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Rosarita Cisneros (ロザリタ・チスネロス Rozarita Chisunerosu), more commonly known as Roberta (ロベルタ Roberuta) and notoriously known as the Bloodhound of Florencia (フローレンシアの猟犬 Furōrenshia no ryōken), is a Colombian maid who works at the Lovelace family household in Venezuela.

Although Roberta's domestic skills (such as cleaning and cooking) are poor, she developed a close friendship with Garcia Lovelace, the young son of her master Diego Lovelace. Originally known as Rosarita Cisneros, Roberta is a former FARC guerrilla who trained as an assassin in Cuba and an internationally wanted terrorist criminal.[1]

Appearance[]

Roberta is a young Hispanic[2] woman with a skinny build and pale skin, and she has a height of 169.8 centimeters (or 5'7").[3] She has waist-length, dark purple hair that is tied in low pigtail braids with square bangs hanging over her eyebrows, blue eyes and sharp canine teeth.

After she fled FARC, Roberta is seen wearing a long French maid uniform with a cross necklace, white gloves, and black shoes. Her large, thick and round glasses are not real as she wears them as part of her maid persona.

Roberta's Blood Trail[]

Roberta lets her hair loose with the bottom tied up by a white string that shows she has knee-length hair and she no longer wears her glasses.

She wears a sleeveless white shirt, black pants, black gloves, and black shoes. Furthermore, on her gold-colored belt buckle, which doubles as a pistol, is a custom design. Specifically, there is a hammer and sickle symbol inside a five-pointed star, and behind the star is an upside-down dagger with a large heart symbol in the background of the star and dagger. Beneath the heart is a heraldic ribbon and in the upper left corner of the belt buckle is the capital letter K.[4]

Personality[]

Roberta is a considerably well-mannered woman despite her murderous past. It is shown that it takes quite a lot to get her upset or angry as seen when Bao insulted her and shoved a drink her way, spilling alcohol on her face.[5] She does not often talk to strangers, but she is very protective and friendly around people she knows, loves and/or trusts. Roberta is bilingual, with her native language being Spanish. Roberta is a Catholic who is deeply religious, constantly claiming her actions are in the name of Santa Maria. She is also seen praying to repent for her sins and asking for the sins of Garcia Lovelace and Diego Lovelace to be forgiven.[6] She is also heard thanking Eda for her help making her arrangements to confront U.S. soldiers and calmly promised her a painless death.[7]

On another occasion, she even gave a friendly bow to the Manisarera Cartel as she let tons of grenades fall from her long maid outfit.[8] When she does become angry, she is a truly spine-chilling rival, being seen as virtually unbeatable by her opponents. In contrast, whenever she takes on her Bloodhound persona, Roberta's demeanor shifts dramatically, casting aside her typical reserved and soft-spoken mask in favor of complete, unhinged rage and berserk bloodlust.

History[]

At some point in the 1980s, Rosarita Cisneros joined FARC as a communist revolutionary guerrilla, admitting that she had murdered many people in the name of revolution, including politicians, counterrevolutionaries, and even women and children. She was additionally wanted by Interpol for her role in the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.[1] In 1989, Rosarita assaulted the Magdalena branch of Taisho Electric and abducted and executed two Japanese engineers. Before Roberta killed the engineer Hironobu Satou, she ripped apart his family photograph, and that photo remained in Roberta's mind as one of numerous emotional wounds.[9] In 1990-1991, disillusioned by discovering that she was merely a tool for the drug cartels allied with FARC, she deserted and joined the Lovelace clan as a maid through her father, who was a close friend of Diego Lovelace. As a servant to the Lovelace family, Rosarita additionally began using the alias Roberta. Because of her desertion, FARC put a bounty of $400,000 on her head, dead or alive.[10]

Rasta Blasta[]

In 1995, four years after leaving FARC and being a maid, the Manisarera Cartel kidnapped Garcia Lovelace, so Diego Lovelace sent his servant Roberta to save the Lovelace family heir. Beginning her journey, she interrogated a man and found out that the cartel shipped the boy to Thailand, so Roberta killed him.[11] When she arrived to Roanapur, Roberta asked around town where she could talk with Manisarera Cartel and she was eventually advised to go to the Yellow Flag.

