History VisualNovel / PhantomOfInferno

* LighterAndSofter / DenserAndWackier: The Picture Dramas, which frequently portray Reiji as both the OnlySaneMan and a major ButtMonkey, Ein as TheComicallySerious, and Scythe as a LargeHam with the entire cast discussing rather mudane things most of the time rather than anything crime-related but still treating everything as SeriousBusiness. Several of the shorts even portray Reiji and Ein as ''live action puppets''.

Of interesting note, previews for the original game's second release aired at around the same time as ''{{Noir}}'', which led to viewers connecting the two (as they have [[CoolGuns similar]] [[GirlsWithGuns themes]]).

*** If anything the Girls With Guns Trilogy had {{Shout Out}}s to Phantom since it predated the earliest entry, {{Noir}} by about a year. There's more than just the Zahlen Schwestern outfits, for example Ein and the three main characters, Kirika, Margaret and Ellis all have no recollection of their past and Reiji is shown to have almost super-human Assassin instincts like Kirika.

* EmotionlessGirl: Ein.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Ein doesn't care about walking around naked in front of Zwei after having a shower.

* MadScientist: Scythe Master.

* HeyItsThatVoice - Anime. If you listen carefully, you'll hear [[{{Gundam 00}} Feldt and Saji]] from Ein and Zwei. AyaHisakawa gives her stunning voice to the series as well.

Where to begin? '''Phantom of Inferno''' is the first release by the visual novel developer {{Nitroplus}}. First to describe Nitroplus: over 80% of their games are dark, scary, and full of murder. Nitroplus can be considered a blender of ideas, but ''Phantom'' in fact has a simple story in comparison to their other games.

** Game and OVA. [[YamatoNadeshiko Kikuko Inoue]] voices Claudia. Ai Orikasa of [[TenchiMuyo Ryoko]] fame does Lizzie.

* VideoGameRemake: Remade for XBox360 now features the new character designs created in the anime series ~Requiem for the Phantom~ as well as the voice cast.

The game was first given an adaptation which tried to sum up the game in 3 OVA episodes. In 2009, a new anime entitled "Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~" was produced by BeeTrain with [[GundamUnicorn Yosuke]] [[HoneyAndClover Kuroda]] writing and supervising the scripts (including a few from the original scenarist himself [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Gen]] [[FateZero Urobuchi]]) and directed by KoichiMashimo. The game has since been remade for the XBox360 featuring the anime design created by Bee Train, however release date remains unknown.

The story follows the life of a young man who [[HeKnowsTooMuch sees something he shouldn't have seen]], is captured and {{brainwashed}} by a [[TheSyndicate shadowy organization]] called Inferno and then is given the choice "join or die". He is trained as an assassin by a [[{{SugarAndIcePersonality}} soft-spoken]] girl called Ein. Ein is Inferno's top assassin, code-named "Phantom" and controlled by the sinister Scythe Master, who also brainwashed the man. The man is given the name Zwei and begins his work at Inferno.

The game was first given an adaptation which tried to sum up the game in 3 OVA episodes. In 2009, a new anime entitled "Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~" was produced by BeeTrain with [[GundamUnicorn Yosuke]] [[HoneyAndClover Kuroda]] writing and supervising the scripts (including a few from the original scenarist himself [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Gen]] [[FateZero Urobuchi]]) and directed by KoichiMashimo. The game has since been remade for the XBox360 featuring the anime design created by Bee Train, however release date remains unknown.

* AccidentalAthlete: Drei

** Later turned into just plain [[BadAss Badass]] after the [[spoiler: first time skip]]

* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunman]] - Back in chapter 2 of the original Visual Novel, there is a small scene where Godoh Daisuke calls and speaks to his niece back in Japan. Considering all of the action that goes on in the chapter, the player will most probably have forgotten about this call by the end of it. [[spoiler: Guess who turns out to be a main heroine in chapter 3?]]

