Recapping the biggest anime news of 2025 so far

Summer is here, and that means 2025 is at its halfway point. The year has already seen some big anime news, and the Bam Smack Pow team is here to recap the key stories that you may have missed.

To help simplify things, we’ve broken it down into sections dealing with some of the major anime trends of the year so far, including the major announcements of what’s in store for the rest of 2025 and beyond.

Debuts & returns (and where to watch them)

We’ve wrapped up the year’s Winter and Spring anime seasons, which means some of the year’s anime series have wrapped up their run. On the other hand, other series are continuing, returning, or have been confirmed to return in the back half of the year.

Here’s a quick summary of some of the can’t anime series of 2025 to either catch up on or look forward to.

• Ameku M.