The Arknights [Rise from Ember] anime has received a main trailer, key visual, and July 4 premiere date (the English-subtitled trailer confirms that the Crunchyroll premiere will also be in July but does not reveal the exact date).

The trailer opens with a focus on Talulah, before allowing various other characters to receive some of the spotlight later on. Hana Itoki‘s ending song “Truth” is used in the video, which ends with a flashy display of power from Amiya and the words, “I can’t let you… hurt the people of these lands anymore!”

Also revealed were the new season’s production credits, which include:

• Director: Yuki Watanabe (returning)
• Assistant director: Masaki Nishikawa (returning)
• Animation character design: Aya Takafuji (returning)
• Background art director: BIC・STUDIO’s Minoru Onishi (returning)
• Color design: Keiko Goto (returning)
• Director of photography: Graphinica’s Sai Saiun (previously assistant director of photography)
• Director of photography: Graphinica’s Kohei Tanada (returning)
• Music: Yuki Hayashi (returning)
• Main series writer and animation production: Yostar Pictures

Arknights [Rise from Ember] is the third series of the Arknights TV anime adaptation, which includes the Fall 2022 anime season’s Arknights [Prelude to Dawn] and the Fall 2023 season’s Arknights [Perish in Frost]. The show is based on Hypergryph‘s free-to-play tower defense gacha game for iOS and Android, which was first released in China in 2019 and launched worldwide in 2020. 

Google Play describes the game as:

Take on the role of a key member of Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company that fights both a deadly infection and the unrest it leaves in its wake. Together with your leader Amiya, you’ll recruit Operators, train them, then assign them to various operations to protect the innocent and resist those who would thrust the world into turmoil.

Cast

• Yuki Kaida as Doctor
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amiya
• Maaya Sakamoto as Talulah
• Shizuka Ishigami as Ch’en
• Yoko Hikasa as Kal’tsit 

Source: Arknights anime website