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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

Please feel free to use this thread as a normal weekly discussion thread as well! Anything that would normally be in the weekly discussion thread any other week is welcome here.

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[–] Unboxious@ani.social 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Things I'm excited for this season, in descending order:

Medalist S2
a pretty wide gap tbh
Frieren S2
Jujutsu Kaisen S3
Oshi no Ko S3

So why the wide gap? I liked the beginnings of those last three shows quite a lot, but I've read the manga for all of them and IMO they all go downhill as they go on. Frieren begins to feel more like a generic battle shounen. Jujutsu Kaisen focuses too much on the fights and the magic system and not enough on the characters. Oshi no Ko's author is really good at writing fun characters and character moments but kinda bad at writing the serious drama he seems to want to write. Also, Medalist really is just that good. It's a great story with a decent adaptation and I'll take that over a decent story with a great adaptation any day. And who knows, maybe Season 2 will fix some of the minor issues Season 1 had - in particular I'd appreciate it if they could make the spins look better. Guess we'll find out!