Aniimo New Region: Whisperwake Isles Early Look and Every New Aniimo

Aniimo’s new region is Whisperwake Isles, an island region whose Aniimo are already in the launch build but which nobody can play yet. The only date anywhere is a locked, unnamed tile in the client reading New Region: Unlocks on 10/29, which means 29 October 2026 at 12:00 (UTC+8). The tile does not say which region it is: reading it as Whisperwake Isles is an inference, laid out in our Gachapus and Whisperwake Isles article, not something the game states.

ZakkuVerse explored the island in the closed beta and published what he found on 9 October 2026. Everything he shows is closed beta or pre-release footage, and he says so at 0:44: spawn locations, mechanics and numbers can all change before release. Launch figures come from the game’s own data files, build 1.0.0.7, checked 10 October 2026.

What is Aniimo’s new region?

Whisperwake Isles: a water region with a zone called Crescent Bay, its own currency and at least ten Aniimo you cannot catch anywhere today. The name is official. A notice of 23 July 2026 for the closed beta’s Bond Pact event lists the Aniimo that could not be sealed into eggs, and one line reads: Partial Aniimo from the Whisperwake Isles region: Cheekie, Wavwal, Reefish, Coraliz, Popapus, Gachapus, Bubbeep, Glameep, Malangel, Malevsera, etc. The full notice is in our patch notes archive.

ZakkuVerse reads the same list at 0:50 (the captions hear Wavwal as “Wavewall” and Coraliz as “Corales”) and puts five of them on screen as clean renders.

The launch build supplies the frame around those names. Every one of them is flagged unreleased in the Aniilog. Ten entries record Crescent Bay as their habitat, and Crescent Bay belongs to no region on the launch map: our regions hub lists it among the habitats with no outline. The build also carries strings for a Whisperwake Isles Branch, a separate Lumin Amber currency for the region, Whisperwake Coral, a Dewdrop Crystal and a First Visit event. Our Lumin Amber guide explains why Breezy Plains’ Wanderer’s Might stops at the water’s edge.

Two things are still missing: a release date that names the region, and a map. The developer interview in our roadmap article mentions three islands inside a second region and, separately, a water region with five islands plus a mysterious area. Nothing official ties either description to Whisperwake Isles.

Whisperwake Isles at a glance: Crescent Bay, sand and bubbles

Bright water, white sand, purple flower meadows and giant bubbles drifting overhead: ZakkuVerse’s first impression at 1:20 is the island, not the Aniimo. He calls it a summer holiday “until something eventually tries to kill you”, and asks for every region to have that strong an identity. The zone he names at 6:20 is Crescent Bay, the same zone AniimoSync’s beta map placed inside Whisperwake Isles at Lv.54~56. ZakkuVerse’s own squad sits at level 55 in most of the footage, which fits the band.

The island changes with the clock. The footage moves from sunny meadows at 1:30 to a moonlit beach at 5:22 and a sunset coast of sea stacks at 6:46. One of the Whisperwake strings in the launch build is an ecology note about tides that go out at night and come in during the day, so the shoreline itself may move with the light. ZakkuVerse mentions “different weather interactions” without showing them, and at least one weather form is waiting: Reefish and Coraliz both have a Rainstorm Form, listed in our weather variants guide.

He is also clear that he held things back: more creatures, more evolutions and “different things hidden around Crescent Bay” that he chose not to film. The roster below is what he does show.

Every new Aniimo in ZakkuVerse’s video

Ten entries appear on screen, eight species and two extra forms, and all ten are flagged unreleased in the launch build. The last column gives the video timestamps.

No.	Aniimo	Elements	Role	Stage	Evolves from / into	In the video
084	Reefish	Earth · Water	Regen	Lumin	into Coraliz	0:10, 3:40
085	Coraliz	Earth · Water	Regen	Nova	from Reefish	1:00, 3:15
085	Coraliz, Rainstorm Form	Earth	Regen	Nova	weather form of Coraliz	3:30
087	Wavwal	Ice	Break	Nova	from Cheekie	1:00
088	Bubbeep	Grass · Water	Heal	Lumin	into Glameep	1:30, 1:58, 6:46
089	Glameep	Grass · Water	Heal	Nova	from Bubbeep	1:00, 2:42
089	Glameep, Prismana Form	Dark · Grass	Heal	Nova	Prismana form of Glameep	3:00
091	Gachapus	Water	DPS	Nova	from Popapus	1:00, 4:13
092	Malangel	Ice	DPS	Lumin	into Malevsera	5:13
093	Malevsera	Ice	DPS	Nova	from Malangel	1:00, 5:30

Cheekie and Popapus are on the official list but never appear in this video, and neither does Reefish’s Rainstorm Form.

