2025 has been a good year for Anime.

I’ve spent much of the last few years wondering if we’re entering a period when I won’t be all that into currently airing Anime anymore.  And yet 2025 provided a good number of shows I like quite a bit.

I'm definitely watching to completion less shows than I did during 2017-2023. But the year has still provided some shows I think are instant classics and others I’ve enjoyed as much as I enjoyed the average Anime during those prior years. 

The year started out with Zenshu which has quickly earned the status of a must watch for every fan of Animation as a Medium. Ameku M.D. and Magic Maker and Guild Receptionist were also quite fun. And while I didn’t watch it at the time I’ve come to be an unironic appreciator of Solo Leveling. And it finished off the third seasons of Re:Zero and Arifureta. 

I feel the Online Anime Community was uniquely fun to be a part of when GQuuuuuuX was airing during the Spring, I also think Lazarus was unfairly hated and Your Forma is a hidden gem. Also Moonrise was a decent Netflix original and the 2025 Detective Conan film held up to expectations. Speaking of Detective Conan it was in June we got out the most recent major new development in the Rum arc. 

And then Summer brought us a new era of Detective Conan being localized in the West, most importantly a new Dub on Netflix that is the best Dub cast yet. In seasonal Anime we got a Clevetass, a Fantasy Anime that feels like something out of the 2000s and not another quasi Isekai. A few fun new Slice of Life and/or RomComs in Renta-A-Girlfreind season 4, Watari Kun and Cultural Exchange with the Game Center Girl. Plus Rascal does not Dream or Santa Clause lived up to the hype. Oh and Gigguk’s movie Baan was alright. 

For Fall we got more Star Wars Visions, that Assassin Isekai which was above average for an Isekai, more Watari Kun and Spy x Family.  And more shows I may return to later. 

There is non Anime stuff I’ve enjoyed too, Andor was still good but not what I want from Star Wars. Fallout season 2 is just starting. Peacemaker season 2 was great, I still like James Gunn's Superman but the more time passes the more my small issues with it crawl around in my brain. And season 3 of Foundation was phenomenal. 

I may be forgetting something, I don’t have an Anilist counterpart for the American stuff I watch. I know such things technically exist but just keeping my Anilist up to date every time I watch something new is stressful enough. 

Anime 2025-2026 was a Mistake

The Introductory post of this series.

https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2025/04/anime-year-2025-2026.html

My Anilist Profile.

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Gundam GQuuuuuuX episode 3 was pretty cool.  I suspect the people who got into Yuri Shipping so fast are a bit annoyed by the new male character, but I like him. 

And speaking of Gundam, I followed up much of what I talked about last week by watching Gundam Hathaway on Netflix and then Gundam Unicorn on Hulu.

The first episode of Once Upon A Witch’s Death was pretty good. 

Episode 11 of Loner Life In Another World was good as well. 

Episode 4 of Lazarus was good, but my trigger those sensitive to Sexual Assault/Date Rape scenes.

And I'm already starting to regret quasi committing myself to this project.  I rarely have anything to say after a single episode other than “I watched it and I liked” or “I watched it and decided not to keep watching” and in my charitable nature usually unwilling to say the second option was because it was bad or anything.

The fact is sometimes when a show is currently airing it is just not when I’m in the right mindset to watch it.  I suspect I will finish season 2 of Slime 300 eventually but during episode 2 this week I simply wasn’t in the mood for it. 

Issues like this are why I abandoned my last attempt at a project like this, but that was a few years ago so I thought I could be different this year, but I can’t.  Especially since current shows are not even really the focus of my thinking right now. 

April Anime 2025 Week 3

The Introductory post of this series.

https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2025/04/anime-year-2025-2026.html

My Anilist Profile.

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GQuuuuuuX episode 2 documents the point of divergence from the usual UC timeline.  Next episode will be back to the new main cast.

Episode 10 of Loner Life In Another World was good. 

The finale of Ameku M.D. was good.  I’m giving the show as a whole an 8. 

I decided to put Rock Is a Lady’s Modesty on hold during episode 3.  I don’t like its use of CGI and was finding some aspects of it surprisingly dull.

Weird how I’m saying On Hold still when I’ve moved to different Database websites, that language has become the default of how many fans talk in general.  Anilsit and Anime-Planet each use a different term, Paused and Stalled.

Episode 1159 of Detective Conan was a decent episode but I didn’t feel like how the movie tie episodes usually feel. The Detective Conan World Wiki is no longer listing who wrote this episode like they were last week, so maybe what I said last week was mistaken. 

Lazarus episode 3 was great, things are really getting interesting now. 

The season 2 premiere of Slime 300 was pretty fun. 

I won’t always be commenting on what Anime I’ve watched outside of what’s currently airing.  But this week I felt like mentioning how I’ve rewatched YU-NO which still holds up great and done a bunch of Gundam watching.  Rewatched Char’s Counterattack and The Origin and some episodes of some other shows.  And I watched for the first time the 08th MS Team which was phenomenal, and Requiem for Vengeance which I have a few mixed feelings on but is overall pretty good, and the first 3 episodes of 0083 Stardust Memory.

Before that I’d rewatched Str.A.In, 86 and a bunch of Code Geass. 

Update April 21st: Well Ubel Blatt's dub dropped on Amazon's Prime Video but after watching 5 episode the dub for Episode 6 somehow isn't loading, so this has caused an annoyance.

Further Update: That issues was fixed the next day.  After finishing the show I will say it's good but it's not a kind of Anime I'm into that much.  It's an adaptation of a Manga that started in 2004 and so is a throwback to a particularly style of Edgy Anime that was already on the way out when it started.

There are a couple things I find interesting about it.

The Empire being depicted has a Holy Roman Empire structure, I know I'd said that before about War on Geminar but this is even more explicit even using the term Elector.  So it's always a big refreshing when a Medieval Fantasy shows familiarity with more then just England and France.

The main character is clearly a Vampire even though they aren't using the word.  I generally don't like Vampires being thrown into full Fantasy settings, I think they're more interesting as a Secret history in the real world.  But in this case I'm intrigued by them actually throwing back to the old 19th Century Ruthven rules with him being healed by the Moonlight.

April Anime 2025 Week 2

The Introductory post of this series.

https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2025/04/anime-year-2025-2026.html

My Anilist Profile.

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And my Social Media

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The Pilot of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX on PrimeVideo was good, and has a great English Dub Cast as well.  Looks like the part of the movie people were calling Episode 0 is actually going to be  episode 2 next week (Wednesday in Japan but Tuesday in the US).

Episode 9 of Loner Life In Another World was pretty good. 

Aemuk M.D. episode 11 introduced a new Denny’s variation, Bemmy’s spelled with Green Text.

On April 9th I finished Re:Zero season 3, it was great, and it looks like season 4 is gonna be pretty good too.

Rock is A Lady’s Modesty episode 2 was quite amusing. 

Moonrise on Netflix was a pretty decent Sci-Fi story.

The last episode of Guild Receptionist was decent.  I give the show as a whole an 8 out of 10. 

Detective Conan episode 1158 was an okay episode.  I was expecting it to be the tie-in to the new movie since it's the last new episode before the movie releases in Japan, but it didn’t end with an allusion to the film’s events.  However I can tell next week’s 1159 will be since it has the same writer as the movie.

Update: I just watched the first episode of Lazarus rather late on the Adult Swim app, and it looks like the second episode will drop today so I may add another update.  It was pretty entertaining, can't guarantee I'll stick with it but it has a good start.

Update: Episode 2 was also good.  The Suicide Squad comparisons are inevitable, but this this exact story couldn't actually be told in the DC Universe.

April Week 1

The Introductory post of this series.

https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2025/04/anime-year-2025-2026.html

My Anilist Profile.

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And my Social Media

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So I gave Please Put Them On, Takamine-san a shot and didn’t get very far.  I have no moral objection, I just usually wind up wishing these Fetish based Ecchis would cut out the pretense.

Episode 8 of Loner Life in Another World feels like a bit of a downgrade compared to the prior Arc. 

Episode 10 of Ameku M.D. is the first part of a multipart episode.  This being a show where most Cases are multiparters does work best to flesh out each case, but it makes me wish the show had gotten more than a single Cour. 

The first episode of Rock is A Lady’s Modesty was pretty cool.

Guild Receptionist episode 11 was good, it revolves around twists I’d rather not spoil.  I have already said on Social Media something I should also say on this Blog.  This show is at its best when it’s depicting things anyone working in customer service can relate to simply translated into a Fantasy setting.

Anime Year 2025-2026

I’ve decided to make another try at doing weekly Anime Updates for a Year.   

This year will be defined as April 2025 through March 2026.

And weekly is a rough estimate, they probably won’t come out consistently the day of the week, and if I’m slow in having interesting thoughts about any I may take 2 or three weeks. 

To start with I am continuing the Simuldubs of 

Ameku M.D.

Loner Life In Another World

Guild Receptionist

And I’ll be bringing the last 8 episodes of Re:Zero season 3 once all of it has been Dubbed.

As far as Winter 2025 shows I finished before March ended, I may post final thoughts on them separately. 

I’m very unsure what I’ll be watching for Spring.

I’ll be checking in on Detective from time to time but probably not consistently.  The most recent new episodes have been Anime Originals and now it’s returning an old 3 parter from the 500s that I can’t remember at the moment if it’s among the ones I’ve seen. 

Haite Kudashi, Takamine-san is one I’m considering, believe it or not. Shows labeled as Ecchi are often contrary to my tastes, but one bold enough to use that as its main promotional image is worth giving a shot. 

Rock is a Lady’s Modesty I’ll probably give a shot to.

The Shuiji Family Children I’ll give a look to.

Witch Watch and Once Upon A Witch’s Death interest me.

Oh and there’s 300 Slimes season 2

As usual though, my preference for waiting for Dubs means I’ll be behind, and so this series of posts will not actually finish what it’s meant to cover until deep into April 2026.  And also means it’ll be a few weeks before we really get started. 

Shows that have been announced recently I'm hoping will air within this timeframe include.

Fate/Strange Fake

The new Nanoha show

A Certain Darkside Item

A Certain Scientific Railgun season 4.

Rent-a-Girlfriend season 4

Skeleton Knight Season 2

Classroom of The Elite season 4.

The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat season 2

Spy x Family season 3 is currently scheduled for Fall 2025.

Movies I’m waiting for include the Dubs for Princess Principal Crown Handler part 3 and the most recent Girls Und Panzer Das Finale episode.  The upcoming Madoka Magica Film.  And the new Detective Conan film coming out this month I probably won’t be able to watch till November or December. And maybe even hopefully the next Prisma Illya Movie.

I should also mention that I have stopped using MAL and am now using Anilsit and Anime-Planet.  Both have their advantages and disadvantages, Anime-Planet doesn’t include Hentai so that’s much of why my number is smaller there.  

https://anilist.co/user/KuudereKun888/

https://www.anime-planet.com/users/KuudereKun888