Gimmick Awards 2025 – Best Narrative Moment Podcast

Gimmick Awards 2025 – Best Narrative Moment Podcast

From Scanline Talks by Scanline Media

February 18, 2026

About this episode

The episode discusses the best narrative moments in various media from 2025, highlighting scripted moments that evoke strong emotions.

In contrast to Emergent Moment, you don't have to do anything special to experience these. These scripted moments are part of the media below that everyone can see, but that doesn't make them any less special. These moments made us laugh, tear up, and reflect in 2025, and we want to share them with you. Note: Since some of our naming of the moments themselves could be considered a spoiler, listed below are all the works we discuss during the pod. The Nominees Are: Apocalypse Hotel CITY the Animation of the Devil The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa Heavy Metal L-GAIM The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Medalist Story of Seasons: The Grand Bazaar Super Robot Wars Y They Were Eleven Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era Unbeatable Witch Watch With You In The Rain Our intro and outro music for the Gimmick Awards 2025 is Lay back by Kazuki Kaneko, and our art is a commission from GOMA on Bluesky.

Topics covered

  • narrative moments
  • media
  • emotional experiences
  • 2025 awards
  • video games
  • storytelling

Keywords

  • Gimmick Awards
  • narrative
  • video games
  • emotional moments
  • 2025
  • storytelling
  • media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GOMA

Books & works: Apocalypse Hotel, CITY the Animation, of the Devil, The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, Heavy Metal L-GAIM, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, Medalist, Story of Seasons: The Grand Bazaar, Super Robot Wars Y, They Were Eleven

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