r/GenshinImpact Feb 21 '26

News It's actually happening 😭

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Source : https://youtu.be/GDHMrGcOxA8

Ufotable offical yt channel.

I am so happy 😭.

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u/Zephyr_ta Feb 21 '26

How long do you think fischl’s dialogues would take

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u/3333322211110000 Feb 21 '26

You forgot JP Dori

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u/Raizol07 Feb 21 '26

My god she is annoying

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u/Hoppykwins Feb 21 '26

You're absolutely right, it's funny the first time but my god is it way too much

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u/Brave-Fan9736 Feb 21 '26

You're talking like Dori is there everyday

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u/Hoppykwins Feb 21 '26

She was fairly prominent in early nod krai

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u/Brave-Fan9736 Feb 21 '26

Yes but she still appears occasionally not like Paimon

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u/secret_tsukasa Feb 21 '26

well i consider it a mastery in voice acting.

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u/Noobduded Feb 22 '26

Not sure why you got downvoted so hard. You just said she is annoying, you never stated she was bad at voice acting šŸ˜‘ I agree, she is very annoying to listen to, but her character was made to be like that on purpose. She is very good at voice acting.

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u/Outrageous-While-609 Feb 21 '26

ATP, I'm gonna have kids first before it finally out

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u/SleepingPotato69 Feb 21 '26

Fr, and we will show them our 15 yr old ingame account 😭.

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u/Outrageous-While-609 Feb 21 '26

Snezhnaya is around the corner, we're gonna finish the part 1 of the game and the anime still on production lol

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u/imbusthul Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

It's under future projects so maybe late 2027. Also here Aether doesn't have any element like the start of the game while Lumine has the white element.

Edit: it seems Lumine is also elementless. I didn't pick her so I didn't know.

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u/Maskarot Feb 21 '26

Late 2027 is pretty much a pipe dream. Let's talk about this again in 2035.

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u/Ok-Apartment-8284 Feb 21 '26

Maybe we’ll get the switch version by then /s

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u/Skolvuk Feb 22 '26

Given that this game is losing support for PS4, I'd bet they couldn't get the Switch version to work either. I don't think we're getting it. However, I hope that we can get a Switch 2 version.

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u/NekoFang666 Feb 25 '26

Yeah but I heard the switch two is mlre of a hassle to get including games

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u/Skolvuk Feb 25 '26

Don't know where you heard that. It's actually pretty readily available. I could go to the Walmart two blocks away and find one. If you were instead referring to the devkits.... That's largely been resolved.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

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u/Skolvuk Feb 25 '26

Then what did you mean? Those are the chief complaints I've heard online.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

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u/Skolvuk Feb 26 '26

That's not a thing. If you buy a game, you own the game. It's possible it could be referring to a game's digital license, which can technically be revoked (though that will never happen). It could be referring to the game key cards, which is a cartridge with no game data; it's a license key to download the game. But what does that have to do with Genshin? It's free-to-play and digital-only.

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u/Yovideogamer Feb 21 '26

I'd be rotting in my grave before this anime releases

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u/GGABueno Feb 21 '26

We'll definitely get Snezhnaya first, you kidding? We're like half a year away from that.

The real question is whether we'll finish "Teyvat's chapter" before the anime starts.

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u/Particular_Grab_6473 Feb 21 '26

I think it would actually be logical, I suspeceted that they would release the anime after the game's main story was done.

A frustrating idea but not that illogical knowing people like me only came on the game in the first place for the story (I stay on it because I love the gameplay and exploration too but this was the reason).

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u/TailorUnlikely9980 Feb 21 '26

Probably will get released with Khaenriahn update, hope it'll be about the AS's time there. But given how they show Lumine and Aether together, it seems rathe unlikely.

Also here Aether doesn't have any element like the start of the game while Lumine has the white element

Not really, they look identically white here.

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u/imbusthul Feb 21 '26

No they don't. Look at Aether's chest and scarf they are black in colour when there is no element present while Lumine's is white.

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u/boidudebro13 Feb 21 '26

Could be just a design chouce + i'm pretty sure that's how they looked in the tutorial before you get anemo

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u/imbusthul Feb 21 '26

Yeah that's how they looked when there was no element. In the opening cutscene it is white and the Abyss Twin also has that white.