* [[spoiler: DeathByAdaptation]]/[[spoiler: RevisedEnding]]: The anime follows the "Ein" path from the visual novel and features the "Road of the Cerulean Sky" ending from it as its conclusion, with the exception that [[spoiler: in ''this'' version, Reiji and Ein both die at the very end.]]

* FanDisservice: Scythe Master licking Ein suggestively in the first couple hours of play.

* GainaxEnding: In the anime, [[spoiler: Reiji is shot dead and Ein lies in the grass smiling. Questions remain, is Ein dead, did Inferno kill Reiji or did Ein? Is Ein dead, did she eat a poison flower? The ending is still hotly debated.]]

* GenreShift: Joked around with. The anime's second opening will leave you surprised.

* HotShonenMom: Mio's mother

* ShoutOut: The first episode has a few homages to {{Scarface}} including the Giant Globe bearing the words ''The World is Mine.''
** Reiji and Cal's initial relationship is a notable homage to one between the two protagonists of the film ''[[TheProfessional Leon]]''.

* [[spoiler: DeathByAdaptation]]/[[spoiler RevisedEnding]]: The anime follows the "Ein" path from the visual novel and features the "Road of the Cerulean Sky" ending from it as its conclusion, with the exception that [[spoiler: in ''this'' version, Reiji and Ein both die at the very end.]]

* [[spoiler: DeathByAdaptation]]: The anime follows the "Ein" path from the visual novel and features the "Road of the Cerulean Sky" ending from it as its conclusion, with the exception that [[spoiler: in ''this'' version, Reiji and Ein both die at the very end.]]

* AccidentalAthlete - Drei
* AnyoneCanDie - Played straight, played with, subverted, averted, inverted, whatever. [[spoiler:Drei, Scythe Master, Ein, Zwei, Claudia, Lizzie, a LOT of people. Just take your pick.]]
* BadassNormal - [[spoiler:Reiji]] had implausible fighting capabilities ''before'' joining Inferno.

* BodyguardCrush - Zwei and Cal, Mio and Shiga.
* {{Brainwashed}} - Scythe does this to Ein to keep her loyal. [[spoiler:After Claudia's coup d'etat, the process is ceased and reversed on the agents they still have. Scythe himself later decides that ''[[NotBrainwashed not]]'' brainwashing his subordinates may actually make them stronger.]]

* BreakTheCutie - Arguably the entire premise of the series. In fact, [[WhyWereBummedCommunismFell this is the BigBad Scythe's Job when he's in Stasi, the East German secret police]].

* CoolGuns - And how!
* DarkActionGirl - Drei.
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding - (Anime) [[DiabolusExMachina In literally the last minute of the show]], Reiji is shot & killed by a disguised assassin in a passing hay wagon, and Ein commits suicide by consuming a poisonous Oxytropis leaf.]]
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding - The anime's ending ''was'' going this way...but see DownerEnding above! [[DiabolusExMachina Augh!]]]]
* EmotionlessGirl - Ein.
* {{Expy}} - Drei looks exactly like Elise from the ''TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'' OVA, and though Elise is much more professional and Drei much more wild, their similarities don't end at using guns, speaking GratuitousEnglish and wearing purple. [[spoiler:Both are introduced after the bulk of the story and are put at odds with the male lead, whom they hate after a traumatic childhood incident involving a bomb planted by the BigBad, and the female lead, who's just along for the ride.]]

* FallingChandelierOfDoom - One of the Zahlen Schwestern gets this treatment.
* {{Fanservice}} - Ein, Claudia, Drei, Mio, and the Zahlen Schwestern.
* FanDisservice Scythe Master licking Ein suggestively in the first couple hours of play.

* GainaxEnding - In the anime, [[spoiler: Reiji is shot dead and Ein lies in the grass smiling. Questions remain, is Ein dead, did Inferno kill Reiji or did Ein? Is Ein dead, did she eat a poison flower? The ending is still hotly debated.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar See FanDisservice for the example. It fits two tropes (Hirameki released the game as 13+).
* GenreShift - Joked around with. The anime's second opening will leave you surprised.

* TheGunslinger - Ein and Drei.

