“2014 Shibuya secedes as youth-only nation; "Prayers" battle with mind-destroying music. OVA canceled after 2 episodes.”
Prayers
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Synopsis
2014 Shibuya secedes as youth-only nation; "Prayers" battle with mind-destroying music. OVA canceled after 2 episodes.
It is the year of 2014, Shibuya is independent from Japan, and it becomes an independent nation. It is a town of chaos where only young people are living. The life necessity, such as electricity, water, and food are transported by the pipelines out from the Shibuya. The pipelines are running like cobweb in the sky, the young people in Shibuya looked like bugs trapped in the cobweb. In this city, there are people called "Prayers". They earn money by the battle of music. They turn music into electric signals and inject them into brains, and destroy opponents' mind and bodies each others. (Source: AnimeNfo) Originally created as 4-episode-OVA, it was canceled after 2 episodes.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
What 3 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.83 · split reception
6.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 3.0
↑ 2.00
Running avg · Mar 2009 → Jan 2026
- 9 “Idol battling anime are everywhere. They represent the anime industry's worst tendencies towards commercial, consumable fanservice, in both the sexual and non-sexual senses. Prayers attempts to...”
- 3 “Prayers is a goofy, melodramatic, amateurish production. The story hilariously makes a very mild time jump prediction, setting it only 9 years after the anime was released, and launches into its...”
- 3 “There's often times when one watches a particular show (of any type), where the viewer suddenly realises that what they're watching is either trying too hard to be different, or trying to...”
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- Format 2 × 27′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 54m all episodes
- Aired Aug 2005 – Nov 2005
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-2251 catalog
Produced by
- KSS Producer
- Soft Garage Producer