#166 - Best Anime of 2025

About this episode

The hosts discuss their favorite anime of 2025, including popular titles and sequels.

While other podcasts did their end of year retrospective two months ago, why rush when you can take 3 months? In this episode, Sarah, Austin, Tori, and Bill break down the "best" anime of 2025, and by "best" we mean "the stuff we got around to, whether we liked it, finished it, or not". We've got Kowloons, we've got Kaisens, and do you finally want to know what the deal with Solo Leveling is? Well, I can't promise we'll tell you, but maybe we do! What were some of your favorite anime of 2025? Let us know by sending us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com and we'll discuss it on the show. Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Opening check in about how 2025 treated us despite everything and our aspirations for 2026 00:20:41 - Sarah hosts a game where we guess what anime were at the top of the popularity lists on various websites 00:55:28 - What anime did we just dabble in this year and not finish? Titles include things like Anne Shirley, New Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, Gachiakuta, Ranma 1/2, The Dinner Table Detective, This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!, City, The Summer Hikaru Died, etc. 1:39:53 - Sequels!~ My Dress Up Darling, The Apothecary Diaries, Solo…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sarah, Austin, Tori, Bill

Topics covered

• anime
• 2025
• retrospective
• sequels
• popular titles

Keywords

• anime
• 2025
• Solo Leveling
• My Dress Up Darling
• Chainsaw Man

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Solo Leveling, My Dress Up Darling, The Apothecary Diaries, Dandadan, Lupin the IIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins, Lupin the IIIRD: Immortal Bloodline, Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc, Chainsaw Man: The Movie -Reze Arc-, Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise, Let's Play

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