Anime Adventures Game Modes

Every mode in the lobby

On November 3, 2026, the lobby showed UPD 21.0.0. Its Areas menu listed Infinity Mansion, Challenges, Raids and a Play Area for Story, Infinite and Legend Stages. Dungeon has its own button in the left menu instead. Lobby pop-ups showed the clock: the Mansion runs by season, the Tournament by week. The event modes of UPD 21 and its Summer 2026 Event come on top.

Story mode

Each world has six Story acts. A world skip clears all six in one run, though it is harder than a normal act, and a pair of videos show it. A single video adds that a skip still counts every act toward the Story quest, so it pays fewer Gems than full clears but saves a lot of time.

Story stages also drop XP food for leveling units, and finishing a world’s Story opens its Infinite Mode. A creator and the fan wiki back each point.

Legend Stages share the Play Area. The community wiki, last edited before UPD 21, says they open after Act 6 of their world and drop evolution materials, some also Relic crafting materials. We have not checked that against UPD 21.

Infinite mode

In UPD 21, Infinite is mainly a takedown farm. Creators and the wiki point to early Infinite, Walled City above all, as the place to farm the takedowns evolutions ask for. Fishi alone needs 7,500. Steps are on our anime adventures evolution page.

For rewards, the community wiki, last edited before UPD 21, lists daily Gems at waves 10, 25 and 50 (90, 180 and 330), no wave Gems after wave 105, and Portals or Dungeon Keys on some maps. Those numbers have not been checked against UPD 21. A single source also says this update’s Infinite and Tournament leaderboards hand out their own units.

Challenges and the Daily Challenge

Challenges rotate every 30 minutes. Each one puts modifiers on a Story act you have already cleared and can drop Star Fruits, an evolution material. One creator runs every rotation while still pushing Story, so you need not finish Story first.

The Daily Challenge matters more. Two creators name it as the source of the Divine Wish that Limit Breaking uses; one calls it a limit break token. It also pays 10 to 50 Star Remnants by one creator’s count and the wiki’s. A trait reroll on a Mythic or Secret unit takes 5 Star Remnants. The community wiki, last edited before UPD 21, adds 2 to 3 Stat Cubes and a chance at a Perfect Stat Cube.

Infinity Mansion

This is the usual early Gem farm, and players still call it Infinity Castle. Five sources agree it pays 150 Gems a room. Hard mode clears two rooms at a time for 300, so switch once your team holds up.

The rest comes from one source each: clearing 100 floors gives a capsule worth 30,000 Gems, and Mansion progress was fully reset when UPD 21 arrived. One player leaves deep Mansion pushes and Tournaments until after events.

Raids

Each raid farms a named item. A UPD 21 creator and the fan wiki agree on each raid here. Sacred Planet drops Mage Marks, which the unit creators call Goku needs with Star Fruits to evolve. It was already listed in April 2025, so it is not new in UPD 21. Relic Shards come from the Kid Buu act (wiki name: The Pure Form, Act 5 of Sacred Planet), one shard every clear. The Ant Kingdom raid gives Feitan, listed under the name Spider. Run raids when you have a target.

Dungeons

Dungeon has its own lobby button, and on November 3, 2026 a level 1 account already held a Dungeon Run Key. You can enter early, but the creators we compared leave Dungeons for later.

Two creators farm Dungeons for Star Remnants, the trait reroll material, and two get Rukia here, which they rate among the strongest supports. Rukia is the anime name they use; we could not match it to an in-game unit. Single sources add that a run has 20 stages that get harder, and that chests and the final boss pay Gems.

Sources conflict on weekends. One guide says Dungeon rewards are doubled on weekends, but that line repeats its pre-UPD 21 version word for word. Two other creators found the double Dungeon chest gone after UPD 21. We state neither side as fact.

Summer Hunt and Portals

Summer Hunt is the event mode of UPD 21 and its Summer 2026 Event: creator videos show you matchmake with random players for a 50-wave run, and the Summer banner charged 150 SummerPearls a summon on November 3, 2026. Sky Portals pay SummerPearls too. Drops, quests and the banner are on our anime adventures summer event page, and portal tiers and hosting on our anime adventures sky portal page.

Which mode to play first

The creators we compared follow roughly this order:

1. Redeem codes. Most need a player level, and one gives the Celestial Compass.
2. Point that compass at Elyssia, the first Mythic creators chase. How the compass takes effect is on that page.
3. Hold about 20,000 Gems before summoning, since pity progress is lost when the Special banner resets.
4. Push Story with world skips and farm Infinity Mansion for Gems.
5. Keep Speedwagon (C.E.O. in game) and Bulma as farm units.
6. Without Elyssia, matchmake into Summer Hunt for SummerPearls and aim for Fishi, with Water Goddess as an Elyssia partner. Only one creator frames this as the fallback.
7. Evolve Fishi first, with the Captain’s Hat from Nami’s Summer market plus 7,500 takedowns. Putting it first is a single creator’s call.
8. Leave Dungeons, Limit Breaking and the weekly Artifact stage for later. That stage features a different unit each week and guarantees an Artifact after five clears.

Once the team is built, the anime adventures tier list shows which pulls to keep, and the anime adventures units pages cover each kit.