Black Lagoon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe. It has been published in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X since April 2002. The Lagoon Company is a team of pirate mercenaries operating in the coastal waters of Southeast Asia during the early to mid-1990s. The group specializes in smuggling and transporting goods aboard their 80-foot Elco-type PT boat. Roanapur, a fictional port city in eastern Thailand, serves as their base of operations.