SPRING 2025 Anime Season

The third season of Enen no Shouboutai. Branded as traitors, Shinra and Company 8 fight alone to save Obi and stop the Evangelist! (Source: Crunchyroll News)

The year is 2052 — an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle cure-all drug with no apparent drawbacks called Hapuna. Hapuna soon becomes ubiquitous… and essential. However, soon after Hapuna is officially introduced, Dr. Skinner vanishes. Three years later, the world has moved on. But Dr. Skinner has returned — this time, as a harbinger of doom. Skinner announces that Hapuna has a short half-life. Everyone who has taken it will die approximately three years later. Death is coming for this sinful world — and coming soon. As a response to this threat, a special task force of 5 agents is gathered from across the world to save humanity from Skinner’s plan. This group is called “Lazarus.” Can they find Skinner and develop a vaccine before time runs out? (Source: Adult Swim)

The second season of WIND BREAKER. Welcome back to Furin High School, an institution infamous for its population of brawny brutes who solve every conflict with a show of strength. Some of the students even formed a group, Bofurin, which protects the town. Haruka Sakura, a first-year student who moved in from out of town, is only interested in one thing: fighting his way to the top! (Source: Crunchyroll, edited)

After a mysterious death, King Grey is reborn as Arthur Leywin on the magical continent of Dicathen. Although he enters his second life as a baby, his previous wisdom remains. He begins to master magic and forge his own path as the years go by, seeking to correct the mistakes of his past life. (Source: Crunchyroll)

The second season of Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita. Get ready for more relaxing tales! Azusa Aizawa is a powerful witch who finally reached level 99 and now busies herself with laid-back quests instead. Her family continues to grow as some familiar faces are joined by bright-eyed newcomers. From trips to the beach to a martial arts tournament, you’re invited on Azusa’s carefree and heartwarming adventures of leisure. (Source: Crunchyroll)

Announced during the Konosuba Radio public recording special: OVA episodes for the third season of Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! <b>Episodes:</b> 1) <b>Redstream Explosion!</b> While Kazuma and his mates are having dinner at the guild, Luna, a receptionist, brings them a request. They need Megumin's explosion spell to face a typhoon approaching the city of Axel. Yunyun and Wiz also decide to participate, and the morale of the adventurers soars! On the day of the decisive battle, Kazuma sees the adventurers preparing for battle, and is surprised to find that they were all... 2) <b>Nisemono Chuui! (Beware of imposters!)</b> One winter day. While Kazuma was enjoying a grilled skewer at a food stall in the town of Axel, an adventurer approached him. The man said he was looking for an adventurer named “Kazuma Satou." In exchange for dinner, Kazuma told them the legend of “Kazuma Satou,” which moved the man and his party of three female adventurers to tears... (Source: Crunchyroll News, edited) Note: The anime was pre-screened in Japan theatrically for 2 weeks starting on March 14, 2025.

Takane Takamine is the goddess of her high school. With perfect grades, athletic prowess, and unrivaled beauty, this student council president is the apple of everyone's eye-including Koushi Shirota, a below-average student with no friends or social prospects whatsoever. But he'll soon find out the secret behind Takamine's unbelievable success-her underwear! When she strips, she can undo any of her past actions, and now that Koushi knows, Takamine won't let him off so easy... (Source: Yen Press)

In the world of My Hero Academia, not everyone needs a license to fight for justice! In a superpowered society, there is nothing ordinary about evil anymore. Heroes, trained and licensed to protect and defend the public against supervillains, stand above all the rest. Not everyone can be a hero, however, and there are those who would use their powers to serve the people without legal sanction. But do they fight for justice in the shadows, or for reasons known only to themselves? Whatever they fight for, they are called…vigilantes. Koichi Haimawari couldn’t make the cut to become an official hero, so he uses his modest Quirk to do good deeds in his spare time. Then one day a fateful encounter with some local thugs leads him to team up with two other unlikely heroes. None of them really know what they’re doing, but they’ve got the courage—or foolishness—to try. But they soon discover fighting evil takes more than just being brave… (Source: Viz Media)

Morihito Otogi, a high school student who comes from a lineage of ogres, enjoys a peaceful, ordinary life until his childhood friend, Nico, moves in with him. Nico is a witch-in-training, and chooses Morihito to be her familiar. While Nico is thrilled to reunite with her old friend and crush, Morihito is tasked with the perilous duty to protect her from a foretold calamity. Between the unpredictable chaos caused by Nico’s magic, and the awkwardness of sharing a home, their lives become a whirlwind of supernatural hijinks and threats. (Source: Crunchyroll) Notes: - Worldwide premiere of Episodes 1-3 titled as <b>WITCH WATCH: WATCH PARTY</b> before the Japanese premiere was pre-screened in advance in theaters on March 16, 2025 in North America by GKIDS Films and March 22 and 23 in Europe by Animation Digital Network. - Episodes 1-2 + a selection of stories (Cat Scout, Kanshi's Part Time Job Diaries ~ The Side Job ~, and Kan & Nico's Channel) was pre-screened in advance in theaters on March 30, 2025 in Japan. The regular TV broadcast began April 6, 2025.

In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden called "Itsukihime" in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a young man who acts as the shrine maiden's guardian despite being a stranger, encounters a mysterious demon who speaks of the far future in the forest where he went to defeat it. From Edo to the Heisei era, this huge Japanese fantasy series follows a demon man who travels through time while continuously questioning the meaning of wielding a sword. (Source: Crunchyroll News, edited) Notes: • The first episode has a runtime of ~1 hour.

The second season of Aharen-san wa Hakarenai.

Childhood BFFs Himari and Yuu’s vow of friendship hits turbulence when Yuu reunites with his first crush in high school. Himari, who’s never known the fuzzy warmth of a crush, now must confront her feelings. Their shared dreams and peaceful days as a twosome gardening club are tested in this tale of love, flowers, and growing pains! (Source: Crunchyroll, edited)

The second season of Sentai Daishikkaku.

Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed “humble old man,” is a sword instructor at his dojo in a rural, backwater village. In his younger years, he dreamed of glory as a master swordsman, but those days are long behind him. Out of the blue, he receives a visit from a famous former pupil who brings him world-shattering news—he's been appointed as special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order! With his life now turned upside down, Beryl travels to the capital and reunites with some of his former students: elite knights, an ace wizard, and even an adventurer who's attained the highest guild rank possible. But why do they all want his tutelage?! As far as he's concerned, they clearly don't need him anymore. Can Beryl live up to his new position? And will he ever get a moment's peace away from his adoring students?! (Source: J-Novel Club)

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai—one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself… (Source: Yen Press)