25/04/2022

Teaser for Arknights: Prelude to Dawn - from videogame to anime

The video game for smartphones Arknights features the first animations of the anime adaptation. Below the teaser trailer.

The anime is directed by Yuki Watanabe at Yostar Pictures studios, with Masataka Nishikawa assistant director (together they previously collaborated on the short Holy Knight Light for the same video game), with character design by Aya Takafuji.

The game is set in a fantasy world called Terra with modern science-fiction motifs. Terra is plagued by rare but devastating Catastrophes that force most people to live in nomadic cities. Catastrophes also bring forth the rare mineral Originium, which yields high energy and is thus a valuable resource, but also consumes everything around it as it grows. Those with prolonged exposure to Originium easily develop a wasting disease known as Oripathy. The story centers around the lives of Oripathy-infected individuals. A roving medical company known as Rhodes Island offers a helping hand and a place to belong for the often-shunned Infected. However, Rhodes Island has often had to conduct ad-hoc paramilitary actions against the Reunion Movement, a terrorist organization that conducts violent action aimed at governments that oppress the Infected.

Here the teaser trailer:

[ Fra - source ANN ]

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