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

Oosawa, Nobuhiro Producer

Maru, Ryouji Producer, Production Manager

Yoshinuma, Oshi Producer

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Dec 9, 2024

bergars

Recommended

Killers don't deserve a happy ending.

I've come to discover I love media about hitmen. The psychology of those who take lives, and the context that led to that. This one's about what looks like an adult, but it's no more than a teenager. 16-year-old, brainwashed protagonist, Zwei (two) who knows nothing about anything.

An underground man manages to place him with a previous victim, and trained hitmen, Ein (One), to train him so both become the greatest assassins on planet earth. It's a twisting story about what it means to search for meaning, when it's been snatched from you.

I absolutely adore how the ... story COMPLETELY deglamorizes killing as something cool, or badass. Every other story I've seen, even slightly, glamorizes how easy it is to kill people for these characters. Whether washed hitmen, comedic hitmen, reforming hitmen. Death was a tool, and for as tragic as it could be, killing is made to be action packed.

Killing here is simply a setup. Conditions are met, the shot is there, they take the shot. Done. No cool clothes, the characters scout for cameras, for a place to shoot from, and killing is basically a job at some point, but not one they enjoy. Not overly disgusting, not overly enjoyable, but a piece of the world they live in. Even the fight scenes are short, and not filled with cool moves. You deflect a knife, you kill with the knife, that's it.

The main character kills to live, and as his mental sanity slowly plummets, he finds purpose on each person who tries to love him, only to constantly lose everything. The story is all about that loss, about the constant sadness, and tragedy of not deserving a happy ending. Having a choice to stop, he always tried to do what's best for those he loved, and continued, perpetuating everything around him to continue. A chess piece that attempts to play the game as a third player, but he couldn't ever escape it.

There's another story that asked the same question here, “Barry”. Is our protagonist a good person?

Are killers capable of self-redemption? This show goes the LONG way. The first act being first class in maximum quality for character psychology, villains. The constant schemes of the underground world, and the development of how a hitman should be. Acting classes, the mental contradictions, confronting reality, confronting your crimes and the reasons you commit such crimes.

The ending felt incredibly realistic, and the characters were wrapped perfectly. I love the message, the platonic relationships, and how the series doesn't take the immature way out. Love isn't the answer to these things. Brotherhood, fatherhood, and the caring of the people you wish to see live. I adore seeing a series that doesn't just tell you “oh, they fell in love and this is why they deserve happiness”.

9/10. It's such a great series. Not perfect due to some terrible blocking in some scenes that were pretty important. I get the intent, but there's way better ways to communicate those moments. Otherwise, amazing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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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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Oct 11, 2024

JamieNormand

Not Recommended

I really, truly wanted to love Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom. A lot. It started alright, too: an interesting lad without memories gets brainwashed to become a premium assasisn and gets associated with an emotion-free girl named as "Ein" while he becomes "Zwei," the second amnesiac assassin.
Then, he learns his name, then he keeps working as an assassin, then he takes in a small girl as his protegee, then he is betrayed from every possible angle by every possible person and scenario. The thing is, all these are up to episode 18 and from episode 18, it is only downhill in terms of storyline, ... consistency, credibility, belieavability, and things get complicated and the series ends in the worst possible way, without any meaning to what has happened.
The problem is that there are a myriad tropes used in Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom (and why, oh why, does the name have to contain two Phantoms? It's quite alright for it to be named Requiem for the Phantom) from the idiot who sees the best in the emotionless assassin girl to Nazi-like German scientist to manipulative female mafia boss. All these might have been used to make a coherent story and et this opportunity is wasted. I seriously thought at the first few episodes that the series goes very slowly but it will be a great story, worth grading a neat 9/10 or 10/10 and then I am now struggling to leave it at 7 and am thinking it possibly deserves a 6/10. I am so disappointed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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