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Nov 12, 2022
Preliminary (3/8 eps)
I'll try to keep this short, as the anime is still ongoing.

Arknights will demand patience from you for the first few episodes, it's the main fear I've had as an avid player of the game for months, because the early story is essentially something along the lines of a mix between a long prologue and laying out the groundworks for everything else. This anime is to my understanding gonna cover chapter 0 to 3, which is all of act 1. At the current rate that makes sense to me given the amount of story that exists, as with the end of episode 3 we're about to enter chapter 2.

Here's the important part, with the perspective of knowing the story they're trying to adapt, they've added a great amount of logic, lore and generally meat on the bones to the PAINFULLY exposition-heavy and meager experience chapter 0 and 1 is. It's hard to expect anything but an exposition dump from a story that was only made to be an exposition dump in the game. Yet despite that they made something serviceable out of it.

Please bear with Arknights as it makes it's way to more entertaining story, as more characters are introduced and especially, when the Arknights writers for the game realized that they were sitting on something good, which I would personally say is about chapter 4 or 5, but chapter 3 can be seen as a prelude to that.

If you have at least a smidge of enjoyment for what you've seen so far, have my word for that the coming content will constantly improve on what you have seen.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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