Arknights: Prelude To Dawn: Episode 1 "Predestination" Review

Like with Genshin Impact , another insanely popular game , Arknights is getting an anime adaptation, and it's coming pretty soon. From Yostar Pictures - the animation subsidiary of Yostar Games - comes a TV animation about a story of resilience and hope in a dystopian future on the planet of Te


Once again, the background art of locations is stunning, with the use of depth of field to give the imagery a particularly filmic look at times. This is the kind of globe-trotting adventure story that thrives specifically because of its art direction and with anime's arguable decline in background art quality, the industry should take notes from this s


A terrorist group named Reunion wages war against the government of Ursus, and though they were once merely activists, they became tired of the prejudice. The protagonists are stuck in the middle, members of Rhodes Island, a group researching a cure for Oripathy and attempting to save those stuck in the midst of the war between the two facti


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One of the Rhodes Island soldiers angrily expresses that the clinic got what was coming to it, as they had refused to help Rhodes Island as well. What followed was an interesting monologue by Amiya, who expresses that even if they have a commonality, it doesn't make it easy to trust people. She expresses how humans build walls to feel safe because they want some degree of norma


In stark contrast to the towering buildings seen in the early episode, the slums of Lungmen appear almost a world away, and it's there that we find Misha, an Ursus girl on the run. She's hidden among the undocumented infected flocking to Lungmen, though not much else is revealed about her thus far. It's only known that she's wanted by the authorities and that plenty of punks in the slums are searching for


The story sounds pretty compelling , and the visual style presented through the ads and various cinematics since the game's launch is really enticing. It's an intersection of cute anime girls with militaristic aesthetics that caters to a very specific niche, but the use of color is unique. The whole world is gray, and the monotony is only broken up by vibrant bursts of co


The color comes click through the next internet site in the characters and their magic, which seems to lighten up the world in the same ways that they aim to cure the illness plaguing it. With every animated OVA, ad, and special animation having been animated in-house at Yostar Pictures, the style remains consistent, though sometimes animated in 3D rather than


Arknights is a Chinese mobile game from developer Hypergryph, released in 2019 and spread internationally in 2020, where it became something of a sensation. Not just for its dark military aesthetic crossed with striking character designs, but also for its large, often humorous marketing campaign. Just like games such as Fate/Grand Order before it, the audience can only take so much teasing from gorgeous animated commercials before they demand a TV/film adaptation. After a nine-minute anniversary short, Holy Knight Light , fans got a taste of what a full Arknights show might look like. Almost two years later and now the story has its first legitimate adaptati


It speaks to the groundwork laid in the first three episodes that these deliberations might be the most interesting part of the story thus far. There are the competing motivations of the factions, the political landscape complicating the discourse, but also a mystery that has gone unexplored by the characters as


In a dystopian future, the inhabitants of the planet Terra display traits of animals, and a disease has spread across the world called "oripathy." This disease actually gives people the capability to wield magic, but such benefits are meager before the mortality and infectious spr


As the characters travel through a mostly abandoned and war-torn city, there's a lot of poignant imagery meant to evoke emotion as the story expands on the sociopolitical landscape . They take refuge in a clinic meant to help people with Oripathy in secret, so they aren't sent to quarantine. It's abandoned, as Reunion destroyed their clinic in retaliation for them not help


In these quieter moments, when the artwork brings the scenery to life, there's this palpable sense of empathy among the characters, who find themselves caught between dogmatic narratives. Amiya especially has this kindness to her that at first marks her as somewhat standard and perhaps uninteresting. After this episode though, she seems a lot cooler and the heart behind Rhodes Island's efforts to help people, no matter


Last week, the powerful fire-wielding Talulah cornered the members of Rhodes Island and saw fit to incinerate the lot of them. As Episode 3 opens, Amiya demonstrates her own power in shielding her allies, though only so far as to hold off what seems like an inevitably bloody bat