Anime Eternal Update 23 Part 2 Guide

By Plus Size Fairy Editorial Team · Updated October 12, 2026

Last Updated: October 12, 2026

Anime Eternal Update 23 Part 2 Guide: New Units, Quests, Rewards, and Materials

Anime Eternal Update 23 Part 2 adds four new recruitable units (two SSR, two SR), a three-stage story chapter set in the Ashen Tidefront, a repeatable raid boss with a weekly reward lockout, and a new tier of upgrade material called Voidglass Shards. If you already cleared Part 1, the fastest path is to finish Chapter 12-3 first to unlock the Shard Exchange, then spend your saved tickets on the Sora banner before the rate-up ends.

What Actually Changed in Update 23 Part 2

Per the game’s official patch notes, Part 2 is a content drop rather than a balance overhaul. The headline additions are:

• New area: Ashen Tidefront (Chapters 12-1 through 12-3, plus a hidden 12-EX node)
• New units: Sora (SSR, Fire, DPS), Kaede (SSR, Water, Support/Healer), Rin (SR, Wind, Debuffer), Tobi (SR, Earth, Tank)
• New raid: Tidecaller Leviathan, weekly lockout, three difficulty tiers
• New material tier: Voidglass Shards, used for the new Awakening Rank 7+ upgrades
• Quality-of-life: Gear loadout presets (three slots), sweep tickets now apply to Chapter 11 and 12 normal nodes

The important structural change is the material tier. Anything you hoarded before Part 2 will not carry a unit past Awakening Rank 6, so if your main team is already capped, the value of this update is almost entirely in the Shard Exchange and the weekly raid.

New Units Breakdown

The table below summarizes the four additions using stat ranges recorded at level 80 with no gear equipped. Values shift with gear, but the relative ordering holds.

Sora — the banner headline

Sora is the reason most players are pulling. Her kit stacks a Burn debuff that ticks for a percentage of her ATK, and her ultimate extends existing Burn duration rather than applying a new instance. That means she scales unusually well with ATK% gear and poorly with crit-heavy builds, which is the opposite of most Fire DPS units released before her. She suits players who already have a reliable healer and want to push Tidecaller Leviathan on Hard.

Trade-off: Sora is fragile. At 8,900 base HP she will die to raid AoE if you skip defensive gear entirely, so budget one slot for survivability.

Kaede — the sustain pick

Kaede’s heal scales off her own max HP rather than ATK, so she is cheap to build: stack HP and she works. Her passive grants a small damage reduction aura to the lowest-HP ally each turn, which is genuinely useful against Leviathan’s stacking tidal damage. She suits players who are stuck on progression because their team dies before the boss does.

Trade-off: Near-zero personal damage. Slotting Kaede means accepting a longer clear time.

Rin — the budget enabler

Rin is an SR, therefore easy to obtain, and her value is entirely in her defense-shred debuff. She makes Sora and most existing DPS units hit meaningfully harder. For players who cannot pull Sora, Rin is the highest-value free addition in this update.

Tobi — early-game only

Tobi has the highest base HP of any Earth unit currently in the game, but his taunt has a two-turn cooldown and no self-heal. He is excellent for new accounts clearing Chapters 1–8 and largely irrelevant afterward. Do not over-invest.

How to Clear the Ashen Tidefront Quests

Ashen Tidefront is a three-node story chapter with a hidden EX node. Here is the order that works, with the reason for each step.

1. Clear 12-1 with your existing team. The node is a gear check, not a mechanic check. If you fail here, your problem is raw stats, not strategy.
2. Clear 12-2 with at least one debuffer. The enemies here gain a stacking defense buff every turn. Without a shred (Rin or any existing debuffer), the fight becomes unwinnable around turn 8.
3. Clear 12-3 to unlock the Shard Exchange. This is the single most important unlock in the update. Do this before spending any resources elsewhere.
4. Find the hidden 12-EX node. It appears on the map only after you clear 12-3 with no units defeated. It rewards one Voidglass Shard on first clear, which is a meaningful shortcut.
5. Run the Tidecaller Leviathan raid weekly. Normal, Hard, and Nightmare share one weekly lockout, so pick the highest tier you can reliably clear rather than running all three.

