91 Days is a Japanese anime television series animated by Shuka. Set during the United States Prohibition era, the series follows Angelo Lagusa and his quest to seek revenge against the Vanetti Family. The series aired from July to October 2016.
91 Days | |
Genre | Crime drama[1] |
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Anime television series | |
Directed by | Hiro Kaburagi |
Produced by |
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Written by | Taku Kishimoto |
Music by | Shōgo Kaida |
Studio | Shuka |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Original network | JNN (TBS, MBS, CBC, BS-TBS) |
English network | |
Original run | 9 July 2016 – 1 October 2016 |
Episodes | 12 + 1 OVA |
The story is set in the United States during the last years of Prohibition in 1932, where brewed liquor dominates the black market thanks to the Italian Mafia. Angelo Lagusa, a young man whose family was murdered in a Mafia dispute, seeks revenge against the Vanetti Family, particularly its Don, Vincent Vanetti which is the Mafiosi that controls Lawless district, and one of the high ranking members of the Cosa Nostra. After seven years in hiding in the Midwest following the night of the murder, Angelo receives an anonymous letter from a friend of his father's, prompting him to return to Lawless and exact his revenge. Under the name of Avilio Bruno, he begins to infiltrate the Vanetti clan by slowly befriending the Don's son, Nero. However, in this dramatic 91-day story, revenge breeds revenge, and killing may yield drastic consequences. How will Angelo Lagusa and Nero Vanetti fare, in this tragic harvest field that they have only begun to sow?
The Vanetti Family originates from Savoca, Sicily. When Vincenzo Vanetti immigrated to USA, due to the economic crisis, he dreamed of building an Empire that he can rule. He got Made in the Moreno Family through Ganzo Alari. He served under the Morenos for years, which had Lawless district and West Chicago on their palms, but the Morenos and the Galassias did not get along with each other, and Vincent took the opportunity to increase his own power by dealing with the Galassias in secrecy with Alari's help, but Don Moreno's accountant, Testa Lagusa found out about this. In April 1925, Vincent killed Don Moreno and the Lagusas to keep the knowledge from being leaked out. For the last several years, the Vanettis were the most feared and respected Family alongside the Galassias, but with Vincent getting sick, the Orcos began to rise, and that made the Vanetti organization begin to fail.
Don Orco used to be a member of the Moreno Family, but situations made him split from them. Since then, he became another Mafia Boss that made the streets of Lawless a bloody path. Not only they are rich but their name makes people afraid for their lives. Tactics, Anger, Prestige, and plans that are difficult to trace, can be found in this violent crime outfit.
The Chicago Outfit that controls Chicago's underworld and tries to grab hold of Lawless. Their feud with the Moreno Family led to the conspiracy that murdered Don Moreno and the Lagusas and created the Vanetti criminal empire that ruled Lawless for 7 years. They try their best to turn the Vanettis into their puppets. The Vanetti and Orco families are not strong enough to go against them and often comply with what they ask.
Testa Lagusa was a member of the Moreno Family, even before Vincent and the others. He was extremely loyal to his Don, which by the time they controlled all brothels, bars and black market of Lawless. But with Vincent's betrayal and Galassia's rising influence, Testa and Moreno were murdered by the Vanettis. But his only legacy for revenge, Angelo, makes the story longer for bloodshed.
The anime was announced in March 2016. It is directed by Hiro Kaburagi and written by Taku Kishimoto, with animation by the studio Shuka. Tomohiro Kishi is designing the series' characters, and Shōgo Kaida is producing the music.[1][5] The opening theme song, "Signal", is performed by TK from Ling Tosite Sigure, while the closing theme, "Rain or Shine", is performed by ELISA.[6] The series was broadcast from premiered on 9 July to 1 October 2016 on TBS[7] and also aired on the Animeism programming block on MBS,[1][5] CBC and BS-TBS.[3] The series was simulcasted on Crunchyroll,[8] with Funimation handling dubbing and distribution of the series in North America.[9]
No. | Title [a] | Original air date | |
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1 | "Night of the Murder" Transliteration: "Satsujin no Yoru" (Japanese: 殺人の夜) | 9 July 2016 | |
After returning to Lawless district seven years after the massacre of his family, Angelo gets reacquainted with an old friend and they both dive into a new way of life. Angelo convinces Corteo(his childhood friend) to sell his booze to the Mob, which leads them to meet Don Vanetti's son, Nero Vanetti, and his friend Vanno Clemente. | |||
2 | "Phantom of Falsehood" Transliteration: "Itsuwari no Gen'ei" (Japanese: いつわりの幻影) | 16 July 2016 | |
