Anime Ultra Verse Beginner Progress Guide (Re-Release)

A complete, personal walkthrough for progressing smoothly from Level 1 to early endgame

Anime Ultra Verse is returning with a full re-release, and if you are jumping in as a new or returning player, the early hours can feel surprisingly different from most anime tower defense games.

After running through the updated content myself, collecting units, pushing story, and experimenting with traits, I put together a complete beginner friendly guide that explains what to do, what to avoid, and how to progress efficiently without slowing yourself down.

This guide covers everything a new player should know, including rerolls, traits, story progression, early unit picks, the Halloween event, and the biggest hidden gameplay traps no one explains inside the game.

Let’s start with the part most players overlook.

Step 1: Claim Your Free Rerolls Immediately

Anime Ultra Verse currently has an invite event that gives you one thousand rerolls for just three invites.
This is one of the most generous reroll events in this genre, and skipping it genuinely puts you at a disadvantage.

You can use these rerolls on mythical traits like Star, Assault, Bandit, and Storm. With enough rolls, you can even give traits to multiple mythics at once, which completely changes your early progression speed.

From personal testing, the difference between having a solid trait early and not having one is huge.
Story becomes smoother, infinite runs last longer, and your damage curves feel noticeably higher right from the start.

Step 2: Get Comfortable With the UI and QoL Features

When you load in, the UI looks simple, almost plain. It reminds me of older all star tower defense layouts.

The good news is that behind the simple appearance, the developers have tucked in some genuinely helpful features.

You should immediately use:

Equip Best
This button saves time and makes early inventory management a lot cleaner.

Unit Manager
This allows quick swapping and sorting, which helps when you begin experimenting with traits or evolving units later.

My honest impression is that the UI is not pretty, but it gets the job done. And for a beginner trying to figure things out, simple is sometimes easier to work with.

Step 3: Start Story Mode and Grab the 3x Speed Pass Later

When you first begin story mode, the pacing is okay. It is not painfully slow, but it is definitely more comfortable once you unlock the 3x speed pass. I personally played the early stages without it, then bought it later just to compare.

Without the pass:
You will take longer between waves, but it is still manageable.

With the pass:
The flow of the story improves instantly. Your runs feel smoother and less repetitive.

Think of the pass as a convenience rather than a requirement. If you are trying to push to evolutions quickly, though, you will eventually want it.

Step 4: Understand Your Biggest Early Limitation: Takedowns

Anime Ultra Verse uses takedowns as a requirement for evolving units, and this is very different from how games like Anime Vanguards or Anime Last Stand handle kills.

In this game, assists do not count.
Your unit must land the final blow.

During my tests, this was the single biggest thing slowing down my evolution progress. Even in co-op, you will run into situations where someone else keeps taking last hits, and your takedown count barely moves.

Right now, this is the system.
You can work around it, but it requires planning.

Here are the workarounds that helped me:

• Use fewer units on easier maps to funnel kills into the one you want to evolve
• Play solo for all takedown farming
• Put your evolving unit closer to the front of the path
• Avoid using high range or burst units when farming kills

Once you understand this system early, you will avoid a lot of frustration later.

Step 5: Choose Early Units That Make Story Easy

From my early runs, these units genuinely stood out for beginners:

Rengoku
He is surprisingly strong even without evolutions. Solid damage, solid range, and easy to fit into any lineup.

Kaiju Number Eight
He is a secret in the normal banner. If you pull him, your early game becomes very comfortable.

Your first shiny
It does not matter who it is. The stat boost alone helps you glide through story faster.

You do not need a full meta setup as a beginner. Even unevolved mythics can carry you into the Halloween event.

Step 6: Push Story but Do Not Rush Evolutions

Since takedowns slow you down, it is better to focus on progressing through the story before worrying about complex evolution requirements.

Why this works better from experience:

• You unlock more maps and farming spots
• You gather more materials passively
• You naturally build up traits and units while clearing story
• You avoid wasting time farming kills too early

Once you finish story or get close to the end, evolution farming becomes more structured and efficient.

Step 7: Use the Halloween Event as Free Early Progress

The Halloween event is currently the easiest beginner friendly mode in the game. You can complete it with just unevolved mythics, which is rare for a tower defense event.

The rewards are generous and you can exchange the event currency for Halloween units, which are surprisingly strong. For new players, this event is basically a shortcut into better units without grinding evolutions for days.

I ran it several times with lower tier units, and it felt smooth, predictable, and very doable.

Step 8: Know the Limitations Before Grinding Infinite

Anime Ultra Verse’s infinite mode is not beginner friendly.
You will hit a wall early if you rely on unevolved units.

What makes infinite harder for beginners:

• Enemy health scaling jumps quickly
• Takedowns slow your evolutions
• Certain maps require strong i frame skills, and some units barely have them
• Burst heavy lineups struggle without coordinated targeting

If you want to farm infinite, do it after your first evolved mythic or after you get a strong event unit.

Step 9: VFX, Animations, and Sound Are Still Evolving

The models look good.
The animations are average.
The VFX feel basic.
And a few units barely have sound effects.

Most players turn these off eventually, but if you are expecting the game to feel polished visually like Anime Vanguards, it is not there yet.

From personal experience, the gameplay systems matter more than visuals here, and the core gameplay loop is still enjoyable even with simple VFX.

Step 10: What You Should Upgrade First

If you want the smoothest gameplay experience as a beginner, prioritize these upgrades:

1. Unlock the extra unit slot
2. Focus on evolving one strong mythic at a time
3. Farm traits using the invite event rerolls
4. Play the Halloween event for bonus units and currency
5. Push story until you hit your first difficulty spike

The combination of these steps gives you enough strength to farm everything else more easily.

Based on everything I tested, Anime Ultra Verse is surprisingly beginner friendly as long as you know how the systems work.

The invite event helps enormously, story mode is smooth, and early unit options are strong enough to push through most of the content.

The takedown system is the only major difficulty spike you will feel, but once you plan around it, your progression becomes a lot more predictable.

If you are starting fresh, your best route is:

Claim rerolls, push story, run the Halloween event, and save evolutions for later.

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