Why The Genshin Anime is Guaranteed to be a Success 

Probably the single biggest deal since the game’s release. I hope they don’t butcher it, but the cutscenes we get in-game and promotional videos on RU-vid work so well I’m 99% positive a full-blown anime is going to turn out beautifully.

My personal worry is that the anime background will not mesh well with the characters. We saw hyperrealistic backgrounds in the trailer, and compared the characters stood out like a sore thumb as a result. Hope they can find a balance between the two. I also have a personal headcanon that Hoyolab's Enjou character demo and the recent anniversary animation were made by Ufotable's Claymation department Edit: apparently it was by Grinch Studio, not Claymation

The environment is beautiful, but I do think I would have preferred a more stylized look, given genshin itself has a wonderful stylized environment that works wonderfully. Although I don't think it would be a deal breaker

I am really hoping that they would cover the Archon War and Fall of Khaenria.

I'm hoping like how Genshin have their manga early on featuring Collei before she becomes playable, the anime will also showcase new characters from Fontaine, Natlan or even Sneznhaya that would soon become playable, which rewards those people who watched (or are interested in the lore) when they appear in the Archon Quest and whatnot Collei is by far the best example of this since her past isn't lighthearted like most characters are in the game, so telling a story through that would've given the audience a much needed background about their character without too much exposition dump It's great honestly, and will generate lots of hype when they do get released

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When you showed the ayaka trailer in the vid, it wouldnt be suprised if hoyo also does partake in a lot of the animation part as well, not just the key visuals but also in the effect dynamics and such. Their way on making well animated characters trailers looking like a whole artwork is moving is what i genuinely applaud their animation team to this day.

I feel like if they decide to make the anime focus around the main plot, this would be a good chance to revamp some of the old archon quests to give them more detail and attention without rushing *cough cough* like inazuma *cough cough*. Tbh, there’s a 0% chance this project fails, I mean look at what ufotable did to demon slayer who literally no one cared about till the anime. This anime is for sure gonna be a juggernaut.

My biggest concern is the modeling and animation these incredibly detailed characters. I draw genshin characters a lot and I can safely say that they will be such a pain to move and animate. I. Just worried they will cut details out just to make the characters move

I've already seen a lot of people saying that the animation looks bad etc, not taking into consideration that it's just a concept trailer. Demon Slayer and Fate, especially the Heaven's Feel movies (but all of it holds up extremely well), look absolutely breathtaking. Both Fate and Demon Slayer have incredible background art/environments and they blend in well with the different art styles, so I'm not worried about that in the slightest

Something that I would like to see in the anime would be little slice of life episodes about the characters instead of a story with the traveler as the protagonist and looking for their sibling and pretty much all that we already seen in the game. I think it would be nice that the anime is the things the traveler didn't saw like "a day with the demon conquerer" where Chongyun and Xiao make an investigation about a misterious demon or how Xiangling could doubt if her cooking abilities are hers or just the fact that she has the prescence of the god of the kitchen and stoves. Maybe the episodes could end with the characters making a letter for the traveler about their own adventures and show that Teyvat is bigger than the traveler's view in the story quest. Idk

Can't wait to see the fight against childe in the anime and for the traveler to actually show how strong they really are in the lore.

Call it too Early to count the chickens before they hatch. It will depend entirely on the story. Thankfully UFOTABLE has a reputation.

Hopefully UFOtable can Execute what Mihoyo dreams up and envisions.

Hoyoverse and genshin in particular are known for creating very good and unique stories, i have no concerns for the plot, whatever they choose to be the main focus

I see a lot of people speculating on whether the story is going to be set in the past or during the archon quest. What I hope would happen is they make several series running parallel with one another, with a main series following along with archon quest and as the plot develops and lore is revealed, some spin off series branch off to tell the story of what happened in the past in a given period of time, be it about a certain event or just showing a certain character's backstory. This way, the audience who has never played the game and new players who just started playing will get to experience the main game's story and discover the world's lore along with the traveler, while more veteran players who are more familiar with the game's lore can also look forward to some new stories. Win-win for all.

