Anime Origins is a loop: redeem codes, join the group, run story for first-clear gems, spend gems on strong units, star and evolve them, then farm gold/gems to do it faster. This guide maps the whole route from your first session to endgame — step by step, with the real decisions and the honest caveats that most guides skip.
Before you fight anything, grab the free resources that were meant for new players. Ten minutes of setup saves you hours of grinding.
The creator's beginner guide lists a starter batch of codes — THANKYOU!, TYKaito!, Origins, AO, and Release! — that give you a head start on gems and gold. These are creator-reported values: verify them on the live codes page before assuming they still work, because codes expire and rotate. Your first job in any session is to check that list, not to assume yesterday's codes are still alive.
Joining the game's group unlocks reward bonuses that raise what you earn from the same hours of play. It costs nothing but a click, and it compounds on every farm you run afterward. Think of the group bonus as a permanent multiplier on gems and gold that you'd otherwise leave on the table.
Story is your first and largest lump of gems. Each story you clear for the first time pays a one-time reward, and doing it on both difficulties doubles that haul.
First-clearing each story on normal and hard grants roughly 1,800 gems per story (creator-reported — treat it as approximate). That is the single biggest, most reliable gem income in the game, and it's one-time per story. It also gates your exposure to harder content, so clearing what you can early sets up what you can clear later. Sweep stories you haven't beaten yet before you farm anything repeatable.
Don't just clear once — clear each story on its first and second difficulty while your team is strong enough. Hard repeats the same quests with tougher waves and better rewards per story mode, so the same content pays twice. Map out the remaining first-clear gems you're owed and treat them as your starting bankroll.
This is the fork in the road. Beginners who spend their first gems on random rolls often stall; beginners who buy a strong unit and star it compound fast.
The unit roster is the core of your team, and gems exist to buy the units and upgrades that carry your clears. Creator guides steer beginners to strong, guaranteed units before chasing rare summons. Exact summon odds are community-reported and unconfirmed — no one can promise you a lucky pull, and a bad roll can torch a session's worth of gems. A strong unit you own and can star up is a known, compounding asset.
Pick one carry, not five favorites. Check the unit tier list, spend on the unit that fits your early game, then push its star level before spreading thin. A single starred carry clears faster than a bench of unstarred units, and clear speed is the thing that pays for the rest.
Once you can clear a stage fast, the loop turns repeatable. Now every hour feeds every system at once, and you decide where the rewards go.
Replay the story stage your team clears fastest for gold and gems, reinvest into the upgrade that lifts your clear speed next, and repeat. The best gem method is this exact compounding routine with a concrete priority order you can follow daily.
When your main carry's current form stops clearing fast enough, evolve it into a stronger form with gems and materials. Read the evolve units guide for when to pull that trigger — evolving too early wastes resources, but waiting too long stalls your farm.
Artifacts are the relic-style gear that add rolled stats on top of your unit's base power. Better artifact stats mean faster wave clear, which means more gems and gold per hour. Roll and equip them to multiply the value of every other upgrade you make.
Endgame isn't a different game — it's the same loop with the dial turned up. The systems you leaned on early are the ones you max out last.
Hard difficulty repeats the same quests with stronger waves and better rewards, which makes it the natural home for your late-game farming hours. The harder the stage you can clear efficiently, the better the per-hour gem and gold curve you lock in. Work your story mode progress up until hard stages are your default farm.
Endgame rewards focus: star your top units to their current ceiling, evolve the carries that have stopped keeping up, and keep better artifacts on your main team before spreading upgrades across the whole roster. The tier list is your compass for which units deserve the final pushes.
A numbered checklist you can run box-by-box in your first hour — no choices required, just follow it top to bottom.
Open the codes page and redeem every live code (creator reports THANKYOU!, TYKaito!, Origins, AO, Release! — confirm status first).
Claim the group reward bonus so every farm you run from minute one pays a multiplier.
Clear the first stories you can for their one-time first-clear gems (~1,800 each, creator-reported).
Spend your starting gems on a guaranteed strong carry from the tier list — not a random roll.
Push its star level so it clears the next stage faster.
Re-clear the same stories on hard for a second first-clear gem payday while the team is fresh.
Replay the stage your carry clears fastest and bank gold and gems.
Add rolled stats so the same farm hours yield more.
Once your carry stalls, save toward an evolve of that unit or your next tier-list carry.
Almost every stalled account I see on progression threads shares one of these habits. Here's how to spot and dodge each one.
Spending every gem on random rolls in the hope of a lucky top-tier pull burns your bankroll on odds that are community-reported, not guaranteed. Start with a strong guaranteed unit and let the farm fund the rest. Save the lottery for after your core team is solid.
Gems and gold sitting in your wallet are resources doing nothing for you. The game rewards reinvestment — buy the upgrade that lifts clear speed next. Hoarding for a someday pull usually leaves you behind players who spent what they earned.
Spreading upgrades across five units means none of them clears a hard stage fast. Pick one carry, star and evolve it ahead of your stage, and let its clear speed fund the rest of your roster. A strong main beats a balanced bench.
Leaving un-cleared stories on the map is leaving guaranteed gems behind. First-clear rewards are the most reliable income in the game; sweep them before you settle into a repeatable farm.
Evolving a unit that's still clearing fine burns gems and materials for little gain. Evolve when the current form stops carrying you, not preemptively. See the evolve guide for the trigger.
Playing without the group's reward bonus means every farm you run for days pays less than it should. It's a permanent free multiplier — claiming it is one of the highest-value early minutes you'll spend.
This guide sticks to facts that are actually reported: the ~1,800 first-clear gems per story and the THANKYOU!/TYKaito!/Origins/AO/Release! code list come from creator sources and should be verified. Summon odds, star-drop rates, artifact rolls, and exact gem/gold prices are community-reported, not on any official table — so treat any precise percentage you see online as unverified, including on this site. Progress in Anime Origins trends steady and compounding rather than lucky and instant: the players who pull ahead are the ones who reinvest reliably, not the ones chasing a single jackpot. The numbers below will move as the devs patch the game, so re-check the linked pages when you go to spend.
Each of these is the full route for one system.
How to farm gems and gold fastest, and what to reinvest in so you don't stall.
EndgameTurn units into stronger forms with gems/materials.
LevelingRaise unit star levels to farm faster and clear harder stages.
UpgradesSpend gold/money so resources stop throttling you.
Jump to the system pages the loop depends on.
