Catching in Idyll is fast, and a storage box fills up faster. A few hours of field work leaves you with dozens of duplicate Aniimo, a handful of genuinely good ones buried somewhere in the middle, and no easy way to tell them apart. The storage system inside Aniimo Management handles all of that, and it also holds the one button that stops you from releasing something you wanted to keep.
Quick answer: Open Aniimo Management from the main menu, lock the boxes you want protected, then use Filter with the Manage tool to move or release everything else in bulk. Auto-release toggles live on the Research Console.
Where the storage boxes are
Open the main menu and go to Aniimo Management. Everything you have caught sits here, split across numbered storage boxes that work like the PC boxes in any creature collector. Your active party is shown on the same screen, so you can pull a creature straight out of storage and into a Battle Party slot without backing out.
The controls you need are clustered around the edges of the box view. Sorting sits in the bottom left, the combined filter menu next to it, the lock toggle on the box tab itself, and the Manage button for multi-select. The mark tool is the star icon in the bottom right.
Lock boxes and mark keepers before you touch anything
Sorting and bulk releasing are both destructive to a hand-built box order, so set up protection first. Two features exist for exactly that, and neither costs anything to use.
Lock a storage box
The Lock button freezes a box’s contents. While it is locked, sorting and filtering applied to the rest of your storage will not reshuffle or pull from it. Put your finished team, your evolution projects and anything with investment in it into one box, lock it, and treat every other box as scratch space.
Mark individual Aniimo
The star button in the bottom right opens the mark tool. You assign a custom icon, such as a star or a diamond, to any Aniimo, and that icon then sits on its card in the box view. Marks are visual shorthand you define yourself, and you can filter by them later, which makes them the cleanest way to flag “keep” candidates scattered across several boxes.
Mark first, release second. A marked creature is instantly recognisable in a long selection list, which is where accidental releases usually happen.
Sorting options in the storage box
The Sort Aniimo control reorders whichever box you are looking at, and each key can run ascending or descending. Compact Layout is grouped with the sort keys but changes density rather than order, fitting more cards on screen at once.
| Option | Orders by |
|---|---|
| Date Obtained | When you caught it |
| Rating | Appraisal grade, Common up to Perfect |
| Aniimo No. | Aniilog index number |
| Level | Current level |
| Potential Score | Appraised potential value |
| Family | Evolution family grouping |
| Compact Layout | Display density, not order |
Family is the one worth knowing about if you breed or evolve. It stacks every member of an evolution line together, so duplicates you were saving as evolution fodder stop hiding behind unrelated catches.
Filter by rarity, element, role and rating
Filtering hides everything that does not match instead of reordering it, which is what makes bulk actions safe. The Filter tab accepts several conditions at once.
- Rarity
- Element, across the nine elements of Idyll
- Combat role, such as DPS, Break or Support
- Rating, from Common through to Perfect
Set the filter to Perfect only and you have an instant shortlist of your best appraisals. Set it to Common and Good and you have a clear-out list. Either way, the creatures sitting in a locked box stay out of the result.
Move or release Aniimo in bulk with Manage
You know it worked when the filtered view empties out, your box count drops, and the release rewards land in your inventory. Every species hands back a set gift on release. A Melloblum, for instance, returns Growth Flower (2).
Rename a storage box
Box names are editable from the Favorite List menu. Select the box, edit its label, and confirm. Naming by purpose rather than number is what makes the system hold up over weeks, so Storage 2 becomes WaterTypes, EvoFodder, or whatever matches how you sort.
Spaces are not accepted in storage box names. Run the words together or the entry will not take.
Auto-release at the Research Console
The fastest way to keep a box tidy is to never let the junk reach it. Catch what you want in the field, then fast travel to an Outpost and open the Research Console.
On the console’s upload screen, alongside the report submission, sit the auto-release toggles. Switch on the ratings you never want to keep, and any creature at those grades is released automatically the moment you submit its report. Submitting a report still pays out, separately from the release gift: a Melloblum report is worth Credits (100).
Auto-release fires without the Released Aniimo List confirmation. Leave the higher ratings switched off unless you are certain you want them gone.
A routine that keeps boxes clean
The pieces work best together rather than one at a time. Lock the box holding your teams, mark anything you are still deciding on, name the remaining boxes by element or by role, and set auto-release for the grades you have already ruled out. What is left over after a catching run is then a single filter and one Manage pass away from being cleared, and nothing you cared about was ever in the selection to begin with.
