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Arknights Game's Perish in Frost TV Anime Confirmed (Updated)

The eighth and final episode of the Arknights: Prelude to Dawn television anime ended on Saturday with a video confirming that production on the Arknights: Perish in Frost television anime has been green-lit at the Yostar Pictures studio. Yuki Kaida will play Doctor again, and Tomoyo Kurosawa will also play Amiya, among other cast members.

Yostar Pictures described Arknights: Prelude to Dawn, the first television anime of Hypergryph's Arknights smartphone game, as "season one" when it announced the show in October 2021. Saturday's announcement did not specify if Arknights: Perish in Frost is the second season.

The Arknights: Prelude to Dawn anime premiered on TV Tokyo on October 28. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.

Yuki Watanabe directed the Arknights: Prelude to Dawn anime at Yostar Pictures, with Masataka Nishikawa as assistant director. Both previously worked on the smartphone game's "Holy Knight Light" first anniversary anime short, and Watanabe worked on the game's numerous animated promotional video shorts. Aya Takafuji (key animator for Fate/Grand Order -Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia-, SSSS.Gridman) adapted the character designs for animation.

Chinese developers Studio Montagne and Hypergryph released the game in China in May 2019, and then Yostar launched the game worldwide in January 2020. The game already inspired several animated promotional videos since 2019 and a nine-minute animated "Holy Knight Light" short in December 2021 to mark the game's first anniversary.

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.

Update: Mantan Web reported on Monday that Arknights: Perish in Frost is the second Arknights anime season.

Update 2: Tomoyo Kurosawa's spelling corrected.

Source: Arknights official Twitter account via Yaraon!