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Moving onto accidental New Year's Eve traditions: it's time to go through the best anime of 2025. (If the image below doesn't fully show, like what happened last week, I don't know what causes it. Something on Blogger's end, because the image file is fine and Twitter accepts it without problems. Edit: fixed for this post. )  Top 10 New Anime: 10. Clevatess   Much of the fantasy anime being made these days is some flavor of narou-kei and/or RPG world no. 4269 (and good luck finding “dark fantasy” that isn’t just edgy revengeslop), so any departure from that feels fresh. Clevatess was a very pleasant surprise in that regard. The premise is interesting, the characters likable and the worldbuilding mostly avoids the pitfalls. The visual aesthetics aren’t always to my taste, but the story kept me engaged all the way through. 9. Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right   Cute romcom (in the anime sense of “no actual romantic progress but you can see it happe...

Another year has passed, it's Christmas Eve again and my accidental Christmas tradition continues. In other words: it's time to go through the best anime openings and endings of the past year. Top 10 OPs: 10. The Shiunji Family Children OP “Honey Lemon” This list always needs a guilty pleasure one, so let's get it out of the way first. Heavily carried by the song, which surprised me with how good it sounds. The chorus melody just… works. Visuals range from tasteless to mildly innovative, with a lot of “just okay” in the middle - not unlike the series it's attached to. 9. Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle OP “Liar” Not quite the kind of song I’d expect from a high school harem anime, but Chiramune is weird in many ways so I guess it fits. Looks amazing, with a heavy focus on the girls because of course, but the MC gets a solid amount of screentime too. 8. Ruri Rocks OP “Hikari no Sumika” Speaking of things that look amazing, we’ve got some incredible backgro...