Anime Adventures Summer Event Guide

What the Anime Adventures summer event includes

UPD 21 and its Summer 2026 Event add four parts: a limited banner paid in SummerPearls, a Summer Hunt mode, Sky Portals, and a set of quests on their own Event tab. On November 3, 2026, every quest on that tab showed 88 days left. The anime adventures summer event gives you a long window, and most of the work is in the quests and portals. To compare the summer units with the rest of the roster, see our anime adventures tier list.

Summer banner rates and pity

Rarity	Rate	What you get
Mythic Unit	0.25%	Water Goddess, Armored Crusader or Fishi, one third each, all Featured
Mythic Skin	0.249%	A skin
Legendary Skin	1.99%	A skin
Epic Skin	16%	A skin
Rare Skin	81.5%	A skin
Secret Unit	1 in 40,000	Not named on the panel

The skin names in each tier are listed on our anime adventures banner rates page.

Any unit has a 1% chance to be Shiny. The Mythic Pity counter guarantees a Mythic within 400 summons, and that Mythic is always Featured. Skins take about 99.7% of all pulls, so on paper the pity, not luck, is how most players land a Mythic here. The same screen also sells Icy Star Capsules, which you open on the spot.

How to get SummerPearls

Per the banner text, you earn this currency by playing: Summer Hunt runs, Portal clears and the rest of the event all add to it. The game does not show how many SummerPearls each wave or Portal pays.

What we can give is the target. One summon costs 150 SummerPearls and the pity sits at 400 summons. From an empty counter, that is 400 × 150 = 60,000 SummerPearls for a guaranteed Featured Mythic.

Summer event quests and rewards

Quest	Where	Goal	Whose room	Reward
Summer!	Quest menu	Free claim		1
Summer Training	Any mode	10,000 kills		2
Summer Training II	Any mode	30,000 kills		3
Sunny Evolution	Your units	One of the five named units evolved		2
Sunny Evolution II	Your units	Three of the five evolved		8
The Explosion Mage	Summer Hunt	Beat Explosion Mage, the wave 50 enemy		2
Sky Island	Sky Portals of every tier	1 clear	Anyone’s	2
Sky Island II	Sky Portals of every tier	10 clears	Anyone’s	7
Sky Island III	Sky Portals of every tier	30 clears	Anyone’s	13
Above the Clouds	Tier 10 or above	5 clears	Anyone’s	7
Sea of Clouds	Tier 9 or above	1 clear	Yours, as host	8
Heaven’s Gate	Tier 12 only	1 clear	Anyone’s	15
Sky God	Sky God’s Portal	1 clear	Yours, as host	12
Daily Mission	Any mode	2,500 Curses beaten		35 of an item and 500 Gems

The 13 event quests add up to 82 items shown with the Trait Reroll Token icon, counted from the in-game Quests screen. Each quest also lists a second reward whose amount is cut off at the edge of the panel, so we leave it out. Summer! is a free claim. Take it first. To see how far those items might go, run your count through the anime adventures trait reroll simulator.

What we know about Summer Hunt

The Explosion Mage quest names Explosion Mage as the Summer Hunt wave 50 enemy. One source reports that you join Summer Hunt from the ship in the lobby. Players report that a full run is 50 waves, and that clearing all of them gives a chance at a Secret Portal for Explosion Mage and at a charm, which the next section covers. Summer Hunt also drops Sky Portals, covered in the Sky Portals section below.

Summer charms

On November 3, 2026, the inventory showed a Charms tab next to All, Skins, Relics, Artifacts and Portals. You equip charms from there. One player reports that only one charm can be equipped at a time.

Players report that a charm can add damage, event rewards and secret drop chance, and that the bonus works in both Summer Hunt and Sky Portals. Each charm rolls its bonuses at random, so two charms with the same name can do different jobs. Every charm shown so far is a Summer Charm.

Several sources agree that charms are a chance drop for clearing all 50 waves of Summer Hunt. Secret drop boosts make a charm drop more likely, according to two sources; one of them is the patch notes as read from a video. One player guessed that Sky Portals might drop charms too. Treat that as a guess, since those patch notes name only Summer Hunt.

Charms come in four tiers, and players treat Tier 4 as the strongest. One source reports that rarities run from Rare up to Secret. A separate source, as read from the patch notes shown in videos, says the rarest charms also raise the reward for winning Summer Hunt.

We have not seen any roll ranges. One charm shown rolled 18% more damage, and another rolled 34% more event rewards. In a different video, a Summer Charm showed +24% event reward with a damage boost. Read these as single samples, not limits. On paper, a damage roll helps most if you stall before wave 50, and an event reward or secret drop roll pays off once you already clear full runs.

Sky Portals in the summer event

Seven of the 13 quests involve Sky Portals or the Sky God’s Portal. The three Sky Island quests ask for 1, 10 and 30 clears of any tier, any host. For Above the Clouds, finish five portals of Tier 10 or above in anyone’s room. Heaven’s Gate wants one Tier 12 clear and pays 15, the most of any event quest.

Two quests carry a host rule. Sea of Clouds needs your own Tier 9 or higher portal, and Sky God needs your own Sky God’s Portal, both cleared as the host. Joining a friend’s room will not count. Players report that Sky Portals drop at random in Summer Hunt, and that clearing one gives a chance at a Sky God’s Portal, where Sky God waits. Our anime adventures sky portal guide covers tiers, rewards and the host rules.

Summer units worth evolving

Where the Sunny Evolution units sit on our list

• S Fishi Damage At full insanity it hits for 35% of max health as true damage and stuns, bosses included. All four tiers given are S.
• S Phoenix Support Its Phoenix Flames make marked enemies take 300% more burn damage. All three tiers given are S.
• S Explosion Mage Damage An explosion you aim, about every 20 seconds at max, but it cannot hit Soaring enemies. All four tiers given are S.
• A Water Goddess Support Hill unit that can hit Soaring enemies and gives units in range +50% water damage.
• B Armored Crusader Support Taunt pulls enemies in for 3 seconds and slows them 20%. Six creators list it; the two tiers given are A and B.

Tiers and notes from our ranking: Anime Adventures Tier List

Sunny Evolution and Sunny Evolution II name the same five units: Water Goddess, Armored Crusader, Fishi, Phoenix and Explosion Mage.

Water Goddess, Armored Crusader and Fishi are the Featured Mythics on the Summer banner, and the pity guarantees one of them. The banner lists a 1 in 40,000 Secret without naming it. Two player sources agree that this Secret is Phoenix. Players also report that Explosion Mage comes from its own Secret Portal, a chance reward for clearing all 50 waves of Summer Hunt. On paper, the three banner Mythics are the ones most players can plan around.

See where each one sits in the box above, or open our UPD 21 rankings for every unit.