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40 free Black Lagoon trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Black Lagoon drops an ordinary Japanese office worker into a crew of smugglers and lets him find out how far he is willing to go. Around that hook the manga and its anime build a city of gangsters, mercenaries and killers for hire, where every job ends in gunfire and the loudest gun usually belongs to Revy. This quiz covers the whole run: the Lagoon Company and their ship, the syndicates that carve up Roanapur, the big storylines from the wrecked submarine to the Tokyo trip and Roberta's return, and the films, writers and real history that shaped the series. There are questions on the studio, the director and the voice cast too. It is pitched for fans who have seen both seasons and the follow-up episodes, with easier openers for anyone who only remembers the first few jobs. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches something.
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Q 01In which country does Black Lagoon set Roanapur, the lawless port city its pirate crew calls home?
Thailand
Thailand hosts the fictional Roanapur, placed in the east near the Cambodian border. Triads, cartels and mobsters carve the city up between them, so no law reaches the crew there.
Q 02What kind of American-made naval vessel is the Black Lagoon, the smugglers' ship of the title?
PT boat
A PT boat of the 80-foot Elco type, the Black Lagoon once served the US Navy before a four-member crew of smugglers put it to work running cargo.
Q 03Black Lagoon's author likened the unstoppable maid Roberta to the title character of which film?
The Terminator
The Terminator was his comparison for Roberta, a deliberate break from the realism he otherwise aimed for in favour of comic-book excess.
Q 04The tattooed bank robber of which vampire film inspired the look of Black Lagoon's gunfighter Revy?
From Dusk till Dawn
From Dusk till Dawn gave Revy her model in Seth Gecko, the tattooed fugitive played by George Clooney. The film's director, Robert Rodriguez, is one of the author's stated influences.
Q 05Which star of John Woo's gangster films was the visual model for Black Lagoon's Mr. Chang?
Chow Yun-fat
Chow Yun-fat's triad roles shaped Chang, who fights with paired pistols like the actor's Mark in A Better Tomorrow, and Revy herself admits the calm boss is the better shot.
Q 06Which Quentin Tarantino film inspired the balance of action and comedy in the Black Lagoon manga?
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction set the tone the author wanted, with gunfights broken up by wisecracks. John Woo, Robert Rodriguez and 1990s Hollywood action films fed into the manga as well.
Q 07The Black Lagoon anime's director called the gun-toting maid Roberta an evil version of which nanny?
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins, turned evil, was the director's picture of how Roberta fights. Her uniform was no joke, though: the author says it simply suited a wealthy South American household.
Q 08What is the name of Balalaika's Russian crime syndicate of former soldiers in Black Lagoon?
Hotel Moscow
Hotel Moscow trades behind a front, the Bougainvillea Trade Company. Its members served under Balalaika in the Soviet army, which is why the gang moves and fights like a military unit.
Q 09Which Black Lagoon character, a former US Marine who went AWOL, captains the Lagoon Company's ship?
Dutch
Dutch deserted near the end of the Vietnam War and resurfaced as a mercenary, though some characters doubt the war record he claims.
Q 10Which Black Lagoon crew member is a University of Florida dropout who runs the computers?
Benny
Benny joined after Revy and the crew's captain saved him from both the FBI and the mob, and he repays them as mechanic, hacker and driver.
Q 11The gum-chewing nun Eda of Black Lagoon's Rip-Off Church secretly reports to which organisation?
The CIA
The CIA pays Eda to watch threats to American interests from behind her habit, and among the city's residents only Rock suspects who her real employer is.
Q 12What oversized tool does Roanapur's body-disposal specialist, known as the Cleaner, wield in Black Lagoon?
A chainsaw
A chainsaw, handled precisely enough to deflect gunfire, is her trademark. An old throat injury means she speaks through an electronic voice device, and she panics without it.
Q 13Which animation studio, also behind Trigun and Perfect Blue, produced the Black Lagoon anime?
Madhouse
Q 21What is the name of the Roanapur bar in Black Lagoon that gunfights keep wrecking?
The Yellow Flag
The Yellow Flag is run by Bao, an army veteran who says it has been damaged more than fifteen times since it opened, mostly thanks to Revy, who never pays for repairs.