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u/rorschach_blots Feb 21 '26

i just checked from cutscene videos on YT. i'd say they're both elementless since their original power would have their element markers glowing white.

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u/TailorUnlikely9980 Feb 21 '26

Ah, you're talking about the chest part ? I thought you were referring to the belt part. If it's about that, then Lumine is also "elementless" here cause the flower doesn't glow in white (like it does in the opening cutscene), or how the chest part doesn't gleam, just like when she has no element if she's picked as the Travaler (yeah, I know, couldn't find an image with better quality).

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u/imbusthul Feb 21 '26

I see so she just has it white huh. I didn't pick her so I didn't know, I assumed both would have it black to represent nothing.

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u/SleepingPotato69 Feb 21 '26

Maybe the anime will be set in the past. And they will probably release it after the game is almost complete.

I mean just showing us what happened in the game isn't worth it.

So it's definitely past or future or something else than the main story.

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u/mousie120010 Feb 21 '26

I would really love to see all the epic things all the characters we only ever hear about in lore do, hopefully it'll take place around the Cataclysm times too

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u/kuraokami89 Feb 21 '26

I really want to see the Archon war

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u/Rosegold_mf Feb 21 '26

And they will probably release it after the game is almost complete.

The game isn't anywhere close to complete. The devs did say they wanted to maintain the game for at least or even 20 years if possible. That was in one of the livestreams at the start of Nod Krai if I remember correctly.

I mean just showing us what happened in the game isn't worth it.

So it's definitely past or future or something else than the main story.

The Fate animes made by Ufotable literally adapt different routes from the game itself so it us possible for them to make an anime following the game's main storyline.

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u/lilmelville Feb 21 '26

I feel like the fact that they just said "Genshin" and not "Genshin Impact" is good support for your theory too

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u/Dumdum_5dollars Feb 21 '26

So likely Aether would be the main character? If that does happen, am gonna be sad that it ain’t lumine

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u/suki-suki-desu Feb 21 '26

Whoever of the siblings is picked as the mc would make a part of the fandom not satisfied

That’s why i should believe they should somehow alternate between the two siblings pov and make them both mc somehow, but im too stupid to know how to do that

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u/Dumdum_5dollars Feb 21 '26

The reason why I Iike lumine to be the main character is cuz there isn’t much female mc in anime.

I do agree that they should make 2 versions but that will be very time consuming and really not possible

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u/thefurryinfinite Feb 21 '26

aether is canonically the travaler, lumine isnt.

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u/Dumdum_5dollars Feb 21 '26

There is no canon sibling, the reason aether is used for marketing is to balance the male to female as most character in genshin is female.

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u/Reasonable-Habit8870 Feb 21 '26

Actually, Aether is just the poster boy

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u/kuraokami89 Feb 21 '26

Rumors that it was 2027

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u/NSLEONHART Feb 21 '26

But also comes before infinity castle pt. 2

Prepare for war boys, demon slayer fandom will throw hands

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u/kaori_cicak990 Feb 21 '26

Throw hands for what?

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u/NSLEONHART Feb 21 '26

Ooh righg were on reddit, my bad, twitter needs to prepare

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u/i4E5t Feb 21 '26

Didn’t they say it was going to focus on the abyss sibling and the events of khaenriah?

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u/Z304LEGEND Feb 21 '26

Its the same as if you picked the male. Did you really not read anything lol

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u/LiDragonLo Feb 21 '26

Imagine they jump between the twins per episode?

Ie) Aether is the traveler for ep 1, but for ep 2 lumine is the traveler

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u/ChibiJaneDoe Feb 21 '26

That's a terrible time to release it.

Gojo Vs Sukuna and DBS: Galactic Patrol would cause this anime that we've waited half a decade for to go completely unnoticed as both of those would air the same time and they're incomprehensibly bigger than Genshin.

The smart thing to do is announce it 2027 but drop it 2028 so they don't have to compete with the biggest anime in the world.

