Phantom The Animation

Phantom The Animation is a short OVA about a young man, meeting an assassin while she was carrying out her job. Thus leading to the story of this OVA.
The story is short and simple; a young man is taken by an organization and being trained by their number one hit man ‘Phantom’. Despite being only three episodes long, the story was well delivered. It was straightforward, sweet, and action packed.

The animation is pretty good. The back grounds are well detailed; the action scenes are swift and smooth. However; the character design could use more work. It is not as detailed as the sceneries, which ... is the only fault I could find in the animation. Aside from that, everything else was well done.
The sound is good, both the OP and the ED are remarkable, in my opinion. The voice acting is good, much better than what you’d expect from English dubs. Even though I don’t like dubs, but I have to admit that it was very well done. The inserted music is quite nice, nothing too awesome and nothing too bad either.

The characters are probably the best part of this OVA. All characters are unique in their own way, and you will probably not forget about them as soon as you are done with the OVA. The two main characters Ein and Zwei stands out on their own, they are well portrayed, they deliver their emotions without exaggeration, and we are even able to know more about their pasts. Other characters, despite their brief appearance, are also memorable. You are not going to forget any of them soon.

Phantom The animation has action, drama, and a bit of romance. It is a dark OVA, there are not much happy moments in it, and it is intense. All good things to be in a story about hit men. There are no happy moments. All there is is what people have to do to survive and go on with their lives. The characters will not change, they will grow and develop, especially the male lead, they will have to deal with their situations, with what they have to do in order to survive.

"Phantom - The Animation" is a 3-episode OVA Series that wasn't really in my plan to watch list. I saw it on one of my HDDs and started watching it because...well, it's only like hour and half long.

This is an adaptation of the first episode of a semi eroge visual novel called "Phantom Of Inferno". There's also another adaptation (Requiem for the Phantom) that I haven't seen, but I really want to do it now because of this series.
The plot is really simple, a guy is kidnapped after witnessing a murder and avoiding a sniper girl named "Ein". Later, an organization erased his memories and ... he obtains the name "Zwei". Now, he lives by killing people while he tries to escape from the criminal life that now he has.

The animation here goes really hard. It's an ova from 2004, and it has the typical flaws of 2000s animation like some things being really exagerated at some times or other things like bland animation for non important moments, but the series makes up for it with some really well animated scenes for action moments. In sometimes, the animation really feels like the one that we can see in other anime series like Trigun, and that's really a good reason for watching this series.

Moving on to something else, I loved the characters of this series.
Zwei and Ein are a good couple of MCs, they really fit the tone of this series, and the other characters despite not being the most important thing in the world, they will make you feel bad if something happens to them. The series has a really likeable and interesting cast, but because of the length of the series they won't have a lot of time on screen. That's something that I think "Requiem for the phantom" corrects, because that series is like 26 episodes long, 23 more than this one.

Ending with the music and themes for this series...Well, they're awesome.
The opening may not be the best one, which reminds me of Elfen Lied's opening, but that one was honestly a better opening. The music that we hear while watching the series is really good, it helps set the tone that the animation wants to show, with relaxing music box sounds in the most of the series, accompanied by more epic songs for the fighting scenes.
Oh, and the ending theme... GOD WHAT A GREAT ENDING THEME. "I myself am Hell" by Itou Kanako is an epic song that everyone should listen. You should really check it out, even if you aren't interested in this anime, it's an epic song. If you need another reason to watch this show, here you have it, the ending theme.

Overall, "Phantom - The Animation" is one of the best OVA series I've ever seen. It's short, the animation is very well done, the action is epic, the characters are really likeable, the plot is interesting, and the ending makes you want more, but even with that, it lets you with a really good taste in your mouth at the end. I haven't played the VN yet, so I don't know how much content is left in this version, but I think that Arcs Create made a really great job for the final product. It may not be for everyone, but if you give it a try, maybe you find a series that stays in your mind for a long time.
I really recommend watching it!