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title: 'Summer 2025 Anime Sequel Situation is Crazy'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=DSNR3rlJDI8'
video_id: 'DSNR3rlJDI8'
date: 2026-07-22
duration_sec: 2757
channel: 'Mother''s Basement'
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# Summer 2025 Anime Sequel Situation is Crazy

> Source: [Summer 2025 Anime Sequel Situation is Crazy](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DSNR3rlJDI8)

## Summary

The video provides a comprehensive tier list of over 20 anime sequels airing in Summer 2025, evaluating each based on quality, hype, and accessibility for new viewers. The creator covers everything from major shonen hits to niche sequels, offering personal rankings and recommendations.

### Key Points

- **Summer 2025 has too many sequels** [00:02] — Over 20 anime sequels are returning, with more than half being major heavy hitters, making it overwhelming for fans to keep up.
- **Reborn as a Vending Machine is low B-tier** [03:09] — The show takes its absurd premise seriously and is entertaining, but the creator dropped it halfway through, ranking it as low B-tier.
- **Call of the Night is A-tier** [04:38] — A vampire romance with immaculate vibes, great music, and a unique premise where the protagonist must fall in love to become a vampire.
- **Dandadan is S-tier** [07:09] — A supernatural romcom with peak humor, romance, action, and animation. The new season is where the story reaches its peak.
- **Arknights: Rise from Ember is B-tier** [08:42] — A gacha game tie-in with stunning visuals and interesting world, but ultimately a glorified commercial, ranked B-tier.
- **Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai is S-tier** [12:47] — A sharp supernatural romcom with excellent character dynamics and clever mysteries. The second season is highly anticipated.
- **Puniru is a Kawaii Slime is D-tier** [15:37] — The show's main character is annoying and the comedy falls flat, making it a low-ranked series.
- **Toilet-bound Hanako-kun is A-tier** [17:43] — A charming horror comedy with stunning art style and good character development, highly recommended by friends.
- **My Dress-Up Darling is high A-tier** [19:15] — Beyond fan service, the show has excellent character chemistry, authentic portrayal of cosplay culture, and cinematic quality.
- **Grand Blue Dreaming is A-tier** [24:17] — A hilarious diving comedy with summer vibes, though episodes are sparse. Highly recommended for laughs.
- **The Rising of the Shield Hero is low C-tier** [25:30] — Season 2 was a major drop in quality, but season 3 improves slightly. Still, the series is mediocre overall.
- **Dr. Stone is top B-tier** [28:25] — An excellent edutainment series about rebuilding civilization with science. The upcoming arc is one of the best.
- **Seventh Prince is A-tier** [30:07] — A fun, trashy isekai-like show with great animation and entertaining power fantasy, despite questionable elements.
- **Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is S-tier** [31:23] — A historic sequel from Studio Trigger, reviving the iconic crude comedy. A must-watch for fans.
- **Yami Shibai is C/D-tier** [32:48] — Early seasons were great horror, but the series has run out of ideas. Not worth catching up on.
- **Sakamoto Days is B-tier** [34:04] — Good story and characters, but the animation lacks the wow factor of the manga's dynamic art.
- **Kaiju No. 8 is lower A-tier** [35:49] — High production quality and clippable moments make it a likely hit, despite a less creative story.
- **Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is A-tier** [37:24] — The climax of the series with feature-quality animation. A reliable, polished shonen experience.
- **Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc is S-tier** [39:14] — The arc where the story gets really good, with feature film production from MAPPA. A must-watch.
- **Pokémon Concierge is S-tier** [43:35] — A cozy stop-motion slice of life for adults, easy to catch up on and heartwarming.

### Conclusion

Summer 2025 is an incredibly stacked season for anime sequels, with many high-quality shows returning. Viewers should prioritize S and A-tier titles like Dandadan, Rascal, and Chainsaw Man, but there's something for everyone.

