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Edjwald



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:22 pm Reply with quote
Welp, I like to organize new seasons on my computer's calendar, so here's an offering for those who like to do the same. A few things to keep in mind: (1) Anything not specifically designated to a streaming platform is Crunchyroll. (2) Sometimes the dates change so I'll update as needed. (3) There are still at least 16 Spring 2025 anime that haven't been announced, and Crunchyroll had 5 to be announced slots last time I checked. (4) Some of the Crunchyroll anime might also appear on Netflix or Hulu to be announced later.

Chh...chhh....chh..Changes!

Dinner Table Detective has been picked up by Amazon Prime. It was 4/4 & is now 4/5

Crunchyroll has unveiled 5 mystery boxes and added one more.
Kowloon Generic Romance 4/5
Maebashi Witches 4/6
Aharen San is Indecipherable 4/7
Apocalypse Hotel 4/8
SHIROHIYO - Reincarnated as a Neglected Noble et al 4/20

Returning from Winter 2025
Apothecary Diaries
I Left My A-Rank Party to Teach My Former Students et al
One Piece
Our Last Crusade
You and Idol Precure

Sundays
One Piece Returning

March 30 - The Unaware Atelier Master

April 6 - Lazarus....via MAX
April 6 - Witch Watch
April 6 - The Gorilla God's Go-to Girl
April 6 - Maebashi Witches

April 13 - Go Go Loser Ranger 2...via HULU

April 20 - SHIROHIYO - Reincarnated as a Neglected Noble et al

Mondays
March 31 - Demon Hunter: Kinjin Geitoushou...via HIDIVE

April 7 - My Hero Academia: Vigilantes
April 7 - Summer Pockets
April 7 - Aharen-San is Indecipherable
April 7 - Zatsu Tabi That's Journey
April 7 - Compass 2.0

Tuesdays

April 1 - Upon a Witch's Death
April 1 - Catch Me at the Ballpark

April 8 - Apocalypse Hotel
April 8 - The Shiunji Family Children

Wednesdays
April 2 - Please Put Them on Takamine-san
April 2 - The Beginning After the End
April 2 - The Too Perfect Saint

April 9 - Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX AMAZON PRIME

Thursdays
April 3 - Rock is a Lady's Modesty HIDIVE
April 3 - Windbreaker
April 3 - The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows

April 10 - A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof

Our Last Crusade et al Returning

Fridays
April 4 - Fire Force 3
April 4 - Bye Bye Earth 2
April 4 - Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?

April 11 - Teogonia

Apothecary Diaries Returning

Saturdays
I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire
April 5 - Dinner Table Detective...via AMAZON PRIME
April 5 - From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman...via AMAZON PRIME
April 5 - Gag Manga Biyori Go...via AMAZON PRIME
April 5 - Yaiba: Samurai Legend...via NETFLIX & HULU
April 5 Kowloon Generic Romance
April 5 - I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years et al
April 5 - To Be Hero X
April 5 - Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc
April 5 - Shoushimin: How to Be Ordinary 2
April 5 - Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers
April 5 - Anne Shirley
April 5 - Classic Stars


April 12 - Mono
April 13 - Food For the Soul

I Left My A-Rank Party Et al Returning
You and Idol Precure Returning

Japanese Air Dates of Anime Whose Platforms Haven't Been Announced Yet

March 30 - Twins Hinahima

April 2 Your Forma

April 3 - Miru: Paths to My Future

April 4 - Nmenko

April 5 - Everyday Host
April 5 - Kaijuu Sekai Seifuku

April 6 - Makina-san's a Love Bot
April 6 - Umu Musume: Cinderella Gray
April 6 - Princession Orchestra
April 6 - Koupen Chan

April 8 - The Monokone Lecture Logs et al.

April 9 - Hana-Doll: Reinterpretation of Flowering

April 10 - Me and the Alien Muumuu
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**** Spring 2025:

**Spring 2025 (no hyperlinks) (to copy, paste, and help keep your own lineups organized)

Mondays
- #Compass 2.0 Animation Project |Main Thread| (CR)
- Aharen-san wa Hakarenai |Main Thread| (CR)
- (The) Mononoke Logs of Chuzenji-sensei |Main Thread|
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes |Main Thread| (CR)
- Summer Pockets |Main Thread| (CR)
- Sword of the Demon Hunter |Main Thread| (HD)
- Zatsu Tabi -That's Journey- |Main Thread| (CR)

Tuesdays
- Apocalypse Hotel |Main Thread| (CR)
- Once Upon a Witch's Death |Main Thread| (CR)
- (The) Shiunji Family Children |Main Thread| (CR)

