I just started akuyaku reijou tensei ojisan and it blew my expectations out the water. It is about a 50 yo guy who becomes a shoujo villainess. It made me laugh nonstop. Honorable shout out to Neet Kunoichi for the cute bocchi romcom.  What stood out for you? |
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| 1. Elf Waifu 2. Ojisan Villainess 3. Flower and Asura 4. An actual matured office Romcom -But although a sequel 100 girlfriends by far had the best first episode among everything I watched so far. |
WaterMageJan 12, 12:25 PM
| - Momentary Lily - Tasokare Hotel - Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure!! ~MIRAI DAYS |
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| I don't pay attention to currently airing anime shows btw. |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| 1. Medalist 2. Hanashura 3. Sorairo Utility This might really be the weakest season since the pandemic, alongside Winter 2023. At first I was saying the same thing about Fall 2024 because I only started watching Puniru after a few weeks, but this time there doesn't seem to be any potential hidden gem that I'm missing. |
| I'm already having such a blast with the new season. There are so many promising series to watch. My favorite starts are: Medalist Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow The first episode of From Bureaucrat to Villainess (Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Ojisan) was great too. Such elegance 🤩 |
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Reply to Nirinbo
1. Medalist
2. Hanashura
3. Sorairo Utility
This might really be the weakest season since the pandemic, alongside Winter 2023. At first I was saying the same thing about Fall 2024 because I only started watching Puniru after a few weeks, but this time there doesn't seem to be any potential hidden gem that I'm missing.
2. Hanashura
3. Sorairo Utility
This might really be the weakest season since the pandemic, alongside Winter 2023. At first I was saying the same thing about Fall 2024 because I only started watching Puniru after a few weeks, but this time there doesn't seem to be any potential hidden gem that I'm missing.
| @Nirinbo Would you recommend any of them despite it being the weakest season? |
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Reply to SorcererHotMagic
@Nirinbo Would you recommend any of them despite it being the weakest season?
| @SorcererHotMagic if you like their respective genres, yes. I mean drama+sports for Medalist, CGDCT+sports for Sorairo Utility and... I still have no idea what Hanashura is going to be about but the first episode was very well animated. |
| Haven't started many anime yet, as perhaps in near future I'll go for more, I have only started 2 series, soon third but right now I haven't seen it yet. Zenshu had a normal start I don't think it is outstanding. Solo Leveling S2 had a great start, kicking things instantly which is the Red Gate, animation as good as it was or better, Sawano as always delivers. Especially that a new nice insert from first episode is quite nice. |
| https://myanimelist.net/anime/58265/Babanbabanban_Vampire Babanbabanban Vampire |
| MEDALIST GOT IT EAAAAASYYYYYYYYYY |
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| Looks like I have a lot of new anime to test. So it seems we got 2 elf anime this season. Might start there. |
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| Set against expectations, I'd say Okitsura and Flower and Asura have both had excellent starts. |
| Out of all I have watched, it's probably Ore dake Level Up na Ken S2 which is off to a great start. I don't know about the others though. |
| Beheneko Isekai and Neet Kunoichi. |
| Although I still have a few anime that I want to watch from this season that I am yet to start. The anime that has surprised me the most so far this season is Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte. |
| I was most excited for Momentary lily but after actually watching the shows, I'd say definitely Tasokare hotel and Medalist. and Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun ofc if I can be very biased since I'm very much obsessed with the manga |
 Monthly AWC 2025 Something coming here soon (maybe) |
| My favorite first episode (out of the 12 seasonals I'm watching this season) is without a doubt From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!, it has the potential to become one of my favorite comedies ever for sure :) Honorable mentions to Okitsura (very funny and also very informative about okinawa culture) and The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World (fairly original take on isekai, well-written). |
| "Winter 2025 Which anime did you think had the best start?" Fate strange/Fake...sadly it was a fake start. I think so far I enjoyed the most Tasokare Hotel. Even Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season had somehow lowkey beginning. And I guess the elf girl from the sleep-sekai is cute, but only that. On the donghua end, since it started in december Cang Yuan Tu 2nd Season (aka The Demon Hunter 2nd Season) is doing pretty good. |
alshuJan 13, 1:05 AM
| Just seen Villainess ojisan ep 2, and it was peak. Still my anime of the season. |
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| @Zarutaku I don't understand why ppl claim Zenshuu is bad, there's only 2 episodes out. Is it the best Winter 2025 anime so far? No, but still. |
| If I had to choose between One Piece and a girlfriend...I think I'll go with One Piece |
