Spring Season 2025

[MFauli]

We're in the "3 episodes to go"-range, so time for the usual "What are we gonna watch?"-thread!

Here's the link for those who STILL can't find it themselves: https://anichart.net/Spring-2025


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Here's what I'm gonna give at least one episode:

- Lazarus (honestly, I'd prefer if the story started AFTER all those who took the pills died. But I guess trying to prevent it is also okay of a plot. Animation seems high quality, going for a Cowboy Bebop-style)
- Vigilante (yeah, ill probably hate it and will tell you each week about it. but people said this was "better" than BnHA, so let's ee)
- Kowloon Generic Romance (the synopsis sounds super lame, but the trailer looks high quality and I like the non-moe designs)
- Teogonia (maaaaybe it will be a nice adventure story? but maybe its super generic)

Yeah, very bad season. Every time I see a "cute girl", I immediately proceed, sigh. Well, guess time to make progress with Gundam.

[Ryllharu]

Your particular tastes continue to narrow to your own detriment. This season looks pretty promising.

Will Try:
Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de - Classic detective series, looks cute with a unique artstyle. Let's see what Madhouse can do with that kind of show.
Rock wa Lady no Tashinami Deshite - The mixed CGI for the performing is a mild turnoff, but I'm very willing to give a repressed girls doing hard rock a try. It's apparently very much a parody of Marimite.
Fire Force S3 - The series is still good.
Chotto dake Ai ga Omoi Dark Elf ga Isekai kara Oikakete Kita - The manga is kinda trash, but unlike a certain other series airing this season, it actually IS a reverse isekai instead of a regular isekai masquerading as one. I don't expect to watch it all that long, but a yandere dark elf is always worth a watch.
Ballpark de Tsukamaete! - I gave the manga a try and thought it would work a lot better as an anime, so I'm going to try it that way. It's a weird slice of life kind of story. Hopefully it does well enough that we'll get 'Smoking Behind the Supermarket'.

Gonna Skip:
Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san - I read the manga, but I just don't see how it is gonna work as an anime properly.

[shinta|hikari]

I agree with Mfauli. Season is pretty trash. I don't see even 1 show I want to watch.

[DarthEnderX]

Nothing I care about is returning. I'll have to wait several weeks for Gigguk or Mother's Basement to tell me what's good.

At least Apothecary Diaries is ongoing.

[neflight86]

Some good stuff, or at least hopefully good this upcoming season for me.

Going down anichart

Fireforce s3 (pt1): Glad they're finishing off the story. First season is an outstanding 9/10, even if the second season tripped into the dumpster a couple of times. Great vibes and hype sound design during the fights.

Lazarus: Even if old Nabeshin hasn't put out a full on banger since... Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy and Carole & Tuesday were good fun; almost great. Also, he's never had a bad first episode (his worse shows always fall apart toward the end), so I can count on that.

Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san: Unless they change the story presentation massively from the manga, this is sure to strike up some controversy in the online space. One of the better ecchi I've seen recently.

Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru: Judging by the trailers, this should be a hit for the swordplay nerds. What looks like (and kinda is) a generic "opps I'm awesome" fantasy show that focuses more on choreographed fights than flashy magic. It was a great read, and will hopefully be a great anime as well.

Shoushimin Series 2nd Season: My personal frontrunner as the first season last year blew my expectations away. Great mysteries and a dark, brooding tone that always hints at a bigger picture. It asks the audience to pay close attention and then rewards them for it. Beautiful art and a gripping story/conflict set up in the first season leaves me hyped to my theoretical max.

Your Forma: I'm more generous lately to mystery series, if for no other reason they aren't the norm in anime, so I'm cautiously optimistic about this brain-diving mish mash.

Ballpark de Tsukamaete!: Standard but cozy feel good show about the employees at a baseball stadium. Good Working! vibes, if you remember that show.

Plenty of other bobs and bits to sample.

That said... I expect Guilty Gear Dual Rulers to be absolute trash and I advise you go nowhere near it.

[Y]

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: of course, as a Gundam series from the 21st century this looks absolutely unwatchably terrible, but also the "Clan Battle" element reads like a spec script given a Gundam dress-up. There needs to be a moratorium on Gundam shows until we figure out what's going wrong.

Apocalypse Hotel: I was excited to see this adaptation of the thoughtful Boichi one-shot postapocalyptic scifi manga "Hotel". Guess what? It isn't an adaptation of that manga at all!

Kowloon Generic Romance: There is something really dystopian about the name of this show. We're maybe a couple years away from the release of a show called Fate/Stay Steady Watching This Generic Shit With The Same Premise As Before.

Moonrise: The description promises "All action and scenery in the unexplored parts of the Moon will be illustrated using an innovative type of animation unlike any seen before". I don't think that's gonna be true.

[MFauli]

There needs to be a moratorium on Gundam shows until we figure out what's going wrong.

- stop trying to reach a "younger audience.
- if the above results in bad viewing numbers, put the franchise on ice.
- try again with a proper Gundam-anime every few years. Maybe do movies instead of series.

