Everything New Coming to Crunchyroll this January

Key Takeaways

• Crunchyroll announced 7 anime for Winter 2025 to stream in January, including Teogonia and Nyaight of the Living Cat.
• Grisaia: Phantom Trigger is a powerful girl squad anime set to air on January 2, 2025, following a long-running series.
• Farmagia, Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World, and Unnamed Memory Act.2 are other fantasy anime scheduled for release.

The Winter 2025 anime season is just around the corner, and as everyone is deciding what anime they want to watch next season, it is just as important to know where to stream it. This past week, Crunchyroll, one of the most popular websites for streaming anime, announced which anime will be streamed on the website. This helps anime fans know where they can watch these anime, and also helps subscribers know which shows will be easy for them to access.

Crunchyroll has officially announced seven anime that it will stream in Winter 2025, which will begin in January. Five of the titles were just announced this past week, with the other two having been previously announced. The anime that Crunchyroll will stream for Winter 2025 are Teogonia, Nyaight of the Living Cat, Grisaia: Phantom Trigger, Farmagia, Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest, Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World, and Unnamed Memory Act.2.

Teogonia

One Boy Can Change the War

Teogonia was one of the first two anime that Crunchyroll announced it would air this winter. The anime is adapted from a light novel of the same name, which has a manga adaptation as well. This is the first time it will be adapted into an anime. Teogonia is set in a fantasy world that is torn apart by war, with constant battles between humans and demi-humans, such as pig people and monkey people. The main character is a boy named Kai, who has been fighting in these battles trying to protect his village.

But Kai is more than just an ordinary village boy. He begins to have “memories” that are not his own, of a far more advanced civilization with advanced technology. He remembers people from far beyond the world that he lives in. Even as his fellow villagers give their lives in the seemingly eternal war, Kai is thrust even deeper into the battle. The role he has to play in the outcome of the war will become bigger than he could have ever expected.

Nyaight of the Living Cat

A Virus with Furry Consequences

The other anime that Crunchyroll had originally announced it would be airing is Nyaight of the Living Cat. The name of the anime is a play on the Japanese word for “meow,” which is “nyan,” giving the anime a pun title. However, Nyaight of the Living Cat is far from a cute, fun anime about cats. It is actually a horror anime, using realistic animation rather than cute characters, and explores some dark (albeit strange) themes alongside humor through its ridiculous premise.

In Nyaight of the Living Cat, a virus is spreading through the world which is turning humans into cats – but not just ordinary cats, rather, wild beasts of animals. The virus is spread not through biting or scratching, though, but through cuddling with the infected cats. The story revolves around some of the few survivors who have not fallen victim to the virus, and now fight back against the horde of hungry cats taking over the world. One of these survivors is Kunagi, a man who knows a lot about cats but has no memory of his own life. The problem is that Kunagi loves cats, and has to resist approaching them if he ever wants to avoid falling victim to the virus himself.

Grisaia: Phantom Trigger

A Powerful Girl Squad

Grisaia: Phantom Trigger is a sequel anime that will air from the start of January. The story began back in 2015 with the anime Grisaia no Rakuen, which was followed by two anime movies, Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation in 2019 and its sequel Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation – Stargazer in 2020. Now five years later, the latest chapter in the story will be told in Grisaia: Phantom Trigger.

Grisaia: Phantom Trigger follows the story of several characters who are students at a military training school called SORD (Special Organization for Research and Development). The school is only for girls, and they learn skills to complete missions too dangerous and complex for even the Self-Defence Force and the police. Grisaia: Phantom Trigger tells the exploits of these six girls, Rena, Maki, Tohka, Gumi, Chris, and Murasaki, as they take on these missions and continue to hone their special skill sets.

Farmagia

Train Monsters and Make Friends

Farmagia is a new anime based on a game of the same name. It is a fantasy anime set in a world where humans befriend monsters, all while living in a society ruled by an evil overlord. The characters live on farms, which serve as bases for them to go out adventuring and exploring, and gathering resources to take back to their homes.

The main character of Farmagia is a young man named Ten, who, along with his friends, is trying to battle against the overlord. They live in the land of Felicidad, which used to have a benevolent ruler. Upon that ruler’s death, though, power was seized by Glaza, who has since started a repressive regime over the residents of Felicidad. As Ten and his friends gather resources, explore the Underworld, and gather and train monsters, they prepare to battle against the armies of Glaza and restore Felicidad to what it once was.

Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest

From Zero to Hero

Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest is the latest anime with a long and funny title to come out, telling a fantasy story that is sprinkled with light-hearted humor and adventure. It is set in a world where the gods control the destiny of citizens by assigning them their jobs (which are much like character classes) from birth. The implication is that people have very little choice about what they become – even strong citizens cannot become heroes if they were not assigned that kind of job at birth, no matter what their skills may be.

Ein is one such citizen, who was unluckily assigned as an “appraiser” when he was born. This is one of the roles in society that is the furthest from being a hero, which is what Ein wishes he could be. When he is abandoned by the other adventures he has been traveling with, Ein is ready to give up on his dream of ever being a hero. However, he starts to learn that actually, his role as an appraiser is more important than he could have ever imagined – and it may be the one that puts him on the path to becoming a hero after all.

Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World

Magic Through Determination

Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World is an isekai, as can be inferred from the anime’s title. It follows main character Theon, a 30-year-old man who died unexpectedly only to be reborn in a new world. Unlike usual isekai stories, though, the new world he was born into did not have magic. At first, Theon was depressed by his knowledge, disappointed that even in a new world, magic seemed not to exist.

That is, until he discovered that there was magic in the new world after all – he just had to create it himself. Theon devotes himself to studying everything he can about magic, with the determination that he would make magic himself and bring it to the people of the world. As he fights against a disease that can only be cured by magic, and fights enemies that can only be defeated by magic, Theon carves out a place for himself in this new world.

Unnamed Memory Act.2

A Journey to Break a Curse

Unnamed Memory Act.2 is the sequel to 2024 anime Unnamed Memory. It tells the next part of the story of Prince Oscar Lyeth Increatos Loz Farsas, a man who was cursed by a witch that no woman would ever be able to bear him a child. A witch named Tinasha revealed to him that the only way to counteract the curse was to find a woman who could counteract the effects of it.

The only woman who could do that was Tinasha herself, though, and while she refuses to marry Oscar when he asks, she does agree to travel with him and help him try to find a way to lift the curse. Not much more about the story in Unnamed Memory Act.2 has been revealed yet, but the anime will continue the story of the first season. It will be more of Oscar and Tinasha on their adventure together, fighting enemies, meeting old acquaintances, and trying to find a seemingly impossible cure to Oscar’s curse.

Crunchyroll will be airing all of these anime starting in January 2025, likely alongside their releases in Japan. It is a good selection of anime across several genres, but does have more fantasy anime than anything else. Fantasy anime fans will be happy to hear that for sure, with several different anime to choose from. Everything on Crunchyroll will be released with at least English subtitles, making them accessible, legal, and easy to watch for the Winter 2025 anime season.

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork