Introduction
Rebel organization Reunion has reduced the city of Chernobog to ashes and despair. That is only the beginning of its uprising against the nations prejudiced toward those infected with the highly contagious and deadly disease Oripathy. Now, the rebels have set their sights on Lungmen—a prosperous city infamous for its inhumane treatment of the sick. After witnessing Reunion destroy her homeland, Chief Ch'en of the Lungmen Guard Department's Special Inspection Unit leads her squad to defend her city.
Meanwhile, Amiya, the Doctor, and the rest of the advanced pharmaceutical company Rhodes Island continue to oppose Reunion on all fronts. However, they soon find themselves in a deadlock against a powerful enemy: FrostNova, a Reunion commander whose fearsome wintry powers cause anyone unfortunate enough to stand in her way to slowly perish in frost.
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Audience reviews
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Evalith
Arknights Perish in Frost is a solid substitute for the game's main story, elevating certain parts but dropping the ball on some. This season was produced fully in house by Yostar Pictures, an experimental decision and it shows as the quality of the drawings, cinematography and animation has clearly improved compared to season 1, though despite the improvement, Yostar Pictures is a young studio that couldn't maintain the high quality for all episodes, and one episode in particular suffered severely for it. The pacing was a bit too fast and could've used 2 more episodes for more breathing room, but at times the faster pacing also cut some weak content from the game, and the rearranging of events helped the story flow better than the disorienting pacing and perspective shifts the game has at…
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Arknights is a good animation that meets a horrible story. It is such a boring show because of the no-brainer story that any 5-year-old could write. You don't get any real action, nothing. Most episodes feel so boring and when it comes to action scenes they are the most boring ones I have ever seen. They would be even more enjoyable if they straight-up inserted a tower defence scene from the mobile game. The enemies have such boring personalities with no real character, fights make no sense and on top of it, most of the time you will be more like let's play the actual game then watch this.
The only plus about this show is a good-looking animation.
If you enjoyed the previous Arknights series and still can remember anything from them, you will enjoy this one too because it's exactly the sam…
Read at the sourceCamo_III
Lots of potential, but ultimately falls a little short. I think the anime could have been significantly improved if they made one or all three of the following better:
- Fight scenes - they seemed particularly boring, and with the budget they had they should have focused on at least one or two good ones
- Characterization - I feel like we should've had more time with people on reunion's side, but honestly a longer runtime would've been necessary for that. Fleshing out Frostnova a little more could've been done and maybe the Rhodes Island operators too.
- Worldbuilding - the backgrounds and background characters are noticeably dull, in fact we only ever see civilians a few times in what is essentially downtown Hong Kong. Rooms are empty, roadways clear of all debris, etc. Doesn't feel very…
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Horrible adaptation of another gacha game. But beware of a long-read. If you not sure whether to read or not, check my profile for highest and lowest rated things to know how differently we perceive the media.
First thing I want to mention is my background, to help you understand my thoughts. I am a big fan of huge detailed worlds, with or without magic, of logic, of drama, and of course of quality. By being open minded, I value things no matter it's genre and medium, whether it is a game, mobile one, series, books or anything else. And while in my gacha-world-exploration time I tried lots of games. The most notable of them were few months of Azur Lane, Girls Frontline, few weeks of PGR and almost 3 years of FGO (yeah, I ate some shiet). But in the end I dropped all of them, and chose to…
Read at the sourceMarlsMarsBars
This is probably the most polarizing anime of this season. Arknights: Perish in Frost delivers very powerful messages of unity and peace in a time when our real world really needs it the most. However, this message is muddied within the very bizarre execution of all the narratives. I like character depth in storytelling, but when that screen time is diverted away from the main plotline, especially in this case since there are only 8 episodes for the season, it becomes a problem. This season focuses more on fleshing out the side characters, and typically I wouldn’t have an issue with this, but they have very little connective tissue to what’s currently going on in the story. There are several episodes of this season focused on some Reunion side characters, and although the writing is surpri…
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For a long time, Arknights has had a cult following; myself included. We praise the game for its worldbuilding, hold its characters near and dear, and cherish the game as a part of our lives. Why is it then that the anime fails to convey this appeal? Why is it that Perish in Frost, which is in many ways an improvement over its predecessor, is still so critically flawed?
The truth, put simply, is that it's a flawed story mixed with extraneous circumstances.
Now, I won't talk about gacha syndrome here, nor the limited episode count. These issues should be fairly apparent, and though Yostar has tried to work with them, they both tie back to the same problem: the problems with the source material. To give a few examples of what I'm talking about:
- Prelude to Dawn (Chapters 0-3) was poorly…
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Arknights season 2 anime covers episodes4, 5 and 6 of the main story line of the game: Burning run, necessary solutions and partial necrosis. among the players of the game these episodes usually are known for game finally picking up it's long and slow pace a bit and getting amusing. with anime focusing on characters like: Amiya doctor and chen with Frostnova in main spotlight
there is much to say about the story adapted for this season. adapting 3 different story episodes with near 200000 words into 8 episodes of anime sure makes feel those who read for themselves feel some parts are missing. but it is notable despite the fast pacing of some parts, no major part of story is lost through adaption. though some parts such as necessary solutions could really get more attention to clarify the…
Read at the sourcePuglaysik
Arknights is a masterpiece. There are very few games that come even close to the level of quality and consistency that Arknights has; that said, the anime is... not nearly as "perfect." Let's start with the good and work our way down to the bad and even the ugly.
The Animation. For a small studio that has mostly only done short PV's and maybe some OVA's here and there, to come out and make full-length episodes of this quality is impressive, to say the least. The backgrounds and scenery, the art style and close-ups, the fight scenes and atmosphere—everything is executed beautifully, they really tried to give it a certain "movie quality" which made for a very enjoyable watching experience. Now there are some parts (or even entire episodes) that are lackluster, but, besides one exception, I…
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