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The new year brings a new season of anime to dive into across all our usual streaming services. For the Winter 2025 Anime Season, Crunchyroll, Netflix, and HIDIVE have enough shows to fill our January schedule while inevitably adding to your backlog. If your New Year's Resolution involves fitting more anime into your life, here is where to find every anime streaming at the start of 2025.

Everything coming to Crunchyroll in the Winter 2024 - 2025 anime season

As usual, Crunchyroll is bringing you the largest and most diverse range of anime series in Winter 2025. There are some returning shows like Shangri-La Frontier season two and One Piece, but there are also more than 30 new shows streaming on Crunchyroll this season.

It is worth noting that the Dragon Ball Daima English dub is coming to Crunchyroll starting in January 2025, though the entire subtitled version will already be available on Crunchyroll and Netflix by that time.

• Fate/strange Fake – December 31
• Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective – January 1
• Grisaia Phantom Trigger – January 1
• Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! – January 1
• Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time – January 1
• Momentary Lily – January 2
• I’m Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class – January 3
• OKITSURA: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl but I Just Wish I Knew What She’s Saying – January 4
• I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons – January 5
• ZENSHU – January 5
• I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic – January 6
• Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms – January 6
• Promise of Wizard – January 6
• Bogus Skill “Fruitmaster”: About that Time I Became Able to Eat Unlimited Numbers of Skill Fruits (That Kill You) – January 7
• Unnamed Memory Season 2 – January 7
• Honey Lemon Soda – January 8
• Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World – January 8
• Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You – January 9
• AQUARION Myth of Emotions – January 9
• Dr. Stone Science Future – January 9
• The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World – January 9
• Dragon Ball Daima (English Dub) – January 10
• Farmagia – January 10
• I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time – January 10
• The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 – January 10
• Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! – January 10
• I Left my A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! – January 11
• Toilet-bound Hanako-kun Season 2 – January 11
• UntieUp! -Uni:Birth- – January 11
• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2 – January 12
• The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World – January 12
• Blue Exorcist: The Blue Night Saga – January
• Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest - January
• Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow – January

The following shows have new episodes airing during the Winter 2025 anime season but are either continuing from the previous season or have an ongoing release schedule which means they aren’t beholden to the seasonal anime schedule that most shows abide by now.

• One Piece Log: Fish-Man Island Saga
• A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!
• Blue Miburo
• Case Closed
• Rurouni Kenshin – Kyoto Disturbance
• Shangri-La Frontier Season 2
• Trillion Game
• Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister
• Wonderful Precure!
• Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World – Season 3 – February 5

Everything coming to HIDIVE in the Winter 2025 anime season

Crunchyroll isn’t the only site to have new anime this season. While HIDIVE doesn’t have the same massive library, it usually ends up with one or two hit shows each season. These are the shows coming to HIDIVE during the Winter 2025 anime season.

• Beheneko: The Elf-Girl’s Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! – December 28
• I’m Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!? – January 2025
• Flower and Asura – January 2025
• From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! – January 2025

Everything coming to Netflix in the Winter 2025 anime season

Every year, Netflix ups its anime game by either adding existing shows to its library or nabbing a new Netflix exclusive. The biggest title coming in Winter 2025 on Netflix is likely to be Sakamoto Days, which has a huge following from the manga and an interesting concept – what if John Wick’s wife didn’t get killed and also he had a psychic sidekick?

The new anime coming to Netflix in Winter 2025 are:

• My Happy Marriage Season 2 – January 6
• Baban Baban Ban Vampire – January 11
• Sakamoto Days Season 1 – January 11
• Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc Season 2 – January 12
• Castlevania Nocturne Season 2 – January 16

There is a lot of anime coming our way in the next few months, so clear your schedule and tell your family you won’t be seeing them until April.

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Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

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