BACCANO!

Huh. Apparently this show aired in Japan last summer, and as Levi remarked to me, it very much feels like the sort of thing Geneon would have licensed would they not have gone belly up in the waning months of last year. Thirteen episodes of crime action and drama, with a touch of comedy (the two characters on the far left-hand-side of the image are totally dense train robbers who provide most of the show's levity), set in and around 1930's Chicago. Oh, and there's an elixir of immortality involved, too, which provides kind of the hook for the first episode. I wasn't sure if I liked it after the first ep, which threw a whole bunch of characters and relationships and names and timeframes at the viewer with reckless abandon -- after the opening animation threw what felt like thirty different characters all with bad Italian (faux-Italian?) names at me, and there was only so much overlap between the opening and the first episode, but ... after watching three episodes, I'm pretty well hooked.

Here, watch the opening theme courtesy of YouTube. Take a gander. It's kinda neat.