Winter 2025 Anime Lineup

The anime industry never sleeps. The Winter 2025 anime lineup has all the potential in the world to get the year started on the right note, offering shows that cover a wide spectrum of genres, themes, and demographics. Action fans should check out Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow, Sakamoto Days, Fate/strange Fake, Ishura, Ubel Blatt, and Grisaia: Phantom Trigger, just to name a couple of the season’s bigger series. Meanwhile, viewers craving romance can try My Happy Marriage Season 2, Honey Lemon Soda, Can You Keep a Secret?, and Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You. Winter 2025 even has comedy well covered with The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Season 2 and I’m Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class, while isekai and fantasy have plenty of representatives too.

As always, the question is “Where can all these anime be watched?” Like its many predecessors, the anime Winter 2025 lineup is split across a plethora of platforms, with Crunchyroll, HIDIVE, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video all announcing exclusives. There are also a few series that have yet to reveal their Western streaming homes, and some might remain that way. To simplify the process, let’s go through each main platform’s announced shows.

Crunchyroll Winter 2025 Anime Lineup

Solo Leveling, Dr. Stone, The Apothecary Diaries, & More

As always, Crunchyroll’s Winter 2025 anime lineup is by far the biggest, eclipsing its competitors by dozens upon dozens of series. While new reveals might be made later down the line, Crunchyroll seems to have announced all of its shows already.

Solo Leveling Season 2 and The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 are arguably the season’s biggest anime, and they are both airing on Crunchyroll. Dr. Stone: Science Future is also a big deal. Furthermore, Dragon Ball Daima, Shangri-La Frontier, Re:ZERO, and Blue Exorcist will continue to air new episodes.

HIDIVE Winter 2025 Anime Lineup

From Bureaucrat to Villainess, Flower and Asura, & More

In 2024, HIDIVE opted to specialize in anime that lean into ecchi territory, carving out a niche for itself in the process. Winter 2025’s Beheneko and I’m Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!? should continue that trend, and they will be accompanied by Flower and Asura and an isekai anime called From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! The latter looks fun, and the former could be one of the year’s bigger surprises. For now, the HIDIVE Winter 2025 anime lineup is small but decent.

Netflix Winter 2025 Anime Lineup

Sakamoto Days, My Happy Marriage, & More

Netflix used to mainly focus on anime that can be released in one go, but that has changed recently. Nowadays, the subscription service seems to always have a few simulcast seasonal anime. Sakamoto Days should be a huge deal, provided the adaptation comes close to matching the brilliance of the source material. If done right, this anime could be something special. My Happy Marriage is also making its comeback.

The Boys Love genre does not have much representation in this season, but Netflix’s Winter 2025 anime lineup included Babanba Banban Vampire. Otherwise, the service has quite a handful of Fall 2024 leftovers like Blue Box and Orb: On the Movements of the Earth.

Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, & YouTube Winter 2025 Anime Lineup

Ubel Blatt, Medalist, & More

Compared to Crunchyroll, Netflix, and HIDIVE, these upcoming streaming services cannot really be described as having Winter 2025 anime lineups. They just have one or two shows. Still, Amazon Prime Video scored a big get with Ubel Blatt, which should be an awesome dark fantasy. Hulu’s Medalist could be the season’s standout sports anime too, at least without considering Blue Box.

Winter 2025 Anime With No Western Streaming Platform

Ishura, Sorairo Utility, Yami Shibai, & More

Every season includes anime that just never land on Western streaming platforms, and Winter 2025 will not be an exception. That said, series like Ishura and Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai 14 are likely to reveal services sooner or later, especially since their predecessors are available for streaming. Can You Keep a Secret? and Sorairo Utility also seem like an anime that should be released in North America, particularly the former. Whether that comes to pass remains to be seen.