Arknights: Rise from Ember

With the threat of Ursus and Reunion doubling down upon Lungmen, Ch'en, once the city's fiercest defender, renounces her loyalties before Lungmen's Chief Executive Wei Yenwu, revealing herself as Infected and the sister of Talulah, Reunion's enigmatic leader. Cast adrift from Lungmen with an arrest warrant, Ch'en sets out to confront Reunion, convinced that she alone can deliver the reckoning her sister deserves. As Rhodes Island intervenes to prevent total annihilation, Doctor, Amiya, Kal'tsit, and the rest of the team hope to navigate a conflict where the faintest spark of justice may at last ignite Lungmen's rise from its embers.

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Amiya Main

Kurosawa, Tomoyo Japanese

Doctor Main

Kaida, Yuki Japanese

Talulah Main

Sakamoto, Maaya Japanese

W Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Texas Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Exusiai Supporting

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Kal'tsit Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

FrostNova Supporting

Takagaki, Ayahi Japanese

Ch'en Supporting

Ishigami, Shizuka Japanese

Nearl Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Hata, Takehiro Producer

Watanabe, Yuuki Director, Sound Director

ReoNa Theme Song Performance

Itoki, Hana Theme Song Performance

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Sep 5, 2025

MajiMaestro

Recommended

I am beyond satisfied with this season. Having played Arknights since it first went live on global and having followed the story for years since then, I am so happy with how season 3 managed to calm all my concerns before it aired. I was scared that they were adapting too much at the same time, that 10 episodes wasn't gonna cut it, that it was gonna collapse under the pressure given how season 1-2 had been good, but not great other than select moments.

But it was all blown out of the water, I'm so happy. The content of the game's story is adapted incredibly ... well, and in many ways this season also worked to place a lot of anime original scenes and reactions, to further build this part of the story up fo the future, even more so than the original chapters 7-8 did years ago. And by jove, they managed to add in the crucial side story Darknights Memoirs as well, albeit crammed into one episode. This is the one flaw of this anime between previous seasons and now, as always, the lack of time, so the pacing in dialogue is too fast at some points, it doesn't get to land.

The artwork and drawings are all genuinely top tier, best in class for anime, this production LOVED it's facial expressions and detail. I'm especially happy with Sakamoto Maaya's performance as Talulah, who knocked it out of the park. And hell, this season had MOVEMENT too, we got some fantastic animation to bring out the full potential of the direction and storyboarding this anime already had an intriguing approach to.

As a fan I couldn't be happier to see the first arc of the story tied together like this with such reverence and respect for the original story. Having gone from doubting the first season for how it censored it's own brutality and barely showed a drop of blood, alongside the bland and unimpressive animation, to now seeing Arknights flourish fully without being afraid to show any of the tragic, brutal contents of it's story, it fills me with joy. Since as the story goes, we cannot shy away from the darkness and the sadness, we can only confront it, and how could a story like that have weight if it cowered for it's own material.

If you're like me, a longtime fan, I encourage you to watch this to bring further life to the memories of the Reunion story arc in your mind. And if you're someone new, perhaps someone looking for a series that's out of the box such as a gacha game anime adaption, I can tell you with confidence that the journey has a great end, and with my entire heart I can now recommend this series to you without hesitation.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 5, 2025

big_joe25

Mixed Feelings

Full disclosure, I love Arknights and know basically everything there is to know about the world and lore. Despite that, this season suffers from substantial pacing problems, most notably in the 2nd and final episodes. While it is easy for someone already familiar with all the characters to follow, I think people who know nothing about Arknights would have a hard time keeping up, and some of the most impactful and important scenes would be lost on them as a result.

The breakneck speed some scenes are presented at also lessens their impact. Darknights Memoir is one of my personal favorite side stories from the game, ... and while I agree that its inclusion in the season was a good choice, the speed at which they blast through it is crazy. There are so many things that story does to introduce some of the most foundational conflicts in the Arknights world, but much of that is lost because the studio simply did not have time to communicate all of it.

In a perfect world, this season (and the previous seasons if we are dreaming big anyway) would've gotten full 12 episode runs and had the time to portray the world more effectively. Ultimately, though, we are left with a fantastic story told sub-optimally. While I don't think the final product is bad, as there are still some fantastic scenes here, it still makes me sad to think about how much better it could have been if the story had more room to breathe.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 2, 2025

Salvatierra21

Not Recommended

If you're wondering how Yostar Pictures keeps releasing anime from this mobile video game franchise, increasing the quality and chapters despite the fact that the anime is losing audiences year after year, only those who want to see the end of this story remain, and those who continue to play this mobile game, well, it's simple because 1- the game is still active receiving content, keeping its players with the different characters and abilities they offer, keeping the game system balanced, that's what I've been told, and 2- the sale of any merchandise from this franchise is selling well, nothing out of the ordinary, but ... you make a profit, and these two factors give the producers the confidence to give the studio the money.

For me, how this anime is going, an anime with a standard plot, the only problem I have with the writers are two things: most of the battles are off camera, you don't see those waves of enemies that the game presents, most are small groups, and when the strong enemies come, it happens very quickly, it's not enjoyable, and why did they put in that character archetype so that the player of the game says, "I'm the Doctor, the worst character in this anime," since he's not He does nothing and contributes nothing, he just babbles, from time to time he has superficial dialogues, he doesn't even fulfill his function as a doctor in battles, healing the girls, that's what he does after the battles, he has no fusion in the political part of the plot

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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