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I don't even know what to say. I genuinely think people should watch all of Phantom just to watch these specials.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Phantom to death. But this? Genuinely a masterpiece.

Up until now, I thought my favorite funny scene in all of anime was the scene in the Sakamoto Desu Ga OVA when he was in America. But this? Oh boy this tops it. On two different episodes, I laughed so hard that I cried.

This ventures into "so bad it's good." I genuinely believe that some of the scenes here were improvised.

I don't want to spoil anything, but you NEED to ... watch this. Just trust me. I'll include spoilers below this in case you're still not convinced.



There's episodes where Reiji and Erin turn into HAND PUPPETS. Funniest thing I've ever seen, not even joking. Like, they use actual hand puppets and have *a poster* of the training warehouse behind them as real people act out a script. During one of them, the person moving the puppet didn't know what to do, so Erin just kinda laid still on the microphone.

In another scene, Claudia meets Cal and Cal calls her "obaa-san" (grandmother). One way or another, "obaa-san" turns into OBAMA and Cal starts calling Claudia "Obama." And then Claudia starts saying "YES WE CAN."

Please. Please. PLEASE watch this if you're a Phantom fan and have a sense of humor. I'm begging you.

"Sometimes a simple story can have as much depth as a complicated one"
-Someone, at some point in time, probably (dunno, never heard anyone say this before)

I often enjoy sitting down with a volume of manga and just letting the hours run by. Not just manga, though. I once determined to play "a few rounds of minesweeper" at 7 PM once and the next time I looked at the clock it was 3 AM. The time just seemed to go by so fast. I guess that's what happens when you're having fun, right? Well, when watching 91 Days, the time also melted away and the episodes ... felt very fast. However, this time, I believe it was a miracle from God in order to put me out of my misery quicker.

Aside from the opening theme which I really like, I'll start out by talking about what the show does right:

Okay, now for the bad.

The word "mafia" is quick to trigger a reaction in me. I love anything mafia related to death. I'm currently enjoying Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom, I've seen the Godfather more times than I'm willing to admit, and I'm even making a video game involving the mafia right now. I was so excited when I heard about this show.

My friends and I have a sacred tradition where each week we watch 3 episodes of an anime and then discuss it at 7:30 PM on Sunday and 91 Days was picked for this month's show. The entire conversation was just "I have no idea what's happening." All 8 of us.

A week ago, if you asked me what a confusing anime was, I would have told you it would have to be something where the plot has no clear direction is very convoluted where you probably need to rewatch the show or read essays about it when you're done just to put the pieces together like with Madoka Magica or Evangelion. I no longer hold this opinion.

At its core, 91 Days is a very simple show. A man's father is killed by 4 gunman when he was young and he wants to find and kill each gunman. And yet, it makes no sense whatsoever. Why is that? They introduce like 30 characters in the FIRST EPISODE. I don't know anyone's name except for Nero. Not even the main character's name can I remember. They also gloss through all the important points really quickly. Want to know why it's called 91 Days? Well apparently it was because of an off-handed comment in episode 2 that I missed.

And you know what? Maybe 91 Days would be better if the premise wasn't so simple. The goal is so straightforward and yet it takes so many seemingly needless steps to get there. I don't care if there's an alliance between two gangs I don't even know the names of, I just want to see the MC get his revenge! With Evangelion, at least what it does is enough to keep you engaged by subverting your expectations of the show and taking on the mech genre in an entirely new way. 91 Days is just about everything you'd expect. You can predict the entire thing from the first two episodes (and trust me, I never say this).

Please, for your own sake, do not watch this show.

(From here on out, there will be spoilers)

Aside from the fact that it was extremely boring, nobody learns anything.

Let's recall the last line of the show: "You don't gotta have a reason to live... you just gotta live." -Nero

It's a real shame he says that right before killing the MC. I don't get why he would even say that.

Not to mention, what was the point of seeing the revenge killings is, from the viewer's perspective. It's not like the point was "killing people is wrong," we just saw funny Italian men do funny things. I guess it was presumptuous of me to assume that this show would tell a good moral story.