## Transcript

recommendations for a season, I don't think twice about the sequels, cuz I mean, they're just a lot less accessible for a new fan to get into, right? Plus, I kind of figure the existing fans are already going to give them all the word
of mouth hype they could possibly need. But this summer is really challenging But this summer is really challenging that assumption by simply having far too many anime coming back for anyone to possibly keep up with them. I mean over
20 of them with over half of those being serious heavy hitters. Even Jeff Wagon is afraid. Which is why I thought you guys might, you know, appreciate a really worth getting hyped about and
catching up on before the season starts. Possibly in the format of a spoof of that one show where the old guy yells at you about stocks. You know, like buy you about stocks. You know, like buy Dondon, sell Shield Hero. But uh I've
never actually watched that show and I don't even remember Jim Kramer's name. So it's probably safer to just do this as a regular tier list instead. I do feel really bad about going for such a loweffort format though. So we will be
talking about literally every anime that's coming back this season, no matter how little it's actually worth talking about. And I'm going to challenge myself by covering them in release order instead of whatever order
makes the segways easier to write. And then I'm still going to do a lot of challenge. I'm going to I'm going to really flex my segue and muscles. That's the mother's basement difference right there, folks. That's why you come to
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reborn as a vending machine, now I wander the dungeon. A title that sounds like a very tired joke about how isseekai are all running out of ideas. But the show attached to that title surprised and delighted me at many turns
with how serious it ended up taking it. tackling the question of what if a guy became a vending machine and then a really strong elf used him as a backpack really strong elf used him as a backpack with remarkable specificity and nigh
unmatched enthusiasm. This is clearly the work of a man who [ __ ] loves vending machines and wants nothing more in life than to share that love with the world. Commercial appeal be damned. I have to do it. I'll do the same thing
with a towel and a newspaper. And now the forbidden step, heating up a metal can in a microwave. I'll use the barrier to toss these items I'll use the barrier to toss these items out into the gas,
this was a pretty solid commercial success. I did spotlight Vending Machine on Ones to Watch and I believe Hotest Trash back when it first started, and I do still think it's at least worth checking out if you're at all curious.
But apparently I also didn't think it was particularly worth keeping up with judging by how I dropped the first season halfway through and haven't really thought about it at all until pretty much right now. So it's probably
like a a very low B tier. Maybe like teetering on the edge of C. Not B. It's B. It's it's still, you know, it's good. It's it's not great. Our next story, funny enough, also starts with a vending machine where a lonely, brooding middle
school lad named Co Yamorei is attempting to get his underage drink on only to become an underage drink. Nanakusa Nazuna is a vampire, you see, who happens to find this particular boy's blood to be particularly delicious
and also generally enjoys his company whilst enjoying the liinal magic of their sleeping city in the wee hours of the morning. Something that they uh quite enjoy doing together, just as
friends to be clear, despite Nazuchan looking god damn. Co's never really caught feelings for anyone before. No matter how godamn they are, he's pretty much a-romantic. So, it probably would have
stayed that platonic way perpetually if the vampire rules of this particular the vampire rules of this particular vampire story didn't specify that if a person falls in love with a vampire that bites them, they get to be a vampire,
too, which Co would very much like to do on account of the immortality and the flying and the never having to look at the stupid goddamn son again. All of which just pure upsides. There are now downsides to being a vampire for this
fall in love with someone, and he's never done that before. So, he's got to figure out what is love, baby, don't hurt me, don't hurt me, while growing closer to Nazu Chan inch by inch, day by day, and meeting other kooky denisins of
the night along the way. And that's the show. It's a very good show. I would put it cleanly in a tier. The vibes are immaculate.
episode has its own banger insert song. But even if you don't get that, you are always at least guaranteed what I would argue is the best Creepy Nuts anime opening of all time. Plus, you get a Creepy Nuts anime ending with Call of
the Night, which is the song that inspired the original manga to begin with. How cool is that? The author must have like literally been doing back flips when they signed that contract. Funny enough, the show with the second
best Creepy Nuts OP has its own sequel coming literally right now, Dondon, which uh as far as supernatural shownen romance stories go, does have Call of
the Night beat in basically every other department
[Music] [Applause] last year on account of its all-around excellent everything. So, it shouldn't
come as a surprise to anyone that I'm putting this right at the tippy top of S tier. It's already one of the greatest anime of all time just from what they've adapted so far. And as a manga reader, I happen to know that this new season is
where peak starts to be really peak. If you were lucky enough to catch the preview in theaters, you might think you know what I'm talking about. But buddy, that's not even the half of it. You can't even see the real Peak from where
you are yet. Now, if you've somehow never heard of Dond Don, don't look it up. You might end up seeing certain YouTubers tweeting about it, and no one should have to go through that. All you really need to know is it's a romcom
