the promotion, and the custom has no meaning at all: the family's boss simply tells the man in advance and sends a colleague along to help choose.

In Baccano!, Graham Specter, a devotee of Ladd Russo who loves dismantling things, always carries which large tool?

A wrench never leaves the mechanic's side, and he rages when anything gets in his way; he first met his idol by attacking him over a wrecked car.

In Baccano!, the immortal Czeslaw Meyer, who has not aged since 1711, looks like which kind of person?

A young boy to look at, he hunts other immortals out of fear; after Isaac and Miria promise to be his family, he ends up living with Ennis as her little brother.

In Baccano!, the Daily Days newspaper in Chinatown is really a cover for which other line of business?

Selling information is the real trade, and the editorial office behind the reception desk is heavily armed because the receptionist once worked in military intelligence.

In Baccano!, Ladd Russo, Firo Prochainezo and Isaac Dian all end up locked in which island prison?

Alcatraz gathers them for different reasons: one is framed for a bombing, one is finally caught for his thefts, and one is serving time for murder.

In Baccano!, how does Rachel of the Daily Days usually ride trains such as the Flying Pussyfoot?

As a stowaway she never pays a fare, but once the hijacking is over she spends her reward money on enough tickets to cover every free ride she has taken.

In Baccano!, where did the runaway Claire Stanfield build the strength and agility he uses as a killer?

In a circus he trained as an acrobat; Huey Laforet, who called him a genius, travelled to New York hoping to meet him and found he had already gone.

Which gangster film did Ryohgo Narita see before spending about ten days dreaming up Baccano!?

The Untouchables also shaped the English dub years later: its director studied Robert De Niro's Al Capone to get the gangster talk right.

How were the final three episodes of the Baccano! anime released after the first thirteen aired on television?

Direct to DVD is how the three extras arrived, opening with a mechanic's fury that somebody has badly hurt his hero.

Which company dubbed Baccano! into English after about 140 actors auditioned over six days?

Funimation's dub director called it probably the longest casting process the company had held; he wanted newcomers who could handle period lingo and heavy European accents.

In episode one of Baccano!, what are Gustav St. Germain and Carol trying to choose from about twenty people?

A main character proves impossible to settle on, and by the final episode Carol concludes that the story they are piecing together has no beginning or ending either.

In Baccano!, the Gandor family profits from bootleg liquor and casinos but refuses to deal in what?

Drugs are the one line the three brothers will not cross, which is why a rival family pushing a new narcotic onto their turf starts a war.

In Baccano!, which weapon does the cult leader Goose turn on Jacuzzi Splot before being pushed off the train?

A flamethrower proves his undoing: when the timid gang leader shoves him off, its fuel tank hits the tracks and blows up.

In Baccano!, where does Claire Stanfield tell Chane Laforet to carve her answer to his marriage proposal?

Into the roof of the Flying Pussyfoot she cuts a promise to wait for him forever in Manhattan, though at that moment she means to kill him when he comes.

In Baccano!, which Martillo family secretary turns out to be the demon the immortals summoned in 1711?

Ronny Schiatto insists he is no demon, just a man from ancient times who learned too much, and he let the 1930 party drink the elixir because he could not guess what would follow.

Which Baccano! light novel, split into Local and Express volumes, covers the Flying Pussyfoot hijacking?

The Grand Punk Railroad was meant to be one book, but the manuscript ran past 400 pages, so author and editor split it in two to keep a newcomer's price down.

In Baccano!, Firo Prochainezo's Martillo family of Little Italy belongs to which Italian crime tradition?

The Camorra family here is so small that a police inspector thinks it not worth investigating, and its boss takes in men of any nationality.

A Baccano! adventure game with about fifty endings, set on the Flying Pussyfoot, came out for which console?

Nintendo DS owners had to steer the passengers safely to New York, with each choice nudging the story toward a different outcome.

In Baccano!, the Martillo family's speakeasy is called the Alveare, an Italian word with which meaning?

Beehive fits what the place becomes: once Prohibition ends it carries on as a restaurant famous for honey dishes, popular enough to grow into a chain.

In Baccano!, the cult called the Lemures, who follow Huey Laforet, take their name from a word for what?

Ghosts is how the members see themselves, as people who no longer count among the living; another band of his followers, the Lamia, are named for vampires.

In Baccano!, which name does Claire Stanfield buy from a retired assassin and later share with his wife Chane?

Felix Walken is the name the couple pass down: in the 2002 story their great-grandchildren are Claudia and Charon Walken.

Which US railway attraction did the Baccano! anime staff visit to get the Flying Pussyfoot's locomotive right?

Steamtown National Historic Site supplied the engines, while scouting trips around Hell's Kitchen, Chinatown and Little Italy supplied the New York streets.

In Baccano!, which ever-smiling immortal is the only person Huey Laforet regards as a friend?

Elmer Albatross has made it his goal to make everyone happy, and a jailed Huey asks him to find his daughter and get her to smile.

Which track by Paradise Lunch serves as the opening theme for all sixteen episodes of the Baccano! anime?

Gun's & Roses came out as a single on the same day as the ending theme, sung by Kaori Oda, two months before the full soundtrack album.

Which actor plays the costume-loving thief Isaac Dian in the English dub of the Baccano! anime?

J. Michael Tatum and Caitlin Glass, his Miria, were both singled out as praiseworthy in Anime News Network's review of the dub.