Originally posted by Cerebrum123
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IIRC, Requiem was loosely based on a bunch of actual old ghost stories from around Japan that in the anime were being collected by someone (sort of like the Brothers Grimm but in the early Meiji period), and he runs into these two guys and a girl that both you and he learn are really ghosts who dispense justice on some really wicked individuals. So you ended up with some very adults only stories.
And those were by far the two grimmest episodes of Black Lagoon, which while ultra violent (mercenary/couriers in SE Asia around the time Russia pulled out of Afghanistan) that was also usually very realistic except for the few times the said, oh what the heck, and gleefully jumped the shark. And it could get into pretty deep philosophical territory, notably between Remy and Rock, with the former a cynical, trigger happy nihilist and the latter a somewhat naïve and idealist -- and how they slowly get closer to each other's point of view.
And then there are always those that do stuff just for the shock value.
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