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Connections to the Honkai Series
February 17, 2026 at 02:34 AM
Initial comprehensive article creation
Honkai: Nexus Anima is the fifth game in the Honkai series, following Honkai Impact 3rd (2016), its PC version (2019), Honkai: Star Rail (2023), and earlier entries. It represents HoYoverse's most explicit attempt to connect the Honkai games through shared characters and lore rather than keeping them as separate experiences that merely share a brand name.
Kiana appears in Nexus Anima as a Planestrider — a dimensional traveler who addresses collapsed Aspects across the Planes. The Chinese-language description suggests this is the same Kiana from Honkai Impact 3rd, not a variant. She has crossed into the dimension where Nexus Anima takes place, possibly as a continuation of the interdimensional direction her character took in HI3's later chapters.
Blade appears in his original Star Rail form as the 22nd Novarch. His immortality in Star Rail lines up with his long-lived Novarch status in Nexus Anima. He rules a Plane called The Peak and is searching for the missing 11th Sovereign.
Sir Champion is a Novarch whose identity has generated community speculation about a connection to Argenti from Honkai: Star Rail. This hasn't been officially confirmed.
The multiverse structure in Nexus Anima shares DNA with both Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail. HI3 explored alternate timelines and dimensional travel extensively in its later story arcs. Star Rail is built around universe-hopping via the Astral Express. Nexus Anima's 81 Planes are another expression of the same multiversal framework — different dimensions, each with their own rules and rulers.
The word "Honkai" itself appears in Nexus Anima as an alternate name for the Sundering. In HI3, Honkai is a destructive force threatening civilization. In Star Rail, Stellaron (related to Honkai energy) causes chaos across worlds. In Nexus Anima, "the Honkai" is the event that shattered the Nexus and created the current world. Different games, different interpretations of the same underlying concept.
The game's title — Nexus Anima — has a double meaning. The Nexus refers to the energy network that was destroyed in the Sundering, but it also suggests the game itself functions as a nexus connecting the different Honkai properties. Kiana from HI3 and Blade from Star Rail both appearing in their original forms (not variants or alternates) implies these games share a connected multiverse rather than existing as unrelated parallel universes.
Both characters were shown together in the first teaser at the Honkai: Star Rail LIVE Concert in May 2025, signaling from the start that linking the Honkai games was a core design intent rather than a marketing afterthought.
