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Winter Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 52] (ani.social)

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Winter season is rapidly approaching! It's time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn't. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @rikka@ani.social.

Link to a list of Winter 2026 shows for reference

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[–] Endmaker@ani.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Past Seasons

I completed Trigun Stampede and am one-third of the way through Hell's Paradise. Honestly, the stories are nothing new, but they are interesting enough to keep my attention for now (and to continue with the sequels next season).

Trigun Stampede is yet another Final Fantasy / Land of the Lustrous / Heavenly Delusion clone. Hell's Paradise is basically a John Wick prequel in a historical + fantasy setting.

Upcoming Season

Next season is insane.

Continuing

from the current season

Gnosia

I am also planning to catch up with Pokemon Horizons but I am not sure if there's enough interest in this community for discussion threads.

Sequels

Familiar

with the source material or other adaptations

New

to me but their premise is interesting enough to give them a shot

That's 16 tv series💀

(and that's not counting movies!)

But I figure it's better than having to play catch-up.

Thank you @rikka@ani.social

Edit: If Beastars is considered part of the season, then it's included too💀

[–] wjs018@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

That’s 16 tv series💀

I feel you. Too much happening next season.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is Gnosia continuing? Livechart doesn't seem to think so. (If it is, I'm going to have even more work to do sorting out my schedule.)

Things I know I'll be sampling that no one seems to have mentioned yet:

Golden Kamuy
Fate/Strange Fake (finally!)
A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation (first volume of the manga was mildly entertaining)
Kaya-chan isn't Scary (from the description, it should at least be different)

[–] Unboxious@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago

Now that I've read Dogsred (same mangaka) I really want to get into Golden Kamuy but unfortunately I just don't see myself catching up by the start of the season - or even the end of it tbh.

[–] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you look at the BD/DVD release schedule, they have 7 releases planned, each of the same price, releasing 1 per month with no interruptions, the 1st one is known to contain 3 episodes, so the series is most probably longer than 13 episodes and will not be split cours.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 days ago

It could still be 3-2-2-2-2-2-overpriced special, though. I suppose we'll see.

[–] HeroHelck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Man, I am so hyped for this season, I've been looking forward to this for months now. Trigun, Frieren, JJK, Oshi no Ko, it's just STACKED. Non-zero chance I may have to put somethings on the backburner until the season over even.