HoYoVerse is teasing the upcoming Genshin Impact replace with some animated goodness. A brand new Genshin Impact anime trailer stars the characters of Sumeru. It’s a quick montage, but in addition a departure from the standard apply of utilizing in-engine CG and 3D fashions for cinematics. It additionally options lots of the characters launched individually as a part of the promotional buildup to Sumeru.

Check it out beneath.

The Genshin Impact anime trailer for Sumeru reveals off temporary glimpses of the Traveler (Aether) and Paimon, in addition to the Sumeru characters Tighnari, Collei, Alhaitham, Dori, Cyno, Dehya, Nilou, and Nahida. The trailer itself is narrated by Nahida. In English, Nahida is voiced by Kimberly Anne Campbell, who offered the voice of Nagatoro from Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro. In Japanese, she’s voiced by Yukari Tamura, who additionally voices Qiqi, in addition to Suzuha from Steins;Gate. 

In her narration, Nahida emphasizes that all the things on this world “runs on a loop”. She challenges the Traveler to search out the reality beneath the complexities of Sumeru (and Teyvat). She additionally refers to herself as “just the moon”, with an unnamed “Sun” having lengthy gone. Based on info from final month’s Sumeru preview, she could also be referring to the earlier Dendro Archon, who established the programs that run Sumeru within the current.

Genshin Impact is out there on iOS, Android, PS4, PS5, and PC. The Sumeru replace, model 3.0, is coming quickly.