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As we head into the new Summer 2025 anime season, let’s take a look back at some of the Spring 2025 anime series I enjoyed the most. The season was filled with all different genres focused on various types of characters. It featured many new and returning favorites and with a bunch of surprises along the way.
First off, I was interested in watching these three series, but didn’t have the time yet to check them out.
Catch Me at the Ballpark! (Crunchyroll)
I’m a sucker for sports themed anime. This series follows a man who goes to baseball games to unwind after work. There he meets a beer vendor and they become friends. It sounds like a fun take on the baseball genre. Usually the focus is on the field (which it might be as well here too) but this one seems to want to highlight the fans and those who show up for games during the season. Hopefully I’ll get to watch this one soon!
Food for the Soul (Crunchyroll)
I also love food themed anime series. There’s something comforting and so relaxing about them that I always try to watch them when they show up. The way they describe the food and the way the food is animed is such a delight! Unfortunately I didn’t have the chance to watch this one yet! This series follows a group of university girls who love food. It is a slice of life series, so it’s extra comforting and I can’t wait to find the time to watch it.
Yaiba: Samurai Legend (Netflix/hulu)
I don’t know much about this series except it is a remake of a series about a young boy who goes on a quest for find a sword. Along the way he has to grow and fight demons to reach his goal. The character designs make it look like a fun series. I’m also usually a sucker for remakes as it’s fun to see what the new take on it will be like. It looks like the series will continue to run into the upcoming season so there’s still a chance I can catch up before it completes its first season!
These ten anime series from Spring 2025 caught my attention for many reasons and I was very glad I watched them!
10) The Dinner Table Detective (Prime Video)
This series follows the life of a detective who keeps her business life separate from her more glamorous home life. She along with her partner handle interesting cases with her butler also helping while at the dinner table at night. All together, they usually crack the cases in an episode or two. Most were pretty interesting, while a few were a bit underwhelming. The series picked up as it went on as well.
9) Moonrise (Netflix)
This sci fi series followed a group of young adults tasked to attempt to prevent an uprising on the Moon. There were twists and turns along the way with time jumps as well. It was a pretty interesting story with secrets from the past coming to the light, allegiances tested, and friendships put on the line. Overall, I enjoyed it, but it could have done better with some editing to the original story. It shifted tonally within episodes sometimes and felt a bit scattered every now and then.
8) Wind Breaker Season 2 (Crunchyroll)
This series is about a group of high schoolers delinquents in a group that help keep outsiders from causing chaos in their neighborhood. The new season saw the team deal with a new threat at home, and find themselves caught up in a confrontation in a different location. We got to learn more about different members of the groups, and see Sakura grow more as a person and learn how to potentially lead. It gets a bit repetitive at times seeing the angst of their opponents and ultimately their demise. I wish there were more of the stories we see during their down time when they bond as a group.
7) Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 (hulu)
We continue to see Fighter D’s attempt to take down the Rangers from within. This season, he becomes more involved with the Green Ranger and his small team. The first story felt like it dragged on a bit, but ultimately I was impressed with the season. We got to learn more about side characters, see the multitude of wild characters within the Ranger organization, and have to make sense of who the real good and bad guys are. It was fun with a great sense of humor. There were also many great fights.
6) Lazarus (Toonami/adult swim)
This new series from Shinichirō Watanabe was always going to be held to a higher standard because of his classic series, but in the end I feel like it was a solid series. The world finds out a miracle drug they all used to prevent pain was actually the cause of humanity’s potential downfall. All users of the drug will die unless someone finds the creator before time is up. There were some great episodes along the way, while some felt a bit out of place and didn’t really help push the story forward. There were some cool twists, and the series pretty much wrapped up most of the storylines. I would love for there to be more, but this will likely be a one and done series.
5) Lycoris Recoil: Friends Are Thieves of Time. (Aniplex USA YouTube Channel)Any new Lycoris Recoil content will immediately grasp my attention. I love this series about two girls who fight bad guys all while disguised as school girls. The new mini series was a collection of shorts highlighting the two girls, and their other coworkers at Café LycoReco. They were only a couple minutes long, but it was a lot of fun seeing the character again. There is a new project in the works. No word on if it is a new series, special, movie or anything else yet. Whatever it turns out to be, I’m glad we got this short series to keep us craving more.
