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Honkai: Nexus Anima — official Evolution Test key art showing Anima creatures and characters
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Honkai: Nexus Anima — release date, beta & everything we know

Chromatic Anima tracks Honkai: Nexus Anima, HoYoverse’s creature-collecting auto-battler RPG, ahead of its global launch. Release status, the Jul 9, 2026 Evolution Test, characters, the Anima creatures and every confirmed detail — updated 2026-06-26.

Key art © HoYoverse · used for identification on this unofficial fan site.

Meet the Animasters

13 characters →
Bai Mei — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterBlade — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterBreadhead — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterHerocrates — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterHua — Honkai: Nexus Anima characterHungrille — Honkai: Nexus Anima character

The Anidex

82 Anima →
Apollinis — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureAtragasus — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBaggle — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBatnyss — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBeaubeanie — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBladehound — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBobabirb — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBroomba — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureBunmareen — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureC'locked — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureCamcorgi — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureCapybunner — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureCatnapir — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureChimaura — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureChocllamour — Honkai: Nexus Anima creatureChowpownd — Honkai: Nexus Anima creature

Release Date Tracker

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When is Honkai: Nexus Anima out? Every confirmed window and what the Jul 9, 2026 Evolution Test signals about timing.

Evolution Test (Beta)

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How to join the July 9 2026 closed beta on PC, iOS and Android — recruitment dates, lottery and system requirements.

How Anima work

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Bonding, Evolution, the rare Chromatic variants and the Nexus Battles auto-battler explained.

What is Nexus Anima?

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The Nexus and the Sundering, gameplay, platforms, and how it compares to Genshin and Palworld.

Coming at launch: tier list, Aspect-synergy chart, breeding / element calculator and an interactive map.

What is Honkai: Nexus Anima?

Honkai: Nexus Anima is a creature-collecting adventure and auto-battler RPG (gacha) from HoYoverse — the studio behind Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero; Nexus Anima is the newest entry in the long-running Honkai series, first teased at a Honkai: Star Rail anniversary concert. You play a Planestrider, exploring a realm of Planes bound together by Nexus and bonding with creatures called Anima: fragments of the broken bonds (Nexus) that you collect, evolve, and deploy in an auto-battler. It is free-to-play on PC, iOS, Android. Read the full overview →

Evolution Test gameplay showcase — the official Honkai: Nexus Anima channel.

Why Chromatic Anima?

The game isn’t out yet, and reliable English info is scattered across beta reports and announcements. Chromatic Anima is an independent fan project that pulls it into one place and keeps it current — every fact here is dated and sourced. It already catalogs all 82 revealed Anima and 13 Animasters; when Honkai: Nexus Anima launches it becomes a full tools site — a searchable Anima dex, an up-to-date tier list, and the calculators players actually need.