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Vampire Visual Kei Anime Visual Prison Unveils 2nd Video, Golden Bomber as Guest Cast
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The official website for A-1 Pictures, posted the second promotional video and main visual on Sunday. The video previews the opening theme song "Zankoku Shangri-La" by the in-story band O★Z.
The website also announced that the real-life visual-kei band Jun Utahiroba will be guest cast in the anime.
Aniplex describes the project as portraying visual kei musicians as vampires. The visual kei genre is a subgenre of Japanese rock characterized by elaborate visual presentations, gothic aesthetics, balladic melody writing, and musicians who present androgynously. In the anime's story, vampires perform visual kei music, and gather together in Harajuku in an event known as "Visual Prison" under a red moon once a year, performing visual kei songs to entrance an audience and offer the best song to the red moon above.
The story begins when Ange Yuki, a lonely boy with no family, travels to Harajuku to see his favorite artist, and there sees an intense musical battle between the bands Eclipse and Lost Eden, their energetic performance striking a pain through his heart.
The cast, divided by their respective units, are as follows:
O★Z (center in image above):
- Shōya Chiba as Ange Yuki (center left in visual)
- Makoto Furukawa Guiltia Brion (center right in visual)
- Hiroki Nanami as Eve Louise (rightmost in visual)
- Shun Horie as Robin Laffite (leftmost in visual)
Los†Eden (right in image above):
- Takuya Eguchi as Latour Saga (right in visual)
- Shimazaki Nobunaga as Mist Flaive (top in visual)
- Takuma Nagatsuka as Veuve Elizabeth (bottom in visual)
- Shōgo Yano as Jack Mouton (left in visual)
Eclipse (left in image above):
- Toshiki Masuda as Dmitri Romanee (left in visual)
- HYDE Jayer (right in visual)
In addition, Tomokazu Sugita plays the mascot character Panya:
Reina Kawasaki are also serving as chief animation directors.
Elements Garden is producing the music.
The in-story band Los†Eden performs the ending theme song "Bloody Kiss." The in-story band Eclipse performs the insert song "Gyokuza no Gemini" (Gemini of the Throne).
The anime will WOWOW on October 13.
Sources: Visual Prison anime's website, Comic Natalie
