Everyone Says Fall 2025 Anime Is Weak

Everyone Says Fall 2025 Anime Is Weak — Is That Really Fair?

People keep calling Fall 2025 the weakest season in years, but I don't think that's fully fair or true. I broke down 5 shows that might surprise people if given a chance. Which Fall 2025 anime do you think is being slept on or going under the radar? Let me know in the comments.

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ActualRound76992026-01-16 03:41

Where are these invisible people? Maybe you’re hanging out in the wrong spaces. I haven’t heard that all.

Rotorscope2026-01-16 04:00

I think it was a super weak season relatively. Although there was still good stuff that this guy didn't even touch like Fujimoto and Gnosia.

It's completely subjective based on what you enjoyed, but personally I don't think it was better than any of the previous seasons in quite a while.

ActualRound76992026-01-16 04:03

I found like 22 shows all perfectly pleasant, but honestly, I don’t actually critically critique anime.

NNKarma2026-01-16 03:49

I think you just like comedy, as someone who gives villainess animes a try because they're hit or miss to me I did had hopes on may I ask until I realized it was just quirky comedy, and with it's music choices it just felt cheqp

Jusenkyo_52026-01-16 03:50

I don't think it was a horrible season but it was definitely underwhelming. There's no stand out show and the shows that I did like ended up having some middling quality. Watatabe had some pretty mediocre production values, Ranma adapts it's worst arc and is also a remake, and Sanda ends in a super awkward spot.

qwertyqwerty45672026-01-16 14:05

grieving soul and dark history villainess were both great.

Emeraldpanda1682026-01-16 04:41

There were some gems that weren't even hidden. This Monster Wants to Eat Me was actually pretty successful in Japan (AFAIK), and even over here. Earlier there was a post for the top 25 anime of 2025 according to Reddit, and This Monster Wants to Eat Me was one of them.

It's a great show, and nearly everyone who has seen it has praised it...it's just that, despite its success in Japan and the West, there's just not much discussion either, for some reason.

AwwZomSam2026-01-16 04:57

Probably because not many people who discuss or review anime have seen it, myself included. From the few people who talked about it, they all have said some good things about it.

whowilleverknow2026-01-16 04:58

I mean coming after that Summer is a tough position.

AwwZomSam2026-01-16 04:59

I guess it is, it's squished between two giants summer 2025 and winter 2026 after all

SouekiSennoSTM2026-01-16 06:52

I have said that, comparing it to the other seasons of what's now last year, it was a little stronger than summer, but weaker than either winter or spring.

Since I started watching large amounts of seasonals back in 2021, I always make my Top 10 list for each season by season's end (and then revise as needed as I finish some series late or start and discover series I hadn't previously noticed or considered even months and years after the fact) and then my overall Top 10 for the year. So one of the ways I gauge how a season was relative to others in its year was how many of my Top 10 for the year originated from it. And it was two from autumn (Gnosia and Debu to Love to Ayamachi to!).

I'm still finishing and have yet to start a number of series from it, but from all those I watched, generally I found it in line with some other seasons where the premise of various series was very intriguing and appealing to me before the season began and before starting those series, but then I found the execution in practice was only so-so as they were rushed, writing was just okay, etc.

Like a number of series I was enticed by but ended up rating 6/10 which is just my decent/okay rating. My favorites from winter all rank higher than my favorites from autumn and spring had a larger variety of series I was more interested in in the first place and then performed better in practice upon watching them.

UnhappyComparison9372026-01-16 06:57

is true fall was weaker than summer not to go insane summer was quite strong

kaguya barely counts as a fall anime it aired at the very end of Dec in some places on Jan 1rst

couldn't they put anything else instead?

AttorneyOfThanos252026-01-16 07:49

I definitely thought it was pretty weak. But winter and 2026 in general looks to be amazing, as was summer 2025, so I forgive it. lol

Bonvantius2026-01-16 10:52

Last Fall was one of the very rare times I actually agreed with the sentiment that a season was weak (When you consider the broader recent years of anime we've been having). The selection was shockingly pretty bare.

The only shows I had in consistent circulation were:

GNOSIA

MHA final Season

Toujima

and CinGray (Which was a continuation carried over from Spring)

That is dismal when I generally have at least 9 shows minimum to watch usually in a season.

This could speak different for someone else of course, seeing as shows like SANDA, May I ask one Final Thing and Spy Family 3 didn't click for me or just weren't my kind of thing but may for others.

Then consider all the massive disappointments that came out in Fall, such as: Dusk Beyond the End of the World, OPM Season 3 and WANDANCE to name a few...