A teaser trailer for the upcoming Arknights [Rise from Ember] anime has been released. The video offers less than 20 seconds of footage and doesn’t provide a release date, saying only that the anime is “now in production.”
Arknights [Rise from Ember] was announced in April. It is the sequel to Fall 2022’s Arknights [Prelude to Dawn] and Fall 2023’s Arknights [Perish in Frost].
The Yostar Pictures-produced anime is based on the Hypergryph-developed free-to-play tower defense gacha game for iOS and Android, which was first released in China in 2019 and launched worldwide in 2020.
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…
Cast
• Yuki Kaida as Doctor
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amiya
Source: Arknights Official – Yostar YouTube channel
