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Summer Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 26] (ani.social)

submitted 4 days ago by wjs018@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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Summer 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 Summer 2025 shows for reference

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[–] Unboxious@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This week I finished watching Kill la Kill. It was a lot of fun. Absolutely wild ride. Still, I can't help but think that Tengen Toppen Gurren Lagann executes a similar concept better. I loved Kiryuuin Satsuki though. What a great character.

For this summer I think Dandadan Season 2 and City are the most obvious contenders. I'll also definitely be taking a look at Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu (rough translation: The Summer where Hikaru Died). It's not that I'm particularly interested in the concept, but the manga is well-reviewed and Cygames has been absolutely killing it lately so I have a certain level of confidence in their ability to execute now.

Edit: During my lunch break today I finished Super Cub. I liked the music, but I found the characters very boring. They literally introduced the main character by having her monologue to herself about how boring she is. I feel like Yuru Camp did basically the same thing better, though maybe I'd feel differently about it if I cared about motorized scooters at all.

Super Cub spoilers

That thing where the writer was trying to do whatever the fuck they were trying to do about 10 episodes in by having that one girl (can't remember her name lol) fall off her bike and almost die annoyed me. It didn't really fit the tone of the series, and because of that there was 0 tension. I just found myself rolling my eyes while I waited for them to get on with it and save her already, then ended up feeling really sorry for her when they strapped her to the front of the bike and used her wet self as a windshield in December. I'm not a hypothermia expert but that's probably not how I would've done that.

Also, wasn't the Witch Hat Atelier anime supposed to drop this summer? Do we just not have an exact date yet? That'll be a must-watch to me.

[–] selayar@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also, wasn't the Witch Hat Atelier anime supposed to drop this summer? Do we just not have an exact date yet? That'll be a must-watch to me.

Delayed, maybe? I mean, it is animated by Bug Films, the studio behind Zom 100, so I don't have much faith. I will take the delay if that means they can finish the production before airing and doesn't end up like Zom 100.

[–] Unboxious@ani.social 1 points 2 days ago

At least once Zom 100 finally released its episodes they were good. I have hope that it'll be a solid episode.