Worked example: is the Shard Exchange worth it?

Awakening Rank 6 to Rank 7 costs 40 Voidglass Shards. The Shard Exchange sells 5 Shards for 600 Tideglass, and a Normal Leviathan clear yields roughly 180 Tideglass. That means one Rank 7 upgrade costs approximately:

• 8 exchange purchases × 600 Tideglass = 4,800 Tideglass
• 4,800 ÷ 180 per clear ≈ 27 Normal clears

Since the raid is weekly-locked, that is roughly 27 weeks on Normal alone. Hard difficulty yields about 420 Tideglass per clear, cutting it to about 12 weeks. The practical conclusion: pick one unit to push to Rank 7, not a full team. Spreading Shards across five units is the most common mistake players make in this update.

Rewards and What They Are Actually Worth

Upgrade Materials: What to Farm and What to Skip

Voidglass Shards are the new bottleneck, but they are not the only material that matters. Rank 7 also consumes existing tier-6 crystals, which most players have in abundance from earlier chapters. The real constraint is Shards and Tideglass.

What to farm, in priority order:

• Voidglass Shards — weekly raid plus the Shard Exchange. Unavoidable bottleneck.
• Tideglass — every Chapter 12 node drops it. Sweep 12-1 daily once you have sweep tickets.
• Tier-6 crystals — farm only if you are short. Most veteran accounts already have a surplus.
• Gear reforging materials — skip entirely until your chosen unit hits Rank 7. Reforging is a resource sink with poor returns at this stage.

Decision Matrix: What Should You Do First?

Your best move depends on where your account currently stands.

Durability and Long-Term Ownership Realities

Long-term players should note that Voidglass Shards are not retroactively obtainable. There is no way to convert old materials into Shards, so any account that skipped Part 2 entirely will permanently lag on Rank 7 progression until they complete enough weekly raid cycles to catch up. This makes the weekly raid lockout the single most important habit in the update — missing a week costs roughly 180 to 900 Tideglass that cannot be recovered.

The most common mistakes, in order of how often they appear in community discussion:

• Spreading Shards across multiple units instead of concentrating on one
• Running all three raid difficulties in a single week (they share one lockout)
• Reforging gear before reaching Rank 7
• Building Sora with crit gear instead of ATK% (her Burn does not crit)
• Skipping 12-EX because the no-death requirement looks hard — it is the single easiest Shard in the update

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Sora worth pulling if I already have a Fire DPS?

Only if your existing Fire DPS is not already at Awakening Rank 6 or higher. Sora’s Burn-stacking scales better than most older Fire units at high investment, but she is not a dramatic upgrade at low investment. If you are free-to-play with limited tickets, Rin plus your existing DPS is a reasonable substitute.

Can I get Voidglass Shards without doing the raid?

Partially. The Shard Exchange, which unlocks after clearing 12-3, sells 5 Shards for 600 Tideglass, and Tideglass drops from every Chapter 12 node. However, the exchange is the only non-raid source, and its stock is limited per week, so the raid remains the primary supply.

Do the three Leviathan difficulties share a lockout?

Yes. Normal, Hard, and Nightmare share a single weekly lockout per the patch notes, so you can only claim rewards from one per week. Pick the highest tier you can clear consistently rather than attempting all three.

What is the fastest way to unlock the Shard Exchange?

Clear Chapter 12-3. Chapter 12-1 is a raw stat check, and 12-2 requires at least one defense-shred unit, so bringing Rin or any existing debuffer will save you a lot of retries. The exchange unlocks immediately on your first 12-3 clear.

Should I build Tobi or wait for a better tank?

Tobi is worth building only if you are still in the early chapters with no other Earth tank. His taunt cooldown and lack of self-healing make him fall off sharply past Chapter 8, so avoid investing Awakening materials into him.

How long does it take to reach Awakening Rank 7?

On Normal difficulty, roughly 27 weekly clears per unit, since Rank 6 to Rank 7 costs 40 Shards and each clear yields about 180 Tideglass toward the exchange. On Hard, that drops to about 12 weeks. Realistically, plan for one unit every one to three months depending on how high a tier you can clear.

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