Tailor-Made Prisons in Anime and Manga.
- Mag Mel from Bakugan got this treatment, both because he's a very powerful villain and because he is the former Big Bad, the power hungry Emperor Barodius, who in his quest for more power than he already had attempted to perform genocide on the peaceful planet of Neathia. Code Eve imprisoned him in armor created from his own evil, sealed him in another dimension, and bound him to his own throne with magical webbing. Yeah, this guy was so evil he got an entire dimension turned into a prison and then had more levels of imprisonment put in place just for him. He eventually breaks free by absorbing energy from his Psychic Link with The Hero, which Code Eve didn't know about when she put him in there.
- In Bleach, The Man Behind the Man in the Muramasa Filler Arc was imprisoned in one of these, which for some contrived reason is located inside of Karakura for no real adequately explained reason other than to give the villain the ability to threaten Ichigo's friends And Your Little Dog, Too! when released. The arc's Filler Villain releases him in the arc's climax, only for both to end up the way all Filler Villains do.
- Prisons to hold espers appear in A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun. Among other things, they contain AIM Jammers, devices which reflect an esper's AIM diffusion field to make them lose control of their power.
- Elfen Lied had the Diclonii in underground research facilities, for lack of a better term, trapped in meters thick full body casings much like Iron Maidens, being fed through IV tubes, with a perimeter marking that no one was allowed in lest their hands get to them. The only reason that any of them got out is because either a) someone stupidly dropped a PEN inside of the circle or b) they were let out to take care of the Diclonius released in a).
- Lab 5 in Fullmetal Alchemist combines this with a sort of "Area 51" kind of place. It is guarded by living suits of armor containing the souls of serial killers believed by the public to have been executed, as well as fierce chimeras. One prisoner in all versions is the Mad Bomber Zolf Kimblee who has his hands in "miniature stocks" which prevent him from using his powers. In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), the homunculus Greed was imprisoned there for about two centuries until a fortuitous explosion frees him. At this point, the lab takes on Cardboard Prison qualities, as he proceeds to free the other prisoners. It was custom-designed to hold alchemists, not Homunculi, after all.
- Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple:
- The defeated and captured members of Yami (an organization of villainous martial arts masters) are sent into one of the series of so-called "Big Locks" — massively built prisons designed specifically to keep the Yami members inside for good. But it's later revealed that this trope is subverted. The prisoners are fully capable of just walking out of the prison. The only reason they stay there is because of their pride as martial artists, which dictates that they must obey the winner's orders.
- Since Shigure Kosaka can turn anything into a deadly weapon, when Yami kidnaps her, they keep her completely naked and have her hands and feet sealed in blocks of solidified resin so she cannot hold anything. This actually isn't enough since she is incredibly strong and can spit with enough force to shatter the resin, allowing her to escape several times.
- My Hero Academia: All For One's cell in the Tartaros prison has him restrained in a chamber full of weapons that will fire on him all at once if they detect he's trying to use his Quirk. He's a jovial Person of Mass Destruction with no regard for human life, so this is the only way they can safely contain him.
- In One Piece it seems to be standard practice to create prisons made entirely out of seastone, which is not only indestructible but also serves as the local Kryptonite Factor for Devil Fruit users.
- Impel Down serves as this; the World Government puts some criminals down in Level Six, and everyone is supposed to forget that they ever existed. In fact, most people don't even know that Level Six itself exists, including most of the prison's inmates, thinking that it stops at Level 5. Of Impel Down's many defenses against escape, the most formidable is that the entire facility is underwater. Even if they were somehow powerful enough to break the walls, the onrushing ocean would kill them. This also means there's only a single entrance and exit at the very top (directly above Level 1), and the most dangerous prisoners are kept furthest away from this exit by being placed in the lowest levels.
- Pokémon: The Series: Team Rocket has a long history of locking Pikachu in cages made of glass, plastic, rubber or other non-conductive material. Sometimes he can break out on his own, though usually he needs help from the others.
- In Sonic X, when Sonic is arrested for a crime, he's put in a cell that's underwater because they know he can't swim. Chris and his butler Mr. Tanaka get him out, dressed like they're the stars of The Green Hornet.
- The Kishin Asura in Soul Eater was trapped in a bag made out of his own skin. Even then, Shinigami-sama has to use most of his power to keep him trapped, which binds him to Death City.
- The very first Tenchi Muyo! movie featured Kain, an amorphous evil entity which broke out of his subspace prison at Galactic Police Headquarters and then escaped into the past to try and kill Tenchi's mother.
- The initial plan to stop him was to put him into another Tailor-Made Prison (an alternate dimension), but when he grabbed Tenchi's parents along the way they had to go inside and finish the job with a galaxy-destroying cannon.