Wednesdays
- (The) Beginning After the End |Main Thread| (CR)
- Catch Me at the Ballpark! |Main Thread| (CR)
- Lycoris Recoil |Main Thread| (CR)
- Me and the Alien MuMu |Main Thread|
- Miru: Paths to My Future |Main Thread|
- Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX |Main Thread| (Amazon)
- Please Put Them on Takamine-san! |Main Thread| (CR)
- (The) Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold To Another Kingdom |Main Thread| (CR)
- Your Forma |Main Thread| (Samsung)

Thursdays
- (The) Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows |Main Thread| (CR)
- Moonrise |Main Thread| (NF)
- (A) Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof |Main Thread| (CR)
- Rock is a Lady's Modesty |Main Thread| (HD)
- Wind Breaker |Main Thread| (CR)

Fridays
- (The) Apothecary Diaries |Main Thread| (CR)
- Bye Bye, Earth |Main Thread| (CR)
- Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? |Main Thread| (CR)
- (The) Dinner Table Detective |Main Thread| (Amazon)
- Everyday Host |Main Thread|
- Teogonia |Main Thread| (CR)

Saturdays
- Anne Shirley |Main Thread| (CR)
- Black Butler |Main Thread| (CR)
- Classic Stars |Main Thread|
- Detective Conan (Case Closed) |Main Thread| (CR)
- Food for the Soul |Main Thread| (CR)
- From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman |Main Thread| (CR)
- Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers |Main Thread| (CR)
- I Left My A-Rank Party |Main Thread| (CR)
- I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire |Main Thread| (CR)
- I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level |Main Thread| (CR)
- Kowloon Generic Romance |Main Thread| (CR)
- Mono |Main Thread| (CR)
- Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary |Main Thread| (CR)
- To Be Hero X |Main Thread| (CR)
- Twins Hinahima |Main Thread|
- Yaiba: Samurai Legend |Main Thread| (Hulu, NF)

Sundays
- Go, Go, Loser Ranger! |Main Thread| (D+)
- (The) Gorilla God's Go-To Girl |Main Thread| (CR)
- Lazarus |Main Thread| (AS, Max)
- Maebashi Witches |Main Thread| (CR)
- Makina-san's a Love Bot?! |Main Thread| (OceanVeil)
- One Piece |Main Thread| (CR)
- Princession Orchestra |Main Thread|
- Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray |Main Thread|
- (The) Unaware Atelier Master |Main Thread| (CR)
- Witch Watch |Main Thread| (CR, Hulu, NF)
- Yandere Dark Elf: She Chased Me All the Way From Another World! |Main Thread| (HD)
- You and Idol Precure♪ |Main Thread| (CR)


[EDIT: Added what's in the Discussion Index. -TK]


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:39 pm Reply with quote
I've really loved Winter 2025 just because there have been 4 returning anime that I loved and a lot of new anime that I've looked forward to every week. As to Spring 2025

I'm looking forward to Windbreaker and I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years returning.

Demon Hunter: Kinjin Geitoushou looks great and I'm up for My Hero Academia Vigilantes. Lazarus looks good too if I decide to do drop Netflix and do Max for a few months.

I'll be going into the following with high hopes or at least an open mind:

Your Forma
Please Put Them on Takamine-San
The Beginning After the End
The Unaware Atelier Master
The Too Perfect Saint
Catch Me at the Ballpark
The Brilliant Healer's New Life
From Old Country Bumpkin to Swordmaster
Can a Boy Girl Friendship Survive
To Be Hero X
I'm the Evil Overlord of an Intergalactic Empire
Witch Watch
Summer Pockets
Compass 2.0
Teogonia
A Ninja and Assassin Under One Roof
Food For the Soul
Mono.


I'll try almost everything else but I'll grumble about it.

As to the unclaimed, I hope Miru: Paths to my Future and Kowloon Generic Romance and The Dinner Table Detective and Apocalypse Hotel find a home.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:46 pm Reply with quote
I think my viewing strategy for Spring will be a return to my old ways where I simply sample anything that looks remotely interesting to me. That might result in my having a truly ungodly menu of shows but it is what it is. I tried to be somewhat selective in the current season (says the guy who ended up with 26 titles) but it resulted in blowing off some shows only to latch onto them late in the game and even now there as some shows I didn't sample that are giving me a tiny niggling unease. So to avoid that I'll simply try everything that I feel I should and see where I end up.

One obvious difference between the new season and Winter is the lack of sequels I'm interested in. Winter had an unprecedented 6 sequels I was jonesing for and Spring only has one: Fire Force 3. Anyway, this is what I love about anime: every 3 months we get a whole new batch.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 7:03 pm Reply with quote
@Blood. Sequel wise, I really liked Fire Force season 1 but season 2 lost me after 3 episodes. Maybe I'll try it again during the interim week in case I was just in a mood. That happens.

And I liked Aharen-San well enough. Season 1 kind of had a great end point that I hate to see disturbed, but I'll see if they come up with a good take for a season 2.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:12 pm Reply with quote
Oh man, I didn't even realize there was going to be a season 2 of Aharen-san. I'll watch that, for sure.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 3:30 am Reply with quote
Man do the seasons go by fast, I suppose it is just me get older but seasons feel more like 5 weeks rather than 3 months these days.

