Characters — Browse every character across the manga and anime catalogue

Abrego

Abrego is the head of the Manisarela Cartel's branch in Roanapur. His brash, cowardly activities on the island, which often ended in bloodshed, was a source of disgust from other m

Bai Ji-Shin Chang

Wai-San Chang (also known as Mr. Chang) is the boss of a branch of the Triads based in Thailand. Like Revy, he is adept with wielding a pistol in each hand (Beretta 76 and AMT Hard

Balalaika

Balalaika is the boss of Hotel Moscow. It is revealed in the novel that her real name is Sofiya Pavlovena, though this name is never used in her presence. She is sometimes referred

Benny

Benny is a college dropout from a Florida university where he studied until getting into trouble with the FBI and the mafia. He works as the Lagoon Company's mechanic, compute

Dutch

The leader of Lagoon Company and captain of the ex-American Navy PT boat Black Lagoon. He is a former American soldier who fought in the Vietnam War. He tends to stay away from the

Eda

Eda is a nun in a convent in Roanapur with ties to the underground (since the convent is mainly a smuggling operation). She is friends with Revy but that doesn't keep them from poi

Frederica Sawyer

Frederica Sawyer is a cleaner in the town of Roanapur, Thailand, who specializes in body disposal, but occasionally delves into bounty hunter work. She uses a chainsaw as her dispo

Garcia Lovelace

Garcia Fernando Lovelace is the only son of Diego Jose San Fernando Lovelace. He was heir to the Lovelace family line, and as such, is its current head, the twelfth in succession a

Ginji Matsuzaki

Ginji Matsuzaki is the acting wakagashira (underboss) of Washimine Group. He is currently working as a street stall vendor, but was formerly an assassin nicknamed "Hitokiri Gi

Hänsel

Hänsel and Gretel are two unnamed Romanian identical twin orphans, suggested to be male and female, who were abandoned in a state-run orphanage due to the Nicolae Ceauşescu re

Janet Bhai

Janet Bhai, also known as Greenback Jane, is a professional money counterfeiter from India. She served as the leader for her project team, which was spread around the world but was

Leigharch

Leigharch is an Irish driver who worked with Shenhua at one time. A compulsive smoker of marijuana (in the manga he actually snorts cocaine), he has a distressingly frequent tenden

Lotton

Lotton "The Wizard" is a mysterious looking man and one of the bounty hunters hired to catch "Greenback" Jane. He has gray hair, wears a black trench coat and s

Masahiro Takenaka

Born in the Adachi ward in Tokyo, Masahiro Takenaka spent much of his life fighting one revolution after another. Originally part of the Japanese Red Army, he had to leave the coun

Masuda

Lt. Col. Matsuda was an officer of the Imperial Japanese Army who was posted in Germany, mainly to learn aeronautics from the German Luftwaffe. In March of 1945, he returned home o

Revy

Revy, sometimes referred by her full name Rebecca Lee, is the female protagonist of the series. She does most of the fighting for the Lagoon Company. Very little is revealed about

Roberta Cisneros

Roberta is a maid who worked for four years at the Lovelace household in Venezuela. Although her domestic skills, such as cleaning and cooking, were poor, she has developed a close

Rokuro Okajima

Rock, formerly known as Rokuro Okajima, is the protagonist of the series. He was a Japanese salaryman for Asahi Industries in Tokyo until he was taken hostage by the crew of the Bl

Rowan Pidgeon

The African-American owner of the Roanapur strip club 'GoofFest', Rowan "Jackpot" Pigeon also operates in the trafficking of child pornography and "snuff" films within Southeast As

Shenhua

Shenhua is a Taiwanese assassin in the employ of Mr. Chang. She prefers to use various edged weapons in close combat, in particular a pair of kukri knives linked together with a le

Spielberger

Spielberger, a native of the German city of Stuttgart with a wife and daughter, was a member of the Nazi Party’s elite Waffen SS during World War II, was ordered by Alfred, a

Verrocchio

Verrocchio is a minor mob boss, representing the Italian mob on Roanapur. Once one of the major operators on the island, his power and reputation had been supplanted when Hotel Mos

Wentzel Ahbe

Wentzel Ahbe was a highly-decorated U-Boat captain in the Kriegsmarine, who had survived many a depth-charge battle during the Battle of the Atlantic. In March of 1945, he led U-13

Yolanda

Sister Yolanda is the leader of the Church of Violence, often called "the Rip-off Church" by much of Roanapur. Located on the mainland of Thailand, the facility operates