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The Gnosia anime might seriously be the best video game adaptation ever [Popverse Jump]
Watching Gnosia on Crunchyroll makes me feel like I'm playing the original visual novel in the best way
The biggest surprise from the Fall 2025 anime season isn’t how popular shows like Spy x Family or My Hero Academia have been. Those are returning shows with massive followings thanks to their past anime seasons and popular manga. No, the biggest surprise is Gnosia, an anime based on a visual novel that combines the party game Werewolf with a touch of multiversal time-looping gameplay. Not just that this game got an anime adaptation, but that it is so damn good.
I wrote about the impending release of this show back when it was first announced. It was an intriguing but baffling thing. Gnosia is unusual even by visual novel standards; it has a gameplay loop that is ripped right out of Werewolf or Among Us. A spaceship has been infiltrated by mysterious aliens that look like regular crewmates but kill a character once
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