I think a good starting point for the anime would be the manga's story, it has decent worldbuilding with mondstadt, introduces the starter characters, and the fatui, decent action scenes and so on.

I believe I was one of the only people who called it out on being an anime ever since the game launched. My words were and I quote: "Bro! This atmosphere is so pretty. Imagine if they will make an anime of it someday! I'd watch it!" Definitely aged like a fine Osmanthus wine. Although to be fair I'm the type of person who wants anything to have an anime of anything. Then Maxor came with his Genshin review video and while Genshin story might be some "hyperborean bs" as he put it, it still has a lot of anime storyline potential... especially if its a prequel. It's basically an Isekai so I smell success. Genshin for Isekai Quartet when? Now other games that should get animes: Crystar, Warcraft, DNF Duel (did that get an anime?), Borderlands, Mabinogi, some of the Japanese RPGMaker horror games (Ib, Alicemare), and other examples that elude me now etc.

Honestly, the best direction the anime could take is an exploration of the pre-history ofTeyvat (phanes, the Archon War, the Cataclysm, Enkanomya, etc.)

At this point, I would not be surprised if the story team focused very heavily into world and character building, that at the time of them writing the Archon (mainline) quests, they're just exhausted. I think they already know how the main story will end, but they are just yet to complete the gap between the Prologue until that point. Prologue, and Chapter 1 has nice details and plot points but they're unremarkable. Chapter 2 is way too rushed I forgot there was a civil war and Kokomi is actually considered to be a "great tactician" or something. Meanwhile, the world quests are such complete bangers like Dragonspine, Sakura tree with "Kazari", Chasm exploration with Zhiqiong, and Enkanomiya. Also, the character lore and stories are also really great, like Kazuha's, Raiden Shogun's, and Zhongli's. Anyway, now I have a reason not to die yet until Genshin anime is released

I would love many ideas but this might be my favourite: Lumine (she’s basically the cannon Abyss sibling) and how she handled losing her brother and then her friends again in a different world, how Kaehneria worked and how celestia dealt with it (we get to see some gods but never their faces or any real details just see them plotting and moving a chess board) also we get to see the archons stories they’ve like side characters though since Lumine will be the MC and Dainslief will be her best friend and so yea show me that in depth show me the pain after the cataclysm happened every little detail

Honestly I want the anime to cover the archon quests just so that the traveler will finally have proper voice lines.

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Given how popular Genshin is, I don't see a scenario where the anime could be BAD, but the question is how good will it be? You already know the animation will be simply stunning with Ufotable on the job, and Ufotable with Genshin's budget? I think we're gonna see some of the best 2D style animation ever. The only question is the story, how will they handle making an anime with a cast of 50 and growing characters? I don't think it will be bad but will it just be good or will they pull it off and the story is amazing? Either way I think the anime will provide a huge boost to the Genshin playerbase

the person that it's going to probably do the OST is Go Shiina, the ost we listening at the end of the trailer looked like his style and he did the ost to demon slayer and other ufotable shows

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I hope they just make an entirely different story, some sort of spin off, with both travelers as protagonists. Something like the Sonic X anime did with Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 and Sonic Battle. I feel like using this to show the time before the Cataclysm would ruin the game’s story, which it’s going to fully reveal that anyway. The fact that Paimon was also shown makes me hope for it.

Thank u i'm even more hyped for the anime now!

I remember watching demon slayer outta absolute boredom and lack of better things to do. I binged all episodes available as soon as possible. Not because of the story, I legit recall telling friends that I was really annoyed at how overly dramatic it was, but I couldn't tell what kept me hooked. It wasn't until I was done with all demon slayer content and moved on to another random anime that I realized that _holy shit it was the art quality_ that kept me intrigued all that time. I didn't even bother following the anime I started next because I couldn't remember its name for the life of me but I still remember how I compared the two in my head and found myself disappointed with the latter's choppy quality. I went on a tangent but I meant to say: whatever that studio touches will become gold. And genshin already has a great lore and cast to add to it. There's no way this anime will fail.

This will either be a welly aged video or a poorly aged one. There is no inbetween.