The Vanetti Family seeks revenge after they continued compromising of their smuggling routes leads to the death of one of their young runners. Don Vanetti's mansion hosts a wedding between the Don's daughter, Fio, and a man named Ronaldo, but behind the scenes of the grand party, the family feels uneasy. Vanno is eager to avenge Arturo Tronco's death so Angelo decides to help him on the condition to vet him to the clan. Together they plan to kill Fango with Cerotto's help. They fail to kill Fango but they capture his bodyguard, Serpente, which Vanno realizes that his knife is the same knife that Tronco's throat was cut with. Vanno takes Serpente's body to the cemetery that Tronco is buried in and kills him before Tronco's grave, then Angelo appears behind, calling his name and shoots him in the stomach, after revealing who he is and why he did that he kills Vanno. Angelo moves one step closer to completing his revenge. When he returns to Nero and tells a fake story about Vanno's death, Nero gets angry and demands to take him to see his corpse, but when they get there with Barbero, they see that Serpente's body is not there, which brings Angelo into trouble. | |||
3 | "Where the Footfalls Lead" Transliteration: "Ashioto no Ikisaki" (Japanese: 足音の行先) | 23 July 2016 | |
Nero gives Angelo a chance to find Serpente's body or he will get killed. Fango asks Don Orco to attack on the Vanettis' turfs together but Don Orco refuses because of the order of the Chicago Outfit. Fango leaves the Orco Family and Don Orco plans to kill him. In Cerotto's bar Corteo makes Cerotto confess to what happened to Serpente's corpse in surprise Angelo was there and heard what they said, Angelo threatens Cerotto to tell him what he did and he says that he sold his corpse to Scuza, a corrupt head of Federal Bureau of Prohibition, then Angelo demands him to take him to his corpse. Scuza visits Don Vanetti and offers him for a bribe to hide the crime which is committed by Vanettis, but Don Vanetti demands to see the corpse first. Cerotto takes Angelo to Serpente's corpse under the surveillance of Nero which had been spying on him and Nero had been spied by Fango, Tigre gets beat by Fango and Gatto, his subordinate, to make him confess, while torturing Tigre they hear a window shattered, and get inside with Tigre, seeing Nero gunning down Serpente they decide to exchange them, Fango doubts the blood on Serpente's body and decides to shoot him but he attacks Fango instead, in surprise it was Angelo in Serpente's suit, after a shootout Nero and the others escape. Tensions reach boiling point when the Vanettis begin to enact their "retaliation". Frate, Nero's younger brother warns him that he has given an ultimatum after breaking Don Galassia's condition, and tells him to get lost for a while, Angelo recommends to accompany him, though Frate dislikes it but Nero accepts it. | |||
4 | "Losing to Win, and What Comes After" Transliteration: "Makete Katte, Sono Ato de" (Japanese: 敗けて勝って、その後で) | 30 July 2016 | |
Angelo and Nero adjust to life on the run while an assassin tails them, though he failed taking out Nero. Angelo notices a discrepancy between the letter and his memory of the massacre. | |||
5 | "Blood Will Have Blood" Transliteration: "Chi wa Chi o Yobu" (Japanese: 血は血を呼ぶ) | 6 August 2016 | |
The Orco family calls for a truce after failing to take out Fango. The conditions, however, end up being less than favorable for some parties. Nero is makes a new brand of moonshine that given by Barbero's idea with Corteo's help. When he comes back to the Vanetti mansion, Frate and Ronaldo get their men prepared to kill him, again they fail, thanks to Volpe's loyalty. Nero‘s Capo, Tigre, gets wounded while running away from the Vanettis. Nero, Barbero and the others have to cure the wound somehow, but the Vanettis put the district on lockdown. Ronaldo states that Galassia wants Frate to run the Vanettis, Don Vanetti realises that Frate's strings are under Ronaldo's hand. Angelo secretly makes a deal with Fango, for a doctor in payback. | |||
6 | "To Slaughter a Pig" Transliteration: "Buta o Koroshi ni" (Japanese: 豚を殺しに) | 13 August 2016 | |
Angelo, Nero and his men move forward with getting rid of Don Orco. Angelo thinks of a plan to take out Orco. Somehow, they capture Orco after a fight, Nero takes him to Fango as promised, and he dismembers Orco and feeds him to his men. Fango owns everything Orco had and gets acknowledged by the authorities as the new Don. Angelo talks with Corteo, realising that it was not Orco that sent the letter. | |||
7 | "A Poor Player" Transliteration: "Aware na Yakusha" (Japanese: あわれな役者) | 20 August 2016 | |
Increasing pressure from Ronaldo and a nudge from Angelo causes a schism within the Vanetti clan by trying to assassinate Ronaldo with Volpe without Nero's knowledge and They failed the assassination. Angelo kills Volpe in a jungle near Vanetti's turfs. After Frate and his men find the car with only Volpe in it, Frate believes that Nero set the plan. Frate sends a message to Nero by hanging Volpe's body on Lawless bridge. Internal war begins between Frate and Nero. However, Frate's men decide to rebel and serve under Nero instead of him, which makes it clear that Nero was the winner. Somehow, Angelo pushs the family's buttons which leads to Ronaldo and Frate's death. Fio leaves her "Mob" family with her unborn child. | |||
7.5 | "Brief Candle" Transliteration: "Mijikai Rōsoku" (Japanese: 短いローソク) | 27 August 2016 | |