At the same time, the Lagoon Company was ordered to ship Garcia to Hat Yai to give him to the cartel, but they went to the Yellow Flag instead due to their suspicion about the job.[5] There, while they waited at a table with the boy, Roberta arrived at the bar and sat at the counter. Bao was surprised by her maid outfit and told her that he did not sell milk since his business was a bar. As Revy got a drink from Bao, she saw Roberta and asked her if she looked happy, to which Roberta calmly said no. When she asked Bao for information on the Manisarera Cartel, the Vietnamese bartender slammed a glass of beer onto the counter for her and snapped back that he was not a tourist center.

Although calm on the outside, Roberta told Bao that her glass had a crack in it and wanted another one, shattering the glass with her hand. At that point, members of the Manisarera Cartel walked into the bar (in the anime, the Lagoon Company arrived at the bar after Roberta and the Cartel arrived there). The Manisarera thugs asked Roberta what she wanted with them since they heard about the maid walking across town, and she told them that she was a servant to the Lovelace family, stating that she would have to be rude.[11]

When the cartel members laughed, Roberta started shooting at them with her various weapons, shocking Garcia and angering Bao since he just had the Yellow Flag repaired. Roberta used her bulletproof umbrella as a shield and in turn used the firearm in her umbrella to shoot the men as well as using her briefcase gun. While Bao was hiding behind the counter, he saw Revy crawling away, making him shout at her since he thought that Roberta was another "friend" of hers. Immediately after Bao shouted at her, the Manisarera Cartel leader asked the Lagoon Company why they brought Garcia to the bar, causing Roberta to change her target to the Lagoon Company.

Revy quickly ran to Garcia and held him at gunpoint to dissuade Roberta, but she rejected her action and stated the Lovelace family creed. Revy let go of the boy and started shooting at Roberta while running toward Bao, who told her to screw off. As she jumped over the counter, Roberta fired a round which knocked Revy's body against the bar cupboards, knocking her unconscious. When Roberta became shocked that Garcia, in tears, told Rock to take him with the Lagoon Company, she dropped her weapons in a speechless state. At that point, the remaining cartel members pointed their guns at her, and the Manisarera leader said that he knew that she was the Bloodhound of Florencia with a $400,000 bounty on her head from FARC. Roberta was not concerned with the men and bid them goodbye by dropping several grenades from her dress, blowing up the bar and engulfing the bar in flames. After Garcia's abductors already escaped, Roberta emerged from the bar fire and broke into a car, using it to chase down the Lagoon Company's car.

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She soon caught up to the car, then attempting to ram the car off the road. She almost grabbed Dutch out of the passenger seat window, but Roberta's radiator got shot, stopping her car in its path. Although Benny tried his best to maneuver his vehicle through the city streets and alleys, Roberta caught up to them in another car and crashed it into Benny's car, damaging it but also crashing her car. She immediately broke out of the back window using her fist, terrifying nearby bystanders. She ran toward Benny's car and used a trench spike to hang onto the trunk door, seeing Garcia sitting in the back window.[10]

Immediately upon the Yellow Flag's destruction, Balalaika and Boris of Hotel Moscow deployed the Vysotniki to save the Lagoon Company from being killed by Roberta. Dutch tried shooting at Roberta, but she jumped onto the car roof and started shooting downward, with Benny's car soon crashing at the harbor. Revy thankfully woke up from her concussion and started a firefight with Roberta, with the latter managing to wound Revy in her arm. The two began shooting at each other once more, both soon ending falling onto the ground with their pistols pointed at each other in a furious rage. At that point, several Vysotniki snipers surrounded the two women and forcibly disarmed them. Balalaika told Roberta that she knew about her terrorist past, confusing Garcia.