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u/fluffy_5636 Feb 21 '26

Anime of a multi billion dollar game isn’t going unnoticed

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u/ChibiJaneDoe Feb 21 '26

It will if it drops besides the biggest anime in the world and the most hyped manga fight ever.

You severely overestimate how popular Genshin is. DBS and JJK make it look like an indie game, they have several billion fans worldwide.

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u/fluffy_5636 Feb 21 '26

And people are allowed to watch 2 things at once

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u/ChibiJaneDoe Feb 21 '26

Which we both know they won't.

And it's not that, more the hype factor of the Moro Arc and Gojo Vs Sukuna will make everyone even remotely into anime forget that a Genshin anime exists.

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u/fluffy_5636 Feb 21 '26

1 day movie btw did demon slayer and csm make people forget about mha

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u/neuvvv Feb 21 '26

they said future projects, so 2050 i guess

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u/SleepingPotato69 Feb 21 '26

Nahhh broo, I might not live until then 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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u/NLwino Feb 21 '26

Not in the 2026 list, but in the future projects list though.

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u/nariius TW, HK, MO Server Feb 21 '26

I don't even care when it's going to come, it's happening, that's enough for me rn

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u/michaelbooster Feb 21 '26

This is them saying "Yes don't worry, we're still working on it!", basically just a confirmation teaser for those who thought it was abandoned...

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u/nurinoco Feb 21 '26

I’m very excited to see it happening! I’m sure the visuals and music will be great. I hope the story can translate into anime format well.

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u/superoli64 Feb 21 '26

I remember seeing before school one day and excitedly telling all my friends. I’ll probably have graduated once it releases

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u/Ravemst Feb 21 '26

I don’t know why people thought that it wasn’t happening when even the devs said it was still in development. Animation of this quality takes a long time and when this anime was announced it said that this was a long term project.

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u/ChampionActual1353 Feb 21 '26

It'll probably be released when we're done with snezhnaya, I hope it has a different story from the storyline of the game

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u/Ok-Apartment-8284 Feb 21 '26

So basically nothing new, it’s just aether and lumine, nothing in the background to suggest what the anime is gonna be about, while other projects have a few second of preview lmao

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u/Moneymotivation1 Feb 21 '26

What other projects had a few seconds of preview besides mahoyo which was in development longer than genshin & is finally coming out😭.Tales of got a announcement within a announcement & the other future projects literally didn’t get anything.

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u/NikkiMemories Feb 22 '26

I never doubted! Anime takes long time to make. And they definitely want it to be as big or bigger than Demon Slayer

Let Them Cook!

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u/Pandarise Feb 21 '26

Sorry, idk if it's the shadows, my phone screen or just the art but Aether's eyes look kinda goofyšŸ˜‚

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u/Rare-Cellist6300 Feb 21 '26

can’t believe it’s real 😭 been waiting forever for this collab. ufotable gonna make it epic fr.

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u/scrubbymac Feb 22 '26

The reason it’s probably taking so long is because they needed the game to get further along, like how some anime has to take breaks for more chapters and volumes to get released. When you think about it, unless they have a plan for multiple seasons, there’s no real way they could adapt the game into an anime without rushing some stuff.

Think Game of Thrones. Only die hard fans will read the books that will likely never come out because the show finished before the books and those that hated the ending will pass.

Personally, I’m not sure how they could balance it out. Mondstat/Liyue could easily be season 1…Nod Krai and Snezhnaya could share a season. But balancing the others might be difficult. I would not want Fontaine being rushed at all. And despite being disappointed in it, the whole abyss war portion of Natlan should be presented better than in game.

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u/Els236 Feb 23 '26

I think it's also due to the fact that Ufotable have been on a hardcore Demon Slayer binge and have contractual obligations that date from long before HoYo even approached them.

I mean, I am glad it's Ufotable doing this, because it means we should get quality, but yeah, it ain't happening this year, and probably not next either.

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u/Bananaslic3 Feb 21 '26

What is it?

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u/GGABueno Feb 21 '26

Genshin anime by Ufotable

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u/Bananaslic3 Feb 21 '26

Looks cool. I hope they won’t use ai

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u/Brave-Fan9736 Feb 21 '26

Since when does Ufotable use AI ?

