2025 has been a very strong year for Anime all around, showing both new and old people showing the versatility and formability of the media. It has been one Dark Teen Horror Show that acts as a metaphor to grow up gaya follow -up series to a legendary weird “powerpuff girls” pasticheand Even an adaptation of “Anne of Green Gables” for our problems. After a specially packed summer filled with unique new shows, the industry seems slowly slightly as it enters the fall season. But as always, there are some gems if you know to look for them.
In October, the major projects (at least in the US) are devoted to the most attention to is less what comes to flow than what comes to theaters. The main story right now is obviously the huge success of the new “Demon Slayer” movie, which has already broken discs as the highest big anime movie of all time. Later this month there will also be the “Chainsaw Man” movie that comes to theaters and acts as a sequel to the very popular action Horror series.
On television, most attention will be at the premiere of “My Hero Academia”, a very popular show that – after nine years and eight seasons – finally ends with its last episodes. Other returning shows include “Spy X Family”, a family comedy wrapped in a espionage plot and “to your eternity”, a fantasy series with a thought-provoking look at the concept of immortality.
There are fewer immediately Buzzy Original show than usual this fall, but there are still some awards. Those who are looking for a stupid action show can get a kick out of “Sanda”, a series about descendants of Santa (yes, really). There is a queer romantic horror “The monster wants to eat me”, spinoffs of popular franchise “Gintama” and “Digimon”, and comedies like “May I ask for one last thing?” and “let’s play.” If you want a certain thing that we can guarantee is good: Netflix has broadcast the Sweet Romance series “The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity” for over a month now, and it is a wonderful show that is well worth checking out.
Read on for our choices for the most promising anime TV series in the fall. Exhibitions are listed in the Order of US Premiere Date.
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“The fragrant flower blooms with dignity”
Ridiculous title aside, “The flagrant flower blooms with dignity” is a remarkably founded and sweet romance that finds truly emotional depth and chemistry within its conventional story of unlikely love. Based on a manga by Saka Mikami, the series is set to two colleges next to each other: Chidori Public High School, a public school for criminal boys and Kikyo Private Academy Girls’ High School, an exclusive institution for high -quality girls. The main characters Rintaro and Kaoruko go to schools, and when the sweet Kaoruko recognizes Rintaro’s hidden kindness, they develop a friendship that blooms into romance. The adaptation does mangas writing justice, with beautiful animation and skilled voice games that make it a simple love story to sink in.
Currently flowing on Netflix.
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“This monster wants to eat me”
Only the third series from Maker Studio Lings, “This Monster wants to eat me” is based on a manga with a particularly twisted grip on gay romance that has a scent of “yellow jackets” in it. The protagonist Hinako is a young woman who wants to die and meets a mermaid named Shiori who thirsts for her flesh and blood. Shiori starts shade the teenager and waiting for her to mature into the “perfect meal” and in the process a very unusual romance between the two blooms.
Premiere October 2 at Crunchyroll.
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“Let’s play”
The rare romantic anime focusing on adults with careers rather than teens, “Let’s Play” is adapted from an extremely popular webtoon series published from 2016 to 2022 and was created especially by American author Leeanne M. Krecic. The protagonist, Sam Young, is a software developer in Los Angeles who has worked for several years with his video game Passion Project and has never had time for a relationship. After her game has been published, she begins to dip her toes in the romance world, develop feelings for an old friend, a manager at her software company and a Youtuber who criticized her games and coincides with her. It is a nice, related story about calculating life in the 20th century, and it is exciting to see that it will translate to anime.
Premiere October 2 at Crunchyroll.
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“May I ask for one last thing?”
The loosely defined “villain” genre in anime and manga mainly acts as a perspective switch for the romance genre and shows the love triangles from the perspective of them to become -eye heroes’ way more interesting rival. Many of these shows set this by having the character reincarnated as a villain in a video game or an anime, but “may I ask for one last thing?” Pivots by putting this story in a more outflowed fantasy world. The protagonist Scarlet, is a daughter of a Duke who is dumped by his Prince attachment in humiliating a ball, after he accuses her of being a bullying. He is not right with it, but she turns out even worse when she reveals her hidden murderous side and goes on a bloody revenge trip to him and his loved ones.
