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Aniimo events: the full Aniimo season 1 calendar

Aniimo’s Part 2 event schedule with Europe server deadlines, Hypnyto Handbook tracks, seasonal Prismana areas and permanent Holo-Battle Sim stages.

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Last updated 27 October 2026 Full update notice checked 27 October · first-half calendar retained below

Part 2: exact event windows for Europe

The 27 October update notice adds server times and reward rules to the earlier preview. The October 29 content is announced, not live as of this check. Different events close at different hours; use the row for the reward you want.

Europe maintenance: the regional table lists 28 October 22:00–29 October 07:00 UTC (23:00–08:00 CET). The general UTC+8 introduction implies a start one hour later. Check the latest server notice; maintenance may change. Events labelled “after update” start when servers reopen, not at midnight.

All times below are 2026, Europe server / UTC. CET is UTC+1 for these windows. Americas and APAC have their own regional clock times; do not apply the Europe table to those servers. “After update” is shown against the scheduled reopening and can move.

Use Aniimo live events for the date-sorted list. The Aniimo hub links the other guides.

Europe UTCEvent / rewardRequirement and action
After update → 9 Dec 23:59Companion Handbook: Hypnyto / Prismana HypnytoAfter update: free Standard Hypnyto Egg; paid Advanced Perfect Potential Prismana Hypnyto Egg. Rewards require Handbook progression.
After update → 9 Dec 23:59Season Achievement: Prismana EkrimStudent I; Season Achievement reward.
After update → 10 Dec 03:59Home: Magical Wonder NightRV level 10 and Act Seven: Festivals of Astra. Magic Pumpkin and Memory Lanternfruit; new Home story and staged events.
After update → 10 Dec 03:59Night ParadeStudent I. Daily Activity earns Halloween Candy; prepare scents for visiting Aniimo and record encounters.
After update → 10 Dec 03:59Tidal TreasuresStudent I. Fourteen cumulative login days earn staged rewards.
After update → 10 Dec 03:59First Visit to Whisperwake IslesComplete A Tale of Tide and Song; survey the region for Survey Points. Event expiry is not a map closure.
12 Nov 10:00 → 10 Dec 07:59Aniimo Go!Level 40. Racing event, three tracks; a new track opens every two weeks.
20 Nov 04:00 → 10 Dec 03:59Fantasy Resonance: JaguaraunStudent I. Complete all event quests to obtain Jaguaraun’s exclusive offering recipe; not an announced direct creature gift.
6–19 Nov · preview onlyHoptail / Aniimo DiscoveryListed in the 16 October preview, absent from the 27 October notice. Not treated as cancelled; exact server hours and current availability need reconfirmation.

Photo, survey and contest phases

Europe UTCEventParticipation
12 Nov 04:00 → 16 Nov 03:59Prismana Photo · phase 1Student II. Photograph different Sparkling Types of the designated Prismana form; repeated types do not add progress.
16 Nov 04:00 → 23 Nov 03:59Prismana Photo · phase 2Student II. Photograph different Sparkling Types of the designated Prismana form; repeated types do not add progress.
23 Nov 04:00 → 30 Nov 03:59Prismana Photo · phase 3Student II. Photograph different Sparkling Types of the designated Prismana form; repeated types do not add progress.
30 Oct 04:00 → 6 Nov 03:59Who’s That Aniimo? · phase 1Student II. Match the required form; use the event screen for that phase’s targets.
13 Nov 04:00 → 20 Nov 03:59Who’s That Aniimo? · phase 2Student II. Match the required form; use the event screen for that phase’s targets.
27 Nov 04:00 → 4 Dec 03:59Who’s That Aniimo? · phase 3Student II. Match the required form; use the event screen for that phase’s targets.
30 Oct 04:00 → 6 Nov 03:59Idyll Ecological Investigation · phase 1Student I. Match the required form; use the event screen for that phase’s targets.
13 Nov 04:00 → 20 Nov 03:59Idyll Ecological Investigation · phase 2Student I. Match the required form; use the event screen for that phase’s targets.
27 Nov 04:00 → 4 Dec 03:59Idyll Ecological Investigation · phase 3Student I. Match the required form; use the event screen for that phase’s targets.
6 Nov 04:00 → 13 Nov 03:59Glamour Star · phase 1Student II. Enter Aniimo and Accessories against the announced theme; each reward once per phase.
20 Nov 04:00 → 27 Nov 03:59Glamour Star · phase 2Student II. Enter Aniimo and Accessories against the announced theme; each reward once per phase.
4 Dec 04:00 → 11 Dec 03:59Glamour Star · phase 3Student II. Enter Aniimo and Accessories against the announced theme; each reward once per phase.