Q 22The murderous child twins Hansel and Gretel in Black Lagoon are orphans from which country?
Romania
Romania's state orphanages are where the twins were abandoned before being sold on the black market. The author says the story darkened as he researched the Cold War years there.
Q 23Which South American country is home to the Lovelace family that Roberta serves in Black Lagoon?
Venezuela
Madhouse animated both 2006 seasons and came back four years later for a five-episode sequel released straight to video, with the same director throughout.
Q 14In which American city's Chinatown was Black Lagoon's foul-mouthed gunfighter Revy born?
New York
New York is her home town: she was born near Mott Street in Manhattan's Chinatown, and she is still notorious there long after leaving.
Q 15What role does the former salaryman Rock fill for the Lagoon Company in Black Lagoon?
Negotiator
Negotiator and accountant is the job he grows into, using his corporate training to smooth deals with clients while keeping his shirt and tie on.
Q 16What are Rock and Revy sent to retrieve from a Nazi submarine on the seabed in Black Lagoon?
A painting
A painting, The Twelve Knights Led by Brunhilda, is the prize. A neo-Nazi group dives for it too, believing it was the work of Hitler himself.
Q 17In which country did Black Lagoon's Balalaika fight as a Soviet paratrooper before turning to crime?
Afghanistan
Afghanistan is where she served as a captain and earned her callsign, and the men of her unit followed her into the underworld after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Q 18Which criminal specialty has a pack of bounty hunters chasing the fugitive Jane across Roanapur in Black Lagoon?
Counterfeiting
Counterfeiting US currency is her craft, but she blows a deadline set by her Florida bosses, and they send bounty hunters after her.
Q 19With what weapon does the yakuza bodyguard Ginji cut a bullet in two in Black Lagoon?
A katana
A katana is all Ginji needs: once a feared yakuza killer, he favours a blade over firearms and fights Revy with it at the end of the Tokyo story.
Q 20Which gunmaker's pistols does Revy carry as a customised pair with extended barrels in Black Lagoon?
Beretta
Beretta 92FS pistols, fitted with longer barrels and engraved with a Jolly Roger, are her signature, and being ambidextrous she fires both at once.
Venezuela is home to the Lovelaces, one of thirteen old South American families. Roberta herself is Colombian, taken in by the family head as a favour to her father.
Q 24Before becoming a maid, Black Lagoon's Roberta was a trained assassin for which guerrilla army?
FARC
FARC trained her as an assassin in Cuba under her real name, Rosarita Cisneros, and that past keeps her on the wanted lists of cartels and police alike.
Q 25What is the full real name of Rock, the kidnapped Tokyo salaryman at the centre of Black Lagoon?
Rokuro Okajima
Rokuro Okajima was shortened to Rock by the crew's captain on the day of the kidnapping, and the nickname stuck once his company left him for dead.
Q 26Which song, the debut single of the singer Mell, opens most episodes of the Black Lagoon anime?
Red Fraction
Red Fraction opens both 2006 seasons, and a remixed version opens the later video episodes. The single climbed to number 11 on Japan's Oricon chart.
Q 27Brad Swaile, Rock's English voice in Black Lagoon, also voiced which Death Note character?
Light Yagami
Light Yagami and Rock were both voiced by Brad Swaile in the late 2000s, so the mild salaryman and the killer student share one voice in English.
Q 28Which manga artist, also behind the original story of Re:Creators, writes and draws Black Lagoon?
Rei Hiroe
Rei Hiroe pitched his publisher several ideas and this one was chosen. He has paused the manga for years at a time, citing struggles with depression.
Q 29What subtitle did the Black Lagoon anime carry when it returned for twelve more episodes?
The Second Barrage
The Second Barrage aired from October to December 2006, only months after the first run ended, and adapts the twins, Greenback Jane and Tokyo storylines.
Q 30What job did Black Lagoon's triad boss Mr. Chang hold in Hong Kong before he turned to crime?
A police officer
A police officer in the Royal Hong Kong force, Chang went on to run the triad's Roanapur branch, and that training may explain why he handles twin pistols better than Revy.