91 Days: Revenge of the Past

While the story moves forward and Angelo goes under a different name to hide who he is from the people that have caused him so much pain. He starts to befriend the one person that would help him complete his revenge, and that is none other than Nero Vanetti. The son of Vincent Vanetti, the man that had murdered Angelo Lagusa family. And while Angelo is going under the name of Avilio Bruno he has successfully started to enact his plan, killing every single one of the Vanetti Family. While this becomes the source of what Angelo has kept living for, there are things that have stopped his plan from going forward. The bumps in the road from Nero’s brother betraying him, to having to side with Fango, an up-and-coming mafia leader that will play another part of the story. And with Angelo friend, Corteo wanting so desperately to help Angelo get his revenge, but as well as wanting to save him from the darkness that is surrounding him as well.

The anime is a slow-burning crime drama, and while the plot and the character development are a struggle to go through. While most mafia animes are fast-paced and filled with action, 91 Days shows another insight on what a thought-out revenge plan can either go as plan or hit several bumps in the road. The background music was a wonderful delight to one’s ears, and see it tie in with the mafia anime that gave us so much to see. However, while understanding that the anime is a slow one, it did give us a lot of twists and turns. The deception and the manipulation that Angelo does throughout the anime was an eye-opener on what someone would do on the bent of revenge. And while he does break down in the middle of his plan due to some unforeseen circumstances, it does show the toll a revenge plot can take on one person who wants nothing more but to seek bloodshed. But all this comes at the cost of friends and sanity, the anime is able to see how these plans come into effect when someone breaks down at the loss of their only connection to humanity.

91 Days lacks gunfights, this anime is one that you need to sit down and just think things through before going in guns blazing. And when a fight does come forward, it’s very short-lived, while the anime can be a twist and turn, there could have been so much more. Yes, the well thought out plan was amazing, and the deceitfulness was mind-blowing, but the slow burn of this anime just wasn’t my cup of tea. I can applaud everything else in this anime except for the pace of the anime, the attention that it gives to the characters seem to lack spunk in them. And while the only character that I did enjoy was Corteo who tried everything in his power to save Angelo from the mafia and himself.