Winter Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 52]

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All I wish for is a different ending for Oshi No Ko. Won’t spoil how it ends, but is dissapointing.

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  • mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It became a victim of its own meme.

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    As for me. Let the anime end on that point and no further.

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• wjs018@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  First of two comments for me this week is a meta comment. I would like to welcome @1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zip to the moderation team of the community! I have been busier and busier at work lately, so the additional set of eyes on things is greatly appreciated.

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  • 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hi, 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi here. I was just a regular poster and commenter like many here, and I am honored to join the moderation team. Hope to see you all around!

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• mysweat@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m excited to watch:

  1. Ikoku Nikki
  2. Seihantai na Kimi to Boku
  3. Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki
  4. Darwin Jihen
  5. Golden Kamuy: Saishuushou

  Numbers 1-3, I’ve read the manga. 4 I’ve been meaning to read, but never got round to, due to lack of TLs. 5 is just continuation of peak.

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  • mysweat@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, and how could I forget… MF Ghost S3, and Steel Ball Run.

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• Unboxious@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Things I’m excited for this season, in descending order:

  • Medalist S2
  • a pretty wide gap tbh
  • Frieren S2
  • Jujutsu Kaisen S3
  • Oshi no Ko S3

  So why the wide gap? I liked the beginnings of those last three shows quite a lot, but I’ve read the manga for all of them and IMO they all go downhill as they go on. Also, Medalist really is just that good. It’s a great story with a decent adaptation and I’ll take that over a decent story with a great adaptation any day. And who knows, maybe Season 2 will fix some of the minor issues Season 1 had - in particular I’d appreciate it if they could make the spins look better. Guess we’ll find out!

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• Phelpssan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not a lot of me this season. There’s a lot of popular sequels… for series that I haven’t watched. So only one of those series for me.

  • Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2

  As for new series, there’s two.

  • Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord (Isekai bobinho de city building, meio que meu junk food preferido)
  • The Holy Grail of Eris (falam MUITO bem do mangá)

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  • Endmaker@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Witch from Mercury would be my biggest priority, been stalling that for a long time, maybe MHA Vigilantes S1 after that since the premise is interesting.

    Nice picks. Make sure to watch the prologue for WfM!

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• Endmaker@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Past Seasons

  I completed Trigun Stampede and am one-third of the way through Hell’s Paradise. Honestly, the stories are nothing new, but they are interesting enough to keep my attention for now. Trigun Stampede is yet another Final Fantasy / Land of the Lustrous / Heavenly Delusion clone. Hell’s Paradise is basically a John Wick prequel in a historical + fantasy setting.

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  Upcoming Season

  Next season is insane.

  Continuing

  from current season

  • Gnosia

  I am also planning to catch up with Pokemon Horizons but I am not sure if there’s enough interest in this community for discussion threads.

  Sequels

  • There’s no freaking way I will be your lover - part 2
  • Trigun Stargaze
  • Hell’s Paradise - season 2
  • ’Tis time for torture, princess - season 2
  • My Hero Academia: Vigilantes - season 2
  • Chained Soldier - season 2
  • Medalist - season 2
  • Frieren - season 2
  • Oshi no Ko - season 3
  • Jujutsu Kaisen - season 3

  Familiar

  with the source material or other adaptations

  • The demon king’s daughter is too kind!!
  • Roll over and die

  New

  • Sentenced to be a hero
  • The Darwin incident

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  That’s 16 tv series💀 (and that’s excluding movies!) But I figure it’s better than having to play catch-up.

  Thank you @rikka@ani.social

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  • wjs018@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s 16 tv series💀

    I feel you. Too much happening next season.

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is Gnosia continuing? Livechart doesn’t seem to think so. (If it is, I’m going to have even more work to do sorting out my schedule.)

