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 tale with a premise that makes no sense- an earthquake causes Shibuya to sink below the rest of Tokyo, and it then secedes from the rest of the country and old people as a group, becoming a place where only the young are allowed to live, and also where they participate in music-based death games with a chip implanted in their neck. So many questions are left hanging in the air. Why would theyoung secede from the old? How are we defining that? What happens when the young people become old? Also, there's vampires? and cyborgs? They just started writing some bullshit and never bothered to incorporate any of it in a way that makes any sense. Beyond that, it has no idea how to handle people, as nobody seems to be having the proper emotional reactions to anything that's happening to them. They're just totally out of line all the time, either way too calm or way too excited, with little explanation. Even after you've suffered through all this meaningless drivel, you are rewarded with the fact that this anime just ends in the middle of its story. It goes from unremarkable to expressly a waste of one's time. The story never resolves, and will likely never resolve, not that it'd be worthwhile even if it did. Genuinely, there is no reason to watch this anime, and I consider myself very lenient in that regard. Also, is "prayers" meant to be "players"? They call "pray" "sound" in the intro of episode 1, so maybe they actually meant "play", like to play music. Even if this was on purpose, it's still slop all the same.

The art is stale and generic, with little to say about it in general beyond its overuse of flashing screens and silly attempts at ultraviolence.

Funnily enough, the music is broadly unremarkable, and even at times pretty bad. Given that's the whole point of the anime and its story, this is a huge mark against it, and is the final nail in the coffin for this crap.

The characters barely exist as independent agents, and not a single one of them is worth caring about. Overall, Prayers is worse than bad- it's pointless. A bad story could at least be redeemed in some form. A bad story that never even gets to where it's trying to go only serves to waste time that would have been better spent watching something else.