The final Glamour Star phase ends on 11 December at 03:59 UTC, after the other listed Part 2 reward windows. Do not use a blanket December 9 deadline.

Vein Abundance: seasonal forms and areas

The event runs 30 October 04:00–7 December 03:59 UTC on Europe, from Student II. The first three Nurture actions each weekend in the phase’s designated region boost Nova Stage appearances; the notice gives no numerical encounter multiplier. Veinfruit grants 50% additional regional Prismatic Energy in that event context. That is not a 50% Prismana spawn chance.

Europe UTCFeatured PrismanaWhisperwake IslesBreezy Plains
2 Nov 04:00 → 9 Nov 03:59PouchwispRosy MirelandsTideblossom Coast
9 Nov 04:00 → 16 Nov 03:59RoyalbyWildwater GorgeSea of Flowers
16 Nov 04:00 → 23 Nov 03:59JeburstCloudreach FallsRusset Highlands
23 Nov 04:00 → 30 Nov 03:59GlameepCrescent BayEchoback Landing
30 Nov 04:00 → 7 Dec 03:59All four seasonal PrismanaEach form’s area listed aboveEach form’s area listed above

The earlier preview places the opening 30 October–1 November window in Crescent Bay / Beast Fang Ridge without naming a featured form. The 27 October notice does not repeat that opening-area row, so those locations remain preview information. The final window explicitly brings back all four seasonal forms in their respective area pairs.

Whirlbite, Gachapus, Jabster and Sugartini are separate regional Prismana forms. They are not these seasonal rotations, and neither notice gives them an expiry date. See the four regional Prismana forms and island access requirements.

Permanent stages and modes still in testing

Holo-Battle Sim’s new Dark, Earth and Lightning stages are permanent after the update, correcting the earlier preview’s limited-time label. Trailblazer I is required; Trial difficulty and first-clear / weekly rewards are added.

The new Giga-Egg competition in Operation: Egg Heist is a three-team PvP mode in testing. It requires level 50 and Rising Egg Scout rank, disallows equipment loadouts and brought-in items, and balances deployed Aniimo stats. The stated daily hours are 18:00–24:00 without an explicit timezone; they are not converted to CET here. Spar is described as 4V4 real-time PvP in Twine state, with Fair Mode first.

Aniimo Go! now has a dated racing-event window in the table above. The existing Egg Heist guide covers Team Mode, not a tested guide to the new PvP mode.

Home switch: Moonbeam Wheat, Moondew Radish Seeds and Waxing Moon Pepper Seeds become Home Coin. Waxing Moondew becomes Wonder Sugar Crystal. Harvest Moon Set furniture leaves the shop; the set and Lunar Crops will return in future seasonal events. No conversion ratios for these Home items are stated.

Companion Handbook: Standard is free and includes Hypnyto Egg. Paid Advanced includes a Perfect Potential Prismana Hypnyto Egg and Hypnyto Soul. These are progression rewards, not an immediate free Prismana gift. The notice says this phase’s Prismana egg returns through Home gameplay in Season 3.

Part 1 calendar: September–October dates and source notes

The sections inside this archive explain the original launch calendar. Their references to “the graphic” and its weekly pattern apply to that first-half source, not to the Part 2 schedule above.

Part 1: the original September–October calendar

Pawprint published the first-half schedule as a single graphic on its official site. Its date axis covers 16 September–28 October, while two story-event bars continue to 9 December. This archive explains that original graphic; the new Part 2 windows are above.

This is every one of the Aniimo events on that graphic, window by window, including the Aniimo Prismana rate-up schedule — the one row that changes what you do with your week. The event rows below are read off the calendar itself. Where Pawprint later supplied event rules and regional times, this page names the separate official notice. Where both sources are silent, it leaves the gap open.

43
days in the Journey Handbook block
6
Vein Abundance windows
9 Dec
when the two long events end

The calendar sits on aniimo.com itself, under a menu entry called Event Calendar, between Milestones and Features. It is one image, 2,250 pixels wide, and the file behind it was last touched on 13 September. At the first check the graphic carried no event rules or server times. Pawprint’s 23 September update notice now gives those details for named events, including Vein Abundance. The graphic and the later notice answer different questions.

