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Which Winter 2025 Anime shows have I picked?
With the Winter season approaching, there are several shows that have caught my eye
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TV is going opposite the game industry with this season.
I dropped Blade Runner: Black Lotus after four episodes
This anime sort of looks like a video game cutscene.
Winter 2025 – Three (and sometimes four) Episodes In
Hey, I didn’t make my (in)famous pun this time, so that’s something! Anyhow, three weeks in, it’s the traditional time to check in on this season and see…
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Which anime shows have I picked for Spring 2025?
Winter 2025 – First Impressions – Part I
The show I ended up loving the most was the show I almost didn’t watch… All that and more in the first batch of Winter 2025 premieres. Hit…
New shows Spring 2025 3
Witch Watch begins with an already-damaged house. We start with Witch Watch, about a girl-witch named Nico, who goes off to witch school leaving her friend Morihito behind.…
WITCH WATCH, Apocalypse Hotel, The Shiunji Family Children, Summer Pockets
New shows Spring 2025 1
Let’s start the new season, shall we? I don’t know how many shows I’ll watch this time around. Things get busy, you know, but I’ll look at those…
New Shows Spring 2025 2
A close-up of a flower. We start this installment with Danjo no Yuujou wa Seiritsu suru? (Iya, Shinai!!), or Danjoru, where a quiet high school boy Natsume, is…
SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary, Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?, KOWLOON GENERIC ROMANCE, The Dinner Table Detective
The 10 Anime I Dropped
Rarely do I ever drop anime. That’s mostly because I enjoy watching all the anime I watch. I’m only counting entities with at least 3 episodes where I…
Winter 2025 Anime: What I Will Be Watching
Crazy to think that the year 2025 is almost upon us. Time marches on, I suppose, and with a new year comes a new season of anime. So…
Top 5 Anime I Am Watching Winter 2025
I am hoping to get back into the seasonal anime game this year for the first time in a couple years. The last anime that I reviewed weekly…
More Winter 2025 anime I plan to watch
If only there were some other way to induce drowsiness in bed.
From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!, Drill, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!, Sorairo Utility
New shows – Winter 2023 5
That’s a nice looking castle to start Eiyuu Ou. First off we have Eiyuu Ou, Bu o Kiwameru Tame Tenseisu: Soshite, Sekai Saikyou no Minarai, and we meet…
The Fire Hunter, Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill
New shows – Winter 2023 2
Spy Kyoushitsu opens with a deadly battle scene from a distance with dramatic lighting. Let’s look at Spy Kyoushitsu, where we meet Lily, aka “Flower Garden,” who is…
Farming Life in Another World, Spy Classroom, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, GIANT BEASTS OF ARS
New shows – Winter 2023 4
Rougo ni Sonaete starts with a lovely shot of the blue sea, which Mitsuha is about to fall into. Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka o…
New shows – Winter 2023 3
A rainy sky shot to begin Inu ni Nattara. In Inu ni Nattara Suki na Hito ni Hirowareta our hero wakes up in the rain, wondering where he…
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World, Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte
New shows – Winter 2023 1
Welcome to the first installment of my new series reviews for Winter 2023. Mind you, I’m not going to watch everything, or even half of them. I’m going…
The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
New shows Spring 2025 4 (last)
One of the many threatening beasts the Saints dispatch as part of their duties. Kanpekisugite Kawaige ga Nai to Konyaku Haki sareta Seijo wa Ringoku ni Urareru, or…
AniMarch Madness 2025: The Final Four
AniMarch Madness began this month with 64 entrants. Now only four remain! It’s the Final Four of AniMarch Madness 2025! And despite a ton of surprises in earlier…
Winter 2025 Preview
With the changing of the leaves out and snow and chill in you'd think we'd be gearing up for a lazy season, but anime has other intentions. New…
Aquarion, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!, Übel Blatt, Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective, Blue Box
More more Winter 2025 anime I plan to watch
Nothing personal, but I'm counting on you having had a terrible life.
Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective, Medalist, Mobile Suit Gundam, SAKAMOTO DAYS
Animes I Recently Dropped – August Edition
Originally published on siriuswrites.com. Here we go again. Another list of dropped animes. How many times have I made this … More
15 “Good” Anime That I Dropped
Spending your precious time forcing yourself through series that you aren't even enjoying is just wasteful.
Samurai Flamenco, Deadman Wonderland, Fate/Zero, Hell Girl, Hellsing
Winter 2025 Anime Week 11: Winter 2025 Awards Part 1
March 22nd, 2025 Holy shit, we’re already at the end of the season. These past few months have definitely felt like a blur, but the anime that came…
Winter 2025 Anime Week 12: Winter 2025 Awards Part 2
March 29th, 2025 And finally, we have reached the end of the Winter season. It felt like this season went by in a flash, but I enjoyed (nearly)…
New Winter 2025 2
We start this post with Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsura Sugiru, where we meet Teru, a high school boy who just transferred to…
I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms, OKITSURA: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She's Saying, Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!
Winter 2025 Preview Guide
Last Update: Welcome to my seasonal Guide! (The debut schedule will be posted here, although it hasn’t been updated yet if you’re seeing this note.) This season has…
Winter 2025 – Midseason (ish)
Time for the mid season reviews! There’s some shakeups this time around… And no, Honey Lemon Soda isn’t one of them, still the top show this season. Anyhow,…
Winter 2025 Season Preview
Wooper: Thanks for clicking on what may be Star Crossed Anime’s shortest season preview ever! We’ve got just one author handling things this time, and he is looking…
Winter 2025 Wrap-Up
Due to some production delays, not all Winter ’25 series that aren’t continuing into the Spring ’25 season have wrapped at this point; both My Happy Marriage and…
I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class, ISHURA, My Happy Marriage, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, Unnamed Memory
2025 Winter Premiere Reviews
All the winter premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place. We’ll update the chart as new series become available, so be sure to check back in the coming days…
New Winter 2025 3
Appropriate since Tonakijima is an island. Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku takes place in Tonakijima, a small island with a limited number of ferries and a small…
Winter 2025 Anime Awards
Time to look back at the winter 2025 anime, and celebrate the things about it that I enjoyed most. The shows I watched during the season were: –…
Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball DAIMA, Momentary Lily, One Piece, Sorairo Utility
Secondary Findings Winter 2025
A collection of the non-anime and manga related things I’ve been getting into recently.
2025 Winter Premiere Digest
The new year starts strong with multiple promising shoujo and the return of a beloved (by us) female director.
Asura, The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, Honey Lemon Soda, I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms
Winter Anime 2025 Wrapup
Thoughts on some of the shows I watched from the Winter 2025 anime season! Includes thoughts on: ZENSHU, My Happy Marriage S2, Anyway, I'm Falling in Love With…
Seasonal Impressions — Winter 2025
Sequels: 100 Girlfriends Who…, Apothecary Diaries S2, Blue Exorcist -The Blue Night Saga-, Blue Miburo, Cardfight Vanguard, Dr. Stone Science Future, Ishura S2, Kagaku x Bouken Survival, Kimi…
ISHURA, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, Blue Exorcist, Blue Exorcist -The Blue Night Saga-, Kinnikuman
New Winter 2025 1
Ah, some seasons just don’t keep my interest much. There were some good shows but I couldn’t be bothered to write about them, or even watch them. That…
Winter 2025 Check-in
Looking at Winter 2025 I just want more.
What do I think about the Winter 2025 Anime Season?
The Winter 2025 anime season is over. I have picked up three anime but ghosted two other anime. They had potential, but for some reason, I decided not…
More more more Winter 2025 anime I plan to watch
Being able to trigger explosions behind you is a superpower, isn't it?
The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, Unnamed Memory, I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time
Why I Dropped Rewrite: Moon and Terra
I did not expect to drop Rewrite: Moon and Terra. But, by the fourth episode, I dropped it. So, what happened? While I enjoyed the first two episodes,…
I thought I would have dropped Blue Archive by now
This probably carries more weight for viewers who have a reason to care about Hoshino.
I dropped Aquatope before I learned how to pronounce it
The crazy magic shit that happens sometimes is sort of interesting.