Baccano!

Synopsis

During the late 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, this anime adaptation 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.


Main Character

Ennis (エニス)

Szilard's homunculus, although not his first creation. She was created as his subordinate, and is supposed to have no thoughts or emotion when executing his commands; recently, however, she has been gaining more human emotions, as well as independent thought.

Eventually, she helps Firo by giving him the necessary knowledge to destroy Szilard.

Maiza Avaro (マイザー・アヴァーロ)

A Camorra member and one of the original immortals. He was the alchemist who summoned the demon aboard the Advena Avis, and in turn the only one given knowledge of the immortality elixir's recipe. His younger brother, Gerd, was one of the first to be "eaten" for knowledge of the elixir's recipe. Despite being a mafia member, he does not advocate violence, and is rather tenderhearted. Maiza perenially wears a kind expression.

Isaac Dian (アイザック・ディアン)

Issac Dian forms one half of the bumbling thief couple, who seem to cross into everybody's story in one way or another. He's in love with Miria, and they've robbed everything and anything, from doors to the entire Genoard household. He's completely clueless, super eccentric and happy-go-lucky to the point you can't stop laughing from his bold and sometimes completely weird actions.

He has a cameo appearance in Durarara!!

Luck Gandor (ラック・ガンドール)

Intelligent executive of the Mafia Gandor Family. The third of the brothers and childhood friend of Firo.

Although he and his brothers lead the Gandor family, Luck's close ties with Firo makes the Gandors allies of the Martillo Family. He is always calm and level-headed, preferring to resort to violence only when necessary. When that time approaches, he does not hesitate to eliminate his opponent while still maintaining his calm demeanor.

Since Luck was not a part of the group of Alchemists who sought the immortality elixir in 1711, he is not one of the original immortals. He gains his immortality by accident in 1930, when Issac and Miria mistake the elixir for wine, and shares it with the Gandor brothers and Martillo Family.

Miria Harvent (ミリア・ハーヴェント)

Another eccentric thief, she is the partner and lover of Isaac Dian. Miria wholeheartedly believes and supports everything Isaac says, often even going so far as to mimic his body language. She also unintentionally becomes an immortal in 1930. Together they appear extremely stupid, whimsical and oblivious, but they have great affection for the people they meet, whom they always make a big impression on and always believe the best of them.

She has a cameo appearance in Durarara!! 

Czesław Meyer (チェスワフ・メイエル)

Czesław is a young child who gained immortality aboard the Advena Avis. Because of the way his guardian, Fermet - who also gained immortality in 1711 - treated him, he is extremely afraid of the other immortals and wants to "eat" them all before they can "eat" him. Despite being around 230 years old in 1931, his mind is very immature as he will never reach puberty, the 'cure-all' elixir eternally deeming his body a child's.

Firo Prochainezo (フィーロ・プロシェンツォ)

Born between an Italian father and English-American mother, Firo's early childhood was mostly spent in Manhattan's Italian slums. Orphaned at the age of 9, Firo was found by the Martillo Family in the streets one day and stayed with them ever since. Being one of the series' best at knife combats, Firo became an executive staff of the Family at the age of 18. He's also indirectly responsible for the birth of a brand new generation of Immortals in 1930.

Firo is claimed to be the official protagonist of Baccano! by its author despite not being featured at all in some of the books.

(Source: http://baccano.fenali.net/ )

Ladd Russo (ラッド・ルッソ)

Ladd is a sadistic hit-man for the Russo family. His love for acts of violence truly shows in the maniacal glee he exhibits while fighting or killing. He is exceptionally skilled in hand-to-hand combat--particularly boxing--and the use of firearms. He is most happy while killing people that beg for mercy and by seeing dead people or hearing gunfights. Ladd is deeply in love with his fiancée, Lua, although he expresses it through a passionate promise to kill her someday...

Jacuzzi Splot (ジャグジー・スプロット)

A crybaby who is nonetheless capable of exceptional courage and leadership ability when the situation calls for it. At first, Jacuzzi seems almost cripplingly shy, even with a tendency to stutter in front of strangers. However, when his loved ones are in danger, he will summon the strength to face his problems directly, even though he'll continue to cry. After a member of his gang was killed, Jacuzzi robbed a record number of neighborhood stores, clutching a machine gun as tears stream down his face. Jacuzzi went out and received his "sword tattoo" on his face when Nice, his romantic partner, was injured in an explosives accident, so that they would both be similarly marked.

 

Claire Stanfield (クレア・スタンフィールド)

The youngest train conductor for the Flying Pussy Foot, he tells Miria and Isaac the story of the dreaded "Rail-Tracer", a story about a brutish beast that causes passengers in a train to disappear one by one. He also seems to be the only one who knows how to stop the Rail Tracer...

It is later revealed he was raised with the Gandor brothers, and is considered part of their family, as well as being the Rail Tracer aforementioned. He works as an assassin under the name of 'Vino'. He proposes to Chane on their first meeting and promises to find her again. He later does so, in the OVA.