Roberta snapped back at Balalaika to shut up, but the latter woman calmly pointed her pistol at Roberta's head while she told Garcia about Rosarita Cisneros's terrorism during her FARC days. Roberta confessed that the stories were true, adding that she did not want Garcia to bear her sins. Although Boris and the Russian soldiers held the leader of the Manisarera Cartel to appease Roberta, she and Revy still wanted to fight. Balalaika agreed to the conditions, and Roberta managed to get the first punch by telling Revy her shoe was untied. Rock tried to stop the fighting since he thought it was barbaric, but both women told him to stay out of their way. Sometime later, Revy and Roberta settled the fight ending in a draw. Balalaika ordered Boris to drive Roberta back to the airport so she and Garcia could return to their home in Venezuela. Garcia asked her to never pick up a gun again, to which she agreed. Before leaving, the battered Roberta asked Garcia to retrieve her glasses since the glasses helped her play the part of a caring maid, and the two flew back to the Lovelace family mansion.[1]

El Baile de la muerte / Roberta's Blood Trail[]

Sometime later in August 1996 (changed to October 1995 in the anime), Roberta accompanied Diego Lovelace when he went to Barinas, Venezuela to campaign for the political party MVR. As Diego was on stage with the MVR's leader named Morales, Roberta watched helplessly as a bomb was set off, killing several people including her master Diego. At Diego's funeral, Roberta consoled Garcia as the boy cried on her chest. The young child asked his maid why was his father a victim, to which Roberta responded that Diego had nothing to be ashamed about in the face of God. Despite Garcia ordering her not to pick up gun-fighting anymore, Roberta decided to go into battle again with her Bloodhound persona, seeking revenge.[12]

Although it was reported that a member of a right-wing militia was arrested for the bombing, Roberta knew that this cover story was too convenient, and members of the Venezuelan military sympathetic to the leftist party visited the Lovelace estate to tell Garcia Lovelace, the son of Diego, and Roberta about 6 conspirators with Western ties involved in the bombing. Accordingly, Roberta tracked down and killed all 6 members, the leader among these men being Marcos José Lucientes. After learning about the National Security Agency's involvement from Lucientes, Roberta then hunted down and abducted Colonel Simon Dickens, the head of the NSA's special operations in Latin America. After interrogating him by torturing Dickens with heated-up stones, she learned about the Grey Fox Commando Group and their concurrent mission in Roanapur, revealing her true enemy. Afterward, she burned down the abandoned hotel with Dickens inside, and she bought a plane ticket to Thailand as well as a bus ticket to Roanapur.[13]

Consequently, Roberta arrived in Roanapur with various weapons, including a Charleville musket passed down from multiple generations of the Lovelace family, and went to the Yellow Flag. While Bao was cleaning up the bar as it was closed, Roberta showed up and asked him for a bottle of tequila. Completely scared of her, Bao gave her the entire bottle, which she drank quickly and then asked him for every shop that could help her wage a war. He refused to fulfill her request, but she crushed her glass and clarified that she was not joking. The terrified bartender then directed her to the businesses of Praiyachat, Tou Chi, and Richie Leroy. She went to Praiyachat to repair her musket, then to Tou Chi for musket gunpowder, and finally to Leroy to receive shelter.[6] She also visited Doctor Hartland for stimulant medication that she would use to keep herself awake and full of stamina.[14]

Meanwhile, Garcia found out about Roberta leaving to get revenge on his behalf, so he and another Lovelace maid, Fabiola Iglesias, went to Roanapur together to find her, first seeking help from the Lagoon Company. Fabiola found Rock and Revy at the Yellow Flag and after destroying the bar there in a short firefight with the Colombian Cartel, brought the rest of the Lagoon crew to the Sankan Palace Hotel. There, Mister Chang of the Hong Kong Triad also visited Garcia's room to offer help in tracking Roberta, which Fabiola begrudgingly accepted. Garcia then recalled how members of the Venezuelan military visited his house as well as different people killed by Roberta matching her motive. The new, young Lovelace head then asked for Rock's help in particular, and he soon agreed, with Chang willing to provide help.[13]

Afterward, Chang himself called for a Council meeting at The Golden Swingin Night Club between Roanapur's crime lords to provide information on Roberta's presence and motives in the city, as well as the story on Grey Fox's presence. After the meeting and a private discussion between Chang and Balalaika, the crime lords agreed to get both Roberta and the U.S. Army soldiers out of the city to prevent Roanapur's potential destruction, though Abrego was adamant in his order to kill Roberta to stabilize his cartel's relations with FARC.[15][14] Elsewhere in her hideout, Roberta showed signs of a growing anger, taking mouthfuls of stimulant drugs and experiencing haunting hallucinations of her past victims, most notably a Japanese man. As she prayed for Diego's salvation and Garcia's safety, the apparition told her that she could not be saved no matter how hard she repented, angering her. In her fervent prayer, Leroy walked into the room and Roberta pointed a pistol at him in response, greatly startling him. He clarified that it was only him and told her that he brought her the supplies she asked for as well as new clothes.[16] Soon after Roberta dressed into her new combat clothes, Leroy informed her that the hitmen she hired from Bren the Black Death's murder-for-hire business were ready, thanking him.[17]