Premiere October 3 at Crunchyroll.
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“Sanda”
From Paru Itagaki, the manga artist behind the acclaimed “Beastars”, “Sanda” has a premise that seems to be a joke. In the near future, Japan who is struggling with a declining birth rate discovers a medium student at average college that he is a descendant of Santa and has all the powers of Jolly Saint Nick. With the help of his powers, he struggles crime and tries to restore hope and save Christmas in the country. Mangaen takes this (mostly) seriously and offers some of the most remarkable violent Santa Claus measures in the latest memory. The major sales point of the adaptation is that it comes from Science Saru, the manufacturers behind fantastic shows such as “Dan da Dan” and “Scott Pilgrim take off” and known for a signature loose, demented animation style that should fit the material as a Santa hat.
Premiere October 4 on Amazon Prime Video
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“Digimon Beatbreak”
Although it is culturally best known as “Not-Pokémon”, “Digimon” animated Spinoffs has always been much more interesting than its much more culturally dominant rival, with strong character writing and surprisingly ambitious stories that make them keep up as far as the children’s anime goes. Not much is known about the action in the latest series “Beatbreak”, but it has a nice animation style and a trailer that promises a relatively serious tone, and it is enough to arouse any interest.
Premiere at Crunchyroll and Hulu on October 4.
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“To your eternity” season 3
One of the most remarkable and unique fantasy -anime in the latest memory, “To your eternity” follows the long, long life of fushi, an immortal creature that came to the world as a clear white orb. Fushi can take the form of all that touches, including living beings after their death, Fushi first takes the form of a dying wolf, and then for the young boy who owns the wolf after his own tragic passing. Venturing through the world in the boy’s form, Fushi slowly develops consciousness and independent thoughts, meets and loses many people he will love and become more confused about his life as an immortal being. A heartbreaking show that thoughtfully looks at grief, loss and walking, season 3 jumps forward in Fushi’s lifetime to a period in the history of fantasy world, which is approximately in line with modern technology.
Premiere October 4 at Crunchyroll
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“Spy X Family” season 3
One of the more popular anime in the 2020s, “Spy X Family” is a heartwarming romantic comedy that is included in the action of a espionage thriller. Loid Forger is a spy from Westalis (a fictional West Germany, in principle) that takes on a false name to live in neighboring Ostania (East Germany) and implement its subterfuge. As part of his protection, he also convinces the city hall offices to go into a shame marriage with him and adopts the young Orphan Anya, while keeping his double identity secret. But his provisional family has their own secrets: Yor is actually a professional killer, while Anya was a test subject to experiment that gave her telepathic abilities. Spy Action thus takes a rear seat to slow romance and heartwarming family comedy as every family member struggles to hide their secrets, all while yor and loid slowly fall in love with real and will appreciate Anya as a true daughter.
Premiere October 4 at Crunchyroll.
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“My Hero Academia” last season
If you want to get into “My Hero Academia” now that the series is finally coming, you have a lot of catch-up to do: The massively popular series about teenagers who train to become superheroes have 159 episodes already, on top four theater film spinoffs. But it is a task that is worth taking on, as the show has been one of the best action series in recent years, and together mixes superhero tropes with heartfelt and related future age drama to an accessible and exciting formula. And the eighth and final season is guaranteed to be the most talked about and buzzing about series this fall.
Premiere October 4 at Crunchyroll.
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“Gintama: Mr. Ginpachis Zany Class”
Known in Japan with the charmingly complicated name “3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei”, “Mr. Ginpachi’s Zany Class” is a spinoff of the beloved comedy series “Gintama”, known for parody and lampsone of other anime and for its snap, stupid humor. Located in a loose alternative history of Edo-period Japan, where the country was conquered by a foreign race with the name Amanto, it follows a lazy samurai called Gintoki Sakata that does odd jobs around the country to pay for rent. It is not the type of series that has particularly narrow continuity, but you need no context to go into spinoff “Mr. Ginpachi’s zany class”, which asks the question: What if Gintoki was a teacher, and the rest of the role of the original show was his students? The answer is mostly a series of humor and tone that is quite very identical to “Gintama” already.
Premiere October 6 at Crunchyroll.
