Almost October means it must be time for a new anime season and guess what I’m looking forward to?
With the embers of the Summer 2025 season barely glowing and the first hints of frost in the air, it’s time to look forward to what Fall 2025 might offer. I started watching seasonal anime in the autumn of 2015, which makes this a decade of keeping up with seasonal anime for me, for better or worse. That season had a bit of a controversy as there were two series starring a black haired Kirito clone accidentally surprising their pink haired room mate undressing herself, leading to her dueling him. Imagine that, two series with the same setup airing in the same season. Couldn’t happen these days.
MAL is showing over sixty new series this season, so what I thought I would do is highlight the ones that look interesting to me, either from their description or because I know the source material. There will inevitably be a lot of naro slob, but I’m going to ignore those.
One Punch Man 3
A decade too since the original One Punch Man aired, the biggest show that season. The sequel came out in 2019 and everybody hated it because it wasn’t done by Madhouse. Nevertheless it was a perfectly cromulent series, still faithful to the original manga, just slightly less impressive than the first. Six years is a long time between series, but it’s not as if there’s a lot of complicated plot you need to dreg up to enjoy this. Of all the high profile sequels (Spy x Family Season 3, My Hero Academia, Fumetsu no Anata e Season 3, etc.) this is the one I will be watching week to week. Most of the others I first have to finish the previous series for anyway.
Tomodachi no Imouto ga Ore ni dake Uzai
Hapless nerd is unpopular with girls, but has to to play the boyfriend to his uncle’s daughter to get his uncle’s support for his gaming business. Btu what about his best friend’s younger sister, who always teases him? Sounds like a classic (harem) romcom and depending on how well the fake relationship is handled, may be fun. The studio responsible started out as a maid cafe, but has done similar series, some of which I’ve enjoyed, like the Hokkaido gal one a few seasons back.
Other hetero romances/harem series this season: Bukiyou na Senpai (awkward girl gets kind, nerdy kouhai), Kao ni Denai Kashiwada-san to Kao ni Deru Oota-kun (easily bored dude tries to get a reaction from his expressionless classmate), Yano-kun no Futsuu no Hibi (kind class president has to take care of her clumsy classmate) and Yano-kun no Futsuu no Hibi (the transfer student is a vampire, but our protagonist is just an ordinary boy) all look interesting enough to try.
Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka
Too handsome for his own good, Saku Chitose is regularly attacked online for being a womaniser. Dude is fine with it until his teacher tells him to get a classmate to come to school, a classmate who has bought into all the slander and really, really hates him. I’ve read part of the manga this is based on, which was a bit cringe with its talk about ‘normies’ and otaku and light and dark sides of the class, but it looks interesting at least.
Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshii deshou ka
When Scarlet’s engagement to the country’s second prince, Kyle, is publically called off and she’s accused of bullying the woman Kyle actually wants, she has only one request: “may I sent this stupid bitch flying”? Ever since she got engaged she tried to behave how a true royal fiancee should, but she wasn’t called the “mad dog princess” for nothing. Her favourite activity beimg beating the shit out of corrupt nobles. I love the manga version of this, so I hope the anime will up to this. LIDENFILMS is a decent enough studio but the director hasn’t got that much experience, so let’s wait and see.
“I’ve come to eat you,” so softly utters the mermaid Shiori as she emerges from the sea and takes high school girl Hinako by the hand.
Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi
Oh good, we’ve got the toxic yuri sorted out this season. Studio Lings worked on Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!Oomuro-ke/cite> movies, both with Passione. This seems to be their first solo outing.
Sanda
This is the next big name shounen battler Science SARU is adapting. Do you need to know more? I liked the original manga well enough but unlike Dandandan it did get boring after the first couple of dozen chapters.
Shuumatsu Touring
Two girls, one bike, on a tour of post-apocalyptic Japan. I loved Girls’ Last Tour so this is right up my street. How well this does stands or falls with the animation quality. The studio responsible, Nexus fortunately has a small but excellent resume.
Kikaijikake no Marie
Arthur Louis Zetes is the heir to a giantic fortune and as such incredibly paranoid about letting anybody get close to him. Hence he asks for a robot maid as a personal assistant. When this proves impossible, teenage genius Marie Eveans is drafted instead to act like one by his staff. Hilarity ensues. I liked the manga of this.
As perusual, I will try and watch everything, but these are the series that stood out the most for me.
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