At sunset, she left her hiding place, but not before dousing it with gasoline to blow it up and hide her tracks. When she got on the rooftop adjacent from the Tokaīna Hotel where Shane Caxton's team was staying, her apparition appeared a second time and said that it was not too late to turn back. Ignoring him, Roberta positioned herself and prepared for her attack. At the same time, FARC fighters of the Sumasas Brigade were in Roanapur on orders of Manuel Marulanda to kill Roberta with shelter and intel from Abrego of the Colombian Mafia.[18] Per Roberta's plan, Bren's hitmen rushed inside Grey Fox's hotel, but they were easily rebuffed and killed. As the Grey Fox soldiers got onto the rooftop, Roberta used her sniper rifle to shoot at them, but they used a smokescreen and took cover, soon escaping to another rooftop out of her range. Nearby, Alberto Camarasa told his FARC fighters to engage her, but she casually blew away and killed the first squad, pole-vaulting to another rooftop to continue pursuing the Grey Fox unit. At night and further into her quest, she began to lose sight of her goal and continued to gulp down her stimulant pills, returning deeper into her Bloodhound persona.

In an empty building where Garcia was coincidentally, Roberta prepared several makeshift weapons knowing that FARC fighters were entering the building. She killed three of them with ease, and to prepare for further combat, she used Rojez's corpse as a shield from other fighters. When two men saw the corpse, Roberta killed them with her fists, and the unfazed Camarasa witnessed and nonchalantly insulted her. She tried to counter his moves, but Camarasa knew her fighting style and managed to punch her in the stomach, pinning her down on her back onto a table. Amazed at her tenacity, Camarasa commented that she was no longer the hound they once knew but a stray wolf, adding that he knew her moves due to receiving the same training in Cuba from Cuba's military.

The Cuban man then elaborated that he did not want to kill her but instead re-recruit her for FARC due to her superhuman skill, stating that she could help revive and train the leftist guerrillas. He assured her that he would be successful in vouching for her due to his connections in Havana and if they brought back American heads. Garcia, who had been looking for Roberta in the building, overheard their conversation and grabbed a crowbar while hiding behind a corner. Roberta, feigning friendliness, agreed to work for Camarasa, even saying that she did not care about what could happen to her master anymore. She attempted to seduce him to distract him by putting her legs around him despite him pointing his pistol at her head. He agreed but warned her that he would shoot her if she tried anything unusual. As she undressed, she managed to fire a bullet into Camarasa's abdomen using a secret chamber in her belt buckle, greatly injuring him.

Roberta readies to shoot Garcia

Roberta thinking that Garcia Lovelace was a figment of her imagination

He tried to grab his pistol, but Roberta kicked it away and began bludgeoning him to death with her fists, killing him and frightening Garcia. Surprised at Garcia's presence, Roberta let out a loud scream upon seeing him faint, giving her position away to both Grey Fox as well as Fabiola's group of Revy, Shenhua, Frederica Sawyer, and Lotton the Wizard. Roberta cried while begging to Garcia to wake up, and the apparition of the Japanese man appeared once more, asking her if she was the one who imagined him as a voice of reason to dissuade her revenge. The Japanese figure revealed that she tore his family picture before ruthlessly shooting him in the forehead seven years ago when she was a member of FARC. Losing sanity of who was real or fake, Roberta thought that Garcia was just another hallucination, pointing a pistol at his head.[9]