* {{Homage}} - Cal recites lines from films such as DirtyHarry and TaxiDriver as she is learning to fire a gun.

* HotShonenMom - Mio's mother
* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut - Scythe's plan in episode 6.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl - Ein doesn't care about walking around naked in front of Zwei after having a shower.
* KarmaHoudini - In the anime [[spoiler: Raymond [=McGuire=], leader of Inferno, has Reiji assassinated and Ein commits suicide, and even though he's lost Scythe Master and his assassins, still controls Inferno and most of the US criminal underworld.]]
* [[spoiler: KillEmAll - Of all the named main characters, only Mio and KarmaHoudini Raymond [=McGuire=] are still standing at the end.]]
* MadScientist - Scythe Master.
* MafiaPrincess - [[spoiler:Mio. Even ''she'' doesn't know about it.]]
* MoodWhiplash - The first half of Episode 20 in the anime. After such a solemn ending to the last episode, you may question if the anime is playing a joke on you by suddenly switching gears to a high school comedy. However, for the second half of the episode it's just buissness as usual.

* NotBrainwashed - Drei is the result of Scythe's "thought experiment" to see if keeping her memories and playing on her old grudges will keep her as loyal and efficient as removing her memories altogether would.
* NotQuiteDead - Over and over and over...
* DepravedBisexual In Phantom: Integration, [[spoiler:Drei]] is one temporarily.
* TheOjou - Mio.
* RecapEpisode - Episode 11. Parts of episode 19 as well, but not as bad as episode 11.
* SexyBacklessOutfit - Ein's party costume in episode 6 and the dresses of the Zahlen Schwestern, both in the recent anime and in the visual novel.
* ShoutOut - The first episode has a few homages to {{Scarface}} including the Giant Globe bearing the words ''The World is Mine.''

* ShownTheirWork - The original game went into ''ridiculous'' levels of detail when it came to the guns. You got ''lectures.''
* SleepCute - Cal and Reiji in the second anime, [[BleachedUnderpants oddly replacing a sex scene.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS - Is it Elen or Eren?
* TheSyndicate - Inferno.
* VagueAge - The only apparent reason to why Drei grew up and Ein/Zwei didn't.

* WhiteMaskOfDoom - Worn by assassins.

* YouAreNumberSix - Ein, Zwei, Drei as well as the individual members of the Zahlen Schwestern in the anime.

* GainaxEnding - [[spoiler: Reiji is shot dead, Ein lies in the grass smiling. Questions remain, is Ein dead, did Inferno kill Reiji or did Ein? Is Ein dead, did she eat a poison flower? The ending is still hotly debated.]]

The story follows the life of a young man who [[HeKnowsTooMuch sees something he shouldn't have seen]], is captured and {{brainwashed}} by a [[TheSyndicate shadowy organization]] called Inferno and then is given the choice "join or die". He is trained as an assassin by a [[{{Kuudere}} soft-spoken]] [[{{Bishoujo}} girl]] called Ein. Ein is Inferno's top assassin, code-named "Phantom" and controlled by the sinister Scythe Master, who also brainwashed the man. The man is given the name Zwei and begins his work at Inferno.

** [[spoiler: Oxytropis]]? where was THAT mentioned?

* SexyBack - Ein's party costume in episode 6 and the dresses of the Zahlen Schwestern, both in the recent anime and in the visual novel.

* TheShrikeTeam: The Zahlen Schwestern.

* CompleteMonster - Scythe Master, everything that happens is a result of his narcissism.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - Reiji's theme after the [[spoiler: first time skip]]
** KOKIA's haunting opening theme ''Karma'' set the mood very perfectly.

* FetishFuel A certain gun scene in Phantom: Integration involving [[spoiler: Drei and Mio.]] YourMileageMayVary.

* {{Squick}} / FanDisservice - Scythe Master's interactions with Ein.

* TheWoobie - Ein, Zwei, and Drei all go through some pretty brutal traumas before and during the series run. [[spoiler: And in the anime, NONE of them get a happy ending.]]