The highly anticipated “Arknights: Rise from Ember” TV anime has unveiled its opening sequence video, offering fans a glimpse into the upcoming season ahead of its July 4, 2025 premiere. This marks the third anime adaptation of the popular tactical RPG mobile game, developed by Hypergryph.
Opening Theme and Artists
The opening sequence features the song “End of Days,” performed by ReoNa. ReoNa previously contributed to the “Arknights” anime series, providing the opening theme for the first season, “Arknights: Prelude to Dawn,” and the ending theme for the second season, “Arknights: Perish in Frost.” The ending theme for “Arknights: Rise from Ember” will be “Truth,” performed by Hana Itoki.
Production and Premiere Details
“Arknights: Rise from Ember” is directed by Yuki Watanabe at animation studio Yostar Pictures. Masaki Nishikawa and Shintaro Doge serve as assistant directors, with Aya Takafuji handling animation character design and Yuki Hayashi composing the music.
The anime is set to begin broadcasting in Japan on July 4, 2025, on Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, and Sun TV, with later airings on BS11 and Animax. Crunchyroll will stream the series globally starting July 4.
Continuing the Terra Narrative
“Arknights: Rise from Ember” will pick up the narrative where “Arknights: Perish in Frost” concluded, adapting the second half of the Main Theme’s Act I: Shatter of a Vision story arc, specifically episodes 07 and 08. The story continues to follow Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company striving to find a cure for Oripathy, a deadly and incurable disease that crystallizes the bodies of those infected. As a rebellion known as the Reunion Movement rises, threatening to engulf the land in anger and hatred, Rhodes Island works to quell their rampage and uncover the conspiracy behind it. Amiya and her allies will venture into the central area of Chernobog, near Lungmen, where they uncover a new and disturbing threat.
