Anime’s 2nd season also debuts teaser visual
The official website for the Arknights: Perish in Frost television anime season opened with a teaser promotional video and teaser visual on Saturday. The video confirms the returning staff and cast from last year’s Arknights: Prelude to Dawn season.
In particular, Ayahi Takagaki (Frostnova) and Shizuka Ishigami (Ch’en) are joining Yuki Kaida (Doctor) and Tomoya Kurosawa (Amiya) in reprising their roles in the second anime season.
The Arknights: Prelude to Dawn season premiered on TV Tokyo on October 28. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Yuki Watanabe directed the Arknights: Prelude to Dawn season 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.
Source: Arknights: Perish in Frost anime season’s official website via Otakomu
