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Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] (ani.social)

submitted 4 days ago by wjs018@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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The winter season has basically drawn to a close. Let's talk about it! Anything surprise you? Disappoint you? Disgust you? I'm looking for some hot takes.

Link to a list of Winter 2025 shows for reference

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was really busy IRL, so the list of shows that I could try out, much less follow, was pretty mimimal, by mine own standards:

Finished:

Re Zero - Good as usual. The writer is so good at "How does Subaru get out of this?"
Shangri La Frontier - Sunraku's such a great protagonist, and the supporting characters are so good.
Bureaucrat to Villainess - I really enjoyed this the whole way through. Wholesome anime of the season.
Solo Leveling - Action anime of the season. Some standard plot problems, like waiting until people start dying before he takes action, abandoned love interests, unchecked power creep, etc. but overall enjoyable.
Zenshuu - Interesting concept, but it didn't quite work for me. Animator/mangaka meta shows have been done better. For a show that's supposed to be FUBU animators, the sakuga wasn't super great. Supporting characters were annoying or turned out to be useless.

Dropped:

Beheneko - Good fanservice but felt shallow
Ameku Takao - I liked the idea, but direction needed to be better.
Dr. Stone - I'm not having fun with this anymore.

I Think I Missed Out:

Apothecary Diaries - I really should watch this.
Medalist - Sounds like a good show.
Izure Saikyo no Renkinjutsushi - Started 1-2 episodes but got crowded out. I might check out a few more episodes before actually deciding what I think of this.
Magic Maker - Again 1-2 eps, then got crowded out.
Trillion Game - Crowded out. I have some time invested in this show, so I should finish it...
Welcome To Japan Ms. Elf - Some people really enjoyed this.
100 Girlfriends - Sounds like a blast, but romance isn't my bag.