Requiem for the Phantom

It has been quite a while since I have posted on here but everything has been such a whirlwind that I honestly didn't have much time to keep up. In the past couple of months I have watched a couple of animes and I intend to watch more and review more but this is about Requiem for the Phantom. 


The story line is about this kid who is recruited for some mysterious reason to become a master assassin for an organization that is more or less a syndicate but the top one around the US. This is also based off the manga (for your pleasure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Inferno). He is renamed Zwei and stripped of his freedom and trained by the top assassin in the organization, Ein. As the story goes along he learns about his past, remembers everything, questions authority and sometimes does things his way. Ein has a hard time accepting this because she is still faithful to her master and does not question orders. They soon find themselves in a predicament after one of the key organization leaders (Claudia) sets up one of the others and Zwei does something that haunts him for the next couple of years. Part two of the season comes in with Zwei, or Reiji his true name, has been named the Phantom (top assassin for the organization). Some of the mistakes from Claudia's past come back to haunt her and Reiji not only has no other choice to bring in a child, a key suspect, and "train" her to be like him, but he must also face some of the ghosts from his past. After everything is said and done, he is reunited with an old acquaintance and they try to carry out their lives in peace. This will quickly end when the organization discovers their whereabouts and tries to send yet another lost friend from Reiji's past to kill him. 


The anime itself is drawn beautifully, and the story line is not hard to follow at all. Some of the important characters are seen pretty in depth while others are not. One thing that would have been nice was to see Ein's character more, or her past revealed a little more. However that was more for the writer to divulge than just the portrayal of the anime itself. The ending is haunting, relieving, and yet very sad. I recommend this to anyone who likes an action/violent anime; but it is just an all around good story so anyone could really watch it. 

This is it for the one anime; I will make individual posts for each one. 


"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation." -George Eliot