Anyhow, I am also rather excited for spring. There are indeed less sequels overall but exciting shows like Fire Force, Windbreaker, Aharen and Killing Slimes are coming back.

There are also lots of adaptations of novels that I like such as Old Country Bumpkin, Witch Watch, Your Forma Kowloon Generic Romance and the The Brilliant Healer.

It is welcome to see such a varied list of shows, no isekai fest this time but a bit of every genre including a Gundam show and a new Uma Musume.

Finally there is Lazarus that sounds rather interesting as an original work.

Good luck keeping the list short Blood, it sounds like a difficult task.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:25 am Reply with quote
You ain't whistling Dixie, my friend. I've done a count and there are 41 titles I'll be checking out, assuming they have a legit release. That compares to "only" 33 I tried from Winter 2025 of which 7 got dropped.

eta: big thank you to Edjwald for creating a whole slew of show discussion threads for Spring 2025. It takes a bit of mental gymnastics for me to get used to the idea of you being useful, but I find that both drugs and therapy helps. Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2025 5:46 pm Reply with quote
Blood- wrote:
eta: big thank you to Edjwald for creating a whole slew of show discussion threads for Spring 2025. It takes a bit of mental gymnastics for me to get used to the idea of you being useful, but I find that both drugs and therapy helps. Wink

I didn't see this when you first posted it, but no prob. I like checking out the anime from the new season at the end of the old season anyway.

What's surprising me is that we don't seem to be having an interim season this spring. The Unaware Atelier Master starts 6 days from now (Sunday 3/30) the same weekend that's officially wrapping up Winter 25.

Then there are 15 anime in the Monday - Friday spread directly after that instead of kicking off the season the following Saturday as is custom.

Huh. I kind of like having an interim week.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2025 5:57 pm Reply with quote
I hear that. I’d like a bit of a break to collect my visual breath but it ain’t to be.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:34 am Reply with quote
Well, although there are still some shows left to premiere I think we can already conclude that the season is pretty packed. There are not that many easy drops this season either.
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Aside from TBD licensing labels for some shows, I think I've got pretty much every thread for every popular show listed in the opener. Y'all can reference that to help fully keep track of titles for the season, now.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:49 am Reply with quote
Yesterday, after watching mono which is the last Spring 2025 I planned to sample, I made a post here giving out some numbers. One of those numbers was that I had dropped 15 titles of new shows I had sampled. By the end of last night, I had returned 12 of those 15 shows to my menu. Um, clearly I'm in a state of flux so I deleted that post. I'm not going to bother reporting on what I'm watching this season until things calm down a bit for me.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 4:46 am Reply with quote
30 plus shows it is Blood.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 6:25 am Reply with quote
31 to be exact. And that does't count either Devil May Cry or Moonrise because Netflix has provided all of their episodes at once so if I do finish either or both, I could do it any time. Who knows if I'll watch any more of them during the Spring.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 4:23 am Reply with quote
Here's where I'm sitting after I took some time and did a serious count..

Shows I consider Top Quality, solid all around & excelling in writing or animation or both.
Kowloon Generic Romance
Anne Shirley
Lazarus
Windbreaker
(silliness aside, music, action sequences, character development, primo)
Apothecary Diaries
Sword of the Demon Hunter
(though I'm watching it on Fridays now - it goes better with Fridays and Apothecary Diaries than Mondays and Aharen San.)

That's 6.

Shows I'm liking regardless of their quality level - liking more than some of the better produced top quality shows in a few cases - and not even thinking about dropping.
The Catcher in the Ballpark
Apocalypse Hotel
Aharen San is Indecipherable
I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years
My Hero Academia - Vigilantes
The Unaware Atelier Master
Summer Pockets
From Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman
Upon a Witch's Death
The Gorilla's Go-To Gal
Witch Watch
The Too Perfect Saint
Food For the Soul

That's 19

Shows I'm enjoying but there are a few potential flags. I doubt I'd drop more than half of them in any case, but I might drop a few of them, might not
An Assassin and A ninja Live under One Roof
To Be Hero X
The Beginning After the End
I'm the Lord of an Intergalactic Empire
The Dinner Detective
Can A Boy Girl relationship survive?

That's 25

Shows I'm seriously considering dropping but haven't quite made up my mind.
The Brilliant New Healer's Life in the Shadows
I Left My A-rank party (It's gotten a bit boring for me)
That Journey (I'll wait for a day I'm sick or stressed out and binge this one and see)

That's 28.

Fours shows I haven't tried yet but am hearing good things about.
Moonrise
Gundam lots of consonants and vowels.
Mono
Samurai Legend

So yeah, bizziest season I've seen in a while.
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