ARP Backstage Pass

ARP is the hottest augmented reality band around, a collection of some of Japan's top singers and dancers. Follow their rise to fame in ARP Backstage Pass!

This episode highlights the dark past of the dreamy Shinji, and how he went from being an isolated and introverted loner to a member of the most popular band around.

Diamond and Reiji were popular mainly at live houses in Yokohama. The two, who are childhood friends and have been together since childhood, will begin their activities on a new stage called "ARP". However, due to the unfamiliar environment and production, he gradually lost his balance and started to lack energy. For these two who have always supported each other, they are forced to reconsider what it means to sing together and perform live.

Leon, who has a four-octave singing voice and exceptional dancing skills, makes a spectacular debut by joining the coveted ARP midway through and immediately winning a battle song with Shinji. The reason why he decided to leave his loving parents and enter ISM and his smile. What is the origin of genius?

A beautiful woman who calls herself the embodiment of beauty and music is Reiji from Level Cross. He joins ARP with his childhood friend Dia in search of a new stage, but as he begins to share time with members who have different values than them, he gradually changes... What do ARP members look like to him?

Shinji received the right to self-produce as a reward for the battle song. Around the same time, his father Eiji Kanou, who is active as a conductor, returns to Japan. Shinji, who had a complex about his father and music, decides to form a collaborative unit with Level Cross with the theme of "rebellion against the past" in order to express himself now.