Avilio, tries to get revenge on the mafia family known as «The Vanetti Family» for killing his family.
Extended Plot Summary. (This contains spoilers)
Angelo Lagusa is a man living a life as an orphan after the mafia named «The Vanetti Family» killed his entire family. He lived with his family in the town known as “Lawless” as a child until his father did something to anger the mafia, which then got his family killed, while Angelo managed to escape, barely dodging a bullet. Seven years later, he receives a letter from an anonymous person that says name for name who killed his family so many years ago. Angelo starts his revenge by joining a wedding the Vanetti Family have arranged with another mafia family, he offers them some alcohol made by his friend Corteo and they make a deal to mass produce it and create a partnership. Angelo under the name of Bruno Avilio decides to accept going on a “kidnapping” with Nero Vanettis’ brother. After they succeed, they go to kill their kidnapped man, but after Nero’s brother kills him, Angelo kills Nero’s brother. After this, Angelo keeps doing things with the Vanettis, looking to gain their trust, as he searches for his targets he has to run away from other mafia and even take down the biggest mafia families in town. Eventually after certain events, he manages to gains the Vanettis’ trust and after even more events, he kills two more of his targets and becomes looked upon as a traitor, and is killed by Nero.
Now, the story is overall, very messy. There is a ton of characters; several characters introduced all the time and many characters dying all the time. The story is just, not very great. This is one of the few anime that were original aka, not based on any prior source material. It is a gangster anime and the plot, which is about Angelo’s revenge against the Vanetti’s felt very irrelevant at the end. The story could have been better if the anime was just a few episode longer, but it was not, so therefor it turns out worse than it could have. Now this is supposed to be a badass gangster anime, right?
Characters in this anime are well written, but there is not very much character progression. There are maybe two different phases of character progression, there is the character they start off as, and the character they are through the second half of the anime, traumatized, or crazy. So character progression, not very good, mediocre.
When it comes to animation and color, it is good for what it is trying to do, but it could be better. The color in the show are very sad and gloomy, I cannot recall a single color that was light and happy from the top of my head. It is an overall very realistic anime and is well made, but its not anything impressive.
The content in the anime when it comes to action is not what you would expect. There is more talking in this anime than anything, so have fun with that. One would expect from the poster art of the anime that there would be plenty of guns, shooting and killing and that is correct. Out of everything that happens in the anime, it is watch flashbacks to the same scene countless times, watch people talk about things, and these are not interesting things, the topic most the time is about alcohol, lasagna, or negotiation, especially alcohol and Angelo just talking about his plan, which is incredibly repetitive.
Overall, it is not a great anime. It was entertaining enough for me to watch it, but I did not think for a second “oh what a genius plot”. It starts off with Angelo wanting revenge on his family’s killers and it stays like this for a while, until a ton of unrelated things happen that has nothing to do with Angelo, but he is around, so I guess it does? So the middle half of the anime is just, about Angelo’s relationship with Nero just feels unnecessary and boring. After this, it is just a bunch of convoluted things happening and a disappointing ending.