My Anime Year in Review: 2025
It's been a good year since I first posted here, looking for suggestions after I finished Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso.
Now, I'm mostly reading (Light) Novels/Manga mostly, but would like to thank y'all for introducing me to a whole new world out there.
So, I would like to share some of the ones I watched in no particular order, since I don't have any preference (don't know if this is the best place to share, so forgive me if I have made any mistake).
MASTERPIECE (Absolute best, would rewatch anytime):
- VINLAND SAGA
- Sonny Boy
- Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite
- Koe no Katachi
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Hotaru no Haka
- Takopii no Genzai
GREAT (Respect the shows a lot):
- Shingeki no Kyojin
- Death Parade
- Love, Chunnibyou, and Other Delusions
- 5 Centimeters per Second
- Re:ZERO- Starting Life in Another World (second favourite isekai)
- Steins;Gate 0
- Into the Forest of Firefly Lights
- Oshi No Ko (SEASON 1 only guys, had to mention this coz it's so relatable in the music industry)
- Spirited Away
GOOD (Very enjoyable, good shows to relax to):
- Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (favourite isekai btw, reading light novel)
- Bocchi the Rock!
- Chainsaw Man (currently reading manga)
- There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... (very funny hehehe)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Whisper of the Heart
- Weathering With You
- Suzume
- Your Lie in April
- Reincarnated as a Vending Machine (i forgot the title)
MID (Enjoyable to a certain extent, but found the story flawed):
- Darling in the FranXX
- Clockwork Planet
- SPYxFAMILY
- Steins;Gate
- Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian.
- Your Name.
- Fireworks
ABSOLUTE TRASH (honestly a waste of time):
- Horimiya
- My Sister, My Writer
- Redo of Healer (yikes!)
NEVER WILL WATCH BC OVERRRATED OR UNAPPEALING, UNLESS I FIND SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT IT:
- My Hero Academia
- Demon Slayer
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Sousou no Frieren
- Tokyo Revengers
- Naruto Shippuden
- Dandadan
- Tbate
SHOWS I HAVEN'T WATCHED YET, BUT LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING IT
- Cowboy Bebop
- Fullmetal Alchemist (and Brotherhood as well, why not :fernsmile:)
- GANGELION
- Code Geass
- Dr.STONE
- HUNTERxHUNTER (1999 and 2011)
- Kono Suba
- Mahou Shoujo Site
- Berserk (reading manga atm)
- Ex-ARM (Will skip CGI arc :btr_bocchi_panic:)
- Uma Musume
- Violet Evergarden
- Hibike! Euphorium
- Ghost in the Shell
- JoJo
- Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou (forgot English title. I read the manga, and i was absolutely hooked on. Sadly, the manga ended halfway through the story.)
- and many more i seem to have forgotten.
all in all, I had one of the best first years, in my humble opinion. Any more suggestions you could throw in?
NOTABLE MENTION: I want The Summer You Were There anime!
Give Frieren a chance :'(
Don't mind me pointing out. And I'm not specifically talking about you, but this is the reason why I hate shows like this. Someone comes to me and says, "watch ___ bc its peak."
Lemme take an example: i absolutely refused to watch aot in the beginning, since it was so overhyped. But, my friend clearly explained things out to me in this manner: "Yes, Attack on Titan is overrated, but taking that away, it is truly a masterpiece of a show. The only mainstream anime i will glaze, because of this message and that message," and so on.
I need a good reason as to why i should watch something. Yes, I love MADHOUSE animations, but it doesn't negate the fact that I have absolutely no reason to watch Frieren for now...
@KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol @anime@ani.social
If you get out of episode ones mouth before it eats you I will be genuinely surprised.
I don't even know if I can say what it is, but Frieren justs hits differently than near anything else I can think of. It just yanks you from sweet and peaceful to dark and intense and back like it's no thing.
The biggest thing I could say, is that by following Freiren's perspective, you see what it would be like to be someone near immortal who sees that as normal, and how she starts to understand the timescale of humanity like we're funny little mayflies with lifespans like a flash in the pan. But as she takes the time to actually get to know humans, she learns that our short lives give us a strengths that elves and demons will never be able to grasp.
It's a slice of life and a fighting show in one. Characters and the world get really fleshed out, and they feel a lot more like real people. It's a good balance been cute and fun and some killer battles or competitions. I'd think most people would get hooked right from the first episode, but it really gets to full awesomeness during Ep 3.