During the second broadcast dedicated to the anime Visual Prison , the first full promotional video was revealed. The video reveals some of the characters' voices, as well as the song "Guilty † Cross" by the rock band Eclipse .
Check it out:
It's worth remembering that "Guilty † Cross" is now available on various digital music services. The next special featuring the cast will air next month.
Aniplex itself states that the project portrays "visual kei" musicians as vampires. The visual kei genre is a subgenre of Japanese rock characterized by elaborate visual performances, gothic aesthetics, ballad-like melodies, and musicians who present androgynous performances. In the anime's story, the vampires play visual kei music and gather in Harajuku at an event known as "Visual Prison" under the red moon once a year, performing visual kei songs to attract the audience and offer the best possible music for the red moon.
The story begins when Ange Yuki, a lonely boy without family, travels to Harajuku to see his favorite artist, and there witnesses an intense musical battle between the bands Eclipse and Lost Eden, their energetic performance touching his heart.
Voice actors divided by their respective bands:
Oz (center in the image above):
- Shouya Chiba as Ange Yuki (center left in visual)
- Makoto Furukawa Guiltia Brion (center right in the image)
- Hiroki Nanami as Eve Louise (furthest to the right in the visual)
- Shun Horie as Robin Laffite (far left in visual)
Los † Eden (on the right in the image above):
- Takuya Eguchi as Latour Saga (straight on the visual)
- Shimazaki Nobunaga as Mist Flaive (top look)
- Takuma Nagatsuka as Veuve Elizabeth (bottom part of visual)
- Shougo Yano as Jack Mouton (left in visual)
Eclipse (on the left in the image above):
- Toshiki Masuda as Dmitri Romanee (left in the visual)
- Shouta Aoi as HYDE Jayer (straight from the visual)
Staff
- Chief Directors: Takeshi Furuta and Tomoya Tanaka
- Studio: A-1 Pictures
- Script supervision: Yukie Sugawara
- Design Adaptation: Minako Shiba
- Secondary character designs: Jinshichi Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Yakou, and Honoka Yokoyama
- Animation directors: Yakou, Yamaguchi and Reina Kawasaki
- Props designer: Takayuki Kidou
- Art supervisor: Hiroshi Katou
- Art Director: Hirofumi Sakagami
- Art designers: Mitsuki Maeda and Hiroshi Katou
- Color artists: Kanako Hokari and Mayu Morita
- CG: Ryuta Undo
- Director of photography: Akito Suzuki
- Edited by: Eiichi Nishimura
- Sound: Satoshi Motoyama
- Music: Elements Garden
The anime Visual Prison will premiere later this year, in October.
Source: ANN