91 Days

As a child living in the town of Lawless, Angelo Lagusa has witnessed a tragedy: his parents and younger brother have been mercilessly slaughtered by the Vanetti mafia family. Losing everything he holds dear, he leaves both his name and hometown behind, adopting the new identity of Avilio Bruno.

Seven years later, Avilio finally has his chance for revenge when he receives a mysterious letter prompting him to return to Lawless. Obliging, he soon encounters the Vanetti don's son, Nero, and seeks to befriend him using the skills he has quietly honed for years.

Set during the Prohibition era, 91 Days tells the story of Avilio's dark, bloodstained path to vengeance, as he slowly ends each of the men involved in the killing of his family.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Lagusa, Angelo

Main

Kondo, Takashi
Japanese

Vanetti, Nero

Main

Eguchi, Takuya
Japanese

Fango

Supporting

Tsuda, Kenjirou
Japanese

Corteo

Supporting

Saitou, Souma
Japanese

Clemente, Vanno

Supporting

Ono, Daisuke
Japanese

Vanetti, Frate

Supporting

Nishiyama, Koutarou
Japanese

Vanetti, Fio

Supporting

Toujou, Hisako
Japanese

Barbero

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Tronco, Arturo

Supporting

Furukawa, Makoto
Japanese

Volpe

Supporting

Suzuki, Tatsuhisa
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

Producer

Maeda, Toshihiro

Producer

Iizuka, Toshio

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Endou, Tetsuya

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"Signal" by TK from Ling Tosite Sigure

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"Rain or Shine" by ELISA

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Feb 16, 2024

x_mk_x

Recommended

Are you tired of every anime being set in Japan and feeling like it's a waste more of them don't make use of the rest of the world's history and culture? Well then fear not "91 days" is an anime that is placed in the west during the years of prohibition and focuses on the world of mafia, alcohol trafficking and vengeance.

Plot: I would argue the first episode of this anime does an amazing job at situating the viewers and presenting the story and our main characters' goal and motivations. It all starts with our MC as a kid happily living with his family ... when suddenly a group of three men enter his house with the intent to kill him and his family, even though they succeed at doing so to his family they fail to get to Angelo and he manages to escape. 7 years later he receives a letter from a self-proclaimed friend of his father revealing the killers which prompted him to go back to the city he once fled under a new alias as Avilio Bruno set to take revenge on the ones who murdered his family at all cost. The method chosen by Avilio to get to his targets and execute his revenge is to get close to them and gain their trust since they had heavy security due to their status as mafia members, in the midst of him building trust with his targets he discovers there was a fourth member in the assassination making it so he can't end his revenge without figuring out who this mysterious fourth person is. The story doesn't focus solely on a mafia family but on three main families all fighting physically and politically for power and status which helps immensely with the world building and plot progression of the show.

art: The art style is nothing out of the ordinary when comparing to other shows, but it does fit well with the whole aesthetic and plot of the anime. The animations and the lack of vibrant colors throughout the series, with the exception of some scenes, really highlighted and properly showcased the atmosphere set by the anime both in terms of it's vengeance aspect as well as it's mafia and criminal life aspect. My biggest gripe in relation to this category is the underwhelming animation and lack of fluidity when it comes to the action scenes, most of the action in this anime happens in the form of guns and shooting making it's stale animation on these scenes bearable, however when comparing to other anime with guns as there main action it still felt lackluster.

Sound: The overall sounds throughout the anime seemed a bit underwhelming specially in relation to gunshots and so on where they didn't seem to blend well with the scenes and felt out of place at times. The opening is simply flabbergasting, it is sung by TK who has probably the most popular anime song ever (unravel) and it gives the perfect entrance to this show, it immediately sets you into it's dark and gritty atmosphere. I probably wouldn't put this song in an anime opening playlist as it doesn't really fit well with it and it isn't meant to listen casually on it's own but it is an absolute much listen during each episode and each time more enjoyable as you progress in the story. The ending is a simple melody with no lyrics and I would typically say it is underwhelming and a lack of effort but with how this show is where in each episode people die and a ton of impactful and shocking stuff happen it fits perfectly for you to simply lay back dwelling on everything you just saw. All in all opening and ending songs couldn't have been better picked.

Characters: An anime like this that focuses on vengeance, mind-games and betrayals needs to have amazing written characters with depth and development, sadly even though our main character Angelo and a couple of side characters like Nero and Corteo did achieve these requirements, the rest of the cast fell short making it so most of the characters feel bland one sided and forgettable. Angelo or Avilio is our MC and is an amazing character, the whole story constantly revolves around him and his motivations and we are presented with some amazing character depth through his constant disparity from his kind-hearted nature and his dark revenge fueled side, the story also isn't afraid to show us that Angelo is a character with many flaws that is constantly hurting those that are still with him in order to avenge those that are gone. Corteo is a character that isn't from the mafia life the anime centers around, he is a normal person that is reeled in to this kind of life and as a result starts losing his sanity throughout the episodes leading to a final break which made for a great character and the viewer can feel him falling more into despair each episode. Nero is a direct opposite to Angelo's character, Angelo ruined his present by being stuck to his past while Nero ignores his mistakes in the past which ends up catching up to him in the present. Nero's and Angelo's friendship is very dynamic and perfectly written with two sides to it that are constantly clashing. Sadly some other characters seemed to have great potential but were kept very superficial like Fango, Frate and Fio that although were given some screen time it just didn't feel like enough or it felt like very one dimensional characters.

