I’m so excited for this January’s returning anime and they are gracing us with returning action, fantasy, and romance anime to keep us warm this winter. So, I hope we will see even more seasons in the future while others have announced that this will be their last season. Here’s to hoping 2025 brings us some great anime new and returning.
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The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
Maomao and Jinshi face palace intrigue as a pregnant concubine’s safety and a looming conspiracy collide.
- Releases: Friday, Jan. 10, 2025
- Genre: Historical, Medicine, Mystery
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season
A continuation of the 3rd season that was released in Fall 2024 (to continue to episodes 9 to 16). A year has passed since Subaru’s victory at the Sanctuary. He savors a life of fulfillment while Emilia’s camp stands united for the royal selection—until a fateful letter arrives. Anastasia, a royal selection candidate, has invited Emilia to the Watergate City of Priestella. But as the party begins its journey, crisis stirs beneath the surface and Subaru meets a cruel fate once again.
- Releases: Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025
- Genre: Isekai, Magic, Action
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
UniteUp!: Uni:Birth
PROTOSTAR’s journey continues as they face rivals and challenges, striving to shine in the competitive idol world.
- Releases: Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025
- Genre: Idol, Music
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-
Mastering his new abilities in secret, Jinwoo must battle humanity’s toughest foes to save his mother.
- Releases: Jan. 2025 (specific date hasn’t been released)
- Genre: Dungeon, Action, Fantasy
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
BanG Dream! Ave Mujica
The latest anime project in the BanG Dream! franchise, spotlighting the band members in Ave Mujica.
- Releases: Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025
- Genre: Drama, Music, Slice of life
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Kaijuu 8-gou: Hoshina no Kyuujitsu
A special episode of Kaijuu 8-gou is to be released alongside the compilation movie (Kaijuu 8-gou Movie). A day off… After spending so long training, Reno has forgotten what he’s supposed to do with free time. But when he sees that Hoshina is up to something, he goes on a mission to tail him with Iharu!
- Releases: Friday, March 28, 2025 (in Japanese theaters)
- Genre: Action, Sci-fi, Kaiju (giant monster)
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Unnamed Memory Act.2
Seeking to end a curse thwarting his lineage, Prince Oscar sets out on a quest that leads him to a powerful and beautiful witch, Tinasha, and he demands a unique bargain: marriage. Though unenthused by the proposal, she agrees to stay in his castle for a year while researching the spell cast upon him. But beneath her beauty lies a lifetime of dark secrets that soon come to light.
- Releases: Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025
- Genre: Isekai, Magic, Action
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger
Several years after The Fruit of Grisaia… What was once “Mihama Academy,” a sanctuary for young girls, has now been transformed into a SORD (Special Organization for Research & Development) training school dedicated to fostering talent for national defense. Rena and Maki specialize in firearms, Tohka and Gumi excel at sniping, Chris handles explosives and data processing, and Murasaki is a skilled ninja for intelligence operations. Together, they take on cases too complex for the police or Self-Defense Forces, repeatedly facing dangerous missions. This is the story of these young girls, painted in blood and gunpowder.
- Releases: Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025
- Genre: Action, Military
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Ishura 2nd Season
If you need a battle royale, anti-hero, and dystopia this winter then you are in luck. Ishura will be releasing a 2nd season, giving us more of this dystopian world where a demon king has passed and a battle of the mighty takes place.
Toilet-bound Hanako-kun Season 2
Hanako, Nene, and Kou race against time to uncover the traitor among the Seven Wonders. Is Mitsuba a lost cause? Did he go to the evil side?
- Releases: Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025
- Genre: Drama, Supernatural, Ghost
- Streaming: Crunchyroll, Hulu
My Happy Marriage Season 2
Miyo and Kiyoka’s love will be put to the test as trouble looms over them. Will they achieve the future they dream of?
- Releases: Monday, Jan. 6, 2025
- Genre: Supernatural, Romance, Drama
- Streaming: Netflix
Senpai is an Otokonoko Movie
The 12th and final episode of Senpai is an Otokonoko. For Makoto Hanaoka, life’s about to get more complicated. Saki Aoi, a lively girl with loads of confidence, confesses her love for Makoto one day. When he fails to reciprocate, Saki declares she will be his first love! She shares her goal with a mutual friend, Ryuuji Taiga, who also confesses his crush on Makoto. Stuck in a love triangle, Makoto must find a way to make it work and have fun.
- Releases: Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 (in Japanese theaters)
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Dr. Stone Science Future
This has been announced to be the fourth and final season of Dr.Stone. Senku and the Kingdom of Science revive Tsukasa and build a spaceship to reach ‘Why Man’ on the Moon!
- Releases: Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
- Streaming: Crunchyroll, Netflix
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2
Rentaro meets new soulmates, balancing comedic chaos and heartfelt moments as his relationships deepen. Rentarou Aijou was rejected 100 times in middle school. He visits a shrine and prays for better luck in high school. The God of Love appears and promises that he’ll soon meet 100 people he’s destined to date. But there’s a catch—once destiny introduces someone to him, the two must happily love each other. If they don’t, they’ll die. What will befall Rentarou and his 100 girlfriends in high school?
- Releases: Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025
- Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Mahoutsukai Precure!! MIRAI DAYS
For fans of the Precure franchise, in honor of the 20th anniversary, they are releasing a direct sequel of Mahoutsukai Precure! aimed for grown-up fans of the anime. What will Mirai get up to now? be prepared for more cuteness and magical girls, but this time they will be in collegeeee.
- Releases: Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025
- Genre: Fantasy, Magic Girls, Slice of life
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Genesis of Aquarion Myth of Emotions
The fourth anime series in the Aquarion franchise. Prequel: Aquarion Logos
Once upon a time, human voices had defined the true nature of all things, yet the invention of text changed the status quo while creating a “Logos World” between the voice and the truth. Millennia have passed since then, and advancements in civilizations have made the “Logos World” too big to control “texts.” A group of young people dedicate themselves to counter chaotic “texts” with “Creative Voice Power,” and among them, is a boy named Akira Kaibuki living in Asagaya.
- Releases: Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025
- Genre: Fantasy, Mecha
- Streaming: Crunchyroll
Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Arc Season 2
The second season of Kinnikuman: Kanpeki Choujin Shiso-hen.
A new Kinnikuman series to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original TV anime. Adapts the Perfect Origin Arc from the Manga. Kinnikuman returns to the ring in an epic three-way battle between the Justice, Devil and Perfect Chojin factions, and reveals the roots of the Chojin.
- Releases: Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Sports
- Streaming: Netflix
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai 14
The fourteenth season of Yami Shibai. Every week at 5 p.m. an old man in a yellow mask (the kamishibaiya or kamishibai narrator) shows up at a children’s playground and tells them ghost stories based on myths and urban legends of Japanese origin.
- Releases: Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025
- Genre: Horror, Supernatural
- Streaming: Crunchyroll