    Things I know I’ll be sampling that no one seems to have mentioned yet:

    • Golden Kamuy
    • Fate/Strange Fake (finally!)
    • A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation (first volume of the manga was mildly entertaining)
    • Kaya-chan isn’t Scary (from the description, it should at least be different)

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    • Unboxious@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now that I’ve read Dogsred (same mangaka) I really want to get into Golden Kamuy but unfortunately I just don’t see myself catching up by the start of the season - or even the end of it tbh.

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    • 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you look at the BD/DVD release schedule, they have 7 releases planned, each of the same price, releasing 1 per month with no interruptions, the 1st one is known to contain 3 episodes, so the series is most probably longer than 13 episodes and will not be split cours.

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  • HeroHelck@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man, I am so hyped for this season, I’ve been looking forward to this for months now. Trigun, Frieren, JJK, Oshi no Ko, it’s just STACKED. Non-zero chance I may have to put somethings on the backburner until the season over even.

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• zabadoh@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m just starting to watch Uma Musume Cinderella Grey, and it’s great!

  WHY HAVEN’T I BEEN WATCHING THIS ALL ALONG??!?!?!?!

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  • Endmaker@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now you’re talking my language

    Do check out the rest of it, especially Pretty Derby season 2!

    That one’s so, soo, sooo good!

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• Rottcodd@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Frieren season 2 is a gimme, as is Trigun Stargaze (I quite liked Stampede and am looking forward to seeing the rebooted version of Millie). I’ll undoubtedly end up watching the third season of Oshi no Ko, but I’m actually only sort of lukewarm on the series, so I don’t feel any great urge to watch it, and might end up letting it go for now and binging it later on. Same for MF Ghost season 3 - it’s safe to presume that it’ll be the same as the first two seasons, which is to say tediously drawn out (at the rate the story’s going, I expect it to be finished, if it lasts that long, by about season 8, in about 2040).

  Nothing else really grabbed my attention as far as series go (seems to be even more cheese than normal), but I’m definitely looking forward to the All You Need is Kill movie. I hate that the most popular adaptation it’s gotten yet is that Americanized Tom Cruise movie, which doesn’t even come close to doing justice to the original story.

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  As far as the current season goes, the final episode of May I Ask For One Final Thing? was just what I’d hoped. The story had been obviously drawing together for a couple of episodes now, and sure enough, the final episode wrapped all of the immediate issues up in a neat little package, while still leaving enough longer term and more distant issues around which to build a second season. I have no notable complaints about the episode, or about the season as a whole for that matter. The characters are great (Scarlet and Julius in particular), the story was a bit rushed, but satisfying, the art is gorgeous and both the OP and the ED are excellent, each in their own way. The only minor criticism I have is that the story unfolded a bit too easily and smoothly, mostly because Scarlet is massively OP. But more complication would’ve drug the story out too long to fit it into a single season, so I’m okay with that. And like Julius, I’m fine with Scarlet being OP, because it’s always amusing to watch.

  Past:

  Looking for a sort of counter to the rule of cool mayhem of the Gridman series, I went back to one I’ve watched a couple of times before - a spoof called Robot Girls Z. It’s about three (plus more over time) girls who go through sort of magical girl transformations and end up in costumes not coincidentally patterned after super robots (the original three are Mazingers, but pretty much every franchise in existence gets a nod somewhere along the way), then proceed to fight with standard super robot attacks - drills, beams and of course rocket punches. And the basic arc of each episode is the really pathetic super villains hatching some really feeble scheme (the first episode shows them dining and dashing at at ramen restaurant), then the robot girls responding by unleashing city-block leveling attacks on them (the first episode culminates with the robot girls triggering an Akira-style hemispherical explosion that destroys most of the city. To punish the villains for dining and dashing). It’s just goofy fun that completely deflates all of the super robot tropes.

  Then I somehow ended up with Yuasa’s OVA Kick Heart. It’s a mostly unvoiced portrayal of something that might become a romance between a professional wrestler and a nun, done in the rough but highly dynamic style that he later (in my opinion over-) used for Ping Pong: The Animation. It was amusing and interesting and a nice diversion.

