Ito, who had been recommended for the art director position by Sato, read the original novel prior to location scouting, and during scouting took over a thousand reference photographs alongside Omori (he collected pamphlets and bought old photo collections). Many of the locations in the anime are based on real places the team visited the Coraggioso, for instance, is inspired by the historic Chumley's speakeasy. For the sake of accuracy and atmosphere, he later took five days off between recording sessions of Hell Girl's second season in November 2006 to do location scouting in New York alongside Yokoyama, Brain's Base producer Yumi Sato, Art Director Akira Ito, and a Japanese guide. In an interview, Omori recalls that he had started work on the anime adaptation by 2005. Omori has acknowledged that the unorthodox making of Baccano! must have required completely unfamiliar tasks from Brain's Base – a relatively small studio at the time of the anime's production – but he also believes that larger studio may not have allowed previous episodes to be altered when future episodes were already underway. It would take over a year for his script to be firmly developed up as a consequence, since he had to constantly revise previous episodes throughout the writing process. Rather than attempting to write a confused scenario from the beginning, Takagi decided to write the script directly and make adjustments along the way.

Meanwhile, Takagi's greatest influence while writing was Intolerance, a 1916 silent film which tells four parallel stories from four different periods concurrently and ties them all together at its end.

Screenwriter Noboru Takagi credits Takahiro Omori with the decision to adapt four novels simultaneously, alleging that he had been inspired by 21 Grams – a 2003 film whose original linear narrative was recomposed during the editing stage. The panel members were: Baccano! author Ryohgo Narita confirmed director Takahiro Omori Suzuki, one of Narita's Dengeki Bunko editors and Aniplex Chairman Masuo Ueda. Though a broadcast network had yet to be determined, the broadcast was expected to air that July. Īniplex held a focus panel for their already announced anime adaptation of Baccano! at the Tokyo Anime Fair (TAF) on March 23, 2007.

The first talk of adapting Baccano! into an anime began in 2005, when Aniplex producer Shuko Yokoyama met with Baccano! editor Atsushi Wada and expressed a passionate interest in turning the light novels into an anime.

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