Original Novel: NARITA Ryougo 成田良悟	Original Illustration: ENAMI Katsumi エナミカツミ	Director: OOMORI Takahiro 大森貴弘 (Jigoku Shoujo, Gakuen Alice)
Screenplay: TAKAGI Noboru 高木登 (Jigoku Shoujo)	Character Design: KISHIDA Takahiro 岸田隆宏 (MASTER KEATON)	Music: YOSHIMORI Makoto 吉森信
Animation Production: Brains base
Cast: TBA

Pulp fiction with its share of action, romance, suspense, and even comedy, if the series is anything like NARITA Ryougo's award-winning light novel series (Gold Award at the 9th Dengeki Novel Awards).

The year is 1711, on the Pacific Ocean. Alchemists leaving their homes for the New World receives the "Wine of Immortality" from the Devil. Those who drink the wine become immortal--but that isn't all. When one of the alchemist begins to devour the others with his right hand, the alchemists end up fleeing all over the world.

New York in the 30s during Prohibition. Various people are living their lives on the fringe of society: Filo and his boss Miser from the Martillo Family, bumbling thieves couple Issac and Millia, three mafia brothers from the Gandol Family, delinquent Dallas and his sister Eve, 200-year-old alchemist Cerrad and his chauffeur Enis. However, when Cerrad tries to resurrect the Wine of Immortality, these unrelated people's path would cross.

Meanwhile, onboard a transcontinental train from Chicago to New York, other individuals that include terrorists, delinquent gangs, a murderer and his fiance, an immortal boy--and even a "Rail Tracer", an urban legend believed to remove passengers from the train without anyone noticing!

Baccano! features as many as 20 protagonists, and several unrelated events which intersect at some stage as the plot thickens and things get out of hand. The animation is produced by Brains base and directed by OOMORI Takahiro (Jigoku Shoujo, Gakuen Alice).

(Trivia: In case you're wondering what Baccano means, it's italian for "making loud, disturbing noises" (often during a drunken celebration). In fact, Baccano is a place name in Italy, and in Roman times, the Bacchanales worshipped Bacchus (Roman god of wine and barley) with loud, drunken orgies. Similarly in Baccano!, it's about a lot of people making a huge (and violent) commotion over wine.)

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