4) Witch Watch (Netflix/Crunchyroll/hulu)
I had no idea what to expect with this series going in. The series follows a young guy who becomes the protector of an old childhood friend, and she just happens to be a witch. The hijinks the two get in along with their friends and classmates are so funny. I thought it would be more series, but it’s such a fun and low stakes watch. Episodes feature multiple stories so nothing really ever gets dragged out longer than it should. The series will continue into the Summer season and I cannot wait to see what comes next!
3) Mono (Crunchyroll)
A series from the creator of Laid-Back Camp was enough to get me to look forward to this cute series every week. The series follows a group of students in a photography club who end up becoming friends with a manga artist who lives at a nearby shop. They go on fun trips around Japan, sometimes to take photos, other times, to enjoy the scenery and locations they come upon. The premise begins to shift away from the photography club more to the manga writer oddly enough as the series progresses. It’s still fun, cute, and even features some cameos from Laid-Back Camp which made me extra happy. I would absolutely love to get more of this one!
2) Kowloon Generic Romance (Crunchyroll)
From the title alone, I figured this series would be a romance anime. Little did I know there would be a whole sci-fi aspect to it featuring a fictional recreation of the real Kowloon Walled City (or is it?!). There’s a whole lore to the series featuring mysterious people, people who are supposed to be dead, and a city that isn’t supposed to exist. I really enjoyed the characters, the twists and turns, and even the romance aspects of the series. It felt really fresh and creative and exceeded all of my expectations. Also the OP is a banger which I have been playing since I heard it the first time. Such a pleasant surprise for me this season!
1) To Be Hero X (Crunchyroll)
I was a bit hesitant going into this series initially finding out it is actually the third anime series set in this world of superheroes. Reading up on it, I was made aware that you don’t need to have any knowledge of the previous two series before watching this new one. Boy was I impressed from the first episode. The series follows different heroes, in different short 2-4 episode arcs, in a seemingly reverse time order. There will also be some 1 episode arcs to come as the series will continue into the summer season. The series features an assortment of animation styles, with some episodes featuring multiple styles within the same episode. There are big twists in the early arcs, with lots of tragedy, and even some extreme fake outs which caught me off guard. It’s got great storytelling, great animation, and great characters. The fight scenes are insane. The detail and time put into them is nothing short of great. I cannot wait to see where it goes from here.
After a relatively quiet season (for me) there are so many new and returning series that I am looking forward to watching this upcoming Summer 2025 season. I hope to watch Dan Da Dan Season 2 (Netflix/Crunchyroll/hulu) Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 (Crunchyroll), Call of the Night Season 2 (HIDIVE), Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus Season 2 (Crunchyroll), Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 (Crunchyroll), Pokémon Concierge Part 2 (Netflix), Sakamoto Days Part 2 (Netflix), Solo Camping for Two (Crunchyroll), Bullet/Bullet (hulu), Turkey! Time to Strike (Crunchyroll), City The Animation (Prime Video), The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix), Nyaight of the Living Cat (Crunchyroll), Gachiakuta (Crunchyroll), Leviathan (Netflix), With You and the Rain (Crunchyroll), The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (Netflix), Watari-kun’s ****** Is about to Collapse (Crunchyroll), Cultural Exchange With a Game Centre Girl (Crunchyroll), and Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse (Crunchyroll). Also set to premiere this summer in Japan, and probably later this year in the US are Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc and 100 Meters. Hopefully I will be able to watch them all and I’m sure I’ll find even more unexpected ones to watch!
What were your favorite series of the Spring 2025 season? It’s never too late to start a new series! Here’s to more great anime in 2025!
These series and more can be streamed with English subtitles and some English dubs on various streamers including Crunchyroll, Netflix, hulu, Prime Video, Max, HIDIVE, and more.
