Spring Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 13]
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Spring season is rapidly approaching! It's time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn't. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @[email protected].
Please feel free to use this thread as a normal weekly discussion thread as well! Anything that would normally be in the weekly discussion thread any other week is welcome here.
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Twins Hinahima looks interesting. It's kinda historic too.
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Spring season is rapidly approaching! It's time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn't. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @[email protected].
Please feel free to use this thread as a normal weekly discussion thread as well! Anything that would normally be in the weekly discussion thread any other week is welcome here.
As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).
What I will probably watch next season:
- Witch Watch: I've read the manga, it was written by the same author as sket dance, so its humor sit just right with me.
- Hibi was Sugiredo Meshi Umashi: Another P.A. Works original anime featuring working women like shirobako, sakura quest, and aquatope. I always enjoy their comfy SOL with some light drama.
- GQuuuuuuX: I've never watched Gundam before, but the visual and character design pique my interest. I'll give it an episode or two before deciding if it's worth the time.
I'll definitely miss Ave Mujica, there isn't seem to be another anime that can break me every week.
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What I will probably watch next season:
- Witch Watch: I've read the manga, it was written by the same author as sket dance, so its humor sit just right with me.
- Hibi was Sugiredo Meshi Umashi: Another P.A. Works original anime featuring working women like shirobako, sakura quest, and aquatope. I always enjoy their comfy SOL with some light drama.
- GQuuuuuuX: I've never watched Gundam before, but the visual and character design pique my interest. I'll give it an episode or two before deciding if it's worth the time.
I'll definitely miss Ave Mujica, there isn't seem to be another anime that can break me every week.
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Twins Hinahima looks interesting. It's kinda historic too.
I won't be able to make a post about this since it isn't listed on AniList. So, feel free to make a post yourself if you want. You have my robo-blessing.
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The only thing that caught my attention right off was Kowloon Generic Romance. I was interested in the setting, but the manga never managed to really convey it, and hopefully an anime will.
Well... and Shiunji-ke no Kodomotachi, but that's because it's from the same mangaka as Rent a Girlfriend and I read the first dozen or so chapters on a whim and it was even more insipid and tedious and awful than I expected. I have no intention of watching it - I just noticed it on the list and was surprised.
Lazarus looks kind of interesting, but it's unlikely I'll watch it while it's releasing. If it's anything like the other Mappa action series I've seen, it'll be decent in the long run, but it'll go through a period at about the 2/3 mark when the story will be going in about ten different directions at once and there will still be enough background secrets left to be revealed that none of it will make much sense, and I'd rather binge my way through that.
So last week started with the rest of the Little Witch Academia series. I rank the first LWA OVA as the best single "episode" of anime I've ever seen (and I rewatched it a few more times last week - so over the last two weeks I've watched it about a dozen times - and that opinion still holds), so any follow-up couldn't help but be sort of anticlimactic, and with that in mind, it was fine. It stumbled a bit here and there, and I found Akko's inexplicable lack of character growth particularly disappointing, but I liked it well enough all in all. And the final episode was excellent (and I suspect part of the problem with the series was that that episode was planned out in advance, so the rest of the series, and especially the last few episodes leading up to it, had to be shaped to accommodate it).
Then I cast about for something just light and silly and preferably short and ended up with Uchuu Patrol Luluco. And only noticed later that it was also Trigger. It's one of those that doesn't even bother trying to make sense and just revels in lunacy and nonsense, and it was fine.
Then because Trigger had become somthing of a theme, I poked around a bit and went on to Kiznaiver, which was... okay. It had a fair amount of potential, but the pacing was awkward. It basically spends the first ten episodes or so just heaping on layer after layer of essentially context-less mystery, then stuffs the last two episodes with a flood of reveals and exposition to finally make some sort of sense of all of it.
And over the urge to watch Trigger productions, I wandered into Kuzu no Honkai, which is a tawdry love polygon and a rollercoaster of hope and despair and longing and betrayal, and has been pretty good in a smutty soap opera-ish sort of way.
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SPRING SEASON
Definitely watching:
- The Apothecary Diaries - more Maomao
- Aharen-san - I adore Aharen and Raido's character dynamic
- Shoshimin - charmed me from the start
- Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc - enjoyed this arc in manga
- Kowloon Generic Romance - loved how atmospheric the manga was
High chance I'll watch it through the end:
- Fire Force - want to finish this adaptation since I'm not planning on picking up the manga
- Wind Breaker - liked the characters, hope it improves (the theatre arc in the first season was a bit tiring)
- GQuuuuuuX - not missing mecha
- Lazarus - originals are worth checking out
- Aru Majo ga Shinu Made - witchy drama, the premise sounds interesting
- Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de - I'm here mostly for the main seiyuu trio, expecting a fun character dynamic
Will watch the first couple of episodes to decide if I'm sticking with it:
- Yaiba
- Witch Watch
- Anne Shirley
- Sword of the Demon Hunter
- Teogonia
- Zatsu Tabi
- mono
- Food for the Soul
- Apocalypse Hotel
- The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei
- Rock is a Lady’s Modesty
- The Too-Perfect Saint
- From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman
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There's not too much I'm excited about this season, but I'll definitely be watching at least the first episode of Witch Watch and unless something goes terribly wrong all of GQuuuuuux and Apothecary Diaries as well.
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I am very much looking forward to: Rock is a Ladies Modesty, Lazarus, Lyco Reco, Gundam GQuuuuuux.
I am still in season 1 of Apothecary Diaries, but I promised my partner we could watch it together so I can’t simply binge it all.
I’m a big fan of the Sakamoto Days manga but am finding it hard to get into the anime for some reason. I get the odd feeling that something just isn’t translating to the new medium very well. Have fallen a few episodes behind at this point due to lack of motivation.
Finally, having recently finished Zeta Gundam I plan to continue my UC Gundam watch directly into ZZ. I have heard good and bad things about this one. Wish me luck.
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I won't be able to make a post about this since it isn't listed on AniList. So, feel free to make a post yourself if you want. You have my robo-blessing.
Oof. Crazy mods over on AniList.
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Spring season is rapidly approaching! It's time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn't. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @[email protected].
Please feel free to use this thread as a normal weekly discussion thread as well! Anything that would normally be in the weekly discussion thread any other week is welcome here.
As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).
- Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - I hope the pacing gets better
- GQuuuuuuX
- Gorilla God's Blessing
- Wind Breaker 2nd Season
- Lazarus
- Witch Watch
- Beginning After The End
Hopefully I'll actually have time to keep current on shows next season...
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- Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - I hope the pacing gets better
- GQuuuuuuX
- Gorilla God's Blessing
- Wind Breaker 2nd Season
- Lazarus
- Witch Watch
- Beginning After The End
Hopefully I'll actually have time to keep current on shows next season...
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Twins Hinahima looks interesting. It's kinda historic too.
Where can you even watch that? I see no legal nor illegal means
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Where can you even watch that? I see no legal nor illegal means
It doesn't seem like anything outside of MBS television in Japan has been announced. I guess we'll find out when it's closer to dropping.
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It doesn't seem like anything outside of MBS television in Japan has been announced. I guess we'll find out when it's closer to dropping.
It has already dropped. But no one dared to license it due to fear of backlash I guess. There is a fan translation on nya apperently, so I'll have to ask my brother to torent it as no piracy site dared to host it to due fear of death threaths and the like.
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It has already dropped. But no one dared to license it due to fear of backlash I guess. There is a fan translation on nya apperently, so I'll have to ask my brother to torent it as no piracy site dared to host it to due fear of death threaths and the like.
Right. I all I can find are "parody" subs, which aren't actually that bad.
