Baccano!: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir. In addition, a war between the mafia groups is getting worse. On board the Advena Avis, in 1711, alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality.

Based on the award-winning light novels of the same name, Baccano! follows several events that initially seem unrelated, both in time and place, but are part of a much bigger story—one of alchemy, survival and immortality. Merging these events together are the kindhearted would-be thieves, Isaac and Miria, connecting various people, all of them with their own hidden ambitions and agendas, and creating lifelong bonds and consequences for everyone involved.

Series details

• Title: Baccano!
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Action, Adventure, Anime, Crime
• Premiere date: 2007-07-26
• Final broadcast date listed: 2008-05-28
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: WOWOW
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.4/10
• TVMaze ID: 6707
• IMDb ID: tt1334722
• TVDB ID: 80421

Cast and credited roles

• Atsushi Imaruoka — Dallas Genoard
• Masaya Onosaka — Isaac Dian
• Sayaka Aoki — Miria Harvent
• Akemi Kanda — Czeslaw Meyer
• Sanae Kobayashi — Ennis
• Keiji Fujiwara — Ladd Russo
• Daisuke Sakaguchi — Jacuzzi Splot
• Mitsuru Miyamoto — Maiza Avaro
• Hiroyuki Yoshino — Firo Prochainezo
• Marina Inoue — Eve Geonard
• Takehito Koyasu — Luck Gandor
• Masakazu Morita — Claire Stanfield

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2007-07-26; final listed air date 2008-05-28; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Baccano! on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.