I have this faint yet undying hope it will be about our Sibling's travels. It would work well as a stand-alone but will also be very rewarding for those who play genshin. Mihoyo is not afraid to drop hype for stuff that will only be realeazed in years, so never know.

I’m looking forward to the anime, but I’m primarily worried about it’s handling of the plot. I wouldn’t want it to just be a retelling of the main storyline, both because that wouldn’t be as interesting as other potential options but also because I still don’t trust studios to not butcher the plot by leaving out arcs that add to the story in important ways- and considering how much time Genshin dedicates to its world building…I’m a little hesitant, I suppose. Still, if it ends up being good, then I’d love to share it with everyone I know!

1:40 Remember Tales of Zestiria the X anime? That one looked good but had mediocre if not boring storytelling (mostly taken from the game with some story changes that somehow made it worse). And UFOTABLE worked on it. Whatever happens I'm sure Genshin won't end up like that one hopefully.

honestly i really hope they don’t go the history route, because i really wanna see the characters we have in the game - those are the ones i care about. i can’t screenshot every frame childe appears in if he’s not there at all :0

I CANT WAIT! 🤯

Dude, never let your own expectation betray you. When Honkai anime was announced, literally no one expected a cooking show.

I just hope they wont be lazy and just retell what happen in y=the Archon quest. I want to be an Anthology one where different stories about different characters each episode or the beginnings of the travelers journey before they meet the unknown god

Hope they include all of the cutscenes with full story we been through. Even include cutscenes from events and stuff 😄

I believe the plot will be about Aether boarding Captain Beidou's ship in search of the "Genshin Impact" And a scene of him exclaiming "The genshin impact! The genshin impact is real!"

Wow that was very cool

honestly really excited for the anime, anyway great video

I'm not expecting to see my favourite character (heizou) but I'm excited to see the story, genshin has so many amazing characters :D

This is huge. Ufotable is a great studio. The anime has the potential for great fight scenes and great character development, this studio can do both.

I wish ufotable luck i know i know theyre a massive studio with giga chads who worked on demon slayer but still thr detail in every genshin characters to be hand drawn will be difficult

I would definitely watch this.

Trailer was a hit that they even made a game about it

I’m really looking forward to the animation adaption! My only hopes is that it doesn’t turn out like the Persona 5 anime, fingers crossed!

This really is gonna be one of the animes of all time. Hoyo really animed all over it.

Cant wait to see our favorite walnut on the bigscreen

I appreciate the video bud!

The Genshin anime will be a banger

Looking forward to an animated Dottore.

Hoyoverse knows their audience and the audience they want to bring, that is why Ufotable became a big in west audience, I someone that appreciate animation and not just perfect draw still images with very realistic backgrounds and heavy filters I'm not happy with the new anime but I hope they drop that ultra realistic background and do it more like it is in the game that resembles better a good anime and blend better with the characters, my only hope is that Hoyoverse artistic team is more vocal and help to do changes and not just approve anything Ufotable give them

There's leaks about genshin anime, we will get the archon war and 1 season for each region (8 region because of Khaenri'ah) the twin's arival, and destruction of Khaenri'ah

I hope they will adapt some of the artifact stories, really want to see the berseker

Many characters=many episodes 👍🙂 I can't wait to see the anime. Super excited 🙂🙂🙂

3 Reasons for success: 1. Its UFOTABLE. 2. It's Genshin Impact. 3. It's UFOTABLE.

The traveler and their sibling is shown together in the trailer. Could the anime explore their pastt before they got stuck in Teyvat? The places shown there also didn't seem like they were from Teyvat, at least from any nation we have already. So could the trailer had shown us places from another worlds where they travalered together? idk i think it'd be cool

My only concern about this anime if the protagonist is either Lumine or Aether, if both that's fine, I just don't want to see one of them being an abyss prince/princess, because that would upset so many fans and probably give up watching it. People are assuming since Aether is seen as the true protagonist in the game they will assume it will be him. But to me, both siblings are the true protagonists of the game no assets about it. But maybe the series will show the events before they got separated so it will put people's minds at ease.