Timeline of the original first-half Aniimo event windows from 16 September to 9 December 2026, with the Vein Abundance rate-up weeks and the Eggceleration weekends picked out in gold
Original first-half calendar, drawn to scale · Vein Abundance in gold, Eggceleration on the last three days of each window · Crit Pick

The graphic remains a visual schedule: it does not print server times, entry rules or reward rates. The later 23 September update notice adds terms for named events. Read the date bars as the season’s outline and use the notice for the specific windows and access conditions it actually names.

The rows are split into two groups. New Player Events, labelled Always Open, sit at the top with no dates on them at all. Update Events fill everything below, each with a date pill in the format month-dot-day. No year is printed anywhere on the graphic, and neither is a time zone.

Two events that never close

The always-open group has two entries.

Prismana Promise: Choose Your Prismana Aniimo is the one people will ask about first, and it is the one event on the whole calendar the site actually explains. A section higher up the same page says it in one line: “Become a Junior Wayfarer to select a Prismana Form Aniimo.” So it is a free pick, gated behind a rank rather than a date. Which ones are on offer, and which is worth taking, is on my guide for the free Prismana picks. What the calendar adds is only this: the bar has no end on it, so the offer is not a launch-window promotion.

Set Out, Pathfinder! is the second, and it gets the opposite treatment: a name, a bar across the full width, and nothing else anywhere on the site. The same Welfare block does mention a multi-day login reward — a Susuta egg for pre-registering, and a random Perfect Egg for logging in across several days — but it does not attach that to this bar, and I do not make that connection.

The useful part is the label on the row: New Player Events, Always Open. Everything else on the graphic has an end date. These two do not, which means neither of them is a reason to rush on day one. If you are working out what to do first, the things worth knowing before you start are a better use of the opening hours than chasing an event that will still be there in November.

The Journey Handbook block: forty-three days

One bar sets the frame for everything under it. Journey Handbook runs 16 September to 28 October — forty-three days, start and end day included.

Every other dated bar on the calendar begins inside that window, and almost all of them end inside it too. So forty-three days is the length of the block the calendar is built around, and if you want a single number for how long the opening stretch of Aniimo runs, that is the one the graphic actually supports.

Two names, no bridge. The Journey Handbook appears on the calendar as a name and a date range. The paid progression track confirmed elsewhere is called the Companion Handbook — it shows up in the Xbox pre-order pack as “In-Game Battle Pass: Advanced Companion Handbook x1”. They may well be the same system. Nothing published says so, so this page does not.

What the block does tell you is where the season’s centre of gravity sits. Every event that repeats does its repeating inside these forty-three days. Only two bars carry a date beyond them, and both are Legendary Journey rows.

Three events that rotate through it

Inside the forty-three days, three events come and go in windows rather than running continuously.

EventWindow 1Window 2Window 3
Who’s That Aniimo?16–24 Sept2–8 Oct16–22 Oct
Idyll Ecological Investigation16–20 Sept2–8 Oct16–22 Oct
Glamour Star25 Sept – 1 Oct9–15 Oct23–29 Oct

Read down the columns and the rotation falls out. Who’s That Aniimo and Idyll Ecological Investigation share their windows almost exactly — identical in October, and in September the investigation closes four days earlier. Glamour Star takes the weeks in between. Its first window opens on 25 September, the day after Who’s That Aniimo closes; its second opens on 9 October, the day after the second pair closes.

The practical read: there is never a week in the season with none of the three running, and never a week with all three. One family is on, the other is off, and every changeover lands on a Friday.

Glamour Star is the odd one out in a second way. Its third window, 23 to 29 October, is the only dated bar in the rotation that ends after the Journey Handbook block closes on the 28th. One day past, which is either a deliberate overhang or a rounding of the season’s last week. The graphic does not explain it.

Two more bars fill the middle of the board. Aniimo Discovery: Dazmand takes a single fourteen-day window, 25 September to 8 October — one featured creature, one window, no repeat. Journey Moments starts on 1 October and runs to the 28th — the last four weeks of the Journey Handbook block rather than the whole of it.

Vein Abundance: a Prismana every week

If you plan around one row on this calendar, plan around this one. Vein Abundance is where the graphic says which name gets a featured week — and each of the five names gets exactly one window, with no second run anywhere on the board.

Vein Abundance runs along the bottom as a continuous strip, split into six blocks. The first is a location. The other five name Prismana, each with the word UP printed next to it and that creature’s artwork inside the same block.

