https://anilist.co/anime/108357/VampireintheGarden/ 5 episodes 2.5 hrs Easy binge There isnt anything particularly bad about this Anime unless you wanna ponder on how much it chooses not to tell. It only tells what it wants to tell in its short runtime which really couldve have been more impactful as a movie but is still a pretty decent watch. Lively Vampires Lifeless Humans The story takes place in a world where humanity is at the brink of existence... Bit of a tangent here but I find it funny how often this line is getting repeated like HUMANITY IS AT BRINK OF EXISTENCE like I forgot how much weight that line carries and how much I got used to it xD... Anyway vampires started to take over the world in both mass and land while humanity corned itself with nothing but a tower of light as their hope guns. Humanity uses some kind of holy light and guns to fight the vampires while the silver haired vampires just kills humans by sucking their blood who also have the ability to fly and can also transform into some beast when injected with some kind of drug.. Yeah humanitys clearly loosing. Humanity also abandoned music and all other semblance of culture to avoid vampire keen senses while vampires adopted all of humanities abandoned culture into their own. While the silver haired vampires dance in the moonlit nights humanity... does nothing but survive. While all that might sound pretty generic and donetodeath formula the real interesting part is not about the setting but about the journey of two women from each side. To the Paradise The main focus of the story is about two characters Momo Fine it spells more like Fina. Momo is a human solider who hates her lifeless military job and wants to find more about art mostly music. She has a lively personality under her dead lifestyle. The only thing she loves more than anything is her friend Merina but you know how innocent friendships in war settings end... Fine is a vampire and possibly a queen or similarly high ranked individual in the vampire society who looks livelier than anyone in the room but is actually dying inside partly because she refuse to drink blood anymore and partly because of her regrets which Ill get into it later. Both of these women hate their own society for taking away their freedom and at the end of episode 1 when Fine asks Momo to run away with her... you guessed it. But this run away quickly becomes a journey to find a paradise a paradise where vampires humans sing and dance together. Throughout the runtime youll see the laughs the joys the fears the tears the dreams the hope these two women carry with each other in their journey as small as it had been. The anime decided to leave their past in the past means it doesnt bring up either Fines tragic flashback or any other side characters backstories and just hints at what couldve happened through flashes of memories that doesnt long more than a few seconds. Youll only know what happens right now and you have to get the full story of whats happening what happened by those small hints. This isnt as complicated/confusing as it might sounds. The creators decided to speedrun what couldve been a 1/2 episodes worth of flashback into 1/2 seconds of mere flashes onto their past and you can more or less interpret what happened with those small hints. Conclusion This is on the same level of entertainment as Bubblehttps://anilist.co/anime/142455/Bubble/ except the action is average when compared to Bubble while the drama is better than Bubble though only just passable. The dub was not bad and pretty alright. And the soundtrack especially the lead VAs opera is what its called I think at episode 2 is beautiful. And here this ends. Watch this if youre bored. Deja Vu? https://i.ur.com/mTf0kgP.jpeg