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If you can believe it, we’ve already reached the end of 2024, which means it’s the perfect time to look back at the best anime the coming year has to offer. Whether you’re excited for a returning series like Solo Leveling or the final season of Doctor Stone, or looking for a promising new adaptation like Sakamoto Days or Witch Hat Atelier, there’s plenty to be excited about. And that’s not even including the fact that we’re getting a new series from the creator of Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim.
There’s something for everyone, so we take a look at our most anticipated anime of 2025, including some already announced titles that we expect to release in 2025.
Lazarus
Shinichiro Watanabe fans rejoice! Yes, the legendary creator behind Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Carol & Tuesday and Space Dandy is back with what’s sure to be another stylist, this time coming straight to the flagship Adult Swim Toonami block and a day later to Hulu. While we don’t know exactly when the series will premiere, we do know that it should be here in 2025 no matter what, and we couldn’t be more excited.
As the title suggests, this series focuses on the search for a vaccine after a life-extending drug is revealed to be a death sentence years later. To find a cure, our heroes must hunt down the man who created the miracle drug and fix things before millions die.
The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
Sometimes an unexpected anime enters the fandom and gains attention through word of mouth and excitement. The 2023-2024 season was definitely The Apothecary Diaries, which has become a firm favorite since its debut. With a big hook – a young apothecary’s daughter is kidnapped and taken to the royal palace – the show soon becomes a perfect mix of court intrigue and detective adventure as our young hero learns to survive in his new environment. With season two coming soon, we can’t wait to re-enter this dramatic and fantastical world full of complex women, scheming men and intelligent antagonists.
Sakamoto Days
If you’re a fan of The Way of the Househusband, then this delightful slice of life/crime mash-up is probably on your radar. Based on Yuto Suzuki’s manga, it follows an old man named Sakamoto. He was once a fearsome bachelor, but after falling in love and having children he retired, becoming a fat old shopaholic. However, when her past begins to affect her idyllic life, she must use her very unique set of skills to protect those she loves. From what we’ve seen in the trailer, this one is going to be lush, hilarious and action-packed, with plenty of delicious animated food sequences to feed your eyes and soul. Basically, the perfect way to start the New Year.
Solo Rank Season 2 (Arise from the Shadow)
The first season of the hit South Korean portal fantasy web novel adaptation garnered fans from all over the world, so it’s probably no surprise that Solo Leveling Season 2 is headed our way sooner than later. After the mysterious system chooses Sung Jinwoo, he becomes the only hunter in his world full of monsters who can level up his powers, hence the name, and so begins the story of Solo Leveling. The first season was so successful that it spawned not only a second season, but also a webtoon spinoff, a movie, and a game. When this sequel arrives in early 2025, it will be interesting to see how the series evolves with its supernatural protagonist and whether its audience continues to grow to even greater heights.
Dr. Stone Final Season (Science Future) (January 2025)
The fourth and final season of Doctor Stone will hit screens early next year and while fans were initially worried that one season would not be enough to cover the end of the manga, it has been revealed that the fourth season will be three parts instead of two. – with almost 40 episodes to connect the story – has helped to dispel those fears. If you’re not a fan yet, Dr. Stone is set in a future where all humans were petrified for thousands of years, until our teenage hero Senku Ishigami was resurrected and committed to finding a cure. He soon realizes how he resurrects other petrified humans, setting himself and his eclectic allies on a wild adventure to save the world and discover what happened to petrify the world.
I may be the guild’s receptionist, but I’ll single out any leader to get out on time
Based on the light novel series—published in English by Yen Press along with its manga adaptation—this insanely long title has cultivated a rabid fan following. Alina Clover is an overworked and very relatable protagonist trying to keep her work life working so that it doesn’t cannibalize her time away from the adventurer’s guild table. The city of Ioffle is not prepared for this non-adventurer and his war hammer as he attacks his overtime problems so hard. The Japanese broadcast of the show will begin on January 10, 2025 and it looks like the English sub shouldn’t be too far behind.
Witch Hat Workshop
It’s hard to put into words how highly anticipated the animated adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s hit manga is. Finding a huge audience outside of anime and manga fandom, this brilliantly illustrated series tells the story of Coco, a young girl who wants nothing more than to become a witch. After a chance meeting in her mother’s tailor shop, with Quifery, one of the rare magic users in her world, Coco is led into a whole new life at the titular atelier. Shirahama’s gorgeous art style seems to have come to life perfectly, judging by what we’ve seen in the trailers so far, and it looks like this cozy, magical, and utterly fantastical manga series has the potential to be one of the biggest anime hits of 2025. .
Gachiakuta (2025)
Kei Urana delivered a modern classic with the manga Gachiakuta, a twisted take on the classic class warfare trope that’s akin to modern-day Battle Angel Alita mixed with the Count of Monte Cristo. When Rudo’s foster father is murdered, he is accused of murder and cast out of his daily life in the surviving Sphere—where the descendants of criminals live as an underclass—into a deadly, fetid landscape known as The Pit. Trash filled with deadly monsters from infinite trash. This is one of the most anticipated anime of the year as fans wait to see Bones and director Fumihiko Suganuma explore the world of Rudo and his quest for revenge. The series will also feature character designs by Tokyo Mew Mew’s Satoshi Ishino, who will serve as lead animator on the project.
Omniscient Reader (hopefully 2025)
In Sing Shong’s dynamic South Korean web novel, on which this anime is based, a young man is left confused at the end of the world after having only one reader… a web novel that seems to be predicting the apocalypse he must now make. stay alive! This is the kind of meta-commentary we love at IGN, and the novels have become a fan favorite since their 2018 debut. While we’re not sure we’ll see the Omniscient Reader next year, we do know it’s today. in production So fingers crossed we get to see the anime adaptation sometime in 2025.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 (hopefully 2025)
If you’re looking for a fantastic campaign fantasy, you’d be hard-pressed to find one from the last few years better than Friere: Beyond Journey’s End. This unexpected existential series centers around an elven wizard who decides to find a way to restore his past adventure party. Exploring the notions of grief, growth, and of course friendship, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is a consistently entertaining and thought-provoking adventure, and with original animation studio Madhouse signed up for season 2, it’s sure to be just as beautiful as season one. he did
What anime are you looking forward to in 2025? Let’s discuss in the comments!