A recap of the previous episodes. | |||
8 | "Behind the Curtain" Transliteration: "Tobari no Kage" (Japanese: 帳の陰) | 3 September 2016 | |
With Frate dead, Nero remains as the only Vanetti and he vows to do anything for the survival of his father's Empire. the new head of the Bureau of Prohibition cracks down on the feuding families. Fango aims to crush the Vanettis. After Delphy starts to investigate the Lodge(Nero's factory of Lawless Heaven brand), given the information by Fango, Nero warns him several times, but Delphy does not step down, so Nero orders to take out his family. Delphy's family does not die but the assassination extremely frightens Delphy which makes him leave the investigation. Fango uses Corteo's betrayal to kill Nero but he fails all the times. After Fango owns Lawless Heaven from the seize of Scuza, he tries to tell the Vanettis who the traitor is, but Corteo beats him to death. | |||
9 | "Black and Deep Desires" Transliteration: "Kurozun da Yabō" (Japanese: 黒ずんだ野望) | 10 September 2016 | |
While Corteo tries to catch the train to escape from Lawless the Vanettis capture him. They torture him but he stays quiet. Somehow Corteo vanishes, and the Vanettis put Lawless on lockdown to find him but they get nothing. At the Middle of the night Corteo calls Angelo for help which is blackmailed by an unknown person to force Angelo to kill Nero. Vincent gives the Don's rank to his son, Nero. Nero plans to expand His booze market across Illinois by negotiating with the Galassias. Angelo deduces the identity of the man who sent the letter. | |||
10 | "Proof of Good Faith" Transliteration: "Seijitsu no Akashi" (Japanese: 誠実の証) | 17 September 2016 | |
Angelo and Ganzo discuss motives, leverage and future plans shortly before Angelo revisits his hometown en route to a business deal with the Galassias in Chicago. Barbero finds out that Corteo was with Angelo when he left on the ship, so Ganzo calls Corteo to come back and save Angelo from death. Don Nero Vanetti calls Angelo for interrogation, and even orders the guards to inspect him before entering the Vanetti Mansion. In the middle of the interrogation Corteo smashs into Nero's office and explains why he betrayed Nero. Nero orders Angelo to kill Corteo to prove his loyalty. | |||
11 | "All for Nothing" Transliteration: "Subete ga Muda-Goto" (Japanese: すべてがむだごと) | 24 September 2016 | |
Don Galassia and his nephew, Strega, arrive in Lawless for the grand opening of the Vanetti playhouse as final preparations are made for the big show. The plot does not go as planned because Ganzo's assassins fail to kill Del Toro, even after Angelo kills Del Toro, Barbero and Tigre spot him and take him to the basement to interrogate him, and they find out about the letter. However, Tigre tries to warn Nero and Ganzo, but Barbero refuses and tells him to only warn Ganzo. After he comes, Somehow, He manages to kill Barbero and release Angelo, then acts like Angelo made his way out and killed Barbero. Ganzo gives the letter to Nero to let him know who "Avilio" is in reality. Nero tries to stop him but he is unable. After lots of struggle to get to Vincent and Galassia, Angelo kills Galassia to prompt Strega to perish the Vanettis. The rule of the Vanetti Family begins to end. Vincent dies in Nero's arms with his last words: "Nero, all of this was for nothing my boy". | |||
12 | "Slipping Through the Dirty Sky" Transliteration: "Yogore ta Sora o Kaikuguri" (Japanese: 汚れた空をかいくぐり) | 1 October 2016 | |
Strega's men kill every Vanetti in sight and the Vanettis are not strong enough to survive the war. Nero finds out where Angelo is and kidnaps him from Strega's bodyguards. After explaining everything to Nero, they leave Lawless with Cerotto and Nero takes this opportunity to steal his car. Angelo and Nero take a trip to see the Atlantic Ocean against a backdrop of warring families and a dying empire. Nero asks Angelo if he is satisfied with his revenge, to which Angelo replies that it did not give him the "raison d'etre" that he hoped for and it was all for nothing. Nero reminded of his father's last words becomes enraged and beats Angelo and asks why he did not kill him, to which Angelo responds that Nero should have killed him on the night of his family's massacre. After spending a few days travelling and trying to find a reason to forgive each other, Angelo tells Nero that the only reason he is alive is because he did not want to kill him. After hearing this Nero shoots Angelo in the back and leaves him on the beach. While driving away, one of Strega's henchman notices Nero in his car without Angelo and then finds him to take him back to Strega and treat his injury. Angelo explains he killed Galassia to spark a war between both sides in order to annihilate the Vannetis. Strega then gives Angelo an offer to eliminate an unmentioned person to become part of the family, which Angelo accepts. Note: These events are listed in chronological order and not the order of occurrence in the episode. | |||
OVA | "Shoal of Time" Transliteration: "Jikan no asase" (Japanese: 時の浅瀬) | 5 July 2017 | |
Three short flashback stories featuring Nero as an adolescent with his siblings and Vanno, Vincenzo Vanetti being made in the Moreno crime family, and Angelo tending to a sick Nero while on the run. |