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Baccano Week 2023 - Day 1: Connections, Fate, Coincidence

Molsa Martillo walking with a few of his executives and seeing Bartolo Runorata across the street

(I think there is a lot of potential between two guys who came from the same hometown starting crime families in the same orbit while being involved in the shenanigans of the immortals. Friends to Enemies or Friends to Enemies to Lovers... Take your pick. Also did anyone ever notice that Molsa seems to have a scar near his left eyebrow??? Like you can’t really see it here, but staring at pictures of Molsa makes you notice things.)

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ROUND 1 PART 1 MASTERPOST.

Benjamin v. Lana

Frank v. Cal Muybridge

Fred v. Mary Beriam

Fil v. Leeza Laforet

Sham v. Gregoire

Pamela v. Dune

Samantha v. Rachel

Isaac Dian v. Elean Duga

The Poet v. Dallas Genoard

Szilard Quates v. Charon Walken

Illness v. Huey Laforet

Chané Laforet v. Keith Gandor

Sickle v. Czeslaw Meyer

Bartolo Runorata v. Nader Schasschule

Gretto Avaro v. Zank Rowan

Esperanza C. Boroñal v. Fang Lin-Shan

Donatello v. Dalton Strauss

Carla Alvarez Santoña v. Sylvie Lumiere

Seina v. The President of the Daily Days

Gabriel v. Roy Maddock

Berga Gandor v. Jean-Pierre Accardo

Manfred Beriam v. Carlotta

Chaini v. Alkins

Claire Stanfield v. Henry

Pezzo v. Christopher Shaldred

Eve Genoard v. Rosetta

Archangelo v. Angelo

Kanshichirou Yaguruma v. Victor Talbot

Kate Gandor v. Who

Ladd Russo v. Miria Harvent

Sarges v. Feldt Nibiru

Laz Smith v. Rubik

Melvi Dormentaire v. Bobby Splot

Gustav St. Germain v. Ennis

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I didn’t mean to leave people hanging on the latest Baccano! merch I received in the mail on Monday - sleep deprivation plus realizing you’re supposed to be at a D&D session when you’re at the library is a bad combo.

In any case, like @toushindai realized from the kanji, this is a Settings Research Collection for the 2007 Baccano! anime adaptation. The three images above are scans I did at the library of the front and back covers and the very first illustration - a height sheet for the main cast. The front cover edges are slightly creased, owing to the fact that this is a used copy, but the illustrations themselves are in fine condition.

Edit: Tumblr quality does not represent actual quality of those scans, and those scans aren’t even the best scans I did of them.

Now, there should be a good number of you who recognize that height sheet; after all, @the-baccano-warehouse shared it and other height + model sheets once upon a time on their own blog, and I’ve uploaded those already-online scans to the Baccano! Wiki here. However... Those weren’t the only illustrations that were done for the anime, something I’ve verified thanks to now owning this collection.

Going over the collection again... If I have this right, the following sheets aren’t included in the group of online scans I linked above:

Previously Unseen Character Sheets

Model Sheet: Firo; full-body

Group Sheet: The Three Gandor Brothers; full-bodies

Group Sheet: Full-body designs for 9 members of Szilard’s elderly coterie

Model Sheet: Molsa Martillo

Model Sheet: Kanshichirou Yaguruma

Model Sheet: Randy and Pezzo

Model Sheet: Seina

Model Sheet: Lia Lin-Shan

Model Sheet: Faces for Fang, Jon, and Melody

Model Sheet: Faces for Nick, Donny, and Jack

Model Sheet: Faces for Dune and Vicky

Model Sheet: Faces for Placido and the two Ep 4 Russos

Group Sheet: Full-bodies for Spike, Goose, and three dining car Lemures

Model Sheet: Faces for Spike and Goose

Model Sheet: Faces for three dining car Lemures

Model Sheet: Manfred, Natalie, and Mary Beriam

Model Sheet: Tony and Lemur conductor

Model Sheet: Benjamin and Samantha

Model Sheet: Carol

Model Sheet: Bartolo Runorata

Model Sheet: Gustavo Bagetta

Model Sheet: Begg Garott (1711)

Model Sheet: Denkurō Tōgō (1711; just says Tōgō)

Model Sheet: Victor Talbot (1711; I LOVE this one)

Model Sheet: Bill Sullivan and Edward Noah (poor Donald isn’t there)

Group Sheet: Full-bodies for five of the Advena Avis alchemists

Previously Unseen Setting Sheets (all of them, basically, except the FPF engine and car)

Alveare exterior

Alveare honey shop interior

Alveare speakeasy interior

Alveare speakeasy bar

Coraggioso basement: sitting area? (view of tables and chairs; can see entrance to billiards room)

Coraggioso basement: Billiards Room + bar (facing previous dining area)

Coraggioso basement: Billiards Room, facing the opposite direction (towards the Gandors’ office)

Firo’s Apartment: a whole layout of the living room (the place where Ennis is writing her letter in episode 02)

Flying Pussyfoot: First Class cabin

Flying Pussyfoot: Dining car

Flying Pussyfoot: (First Class?) Corridor design

Flying Pussyfoot: Corridor with the water closet (the one Mary hides in)

Flying Pussyfoot: (Third Class?) Corridor design

 Flying Pussyfoot: Third Class car (the one with the booths that the Rail Tracer finds Czes in)

Grand Central Station: Overhead layout of both floors

Grand Central Station: View of ticket counters

Station/Switch point: View of Track 29

There weren’t any Advena Avis setting drawings in this one, sad to say; I’d hoped for a layout of the Advena Avis floors/interior (cabins....etc). However, that’s a lot of illustrations to enjoy and discover, you know? I particularly love Victor’s model sheet (it’s so him) and Begg’s, and I’d always wanted to see Akira Ito’s setting drawings ever since he’d said he paid careful attention to layout designs. 

Speaking of, this also finally answers my longstanding curiosity over what he meant when he said he drew Firo’s apartment; while it’s not the entire apartment, it’s the whole living room and that’s definitely more than you’d think he needed to do. 

(I was also surprised that there wasn’t a 1932!Elmer model sheet? He moves around enough in the OVAs that you’d think there’d be one. Same for 1932!Sylvie...but since Graham and Shaft aren’t in here either, I guess this collection is just for the first 13 episodes.)

I’ll see if I can scan all of them before the end of the month; scanning at high quality takes a while, so we’ll see. Ideally I’ll scan all of the drawings, including the ones we already have scans for, because having higher quality versions is never a bad thing. Edit: Although, this is hindered by the fact that you can see other illustrations ‘bleeding’ through the scans... But I’m not about to tear all these illustrations out, Lord know.

I took a few photos to show you (e.g. how big the drawings are + sneak peeks at some of the scans above), so I’ll try and upload them in a separate post.

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ROUND 1.