Habitats are where the launch files run thin. Reefish, Coraliz, Bubbeep, Prismana Glameep and Gachapus all record Crescent Bay. The basic Glameep, Malangel and Malevsera record no habitat at all, even though the beta finds all three on the island; the one zone recorded anywhere for Malevsera is Whisperwake Isles itself, with two spawn points. The spawn counts hint at what will be common: 97 points for Bubbeep, 25 for Malangel, 5 for Gachapus, 2 for Coraliz and 1 for the basic Glameep. None of them comes with coordinates, so there is nothing to pin on the interactive map yet.

How does Bubble Drift work?

Bubble Drift is Bubbeep’s mobility skill: it blows a large floating bubble, and in the beta ZakkuVerse rides inside it to reach parts of the island he could not walk to. The one-line description, Blows a large floating bubble, is the launch build’s. The riding is what the footage shows. Bubbeep, Glameep and Prismana Glameep all carry it, and no other Aniimo has a skill of that name.

The card’s flavour line is a small sign of how much the beta has moved. It reads It chews on algae leaves and blows bubbles, building itself a tiny safe house. The launch text is different: One light hop, and off it drifts, riding the bubbles like a little boat in the breeze. The launch version describes exactly what ZakkuVerse uses it for.

In combat Bubbeep is a healer. Its trait, Bubble Energy, stores up to 10 charges and spends them to boost Baa-Baa Healbubb, which heals every ally in range for 12% of Bubbeep’s Max HP over 6 seconds while it floats and moves. Baa-Baa Sweetbubb shields allies for 7.0% of Max HP for 10 seconds. Its base stats total 467, and our healer tier list already ranks it A, ahead of release.

ZakkuVerse’s words at 2:00: Bubbeep “can basically blow this giant bubble that let your Pathfinder float around inside it”, and on this island “you need to master this bubble mechanic”. During the beta it was how he reached some of the new Aniimo. Then he turns it into a wish list for the whole game: Aniimo that open areas you could not reach before, secret caves, strange movement abilities, and catches that “unlock another layer of exploration”. That is his hope, not an announcement.

Glameep, Prismana Glameep and an Omega fight

Glameep is Bubbeep evolved: No.089, Grass and Water, Heal, Nova stage, with base stats totalling 540 and the same Bubble Drift. ZakkuVerse reaches it at 2:42 and describes it as an elegant forest sheep that knows it is better than everyone else. Its ultimate, Leafwave Bubble, raises the healing nearby allies receive by 15% for 30 seconds and heals Glameep for 21% of its Max HP.

That frame settles something. On 19 September AniimoSync said Glameep was the region’s new Omega boss, and we could only report it as his claim. ZakkuVerse’s footage shows the bar itself. It is still a beta encounter: no Omega entry for Glameep exists in the launch build, and nothing in our events calendar mentions one.

Then the form ZakkuVerse likes more. Prismana Glameep re-types the body from Grass and Water to Dark and Grass, exactly as he says at 2:50, with the same stats and skills. The launch description: Prismana has transformed Glameep’s leaf-feathers into something clear and glass-like, while the golden branch on its head has grown into a crown.

He rates it among his favourite Prismana designs and admits that is not a combat statistic. Crescent Bay is its recorded habitat, and it is the region’s Prismana in our Nurture and Prismana guide. The beta trigger AniimoSync filmed, Prismana Flow, is in our Gachapus article.

Coraliz, a support built for Earth squads

Coraliz is Reefish evolved: No.085, Earth and Water, Regen role, Nova stage, and its Rainstorm Form drops Water to become pure Earth. ZakkuVerse calls it the Aniimo that caught his attention most for squad building, and the reason is its trait. Overcharged Coral reads: When entering battle, restores EP for each Earth-type Aniimo in the party. Cooldown: 15s. The amount scales with its stats. His summary at 3:30 matches it.

The rest of the kit is lockdown. Coral Trap (Might 67, 20 EP) sets a trap for 5 seconds that deals damage every second and adds a stack of Earth Debuff each time. Quicksand Slam (Might 28, 20 EP) applies [Imprisonment] for 2 seconds. The ultimate, Coral Prison (Might 70), hits a wide area, restores 30 EP and imprisons for another 2 seconds. Those are the “multiple ways to apply imprisonment” he mentions, and Coral Impact adds a Coral Mark that pays out extra damage for every Earth hit the target takes.

