Leon S. Kennedy has survived Raccoon City once already, which is exactly why the White House calls him back in when classified files start disappearing under circumstances nobody upstairs wants to explain out loud.

What is RESIDENT EVIL: Infinite Darkness about?

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness picks up years after the outbreak that leveled Raccoon City, following federal agent Leon S. Kennedy as he is pulled into an investigation inside the White House itself after signs of an unauthorized breach surface in its most secure computer systems. What starts as a digital security question quickly widens into something with roots in the same viral horror Leon has spent his career trying to outrun, and Claire Redfield, still working to expose the corporate and governmental cover-ups tied to past outbreaks, ends up crossing into the same conspiracy from a different angle entirely. The series is fully animated, giving its zombie-outbreak set pieces and infected corridors a heightened, cinematic quality that live-action entries in the franchise can't quite match, while keeping its two leads grounded in the paranoia and institutional distrust that have defined the series since its earliest games. Political maneuvering inside the government becomes as dangerous a threat as anything infected, and Leon finds himself as unsure of the people briefing him as he is of what might be waiting in the dark.

About the cast

Nick Apostolides voices Leon S. Kennedy, carrying the character's weary, procedural instincts into an animated register, while Stephanie Panisello voices Claire Redfield as she pursues a separate but converging thread of the same conspiracy. Jona Xiao, Ray Chase, and Billy Kametz round out a supporting cast built around the government and military figures orbiting the White House investigation, giving the series a broader institutional scope than a two-hander survival story.

Context & significance

Directed by Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Infinite Darkness is a Japanese production that extends the Resident Evil franchise's long-running fiction through full animation rather than live action or a game adaptation, letting Capcom's established characters carry a story set explicitly inside American federal institutions. The series leans on the franchise's established mythology, its viral outbreaks, its corporate and government cover-ups, its recurring leads, while using the animated format to stage large-scale infected set pieces that would be costly to film conventionally. It sits within a broader wave of video-game-to-animation adaptations aimed at longtime fans of the source material.

Watching RESIDENT EVIL: Infinite Darkness on Ktime

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness streams on K-Time with a free account login, with all episodes available in their original audio. The platform's Farsi-language interface makes it simple for Persian-speaking viewers to find and queue the series, even though this title does not currently carry a Persian dub or subtitle track.