| I usually don't look at the charts for the upcoming next season, at least in great detail and with careful consideration, that far in advance, so it isn't as if I studied this winter 2025 season's assortment long ago and expected a season loaded with series I wanted to watch. I figured it'd be about average. I had thought generally the winter seasons of the past few years, at least in 2024 and 2023, had been a little light compared to most of the rest of the seasons from those years, so this is about the same (well, except for the fact that I don't know anything about the spring, summer, and autumn seasons of 2025 yet and what to expect from them, so they could instead be the same or worse). I didn't realize until getting a week, then a few weeks into this season, going back and reviewing the chart, trying out two series that didn't grab my initial attention and which I didn't include in my plans originally, and so on, that I would only be, as of now, watching eight new seasonals this season. And one continuing and one returning one. And at least three of those series are ones I'm not 100% sold on continuing with yet and therefore haven't even formally added to my watch list on MAL and am still just in kind of cautious observation/sampling mode. I could still see dropping any one or even all of those three. That would leave me with as few as five new series. That's quite a low number for any season from the past several years since I started watching seasonals (which was 2020, but really 2021 in earnest). Whether it ends up as eight or five or anywhere in-between, either way that's lower than, for example, this past autumn season from which I watched 10. Or the summer. Not to mention last spring where I watched a whopping 17 new series (spring seems like it has the biggest potential to be an outlier loaded with the largest number of different interesting series I'd give a chance to, if last year and 2021 are anything to go by). So yeah, here's how I'd break it down: "Older" (pre-2025) continuing/returning series: - Orb: On the Movements of the Earth - The Apothecary Diaries season 2 Brand new series: - Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Momentary Lily - Sorairo Utility - Tasokare Hotel - Farmagia - Medalist - Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku - Übel Blatt So I'll just focus on the eight new series. Of them: Best: 1.) Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte (far and away) 2.) Tasokare Hotel 3.) Sorairo Utility The rest will be unranked. Middle of the pack: - Momentary Lily - Medalist Not even sure yet if will ultimately continue; may still drop: - Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku - Farmagia - Übel Blatt I've read and reread the chart for the season multiple times over at this point and I don't think there is anything further which I'm missing but should add to my pile of shows to watch. Maybe there is another great series I would love and my mind simply can't recognize and process it right now even when staring directly at its title, synopsis, and poster. There may be series I still somehow discover very late and end up watching months or even years down the line, as has happened with other seasons. But for now I think these are the best the season has to offer me. I'm very pleased with Ameku Takao and Tasokare Hotel in particular. It's only the first season of the year and we're only a few weeks and three and two episodes, respectively, into either of those shows, so super early days, but I can already see both being contenders for a Top 10 of the whole year placement down the line. One because I have wanted an in-depth enough medical anime series for over four years now and finally received this out of nowhere so it seems like a gift tailored to me. And the other because it's nice to have another series in the same small niche category as Haibane Renmei and Death Parade. Based on some mobile smartphone game I had never heard of (not that I hear of most as a non-gamer and non-smartphone owner/user), I expected it to feel very cheap and barebones in effort, but I should know better by now after what happened with Arknights in 2022. This series got a lot right from the jump, starting with the balancing act that is the atmosphere. |
WatchTillTandavaJan 16, 10:50 PM
| Of the ones I've seen, Solo Leveling S2 has started out the best, for sure. |
| Ore dake Level Up na Ken Season 2: Arise from the Shadow — duh. Übel Blatt — I love the traditional and gory dark fantasy world. Medalist — already established good dynamic between the coach and Inari. Tasokare Hotel — I like the plot, but the MC is meh, still good. |
| Hanashura and Medalist are the two new starters which look like potential classics to me. 100 Girlfriends and Orb being strong continuers/returners. I enjoyed the first couple of episodes of Bureaucrat-Villainess and Zenshuu, but as modern isekai-types I don't expect them to stay good. |
logopolisJan 18, 3:06 AM
| Still behind on new seasonal but Dr Stone had a very strong start for me. |
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| Now that we're entering Week 3-4, and I've given most of the interesting ones a try: Medalist Sentai Red Isekai (the biggest surprise) HanaShura and Bureaucrat Villainess sound great, but I haven't tried them yet. Quite a few disappointments already this season. It could be that this time I tried too many shows that I probably wouldn't have liked anyway... |
| Flower and Asura Ave Mujica Apothecary Diaries |
| I may have found the character with the 'best' start, but nothing to expect of new anime entries. |
Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody. Help! You know I need someone. Helpppppp!  |
Reply to Zarutaku
@Fukoku Perhaps because it's an isekai made by MAPPA and right now it's trendy to hate both.
| @Zarutaku I understand the MAPPA hate bc of employee treatment, also isekai is getting old and boring now...but still stupid reasons regardless. |
| If I had to choose between One Piece and a girlfriend...I think I'll go with One Piece |
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