As she prepared to fire, Horner of Grey Fox intervened just in time to save Garcia, with Sanchez pushing her back using a smoke grenade. Wanting to pacify Roberta, Fabiola's group found her and tried to stop her. The drugged-up Roberta broke Shenhua's knife, Sawyer's chainsaw, and kicked Lotton in the groin, terrifying all of them. Roberta immediately recognized the terrified Fabiola, calmly telling the young maid to clean the living room and help their master. The killer maid then left to find Garcia, so Fabiola's group also pursued but lost her path. As Garcia was with Shane Caxton and some men in an alleyway, Caxton was warned by Balalaika about the maid's nearby presence, with the Vysotniki now offering help to Grey Fox to escape. Roberta jumped down from the rooftop onto Caxton, taunting him that she would kill all the "little foxes." The soldiers shot their rifles to push her back before she could kill Caxton, and Garcia also intervened on her behalf to prevent the soldiers from killing her. After Roberta hid once again, the Vysotniki used their military coordination to stave off Roberta and prevent her from chasing Grey Fox. In the manga, Grey Fox left via Roanapur's land bridge, whereas in the anime, the U.S. Army squad arrived at the harbor and boarded the Lagoon Company's boat to sail northward on the Mekong River, angering the hotheaded Roberta.[19]

Defeated for now, Roberta returned to her hideout, where the Japanese man once again haunted her vision, annoying her enough to quickly shoot the wall and make the apparition disappear. Upon looking at the ground, she saw a packet of forged identity documents with an alcohol bottle on top. Taking the Spanish-language note attached to the bottle, she read its message: "The hunt is not over, I will tell you where the fox is." Drinking some of the alcohol, she laughed giddily as she poured some of it on her head, then thanking God for the message and proclaiming that she would tear the "foxes" to pieces.[20] She soon went to the Don Mueang International Airport to board a plane leaving for Mandalay, Myanmar. As she sat down, she heard Eda, sitting in the seat next to hers, joke that she could have at least taken a shower. Roberta tried to attack the CIA agent, but the annoyed Eda blocked her attack and informed the maid that she had the location to where Grey Fox was headed as well as travel arrangements on land to speed up the process. Roberta glared at her and thanked her by saying that she would make the agent's death painless after her "fox hunt" was complete.[19]

Finally in the Golden Triangle, Roberta arrived at the camp of Shue Yan, the man whom Grey Fox wanted to capture and secretly extradite to the United States. At the camp, she single-handedly killed the drug lord's guards and disarmed Shue Yan, blindfolding him and tying him to a chair with explosives and mines nearby. Unknown to her, Garcia and Fabiola were also on the boat that Grey Fox used to head to the camp, with Garcia providing a plan to Caxton to subdue Roberta and her rampage. As the Grey Fox soldiers entered the pitch black jungle, they came across the camp and saw the guards' corpses as well as noticing strange rods on the ground. Caxton and his men soon saw Roberta standing next to the subdued Shue Yan, and she pulled out her Charleville musket. Taunting them, she then kept the drug lord next to several Claymore mines to bait the soldiers, making Team Echo pursue her.[21] In the anime, she cut off Shue Yan's ear as she carried him into the jungle.

In the jungle, Roberta began killing the soldiers using the flechette rounds she placed onto the ground, firing the rounds from her Charleville musket. As she killed more troops (including Wright, Gardner, and Sanchez) and terrified the survivors, Caxton radioed to her that he would surrender if she gave Shue Yan to his men, surprising Raymond McDougal, Caxton's subordinate who told him that his plan would not work. She refused until Garcia talked to her on the phone, surprising her. Agreeing angrily, Roberta saw the lone Caxton, Garcia and Fabiola standing far from her. She yelled that she would finish her revenge by killing Caxton, but before she could fire her gun, Garcia pulled out his own pistol and shot the U.S. Army major in the chest, terrifying her. She denied that her beloved Garcia would kill anyone, and the young boy told his maid that he wanted her to stop her revenge.[22]

The head maid continued to deny his request, reasoning that Garcia actually did want revenge. To snap her out of her loss of sanity, the boy shot her with a fake bullet to show she was not dreaming, causing Roberta to shoot Garcia as well, with her bullet only grazing his kidney. She screamed in terror as she shot her master, but he ran up to her and kissed her, making her blush. He then told her that everything was okay and that she needed to end the "dance of death" that Roanapur reinforced in her. Caxton then woke up, showing that the bullet that hit him was a fake, albeit remarking that the force felt real. Infuriated, Roberta pulled out her pistol and asked why he was still alive, but Fabiola stood in front of her line of sight to calm her down.