I hope they follow the main story as I only played till the second region ingame and got cold feet cause there was too much content ..

the part im the most worried about is the plot, its what will make or break this anime for the greater audience

No disrespect, but this anime is gonna be the definition of "animation carries", especially with UfoTable. I'm not even sure what they'll adapt in the game for this anime

Im so hyped for this anime, I like and always read all the text from events! and having Ufotable doing a Genshin anime is a win win I see no future where they screw it (hoyoverse). Plus the cast from Genshin impact is fucking amazing we have so many great JP VA

Do you think there will be an English dub? We already have English voice actors

I think this is the best news of 2022 i'm a big fan of anime and genshin impact I'm so happy

im sort of hoping it can act as a lore recap, cause ive been trying to watch some people's recap videos as ive either missed events or forgotten but its hard to wrap my head around

So how is this gonna work, are they gonna adapt each region per season; Mondstadt for season 1, Liyue for season 2, Inazuma for 3, Sumeru for season 4, etc?

i love genshin. im so excited for this anime!

Hey Flaim, is it possible you could do a Story So Far type recap of the Genshin Story? Or could someone point me to a good one?

i haven't heard anyone say Ufo TABLE before lol it's kinda funny. good video btw i liked it alot

and I just hope that with the amount of money hoyoverse makes off of genshin (and I think honkai too), they can afford to pay the animators a decent wage and let them work normal hours...

I hope they'll do an anime about the Archon war

As much as people want the anime to have a story other than just the Archon quest, that will sadly be what we will just get. Because the anime is MADE for people OUTSIDE the community already. it is supposed to bring more people into the game or bring them back and make them more active. The anime is just a treat for people who already are playing the game. The least they can do is make Lumine the Traveler here since they made Aether the Traveler in their promos. It makes things balanced

another day of thanking the genshin whales for funding the anime production.

as long they take their full time , dedilcate preparation and excecution..this'lll become a nice decade to inspire future series of games into other forms..

Showing the twins and paimon in anime teaser might indicate that story will be about the current situation and not about ancient history of Teyvat beside some flashbacks.

Can’t wait for grant to review this

Genshin and ufotable seem like the perfect collab its already the best anime for me

I see. you living in a different world, where popular games adaptations are not failing with 97% rate. Lucky you.

Hopefully if there are anime original characters who turn up in the game, people will actually know. How many people knew about Collei until she dropped with Sumeru? How many of those even know about Vanessa other than what Jean vaguely said in her story quest?

okay, cyberpunk:edgerunners being mentioned brought back my crippling depression

The animation is beautiful no doubt I'm just here to see if the writing is gonna be as good, better, or worse than I thought I hope it will be good but let's just see how it ends up

I love anime this is cool

I hope they animate the Aranyaka quest

I think they should start the anime with Khanriah his sister pov or Archon war

Genshin that I love so much + Anime I love so much too = PERFECTION

Don't forget mihoyo animation direction are great just look every HI3 animation it's insane how well they play with it from having 5 artsyle in 1 animation and many more

I wish if they would release an English dub of the anime, they'd use the original English va's and not hire new ones

i want the story to be the archon quest one region per season

Just saw that you almost hit 100K! Congrats Redflaim!

I actually just wanted to make my own anime. -Da Wei probably

Since genshin already has a manga series hopefully they go off of that but just my opinion

maybe 1 or two years wait before we get to see this genshin anime

I really wonder how they will adapt the story into an anime

i hope it gets to be as good as fate or demon slayer but i might expect Tales of Zestiria level

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they probably animate archon quest story only. I hope they animate eula dance in 2D

Really hoping it'll be good and not just be good cuz of wow Eula is so hot, having good animation slapped on a shit plot would be so unfortunate. Also with a the high af expectations, it'll be very scary if another cyperpunk situation happens

Both the Genshin and Nier anime have great potencial in my opinion. I hope they will be as good as we are hoping.

I didn't expect the Anime to be amazing story-wise like many video game adaptations in anime (Edgerunners is an exception lmao), but I really hope this video ages well.