ZakkuVerse’s verdict is a squad idea, and it is his: Coraliz alongside Earth DPS such as Waleetle and Grizbo, the start of a full Earth squad that, in his words, “could use a little bit more support” today (the captions turn Waleetle into “Wo”, so that name is our best reading). The arithmetic is on his side: in a party of four Earth Aniimo, Coraliz included, the trait pays out four times per trigger. Check how your current Earth line-up holds up in the team builder and the tier list while you wait.

Gachapus: the gacha is the whole kit

Gachapus is a Water DPS at the Nova stage, No.091, evolved from Popapus, and every attack it makes spins a slot machine. ZakkuVerse’s description from 4:20 matches the launch text point for point. Each basic attack or skill rolls a bubble: orange hits an area, blue restores EP, purple adds damage, and gold, at a 1% chance, does all three. Five of one colour, or one gold, starts [Jackpot] for 10 seconds, with Rainbow Bubbles on every hit and basic attack damage up 60%.

His reaction is the line most people will remember: somebody at Pawprint asked what would happen if the Aniimo itself was the gacha. He wants to play it for the design alone, whatever its tier ends up being. The ultimate, Super Jackpot, skips the dice and enters [Jackpot] at once.

We covered Gachapus in depth when AniimoSync filmed it, including the full skill table, the beta skill names that changed at launch and how its first form Popapus fits in. That is all in our Gachapus article, so it is not repeated here. What this video adds is Gachapus in a real fight, against the Omega boss above.

Our DPS tier list already places Gachapus in A: one of the highest ceilings in the role, held back by a rotation that stays random.

Malangel and Malevsera, the Ice DPS that spends its own HP

Malangel, No.092, is an Ice DPS at the Lumin stage that evolves into Malevsera, No.093, an Ice DPS at the Nova stage. ZakkuVerse calls Malevsera the Aniimo he is most excited about on the whole island. Malangel looks harmless at 5:13, which is the point: its launch description says it disguises itself with a cheerful smile before baring its fangs.

The kit is built around missing HP. Its trait, Bloodthirst, adds damage for every 1% of HP lost, up to a cap. ZakkuVerse says the cap is 40%. Our DPS tier list printed 0.8% per 1% lost, up to 48%. The launch text holds neither number: both values scale with the Aniimo’s stats, so the two readings may simply come from different builds or different Malevsera. Treat 40% as his beta figure and 48% as ours until the region opens.

Demonic State is where the numbers are fixed. The launch text, word for word: [Demonic State] increases skill damage by 30% and changes skill cost to 10% of current HP. When the state ends, Malevsera deals damage around itself and restores HP equal to 30% of the damage dealt during the state, up to 50% of its Max HP, and after 6 skill casts, holding basic attack adds a 50 Might hit. ZakkuVerse’s “sacrificing your own health to keep attacking” is exactly that.

That hint is a neat summary of the play pattern: stay hurt enough to keep the Bloodthirst bonus, heal back with Demonic State or a healer such as Glacy, and avoid “turning yourself into a collectible”, as ZakkuVerse puts it. He expects Malevsera to get its own Pathfinder Trials episode to find out how far the risk can be pushed. That is his hope, not a scheduled episode.

How do you get to Whisperwake Isles?

You cannot yet. No route, ferry, quest or portal to Whisperwake Isles exists in the live game as of 10 October 2026. The one dated thing is the client’s Season Overview tile reading New Region: Unlocks on 10/29. Our season guide pins that to the maintenance on 29 October 2026 at 12:00 (UTC+8), the same one that starts Season 1 Part Two, after Part One closes at 07:59 (UTC+8). The tile shows beach art and no name.

ZakkuVerse’s video never shows the arrival, so it says nothing about how the island will be reached. What his footage does show is the island crossed by air as well as by bubble.

Until a notice names the region, prepare with what exists: finish Season 1 Part One before it closes, and level a squad towards the mid 50s, where the beta footage sits.

What the beta shows and what is confirmed

Confirmed in the launch build or by an official notice: the Whisperwake Isles name and its Aniimo list (23 July notice); every entry in the roster table, its element, role, stage, evolution and skills; Bubble Drift on Bubbeep and both Glameep forms; Gachapus’s Gachapon and Malevsera’s Demonic State as quoted; a locked New Region tile for 10/29.

From the closed beta, and may change: that the 10/29 tile is Whisperwake Isles; the Pathfinder riding inside Bubble Drift; Omega Glameep at Lv 55; the Bloodthirst cap; the card texts for Bubbeep and Malevsera; level bands, spawn spots and which parts of the island are open. ZakkuVerse’s squad ideas and hopes are his own.