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My 2025 Summer Anime Season Preview

Reposting from my DW blog.

Summer solstice is almost here, which means a new anime season is about to start. This is the most stacked summer anime season I've ever seen, with at least 60 series airing this season. We have high profile sequels (Dandadan, Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru, Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun, Kaijuu 8-gou), reboots of old classic (Jigoku Sensei Nube, Cat's♥Eye), horror (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu), an all new KyoAni series (City the Animation), a potential big hit (Gachiakuta), etc. Strangely enough, there are four series this season that will only run for 4 to 6 episodes (because the source manga are only one to two volumes long).

As usual, I'm only previewing the series I'm interested in. For a full list of series airing in the summer, see AniChart.

( My 2025 Summer Anime Season Preview. )

What will you be watching this summer? Old series? New series?

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Icons! (Super Sonico & Mars Red)

Hi, I made a few icons, the anime/manga ones are specifically Super Sonico and Mars Red. =)

Preview!
same image as previous, but with a yellow border

same image as previous, but with a yellow border

Super Sonico with pocky in her mouth, a bat wing next to her

Mars Red Suwa from volume 2's cover

Mars Red Takeuchi pulling down his lower eyelid and sticking out his tongue

(Link to the rest)

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Pinch Hits Available for Sakura Exchange (New Pinch Hit #5)

sakuraexchange is a spring exchange for relationships in Japanese media, run on Dreamwidth and AO3. Participants create a fic or art piece for one of their assigned recipient's requested fandoms and relationships, and receive in return a fic or art piece for one of their requested fandoms and relationships. Detailed exchange guidelines are here, at our DW community.

We have several pinch hits (unfilled requests) currently in need of creators. If you might be able to fill one of these requests by the current due date (June 27, 11:59PM UTC / 7:59PM EDT), please comment on the pinch hit post with your AO3 name and the number of the pinch hit you'd like to claim.

The minimum requirements are 1000 words for fic, or clean lineart on unlined paper for art.

Available pinch hits (click through for details):

PH 4 - 爆上戦隊ブンブンジャー | Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger (TV), 魔法つかいプリキュア！ | Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure! | Mahou Girls PreCure!, 仮面ライダーギーツ | Kamen Rider Geats, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne | Phantom-Thief Jeanne (manga), Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne | Phantom-Thief Jeanne (Anime)

PH 5 - Grandia III (Video Game), Top o Nerae! Gunbuster, チョコボと魔法の絵本 | Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon | Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales (Video Game), 機動戦士ガンダム | Mobile Suit Gundam (TV 1979), Final Fantasy XII

PH 10 - わんだふるぷりきゅあ! | Wonderful PreCure! (Anime), Crossover Fandom, Show By Rock!! (Video Games), 美男高校地球防衛部HAPPY KISS! | Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Happy Kiss!, Tokyo Mew Mew Olé (Manga), Fairy蘭丸~あなたの心お助けします~ | Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu (Anime)

PH 16 - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime), Kara no Kyoukai | The Garden of Sinners

Thank you very much!