#Arknights: Rise from Ember Anime Announced

The production of the next season of the Arknights anime adaptation has been announced. The new series is titled Arknights [Rise from Ember], contrasting with 2023’s Arknights [Perish in Frost], and has a teaser trailer and visual.

Arknights [Perish in Frost] aired during the Fall 2023 anime season, while the first season, Arknights [Prelude to Dawn], ran during Fall 2022. The Yostar Pictures-produced anime is based on Hypergryph‘s free-to-play tower defense gacha game for iOS and Android, which was first released in China in 2019 and launched worldwide in 2020. Crunchyroll streamed the show.

Arknights: [Perish in Frost]‘s plot was described as:

Oripathy, an incurable disease that slowly crystallizes the bodies of those infected until their deaths.

Rhodes Island is a pharmaceutical company that endeavors to find a cure and solve the problems that follow in the disease’s wake, and in an attempt to put a stop to the revolt of the terrorist organization known as Reunion Movement whose ultimate goal is the salvation of the Infected, Rhodes Island has formed a contract with the Yanese city of Lungmen and continues its mission there.

However, Amiya has found herself despondent since their battle against Skullshatterer, unable to accept the fact they were unable to save Misha.

In the meantime, Rhodes Island deploys a reconnaissance squad to an abandoned city discovered in the Lungmen countryside. There, the squad notices a strange phenomenon unfolding before them…

• Yuki Kaida as Doctor
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amiya