Garcia ordered Roberta to put down her gun, remarking that he shot Caxton with a fake bullet. Now calmed, she hugged the child and responded that he had now grown up. The Grey Fox soldiers reported that Garcia would be fine but still needed medical treatment, so everyone prepared to help Garcia and Roberta leave. Disappointed, McDougal pointed his rifle at Roberta, telling Caxton that they could not just let her leave after she killed many of their comrades. Before he could shoot the maid, Caxton shot McDougal first, killing him. Afterward, Roberta helped Garcia onto Dutch's boat, where Rock saw them and was glad that his fake bullet plan worked, causing Fabiola to shoot him with a fake bullet and accuse him of exploiting her master. Finally, Fabiola bid Rock farewell, telling him that he could continue dancing with the dead.[23]

In the anime OVA, Roberta had lost her right leg, left arm, her right eye, and index and middle finger of the right hand, the latter of which she severed herself and tossed to the ground after she took a bullet from an American sniper. In the OVA ending of episode 29, she was in a wheelchair after the ordeal (although for resting, not because of paralysis) alongside Garcia and Fabiola, meeting up with Caxton and the family of the Japanese man whom she killed seven years ago.[22]

Gore Gore Girl[]

In Volume 2 of Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl, Roberta was shown to have visited Sawyer the Cleaner during the former's first visit to Roanapur. Seeing Sawyer about to cut up a man with her chainsaw, Roberta calmly apologized for her interruption and asked her if she could guide her to where bad people gathered. Sawyer pointed to the side of her in a particular direction, confusing Roberta. The cleaner showed her throat scar, prompting the maid to apologize for her supposed impoliteness for not noticing her lack of voice. She then advised Sawyer to continue her work and walked away. Much later, after she agreed to leave Roanapur with Garcia, the beaten-up Roberta came across Sawyer and Bunny the Undertaker at the Roanapur Public Cemetery, recognizing the former from earlier. Seeing Bunny, she smiled and complimented her mask in awe but then noticed her hand wounds. The maid politely offered to bandage up Bunny's wound and did so, lightly patting the latter's hand and advising her that she see a doctor as soon as possible. As Roberta kindly stated that it was nice to meet them, Garcia called for her, making her yell back to her young master that she would be there right away. Bidding the women goodbye, Roberta told them that sisters and family should stick together, and she left. When she returned to Roanapur to hunt down Grey Fox, Sawyer had taken her words about family to heart when she began to live with Shenhua and Lotton.[24]

Abilities[]

In combat, Roberta is a truly fearsome opponent who has quite a powerful body where her strength, speed, endurance and instincts have been honed to almost supernatural levels so much that Rock sardonically referred to her as "a killer robot from the future"[10] (which is a reference to James Cameron's Terminator movies). She has extensive training in a wide variety of tracking/stealth combat skills, including martial arts. The irony is that while Roberta is one of the most powerful female characters, if not the most dangerous, she is also one of the more humane (having or showing compassion or benevolence) in Black Lagoon. Although she is one of the most powerful warrior-women in Black Lagoon, she is also highly conscientious (a person wishing to do what is right, especially to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly).

  • Enhanced Strength: Roberta's strength is such that she only needed to grab Dutch's wrist to pull him out of Benny's car window during a car chase.[10] In Roberta's Blood Trail, she is also able to break one of Shenhua's dual knives with her bare teeth and destroy Frederica Sawyer's chainsaw with two of her handguns.[19]
  • Enhanced Durability: Roberta is able to withstand a few punches from Dutch when he tries to get her to let go of his wrist.
  • Enhanced Speed: During a bar shoot out, Roberta is able to dodge a row of bullets flying towards her.

Weapons[]

Roberta has a very high degree of proficiency in the use of a wide variety of weapons. Among the weapons, she has used a Barrett M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle with a grenade launcher mounted underneath the barrel, which she could fire one-handed despite the weapon's size and significant weight—a testament to both her skill and tremendous physical strength. She has also used a combat knife, a SPAS-12 shotgun disguised as an umbrella, a machine gun built into her suitcase, a grenade launcher hidden in her suitcase, spiked brass knuckles, trench spikes, and twin Sistema Colt Model 1927s. She also has a belt buckle that can shoot bullets. In the manga, she uses an IMBEL M1911 pistol (based on the Colt M1911A1) with a drum magazine, as well as an antique Charleville musket that once belonged to early generations of the Lovelace family.