WindowBlockDays
18–20 SeptForest of Falling StarsFri–Sun
21–27 SeptPrismana Glynsera UPMon–Sun
28 Sept – 4 OctPrismana Melloblum UPMon–Sun
5–11 OctPrismana Waleetle UPMon–Sun
12–18 OctPrismana Inferlupa UPMon–Sun
19–25 OctPrismana Carnival UPMon–Sun

Five clean Monday-to-Sunday weeks, back to back, with a three-day opening weekend in front of them that is tied to a place instead of a creature.

Worth being precise about the word UP, because it is the part that gets misread. It is not a separate event. On the graphic it sits inside a named block, after the name, with the matching artwork — the red wolf sits in the Inferlupa block, the group shot sits in the Carnival block. It is the label on a rate-up window — the way a banner is labelled in any other game with a schedule like this — but the graphic never spells that out. What goes up, and by how much, it does not say. That is a real gap, not a coy one: there is no reward text anywhere on the image.

What you can take from it is the ordering, and the ordering is worth planning around. If the Aniimo Prismana you want is Waleetle, its week is 5 to 11 October and there is no second one on this calendar. Prismana Carnival, last of the five, is the only featured week that does not name a single creature — its block carries a group of them, and it closes the row on 25 October. For what a Prismana form is and which ones are handed out for free, the Junior Wayfarer picks are the place to start.

Eggceleration, and the weekend pattern

Under Vein Abundance sits Eggceleration, six short blocks with a date on each and no name at all: 18 to 20 September, 25 to 27 September, 2 to 4 October, 9 to 11 October, 16 to 18 October and 23 to 25 October.

Every one of those is a Friday to a Sunday. Six weekends, no exceptions, and no gap between them longer than four days.

18–20 SeptForest of Falling Stars, all three days
25–27 Septlast three days of Glynsera
2–4 Octlast three days of Melloblum
9–11 Octlast three days of Waleetle
16–18 Octlast three days of Inferlupa
23–25 Octlast three days of Carnival

Put the two rows next to each other and this is the one piece of planning the calendar hands you for free. Every Eggceleration window is the last three days of a Vein Abundance window. Glynsera runs 21 to 27 September; Eggceleration runs 25 to 27. Melloblum runs 28 September to 4 October; Eggceleration runs 2 to 4. The same holds for Waleetle, Inferlupa and Carnival. The first pair is that rule in miniature: the Forest of Falling Stars window is itself only three days long, so Eggceleration covers all of it.

So the shape of a week on this calendar is a featured name for seven days with an Eggceleration window over its last three. What Eggceleration does is not written anywhere on the image. Where it sits is — and it sits in the same place six times running.

The two events that outlast the calendar

The date axis stops at 28 October. Two bars carry a date that runs past it.

Tracing the Trail carries the pill 9.20–12.9 — 20 September to 9 December, eighty-one days. Legendary Journey: Walking with Irisalis & Gift of Blessing carries 9.25–12.9 — 25 September to 9 December, seventy-six days. Both simply run to the right-hand edge of the board, like several bars that stop on the 28th, which is why they are easy to miss on a quick look: the pill is the only place the December date appears at all.

The Irisalis bar has a handover built into it. Immediately to its left sits Legendary Journey: Trail of Butterfly Shadows, 16 to 25 September, and the two meet on the 25th — one closes on the day the other opens, in the same row, under the same Legendary Journey heading. That is the graphic’s own reading of the sequence: a short opening chapter, then a long one that carries the season.

Between them they are the two longest dated bars on the board, Tracing the Trail by five days over the Irisalis one. These two story windows extend beyond the first-half Prismana rotation. The Part 2 rotation is listed above.

Aniimo season 1, in eight dates

Eleven dated bars is a lot to hold in your head. Stripped back to the days on which something actually changes, the original first-half schedule comes down to eight.

1

16 September — the season opens

Journey Handbook, Who’s That Aniimo, Idyll Ecological Investigation and the Trail of Butterfly Shadows all start on day one

2

18 September — the first farming weekend

Forest of Falling Stars and the first Eggceleration window, both 18 to 20 September

3

20 September — Tracing the Trail opens

and does not close until 9 December, the longest dated bar on the board

4

25 September — handover day

Butterfly Shadows closes, the Irisalis journey opens, and Glamour Star and Dazmand both start

5

1 October — Journey Moments joins

runs to 28 October, the back stretch of the Journey Handbook block

6

25 October — the last featured week ends

Prismana Carnival closes the Vein Abundance row; no sixth Prismana window is on the calendar

7

28 October — the Journey Handbook block closes

the date axis stops here, and Glamour Star runs one day past it

8

9 December — the two long events end

Tracing the Trail and the Irisalis journey, and nothing on the graphic about what follows

Those were the milestones on the original graphic. Part 2 adds new farming and reward windows from 29 October; October 25 is not the end of all Vein Abundance events.

