After the Black Lagoon manga series went on hiatus awhile back in Japan, word has surfaced that author Rei Hiroe is closer to getting things back on track as a new date has been penciled in for when things are due with his editor. The date wasn’t provided as to when fans can expect it, but in a blog he wrote about it, saying, “Though I’m dying to draw, I’m scared to actually draw it. If it were not this hard, I wouldn’t have had to take as long as two years off.”

Black Lagoon has been released in the US in manga form completely with the ninth volume arriving back in the summer of 2010. The anime series was originally picked up and released by Geneon Entertainment but ended up in FUNimation’s hands after the company closed its doors. FUNimation has released the original series and intends to bring it out again along with the OVA series in 2012, though no formal dates have been announced yet.

In addition to Hiroe posting the news, he also added a “Black Lagoon-based interpretation of the Thai flooding” which is certainly cute in its own way, which you can see below.

Plot concept: Lock ‘n’ load with the baddest soldiers of fortune ever to hit the high seas of Southeast Asia! Aboard their World War II era torpedo boat, the Black Lagoon, Dutch the Boss, Benny the Mechanic, Revy Two Hand, and Rock, the salaryman from Japan, deliver anything, anywhere.

In the dangerous underworld of the Russian mafia, Chinese triads, Columbian drug cartels, crazed assassins, and ruthless mercenaries, it’s hard to know who to trust. But if you’ve got a delivery to make, and you don’t mind a little property damage along the way, you can count on the crew of the Black Lagoon!

[Source: Crunchyroll]

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