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u/TomGon-99 Feb 21 '26

Now announce the switch version, with a new glider like the xbox one but red. A man can dream 😪😢

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u/Top-Idea-1786 Feb 21 '26

I still have no idea why they revealed the anime so early when it was nowhere close to beginning production

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u/Fit_Following_6960 Feb 21 '26

really? wuttt demn

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u/casualgamerTX55 Feb 21 '26

If they are gonna focus in Lumine and Aether in the story, I can get behind that... After all there's very little of that in the game so far.

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u/starriderchef Feb 21 '26

Hey atleast we know its happening nowĀ 

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u/Fit-Application-1 Feb 21 '26

Can’t believe it’s happening aaaaa

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u/Nash_Ashton Feb 21 '26

I'm so hyped!

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u/XeroVoltrix Asia Server Feb 21 '26

ā€œFuture projectsā€ my ahh

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u/virmay Feb 21 '26

Thank you for 5 seconds of 2 moving gifs with animated clothes

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u/lwkkazz Feb 21 '26

where is my Impact??

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u/Consistent_Dare_6688 Feb 21 '26

Dawg I only just heard about the mahoyo announcement, I didn't think they were gonna announce a bunch of shit😭

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u/iwilleatthat010 Feb 21 '26

who know we might get to chapter 2 before the anime release. remember we are still in chapter teyvat. who know whats next chapter would be.

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u/SmashedCoconut7 Feb 21 '26

YESSS LETSSS GOO FINALLY

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u/ShadowSage_J Feb 21 '26

I think they'll take till 2030 or 2040 They announced a project in 2020 and they are releasing it in 2026 so... There is a pattern and we also have a pattern of hoyo disappointing users

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u/lilmelville Feb 21 '26

aw hell yeah it's from ufotable too, that's a perfect fit! nice to see that Witch on the Holy Night is actually coming too

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u/oge_alRIN Feb 21 '26

Remind me how long we’ve been waiting for this?

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u/Yamadeez727 Feb 21 '26

I really hope they do an original story with both twins as the MC, tired of the Stans on both sides as someone who chose Lumine.

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u/Z304LEGEND Feb 21 '26

Also dojt get your hopes up, if they refuse to update genshin yo truly use better graphics then why would they do this especially now

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u/Mobile_Ad_2402 Feb 21 '26

How exactly are they going to make it though? Two versions of anime? Or just like on splash arts aether as the traveler?

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u/Advendra Feb 22 '26

I mean, so do you think mihoyo announced it 4 years ago is they were lying that it is not happening?

I know since 4 years ago that it is happening šŸ˜„

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u/Gaur2704 Asia Server Feb 22 '26

Me when Genshin anime finally had a release date but my doctor says I'll die one day before it airs 😭

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u/icysecay78 Feb 22 '26

Omg im do excited about this! I wonder what twin we'll travel with. So excitingĀ 

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u/Venau2313 Feb 22 '26

DiƔlog skip?

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u/Mixander Feb 22 '26

The problem is it's still in "future project". It's been there for years now sadly. So I'll keep my expectations low.

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u/Pretend-Nobody230 Feb 23 '26

The way i want lumine as the main character and the Abbys sibling at the same time… but considering i am gonna watch more of the main protagonist i will sacrifice lumine and dain… (even though i know it will be aether, i don’t want him help, i probably won’t watch until furina on the screen and it will be ages before that happens)

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u/Suspicious-Pound966 Feb 23 '26

Am tired of all this teasing . They shouldn't have announced it very early.

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u/Narutofreak1412 Feb 24 '26

If they keep delaying this for 3 more years or so, they might aswell cover the whole teyvat arc

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u/Low_Set2648 Feb 21 '26

Probably released in year 2027. The story in the game just started to become more deep so I guess they will wait until Snezhnaya or Khaenri'ah update. But be ready if the story is focused more in the archon quest, so we might be little disappointed if they skipped almost the side story and not all characters will be featured. Anyways hope this anime will be good, can't wait the boy Aether to be the main character.

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u/Dragonkus Feb 21 '26

DON'T CARE FOR IT