Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Mafia is rife in America where assassinations are a regular occurrence on the streets. Inferno, a mysterious company, is behind most of these dealings through the use of their near-invincible human weapon, "Phantom."

One day, a Japanese tourist accidentally witnesses Phantom's latest murder. Desperate to escape, the tourist hides in a secluded building. However, Phantom, revealed to be a young woman named Ein, and the leader of Inferno "Scythe Master" captures the tourist and brainwashes him.

Given the name "Zwei," this once peaceful tourist is now a puppet of Inferno with no memories. Drawn into a world of lies, deceit, and violence, Zwei must fight to survive, hopefully to one day regain his memories and escape from this world where he is constantly on the brink of death.

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Zwei Main

Irino, Miyu Japanese

Ein Main

Takagaki, Ayahi Japanese

Devens, Cal Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

McCunnen, Claudia Supporting

Hisakawa, Aya Japanese

Garland, Lizzie Supporting

Watanabe, Akeno Japanese

von Giuseppe, Helmut Supporting

Chiba, Isshin Japanese

Kubota, Sanae Supporting

Mizuhashi, Kaori Japanese

McGuire, Raymond Supporting

Chiba, Susumu Japanese

Fujieda, Mio Supporting

Koshimizu, Ami Japanese

Inada, Hirono Supporting

Toyoguchi, Megumi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Itou, Yoshiyuki Producer

Oosawa, Nobuhiro Producer

Yoshinuma, Oshi Producer

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Jul 22, 2024

Dompa112

Recommended

Two things before anything else.

1. Did not play the VN

2. The first op karma is one of the most hauntingly beautiful tracks ive heard.

Ended up enjoying the show. Its a bit of a mess. Jumps quite suddenly. The twists are very obvious. Especially if youve seen shows in the same genre you recognize everything. It doesnt do anything special. But it does it good enough. Likeable characters. Music was very good, not just the OP but the original BGM aswell.

Watching the show made me wish to play the VN because i know from experience how much gets lost, no matter ... how well adapted, going from VN to Anime. I wanted even more from it. I also know its hard to adapt so credit for making it as highly rated and praised as it is.

It really should have been 24 episodes though. No need för 2 recaps in a 26 ep show. Especially not being so close together. 12 and 19 if i remember right.

But it gets an 8/10 for me. Enjoyed it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 24, 2023

whiteflame55

Mixed Feelings

Overall, I have mixed feelings about the series. Reiji and Eren were great characters and I loved everything involving them. Some side characters, like Claudia, Lizzie, and Cal, were rather well done in their own rights. I just don't feel the same about any of the other side characters though, since most of them just weren't all that interesting and so much of the series was focused on their machinations. Inferno in general was a mixed bag for me, and while Scythe had his moments, he just came off as a bit of a mustache-twirling villain who didn't care if he sacrificed his pawns. Maybe ... that's part of the point as well, but it made it difficult to appreciate him as a villain when he didn't appear to care about anything beyond saving his own skin and showing how capable he was.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 10, 2024

gamer_moment657

Not Recommended

This anime has a great idea, what if we got a random dude and made him into a killing machine. That is the begging idea of the anime, so it the story begins pretty straightforward dude is forced to become killing machine. But the author is as creative as tailor swift.

A few episodes pass and then the authors like fuck bro what do i do now, oh shit let me introduce this character that will take an interest in our guy that will help him regain his memory. And so the author writes in a character to do that.

Same issue comes up again and again, ... damn ok i need to ad something. Writes in convenient plot point, or adds convenient character. While he is doing all this adding and removing he is trying to (and miserably failing to) tie the plot points and characters together whole fixing some of the plot holes, to try to make it a coherent story.

In this first ark of the anime (its divided in 3) the story makes sense, parts are iffy, but it’s believable. Now on the final episode of the first ark the author has this great idea for a finally where a big twist(that everyone saw coming) happens and the entire story should have ended at that moment.To then say time skip and sike everyone is fine, nothing really changed.

The second ark is much worse then the first, the author focuses now more on the mafia side then our protagonist which is fine, but its kinda boring at times. To make up for this they add a new character, to be with our protagonist and get us attached to it.But a whole bunch of shit goes down and the authors like, oh ok i don't want to use this character anymore cue the offscreen kill, they will never expect that.

The final ark is absolute trash, to much happening at the same time, they bring back characters that are now completely different, characters action don't make sense according to their motivations. We step back on character development, and then we just add a lil storm trooper aim with a touch of killing off any beloved character left and its finished.

Over all 3/10 this anime in an nutshell can be summed in on phrase. “ha bet you weren’t expecting that to happen”

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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	Backdraft (1991) reference ep. 19! perennial_suit - Aug 23	2 replies	by perennial_suit »» Aug 24, 5:04 AM
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