The highly anticipated opening sequence video for the Arknights: Rise from Ember TV anime has been officially revealed. The new footage features the opening theme song, “End of Days,” performed by ReoNa. This reveal comes ahead of the anime’s premiere on July 4, 2025.
“End of Days” Sets the Tone
ReoNa, an artist known for her evocative and impactful anime music, delivers the opening theme “End of Days” for Arknights: Rise from Ember. This marks ReoNa’s continued involvement with the Arknights anime franchise, as she previously performed “Alive” for the first season, Arknights: Prelude to Dawn, in 2022, and “R.I.P.” as the ending theme for the second season, Arknights: Perish in Frost, in 2023. The single for “End of Days” is slated for release on August 6, 2025. Complementing the opening, Hana Itoki performs the ending theme song, “Truth.”
Production and Premiere Details
Arknights: Rise from Ember is the third television anime season based on Hypergryph’s popular Arknights mobile game. The series is directed by Yuki Watanabe at animation studio Yostar Pictures, with Masaki Nishikawa and Shintaro Doge serving as assistant directors. Aya Takafuji is responsible for the animation character designs, and Yuki Hayashi composes the music.
The anime is set to begin broadcasting 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 on the same day.
Continuing the Rhodes Island Narrative
Arknights: Rise from Ember continues the animated adaptation of the tactical RPG/tower defense mobile game, picking up the narrative threads left by Arknights: Perish in Frost. The story of Arknights unfolds in the dystopian world of Terra, where rare and devastating Catastrophes force humanity to reside in nomadic cities. These Catastrophes also bring forth Originium, a powerful mineral that serves as a valuable energy source but also causes Oripathy, an incurable and deadly disease. The anime centers on Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company that aids Oripathy-infected individuals and engages in paramilitary actions against the Reunion Movement, a terrorist organization advocating for the Infected through violent means. The new season will follow Amiya and her allies as they venture into the central area of Chernobog.