[Death BOO Z]

I want to watch 3-4 weekly episodes this season, and at least one new thing that I don't know the manga alread.
- will keep up with the apothecary diaries. of course.
- Witch Watch is one of the better manga i've read recently, I hope they'll be able to transistion the humor into anime form.
- maybe Kowloon Generic Romance for the new series?
- will watch one episode of Gorilla girl isekai, I hope it doesn't devolve into generic plot immediartly
- will also watch one episode of Ballpark baseball slice of life, let's see how it goes
- should also try Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de - rich girl detective might be good

and if i see an active thread in the forums, I might also try that.

[Ryllharu]

- stop trying to reach a "younger audience.
- if the above results in bad viewing numbers, put the franchise on ice.
- try again with a proper Gundam-anime every few years. Maybe do movies instead of series.

eh...

Gundam Build Fighters is about as kid targeted as the franchise gets, and despite being Angelic Layer with gundams, it's still actually rather good.

Slowing the series down hasn't helped Macross. Delta was so generically terrible that Studio Nue gave the franchise to Sunrise to fix.

Fundamentally, Sunrise/Bandai have been just getting too cowardly and don't take their series all the way without backing off at the climax of the series. Happened to Witch from Mercury, happened to Geass three times over, happened to Valvrave, it happened to 00.

About the only series where they decided to go really hard in the third act was...Iron Blooded Orphans actually Buddy Complex, and that started off too reserved...and Idolmaster Xenoglossia which was just incredible all around despite its absurd premise and IP mishmash.

[MFauli]

Actually, I'd like to try a new method of trying new anime: You guys are more knowledgable here, could you make a list of all the Spring 2025-anime that have noticeably above average animation quality? Instead of looking at the story, good animation usually means "enjoyable to watch", so maybe that'd be a better approach.

[Ryllharu]

Actually, I'd like to try a new method of trying new anime: You guys are more knowledgable here, could you make a list of all the Spring 2025-anime that have noticeably above average animation quality? Instead of looking at the story, good animation usually means "enjoyable to watch", so maybe that'd be a better approach.

Hmm...doesn't seem like a good plan. You're going to be watching Fire Force, Gundam Quuuux, From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, Kuroshitsuji, and Anne of Green Gables.

[MFauli]

That Anne of Green Gables-remake is a grave offense, ngl. The old anime is perfect.

[Y]

Fundamentally, Sunrise/Bandai have been just getting too cowardly and don't take their series all the way without backing off at the climax of the series. Happened to Witch from Mercury, happened to Geass three times over, happened to Valvrave, it happened to 00.

I don't really think the issue with Geass and Gundam 00 is a refusal to commit to something.

Geass ends pretty well and the mess in the middle with the dragged-out season 1 cliffhanger -> season 2 soft reset on the plot is because they clearly had no idea where the story was going, not because they refused to commit to their themes or characters.

00 gets off on the wrong leg immediately by having the Char character pretty much literally monologue about how the show is going to be a deconstruction of the Gundam Wing-esque setup, only for it to not be that at all.

[Kraco]

I can't really say there would be too many shows that would catch my attention. Maybe that will actually give me the motivation to finally start watching this season of Apothecary Diaries, which I've neglected.

I'll probably have a look at Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu. I'm reading the manga, which is pretty decent. It might be good to see and hear it animated. It's one of the stories where the MC fancies himself a tyrannical villain, but in reality all of his subjects love him and consider him an excellent ruler. I mostly see that setting in fantasy, but this is actually scifi (though not hard science fiction by any measure).

[shinta|hikari]

I read the web novel, and it is hilarious. It is blatantly satire and should be taken as such.

[Shadow Skill]

Slim pickings this Spring season. Maybe 2 I will check out that seem interesting.

[Death BOO Z]

Ballpark de Tsukamaete! - 01

it's fine, some rom-com, some heart warming, very cute ED dance.

[Ryllharu]

Ballpark de Tsukamaete! - 01

it's fine, some rom-com, some heart warming, very cute ED dance.

It's very cute. Reminds me of WORKING! before that got super boring in the later seasons. It certainly feels like an ode to sports stadiums.

Definitely works better voiced as an anime.

[Kraco]

Yami Healer - 01

A really weak start. So weak that I'm not sure I will bother with the rest. The description makes one expect underdog action and struggle for the MC to finally reach their place in the society. The first episode had nothing of that sort. Maybe this was a flashforward, but if it was, it was the worst decision from the director because this was incredibly boring and meaningless. On the other hand, if this is a slice of life series with little content and story, maybe this was an honest first episode that won't mislead anyone to expect anything much from the show. Who knows. I wouldn't know, and neither would anything watching the ep.

[Death BOO Z]

wow, I had to check for myself. so I read the 2 volumes of the manga which were out, and then watched the episode.
both are bad, but in different ways. amazing how they managed to make such bad decisions. I didn't expect much, but this is worse than I thought. maybe the anime creators are actually a bit ashamed of the source material?

guess the only thing to do is rank the girls, which I feel is disgusting by itself.
1. ghost - actually has a brain.
2. slave - interacts with the "hero", has an arc.
3. lizard - is an adult.
4. orc / duaghter - not last place on account of not being the worst.
5. wolf - I hate the archtype.