Anime Adventures: build a team and hold every wave

Anime Adventures opened on Roblox on December 21, 2021 and is made by the Gomu group, which carries Roblox's verified badge and has about 1.86 million members. On November 12, 2026 Roblox's own Top Playing Now chart showed about 71,455 players in the game, 12th on the whole chart. It has 2.61 billion visits and 2.18 million favorites, and servers hold 30 players. You can follow the rest of the chart on our trending Roblox games page.

What Anime Adventures is

The story on the game page is short: a catastrophic event has summoned threats into many worlds, it has also brought the heroes together, and you have to summon the strongest of them to save those worlds. In practice that means classic tower defense. Enemies walk a path toward your base in waves, and you place units along that path to stop them.

The units are heroes from anime and manga, often with names that only hint at the character they are based on. The game page is clear that this is a fan project: it says the experience "was made by fans and is unofficial" and is not approved by the owners of any anime, manga or game it draws from.

How to start

1. Load into the lobby. The summon area, the evolve area and the codes circle are all here.
2. Redeem the codes in the table further down. They cost nothing and give you a head start.
3. Summon your first units with Gems in the summon area. You can also jump there with the Summon button on the left side of the screen.
4. Play Story stages from the first one up. They teach you the maps and pay out Gems.
5. Equip your best units in your team slots before each stage, then place and upgrade them during the match with Yen.

The core loop: Gems, Yen and upgrades

Anime Adventures runs on two kinds of money, and mixing them up is the most common beginner mistake.

Every unit has a Yen cost to place and a Yen cost for each upgrade. Some units are farm units: they produce Yen instead of dealing much damage. Placing a farm early, while the first waves are still weak, gives you more money for your real damage dealers later.

Placement habits that win waves

• Cover the corners. Enemies spend the longest time inside a unit's range where the path bends, so a unit placed at a corner hits more often than one placed on a straight line.
• Upgrade before you spread. One fully upgraded damage dealer usually beats three cheap ones. Push your main unit up first, then add more.
• Watch the boss wave. Keep some Yen in reserve before a boss wave so you can upgrade in a hurry if it gets close to your base.
• Sell what you do not need. Once your farm has paid for itself and the late waves arrive, selling it can fund one last big upgrade.

Building your first team

Units come in two placement types. Ground units stand on the path and fight up close. Hill units must stand on raised spots next to the path and usually hit from range. Some enemies fly, and only units that can hit air or soaring targets can stop them. A good team covers all of this, not just raw damage.

• One main damage dealer. Pick the strongest unit you own and build around it.
• Hill coverage. At least one strong Hill unit, so maps with few path spots do not lock you out.
• Air coverage. Make sure something on your team can hit flying enemies.
• Support. Buffers raise your team's damage, and debuffers make enemies take more damage.
• A farm. More Yen early means faster upgrades for everyone else.

Units also level up with traits and evolutions. Traits are random bonuses you roll onto a unit, and evolving turns a unit into a stronger form with special materials. Save both for units you will keep. Rolling traits on a unit you will replace next week is the fastest way to waste resources, so wait until you have a unit worth building around. Beebom's Update 21 tier list, dated November 3, 2026, puts Snow Reaper (Final), Elyssa (Abyssal), Zombie (Risen), Chuuni (Delusion), Word Mage and Violentine (Brutal Angel) at the top, and stresses that a balanced team beats a team of pure damage.

Banners, Mythics and Shiny units

The summon area has two banners: the Standard banner and the Special banner, which shows featured units and refreshes on a timer. Mythic units are the rare pulls, and there is a pity system that helps if you keep missing them. Because featured units rotate, wait for the unit you actually want before you spend a big pile of Gems.

Shiny units are special versions of normal units. The official Shiny Hunter pass says it "triples chance of summoning shiny units". The CELESTIALCOMPASSU21 code gives a Celestial Compass, which Beebom explains lets you choose one Mythic from the Special banner as your target, and is only used up when you actually pull that unit.

Game passes and what they do

The game page sells five passes. None of them is needed to clear Story, and all of them are about comfort or summon luck.

If you are new, play for a week before you think about any of them. Ask a parent before spending any Robux. Unit Storage only matters once your inventory fills up, and VIP's summon discount only pays off if you summon a lot.

Update 21 and the Heaven's Storm trailer

On November 12, 2026 the game's title on Roblox reads "UPD 21" with a sun and a beach umbrella, and Beebom calls it the Summer Event update. Gomu announced the return with the official "Heaven's Storm" trailer on its YouTube channel on October 20, 2026. The codes that came with it say it plainly: AACOMEBACK and SUMMERCOMEBACK. The same channel posted a "TenSura: Isekai Adventures Announcement" on September 25, 2026.

We could not find official patch notes on the web, and trackers disagree on the exact release day, so we do not list a date or a unit list for the update here. Check the in-game news board when you log in.

Anime Adventures codes

Each code below is listed as working by Beebom (updated November 2, 2026), Pro Game Guides (November 8) and Destructoid (November 12), and none of them marks it expired. We left out APRILFOOLS and 2MILLIONFAVES, because only two sister sites list them, and UPDATESOON5189 and DUNGEONS, because Beebom marks them expired. Gomu posts new codes in the official Anime Adventures Discord and on the Gomu Roblox group.

How to redeem Anime Adventures codes

1. Join the Gomu group on Roblox. The Celestial Compass code needs it.
2. Load into the lobby and walk to the CODES circle near the spawn.
3. Type the code into the Enter Code box exactly as written.
4. Press Redeem. Rewards land in your items.

Why a code fails

• Typo or wrong case. Codes are written in capitals. Copy them from the table.
• Level too low. AACOMEBACK needs level 10 and SUMMERCOMEBACK level 20, according to the trackers.
• Not in the group. CELESTIALCOMPASSU21 is for Gomu group members only, one per account.
• Already used or expired. Each code works once per account, and old update codes stop working without warning.

Codes for other games we cover are in the Roblox codes list.

Watch the official trailer

Heaven's Storm is Gomu's official trailer for the return of Anime Adventures, from the developer's own YouTube channel.

Anime Adventures: Heaven's Storm

Want a fight where you control the hero yourself? Jujutsu Shenanigans is pure anime combat, and Attack on Titan Revolution swaps towers for ODM gear. For a long anime grind, try Blox Fruits. Every game is on the Roblox hub.

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