  Then I bounced off a few things and browsed some episode 1s, then remembered that I still hadn’t seen the latest season of Konosuba, so that became the obvious choice. And it was… pretty good, with a dash of excellent. It wasn’t quite as funny as the past seasons, and there seemed to be entirely too much yelling - they’ve always yelled at each other, and especially Kazuma and Aqua, but for whatever reason, there seemed to be much more of it this time around, to the point that it got sort of tedious. But it was still worth it all in all, and the latter half of the season was excellent, and it was especially nice to see Darkness get some focus.

  Next, wanting something a bit more peaceful, I decided it was time for Silent Witch, which has been resting near the top of my TBW for a while now. And it was everything I hoped it’d be and more - great characters, interesting story, beautiful art and just a pleasure from start to finish. I adored it, and am looking forward to a second season.

  Then, on a whim, I finished off the week with an oddity that caught my eye a while back - Gleipnir. I quite enjoyed it all in all, though Shuichi grated on my nerves after a while (flashbacks to Claymore - it seems that if there’s a female main character named Claire, there also has to be a sniveling wretch male character to cry out, “Cwaaaaaiiiwww!”). The only real downside to it in the long run (sniveling wretch Shuichi was eventually replaced by determinator Shuichi, which was a bit forced and contrived, but welcome) was that there’s obviously a lot more story left. It was interesting enough that I think I’ll just go ahead and read the manga and be done with it.

  And at the moment, I’m rewatching Gabriel DropOut, which I only saw for the first time last year, but which immediately claimed the number 2 spot on my list of all time favorite CGDCTs, second only to YuruYuri.

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  • wjs018@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Glad you liked Silent Witch. The manga had reached almost to where season 1 ended when it started airing, and I was really impressed with the anime adaptation. I know that it has a group of fans over on !lightnovels@ani.social as well if you feel like joining in the conversation about how cool Nero is. 🐈‍⬛

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    • NineSwords@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      a group of fans over on !lightnovels@ani.social as well

      Can confirm. Nero is certified cool. Also, the series is objectively (as one can be) in the higher quality echelons of light novels.

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• wjs018@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alright, here is what I am looking forward to this upcoming season:

  Shows I am familiar with the source

  • Frieren Season 2 - my most anticipated for sure
  • Oshi no Ko Season 3 - an excellent adaptation. People give the manga shit for the ending, but I have read way worse and I think it is a bit overblown. It doesn’t change the fact that this show has consistently elevated the source and produced some gorgeous animation sequences.
  • Chained Soldier Season 2 - I am hoping that the animation improves over the first season. It definitely felt lackluster compared to the excellent manga artwork.
  • 'Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess Season 2 - This is just a heaping dish of good vibes. Looking forward to more.
  • You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! - I eventually dropped this manga, but the beginning portions were good.
  • The Demon King’s Daughter is Too Kind! - Like Torture Princess, this is a bundle of good feelings.

  Shows I am not familiar with the source

  • You and I Are Polar Opposites - I see this one posted in !manga@ani.social with some regularity, so I might try to give it a shot if I can find the time
  • Tune In to the Midnight Heart - I have heard great things about this manga, but haven’t read it. I will be interested to see how it is received.
  • Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers - I fondly remember watching Ronin Warriors as a youngling, so this series is of interest to me. However, it is a pretty low priority given everything else this season.

  Frankly, I might only be able to watch half of these, so my patience to wait out a mediocre adaptation will wear thin quickly. I am still trying to catch up on some shows this season.

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  • Endmaker@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People give the manga shit for the ending, but I have read way worse and I think it is a bit overblown. It doesn’t change the fact that this show has consistently elevated the source and produced some gorgeous animation sequences.

    Preach

    You and I are kindred spirits.

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