Anime Warriors

Anime Warriors (stylized as ANIME WARRIORS in the logo), is a game developed by Koei Tecmo and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch system, based on the Dynasty Warriors and Hyrule Warriors games.

Gameplay
Anime Warriors revolves around hack and slash gameplay, which the player fights against a horde of enemies. The player can choose up to 5 characters in a battle, and can freely switch between them. There is also a mode called Team vs. Team, where a red team fights against an opposing blue team. The blue team can be controlled by either a second player or by CPUs. It can be upgraded into the Team Battle Royale mode, where the red team, blue team, yellow team, and green team fight against each other in order to determine a winner. Like the blue team, the yellow and green teams can be controlled by either a 3rd or 4th player or by CPUs.

Plot
10,000 years before the game's story begins, a righteous mage summoned a group of anime warriors who defeated the great evil and sealed it away by putting a complicated seal on it.

In the present day, on an apparently normal day in the Eos Kingdom, the great evil is reawakened, awakened by an evil mage who broke the seal that was sealing it away. However, a good mage retaliates, by performing a sacred ritual that summons the Chosen, anime warriors destined to defeat the great evil. The ritual summons anime heroes for help to defeat this great evil. The evil mage is defeated, however the great evil flees before it can be ambushed. The great evil then gathers its own army of monsters, and creates wormholes that lead to the anime heroes' home worlds. And thus, the war to defeat this great evil begins.

An appointed knight is chosen to lead the anime warriors to defeat the great evil, while the great evil's appointed prophet, Esmot devises a plan to defeat the anime warriors and their army once and for all.

After defeating the great evil's army, the anime warriors manage to enter the great evil's fortress, and after a long battle, emerge victorious, thus foiling Esmot's plan. The anime warriors begin to celebrate. However, the celebration is cut short when the wormholes leading to the anime warriors' worlds begin closing, and the anime warriors are forced to say goodbye to their comrades. The Eos Kingdom hopes they will see them once again if danger ever comes to the kingdom.

In a post-credit scene, it appears that the great evil is still alive, and is subsequently looming over a portal that has the word "DLC" on it, and enters it. This means that the anime warriors truly did not defeat the great evil.

In the DLC titled The Great War, the anime warriors are summoned once again, by the same mage who summoned them. They learn that the great evil is still alive, and it telepathically manipulated 3 sorceresses each with their own army, to fight against the anime warriors while it recovers. The anime warriors learn that only a pure hearted individual can destroy the great evil forever, and they look to Madoka Kaname, who is a pure hearted individual. After defeating the three sorceresses and their armies, the anime warriors confront the great evil in a decisive final battle. After an incredibly long battle, Madoka uses her power to fully destroy the great evil once and for all. The anime warriors then celebrate after returning to Eos Castle.

Characters
The game primarily features characters from anime. The characters are primarily classified into which universes they come from.

From Dragon Ball:

Goku

Vegeta

Broly

Gohan

Frieza

Krillin

From Bleach:

Ichigo Kurosaki

Rukia Kuchiki

Orihime Inoue

Aizen Sosuke

From Fairy Tail:

Natsu Dragneel

Lucy Heartfilia

Gray Fullbuster

Erza Scarlet

Wendy Marvell

Mirajane Strauss

From Demon Slayer:

Tanjiro Kamado

Nezuko Kamado

From Infinite Stratos:

Houki Shinonono

Cecilia Alcott

Laura Bodewig

From Soul Eater:

Maka Albarn

Soul Eater Evans

Death the Kid

Black Star

Crona

Tsubaki Nakatsukasa

Patty and Liz

From Slayers:

Lina Inverse

From Puella Magi Madoka Magica:

Madoka Kaname

From Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha:

Nanoha Takamachi

Fate Testarossa

From Hunter x Hunter:

Gon Freecss

Killua Zoldyck

From Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They?:

Black Rabbit

From Chivalry Of A Failed Knight:

Ikki Kurogane

Stella Vermillion

From High School DxD:

Issei Hyoudou

Rias Gremory

Akeno Himejima

From KonoSuba:

Aqua

Kazuma Satou

Megumin

Darkness

Trivia
The game features similarities with Hyrule Warriors such as:


 * Both are based on Dynasty Warriors
 * Both non-canonically link different worlds together
 * Both are love letters to anime and The Legend of Zelda respectively