AniWorthVisual Prison
Introduction
Vampires have existed for centuries and live under the rule of the Scarlet Moon. Once a year, "Visual Prison" occurs, a visual kei competition where the vampire who sings the most beautiful song is bestowed with great power by the Scarlet Moon. At the forefront of the competition are ECLIPSE—the reigning champions who stand for an established order, and LOST EDEN—a group that believes the strongest should rule.
Ange Yuki is a lonely boy with no confidence in his singing ability. He moves to Harajuku in search of a musician he idolizes, but during his quest, he gets entangled in one of the many live performance clashes between ECLIPSE and LOST EDEN. Their fascinating stages stun him, but he soon collapses, overcome by bloodlust. Regaining consciousness, Ange finds himself under the care of Guiltia "Guil" Brion, the musician he admires, and learns that he is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire.
While Ange now has the privilege of participating in the upcoming Visual Prison, Guil explains that he will not join him in this endeavor. Meanwhile, Ange encounters Robin Laffite, a foreigner from England who is enamored by his astonishing singing voice. With the day of the competition slowly creeping up, Ange has to put together a capable unit in an exciting race against time.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.73/10 · 10828
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Audience reviews
7 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Yunice
This is an anime about music and vampire idols. That means there are many nicely drawn eye candy-type characters, which is quite pleasant. The art is quite beautifully done, and it gives a nice visual overall. The story was not over the top and very believable for a supernatural-themed anime.
It was like watching a long visual kei concert while bingeing through this anime. The music did not disappoint either; most of the songs were excellent. I think the music is the best feature in this series. I find myself always looking forward to the next musical segment, wanting more. Stage costumes really bring out the theme. If you are a fan of the visual kei genre, you would probably enjoy this show.
Read at the sourceFyrebirdi
I bumbled into this anime while searching for a vampire anime. What I found instead was simply... fun
Don't expect a great (or even coherent) story. I still don't understand much of the logic! Plot holes are simply filled with great music, and ambiguous characters are covered in plot armour. Some scenes are spoiled a bit by the occasional use of 3D, which I felt didn't blend well. There is much that one can criticize about this anime... and yet... it's still fun.
Visually this anime is eye candy with sexy vampire musicians and homo-erotic subtext. The voice acting and singing is stellar, and characters look great both on and off stage. It's truly all about the music and ultimately thats all an anime like this needs to be enjoyable. Its great for those times you'd prefer to switch off you…
Read at the sourceGleewJoy
This anime doesn't make sense and I'll prove it to you very clearly in this review.
Starting with all characters and their respective groups:
• Band 1 •
OZ: Ange, Robin, Eve and Guil. This is the main group formed by Ange, all because he liked to sing but couldn't "could". Now a brief summary about all of them.
Ange: The protagonist who doesn't consider himself a vampire, even though he felt the same things as a vampire and still talks in the anime that he didn't fit in the human world and that he was happy that he finally found his place... How come he doesn't is a vampire?
Robin: The classical music stranger loves his twin even though they can't even be called twins anymore considering their external changes.
Eve: he put in the anime that he thinks he's a monster just because he ki…
Read at the sourcetoidi-a-era-uoy
Honestly I can't explain it, but this was not as bad as I expected :)
I looked at it and instantly though Diabolik Lovers and Dance with Devils but this is way better then those in my book. This ain't a weird supernatural wonderland written by a masochist (most likely), it actually didn't have romance!!! I honestly wish more shows took the direction this took with a big identity reveal that wraps up a mystery of the main character and impacted ___ amount of other characters due to relation with this answer.
All I am saying is it could've went down hill real fast but didn't :)
Read at the sourceCainael
Visual Prison is my most awaited seasonal title of Fall 2021. It’s all about musical Visual Kei bands battles with ikemens vampires (Visual Kei is a muscial rock-punk-gothic genre really easy to the eyes). Not gonna lie to you, there is a lot of fanservice, but I really was over-enjoying over this Visually and Soundly great title, and here let me explain why :
• Story : 7/10 •
We mainly follow the debuts of « OZ » bands, where our main character, Ange cross path with other Vkei groups Lost Eden and Eclipse during one of their shows in Harajuku. He will then stumble across his favorite singer, Guiltia, here and so began the debuts of Ange’s wonderful voice which will be able to gather talents around him.
The main goal of these bands are to win the favor of the Scarlet moon and participatin…
Read at the sourceWasurena
When I looked at Visual Prison, I was skeptical of it at first because I thought it'd be one of those idol type anime where the character fits into a generic trope but as I watched it, it actually took me by surprise and I ended up enjoying it and looking forward to every Friday. The reason why I decided to give it a chance is because of Masuda Toshiki (Dimitri Romanee's VA). As someone who is familiar with the Visual Kei genre and a fan of Masuda-san, this anime sold me right away. The seiyuu lineup is amazing.
Starting off with talking about the story which I rate a 6/10, imagine Eurovision but the vampires are singing for the Scarlet Moon. I feel the story didn't really answer a lot of questions that fans have. With 12 episodes, I think it is possible to answer some of them but they n…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
Of all the mixed-media musical features that are attached to Aniplex and A-1 Pictures within the recent times, they'd largely come off as being overly ambitious or just to fuel the fire by showcasing a certain demographic with a weird premise. The kinda Yuri-bait and depressing 22/7 was surprisingly good, the sci-fi action Fujoshi-bait Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle was even better, and this season, yet another Fujoshi-bait show pops up: the supernatural vampire-based Visual Prison. And going back on my review of HypMic and testifying that you should stop watching anime from the lens of seriousness, I'm sad to say that I've tried the same for this one, and it just didn't click whatsoever.
And as someone whom still has HypMic pretty fresh in the mind, the glaring similarities between bo…
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