Trivia[]

  • The name Roberta means "bright and shining with fame". Additionally, her real name Rosarita means "rosary" in Spanish. Her surname Cisneros is a place in the Province of Palencia, Spain, named with a derivative of the Spanish word "cisne" meaning "swan" (via Old French and Latin).
  • In issue #50 of Anime Insider magazine, director Sunao Katabuchi commented that the animation staff referred to Roberta as an "Evil Mary Poppins" and he went on to add that series creator Rei Hiroe had long thought of Roberta as a kind of "Death Poppins".[25]
  • In a 2021 interview, Rei Hiroe stated that Roberta came to be because he was asked to hurry up and introduce a flamboyant character.[26]
  • In the ending to the "Roberta's Blood Trail" OVA, there are differences on how Roberta survived the fight. In both versions, she survives, but there are a few differences:
    • In the manga, she survived without sustaining any major injury.[23]
    • In the anime, she suffers significant wounds throughout the final battle as she ultimately lost her left arm, right leg, two fingers, her right eye and she was also confined to a wheelchair, but this seems to be temporary when she recovered as she is seen rising from the chair at the end of the OVA.[22]
  • In the First Popularity Poll released during the May/June 2008 issue of Monthly Sunday Gene-X, Roberta ranked 5th place with 374 votes. Among female readers and readers in their late teens, she ranked 6th. Among readers ages 30 and over, she ranked 3rd, tying with Eda for readers 40 and over. Among male readers and readers in their 20s, Roberta ranked 5th.[27]
  • In a popularity contest released during the 10th manga collection release, Roberta ranked 6th place with 877 votes.[28]
  • In a popularity contest released during the 12th manga collection release, Roberta ranked 5th place with 1,084 votes.[29]
  • In a best couples contest, with Roberta as the active partner, she and Garcia ranked 8th with 57 votes, tying with Shenhua and Lotton. With Roberta as the passive partner, she and Garcia ranked 18th. Irrespective of partner order, Roberta and Garcia ranked 8th.[30]
  • Roberta earned the moniker "Bloodhound of Florencia" for her relentless drive to achieve her objectives.
    • Bloodhounds are powerful, large scent hounds known for their tracking abilities and the word "blood" in the name refers to breeders working hard to preserve the lineage, not because the dog tracks blood.

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Episode 10: The Unstoppable Chambermaid
  2. Chapter 45: El Baile de la muerte Part 2
  3. Her height is shown on the anime character settei; see the "Other" section on Roberta/Image Gallery.
  4. Chapter 63: El Baile de la muerte Part 20
  5. 5.0 5.1 Episode 08: Rasta Blasta
  6. 6.0 6.1 Episode 26: An Office Man's Tactics
  7. Chapter 73: El Baile de la muerte Part 30
  8. Chapter 03: Rasta Blasta Part 2
  9. 9.0 9.1 Episode 27: Angels in the Crosshairs
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Episode 09: Maid to Kill
  11. 11.0 11.1 Chapter 02: Rasta Blasta Part 1
  12. Chapter 44: El Baile de la muerte Part 1
  13. 13.0 13.1 Episode 25: Collateral Massacre
  14. 14.0 14.1 Chapter 56: El Baile de la muerte Part 13
  15. Chapter 53: El Baile de la muerte Part 10
  16. Chapter 54: El Baile de la muerte Part 11
  17. Chapter 55: El Baile de la muerte Part 12
  18. Chapter 57: El Baile de la muerte Part 14
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 Episode 28: Oversaturation Kill Box
  20. Chapter 69: El Baile de la muerte Part 26
  21. Chapter 74: El Baile de la muerte Part 31
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 Episode 29: Codename Paradise, Status MIA
  23. 23.0 23.1 Chapter 76: El Baile de la muerte Part 33
  24. Gore Gore Girl Chapter 14: Gloomy Sunday
  25. Anime Insider #50, November 2007.
  26. Loser's Horizon column in the April 2021 issue of Monthly Sunday Gene-X.
  27. https://sundaygx.com/blacklagoon/contest/
  28. http://sundaygx.info/blacklagoon_contest/
  29. http://sundaygx.info/blacklagoon_contest_12/
  30. https://sundaygx.com/blacklagoon/bestcouple/
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