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, humanity's 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 moon-lit nights, humanity... does nothing but survive.
While all that might sound pretty generic and 'done-to-death' 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 'Fin-a'). 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 I'll 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, you'll 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 doesn't bring up either Fine's tragic flashback or any other side characters backstories and just hints at what could've happened through flashes of memories that doesn't long more than a few seconds. You'll only know what happens right now and you have to get the full story of what's happening & what happened by those small hints. This isn't as complicated/confusing as it might sounds. The creators decided to speed-run, what could've 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.
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