
Arknights: PRELUDE TO DAWN
アークナイツ 黎明前奏
In the land of Terra, natural disasters of unknown causes have been occurring irregularly in many areas. Therefore, the majority of the people, in order to escape those natural disasters, came to live in mobile cities developed over the years. The Originium left behind at the site of such Catastrophes, has led to the rapid progress of civilization due to their immense energy. But it also brought something else with it — an incurable disease called Oripathy. Because the bodies of those with Oripathy gradually crystalize and become a new source of infection at the time of death, in many countries, the Infected are subject to persecution under regimes of segregation and forced labor. Those who were oppressed by the governments are starting to rebel. Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company researching a cure for Oripathy, takes up their arms and starts a conquest trying to save all the people from the disease. (Source: Official Site, translated, edited)
Arknights: PRELUDE TO DAWN is a tv with 8 episodes, from Fall 2022, produced by Yostar Pictures, rated 7.0/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
In the land of Terra, natural disasters of unknown causes have been occurring irregularly in many areas. Therefore, the majority of the people, in order to escape those natural disasters, came to live in mobile cities developed over the years. The Originium left behind at the site of such Catastrophes, has led to the rapid progress of civilization due to their immense energy. But it also brought something else with it — an incurable disease called Oripathy. Because the bodies of those with Oripathy gradually crystalize and become a new source of infection at the time of death, in many countries, the Infected are subject to persecution under regimes of segregation and forced labor. Those who were oppressed by the governments are starting to rebel. Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company researching a cure for Oripathy, takes up their arms and starts a conquest trying to save all the people from the disease. (Source: Official Site, translated, edited)
Main Characters
Tags
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Pandemic — Prominently features a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world.
- Terrorism — Centers around the activities of a terrorist or terrorist organization.
- Conspiracy — Contains one or more factions controlling or attempting to control the world from the shadows.
- Urban — Partly or completely set in a city.
- War — Partly or completely set during wartime.
- Dystopian — Partly or completely set in a society characterized by poverty, squalor or oppression.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.
- Super Power — Prominently features characters with special abilities that allow them to do what would normally be physically or logically impossible.
- Amnesia — Prominently features a character(s) with memory loss.
- Kemonomimi — Prominently features humanoid characters with animal ears.
- Primarily Female Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of female characters.

