{"id":55534,"date":"2026-01-05T01:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=55534"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:05:23","slug":"genshin-impact-anime-adaptation-still-in-the-works-with-no-issues-developer-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/genshin-impact-anime-adaptation-still-in-the-works-with-no-issues-developer-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Genshin Impact anime adaptation still in\u00a0the works\u00a0with no\u00a0issues,\u00a0developer confirms\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in&nbsp;September&nbsp;2022,&nbsp;<strong>Genshin Impact&nbsp;<\/strong>developer and publisher&nbsp;MiHoYo&nbsp;announced a partnership with Japanese animation&nbsp;studio&nbsp;Ufotable&nbsp;for a&nbsp;speculated anime adaptation of the&nbsp;open-world&nbsp;gacha&nbsp;RPG. The announcement was accompanied by a three-minute concept trailer, but in the following years, updates on the&nbsp;project&nbsp;have been sparse, and&nbsp;an airing date has yet to be announced.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;it seems fans&nbsp;have nothing to worry about&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;just a matter of time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Genshin Impact Long-Term Project Launch: Concept Trailer | Genshin Impact\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdKay6bhIMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Genshin Impact anime adaptation&nbsp;<em>was<\/em>&nbsp;originally announced as a \u201clong-term project\u201d between&nbsp;MiHoYo&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ufotable&nbsp;(thus&nbsp;hinting at a longer production pipeline),&nbsp;concern over its progress arose&nbsp;due to the&nbsp;anime studio&nbsp;reportedly being&nbsp;overwhelmed by work on&nbsp;Demon Slayer films.&nbsp;Ufotable&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/demon-slayer-infinity-castle-movies-demanding-production-requirements-may-be-why-theres-no-news-on-the-genshin-impact-anime-fans-speculate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated&nbsp;in July last year<\/a>&nbsp;that the&nbsp;workload&nbsp;of adapting&nbsp;Demon Slayer\u2019s&nbsp;ongoing Infinity Castle arc&nbsp;required&nbsp;it&nbsp;to&nbsp;reassign staff from other projects,&nbsp;which got people&nbsp;speculating&nbsp;that the Genshin Impact project may have been&nbsp;negatively affected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, during the Genshin FES 2026 recently held in Shanghai, China,&nbsp;the game\u2019s developer&nbsp;Aquaria commented on the collaboration with&nbsp;Ufotable. According to clips of the livestream&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bilibili.com\/video\/BV13LiiB1Edc\/?share_source=copy_web&amp;vd_source=a0228e9d2806d9df94449d73f97413d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared on Bilibili<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tokei3n\/status\/2007514419820147094?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">translated by Japanese fans<\/a>, the Genshin anime project is progressing at a steady pace, and it&nbsp;hasn\u2019t&nbsp;faced any issues or unexpected setbacks, contrary to speculation.&nbsp;Aquaria&nbsp;explained that much like in-game content,&nbsp;MiHoYo&nbsp;is&nbsp;carefully&nbsp;positioning the&nbsp;anime&nbsp;as a long-term&nbsp;project, and&nbsp;asked fans not to worry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Genshin FES 2026, MiHoYo confirmed that the Genshin Impact anime project announced in 2022 is still on track without issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":40014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73,18],"class_list":["post-55534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anime","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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