What the calendar does not tell you

The gaps are as informative as the bars, and being straight about them is the point of this page.

No time zone on the graphic. Its date pills do not say when a server day begins or ends. Pawprint’s 23 September update notice specifies Vein Abundance times: on Aniimo-Europe, Prismana Waleetle is scheduled for Berylline Vale from 5 October 2026 at 04:00 UTC until 12 October at 03:59 UTC, with Student II required. The notice gives separate UTC−4 and UTC+8 server windows for Aniimo-Americas and Aniimo-APAC. Those timestamps belong to this named event, not automatically to every calendar row.

No year. Every pill is month-dot-day. Read in sequence they run September to December 2026, and 12.9 is 9 December rather than 12 September, because the axis it hangs under is already past September. That is an inference, and a safe one, but it is an inference.

No reward rates on the graphic. It does not name what Eggceleration multiplies or quantify a Prismana “UP” rate. The 23 September update notice adds that special Prismana forms appear in designated Vein Abundance regions and Student II is required; it does not state a numerical spawn boost for Waleetle. What Aniimo sells is a separate question, covered listing by listing.

Part 2 is now announced. The old graphic does not contain it. Use the Part 2 tables above for the new windows; the preview does not announce the schedule after the 10 December update.

Pawprint points players to in-game events and announcements for details. The graphic is the season schedule; the 23 September update notice supplies some later rules and regional times. Where neither source gives a number or mechanic, this guide leaves it open.

Later official details are available. The 23 September update notice specifies the Waleetle region, regional server windows and Student II requirement. It does not fully explain every bar in the September calendar graphic. Find broader updates on the Aniimo page.

FAQ

When does Aniimo’s first season of events start?

The first dated event windows open on 16 September 2026, the same day Aniimo launches on PC and consoles. Who’s That Aniimo, Idyll Ecological Investigation, the Journey Handbook and the Trail of Butterfly Shadows all start that day. The calendar gives no time zone, so treat the 16th as a date rather than an hour.

How long does the Aniimo event calendar run?

The original calendar begins on 16 September 2026. The 27 October notice gives separate Europe deadlines: Companion Handbook ends 9 December at 23:59 UTC; several Home and themed events end 10 December at 03:59 UTC; Aniimo Go ends 10 December at 07:59 UTC; the final Glamour Star phase ends 11 December at 03:59 UTC. Use the event’s own row.

What does UP mean on the Vein Abundance row?

UP marks the original calendar’s featured forms without a numerical catch rate. The 27 October notice boosts Nova Stage appearances for the first three weekend Nurture actions in the designated region and gives 50% additional regional Prismatic Energy from Veinfruit in that context. It does not give a 50% Prismana spawn chance.

Which Prismana is featured each week?

For Europe, from 04:00 UTC until the next listed date at 03:59 UTC: Pouchwisp 2–9 November, Royalby 9–16 November, Jeburst 16–23 November, Glameep 23–30 November; all four return 30 November–7 December in their respective area pairs. The opening featured form remains unnamed. Regional Whirlbite, Gachapus, Jabster and Sugartini are separate.

When is Eggceleration active?

The original calendar lists 18–20 and 25–27 September, then 2–4, 9–11, 16–18 and 23–25 October. These are first-half dates. The Part 2 preview does not supply a new Eggceleration calendar, so the old weekend pattern is not extended into November here.

Is the Journey Handbook the battle pass?

The calendar does not say so. It lists the Journey Handbook as a name with a date range and nothing else. The paid track confirmed elsewhere is called the Companion Handbook and appears in the Xbox pre-order pack as an in-game battle pass. They may be the same thing under two names, but nothing published connects them.

How long is Aniimo season 1?

The 43-day first-half Journey Handbook block is not the whole season. Part 2 begins with the October 29 update; the new notice gives separate deadlines for each event. Handbook ends 9 December at 23:59 UTC on Europe, while other windows extend into 10 or 11 December.

Where can I see the calendar myself?

Pawprint’s original calendar, the 16 October preview and the full 27 October update notice are linked here. The newer notice supplies regional server times and supersedes the old Holo-Battle Sim limited-time label.