Overall: This anime's story and atmosphere are very unique and refreshing in a world where most anime seem like carbon copies of each other, on top of this the show has an amazing plot, main characters and soundtracks. It does present some downside's in lack of world building, shallow secondary characters and some awkward moments related to sound and animation. I would definitely recommend this anime to avid anime watchers and even to people who normally don't watch anime as long as they like mafia style stories, although I believe the rating I gave to "91 days" of 8/10 is very objective I did boost it a bit due to how well thought out the soundtrack choices were and I believe this show could've have gotten a much better rating with some better animation or development of it's side cast.

~People don't need a reason to live , they just live~

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Jun 25, 2023

Kiba_Snowpaw

Mixed Feelings

Good day, fellow enthusiasts of animation and dramatic storytelling. It's Kiba Snowpaw here, your icy guide through the blizzard of anime titles. Today we're going to dissect and critique a somewhat lesser-known piece, "91 Days."

First, let me clear my throat by declaring that the term "masterpiece" is tossed around far too freely in the anime community. It seems every season, there's a new "masterpiece" getting hyped, when in reality, it's often just decent and quite forgettable once the season ends. I bring this up because "91 Days" is one such anime that, upon release, was heralded as a masterpiece by some. Allow me to dive ... into the chilling winds of critique.

"91 Days" is essentially a Prohibition-era mafia revenge story. And when I say "essentially," I mean "painfully, suffocatingly essentially." It doesn't innovate; it doesn't create. The show is a throwback to a bygone era of crime dramas, which wouldn't be a bad thing if it weren't such a blatant display of tropes and cliches you'd expect from any gangster flick. One might argue that it's paying homage, but I see it as the anime simply resting on the laurels of those that came before it.

The series follows Avilio Bruno, or, as I prefer to call him, 'Revenge Robot'. This lad lives and breathes vengeance for his family's murder, and that's about it. His character development is as stagnant as a pond in winter. Even a frozen-over pond occasionally cracks, revealing depth beneath the ice, but Avilio? Nothing. By the time you reach episode 10, Avilio is about as emotionally diverse as a cardboard cutout.

Where "91 Days" does provide some entertaining moments is in its sporadic action sequences. They are well animated, tense, and come with the level of brutality you'd expect in a mafia story. However, a few flashy fights can't save this iceberg of a show from sinking into the cold depths of mediocrity.

The dialogue? Ho-hum. I could probably write a more engaging script if I'd been dipped in liquid nitrogen and had my paws frozen solid. Characters in "91 Days" have the personality of the iceberg that sank the Titanic - immense, sure, but cold, unchanging, and, ultimately, tragic.

You might wonder why I'm so hard on this series. Well, it's because anime, like any art form, should push boundaries, challenge expectations, and dare to innovate. But "91 Days" is content to tread the same well-worn paths that countless other gangster tales have walked before. It's like being offered a vanilla ice cream cone in the middle of winter - sure, you could have it, but why would you when there are so many more interesting and warming options available?

Now, let's talk about the music. It's fine. Just fine. It serves its purpose without adding anything of substance to the overall experience. It's the equivalent of a snowfall that's pretty to look at but ultimately just makes everything wet and uncomfortable.

As an Ice Wolf who's been wandering the tundra of media since the 80s, I've seen the highs and lows that anime has to offer. And I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, "91 Days" resides somewhere in the middle, buried under a snowdrift of mediocrity. This is not a series that will go down in the annals of anime history, and certainly not one I'll remember when the next snowfall comes.

In the end, "91 Days" feels as long and drawn out as an actual 91-day winter in the Arctic. It's the kind of anime you could put on in the background while you're doing something more interesting - like watching snow melt. I'm sorry, my fellow fluffs, but "91 Days" left this old Ice Wolf colder than a winter's night in the far North.

As they say in the Arctic, "If you're going to freeze, at least do it with style." "91 Days", my dear friends, lacks that style.

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Apr 11, 2023

tmunee

Not Recommended

TBH I found this anime interesting to start but one of the worst anime, no worst pieces of media, i've seen in my life by the end. This anime is the perfect example of characters doing things for absolutely no reason except to further your story... the actions the characters take get more and more absurd as the story goes on, to where it reaches a point that if you just randomly picked the dumbest, most illogical, most absurd thing a character might choose to do then you are probably closer to the answer than what ay kind of inference based on their character building ...

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