with light shownen battle elements about a girl who believes in Yo-kai and a guy who believes in aliens who both turn out to be 100% right. And peak humor, peak romance, peak action, peak animation, peak music, and peak everything in Sue.
If you're not watching Dondon, you need to change that ASAP. As for me, I'm starting to think I might need to change my whole not watching Ark Knight situation after taking a look at the trailer for Ark Knight's Rise from
Ember. I honestly did not expect much from a, you know, gotcha tie-in anime that didn't come from Syame, but man, look at those colors, the subtle
flourishes in the animation, the shot compositions. This is one goodlooking anime. The world seems really interesting, too. The character designs are topnotch. Obviously, it's a gotcha anime. And like, you know what? Yeah, I
anime. And like, you know what? Yeah, I could absolutely go for a season or two of cool sci-fi action that looks that good. Sign me up eventually. Right now, I've got just way too much great anime to get through to bother keeping up with
a glorified video game commercial. Even if it does look like a really good video game commercial, I do want to eventually though to be clear and I think that puts though to be clear and I think that puts this around B tier. Speaking of
glorified game commercials though, I know all of you are beyond hyped to hear know all of you are beyond hyped to hear that Card Fight Vanguard Divines Deluxe, that Card Fight Vanguard Divines Deluxe, that's Divines with a Z, is back for its
Kesho arc. I told you we were covering everything. Now, longtime viewers may remember that I once held the original Card Fight Vanguard up as a rare example of anime accurately capturing what it's like to play a card game in real life as
like to play a card game in real life as a hobby. That was ages ago, though. By the time I made that video, the original series had pretty much devolved into Diet Yu-Gi-Oh. But since the pandemic, with help from character designs by the
legendary manga circle Clamp, the franchise has reinvented itself into something a little more slice of lifey with an emphasis on character drama and more personally meaningful card battles in the Vanguard D timeline. Now we're
staring down the ninth entry in that reboot in five years, which is a little crazy, or the fourth installment of the second soft reboot, which is the Divines
part of the Dtimeline if you want to get really technical, which is the 17th title in the Card Fight Vanguard franchise overall, unless you count the one split season that they didn't count as split cores, even though they did
split it up, in which case it's the 18th thing. And if after hearing all of that, you're still wondering if any or all of the series is worth your time. I mean, it is the only currently ongoing bigish TCG anime. So, if that's the kind of
thing you generally enjoy keeping up with, you're already watching it because you literally do not have another choice. The current card game meta ushered in by Vanguard's own bushy road sister game, Vise Schwartz, is all about
capitalizing on outside IP instead of building up one of your own. So, this thing's kind of a nostalgic relic of a simpler time now, and that might make it worth watching for some people. It is still, you know, a toy commercial for
children, though. So, if that isn't your personal favorite extremely specific subg genre, then the value you get out of it will be entirely proportional to of it will be entirely proportional to how much you get into the 17th
bestselling physical TCG in the year of our Haruhi 2025, which I played from the beginning and I don't particularly care for it. So, I'm putting this anime in
Dtier. Generally though, if someone's just absolutely dying to get into a new anime for the sake of a TCG, just go watch One Piece or Digimon. But speaking of Vice Schwarz, nah, that's too easy. I could use that segue for literally half
the anime in this video. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai did get a pretty good vice short set, though. And now, finally, it's also getting a second season. Rascal does not dream of Santa
Claus, which once again, if you've seen my previous video about the previous season, you will not be at all surprised to see Sitten in S tier.
to need a refresher on this particular supernatural shownen romcom over Dondon, though, considering the last time we saw Rascal in English was the Before Times. So, here's the pitch. What would you do if you saw the hottest girl in your
school strutting around in a bunny suit because she's inexplicably invisible to because she's inexplicably invisible to everyone except you? Okay, now imagine that instead of you, or more importantly, anything even remotely
resembling a Kazuya or Ketaro, the guy in that situation is a much cooler, more confident and likable fella named Sakuta, who absolutely would not fumble that ball or pussyfoot around his feelings at all. Meaning they get to
completely skip the will they won't they [ __ ] and immediately form an unbeatable anime power couple that sets to work helping other high school girls with their puberty related supernatural problems. Tight teen drama intertwined
with clever supernatural mysteries. Grippingly unconventional romance built on the back of a fantastic cast of characters. uproorious comedy, heart-wrenching melodrama, sharp social commentary, and utterly immaculate
lot of really good vibes this season. The Rascal series is up there with The Rascal series is up there with Haruhi, Monogatri, Apothecary Diaries, and Re:Zero in the absolute upper echelon of light novel anime. And I
cannot recommend enough that you catch up on it, which makes it all the more infuriating that currently the only way to catch up on the last two movies in English is buying a ridiculously overpriced set of Blu-rays. Why are
these movies not on Crunchyroll? They're Anniplex Blu-rays. It's Sony all the way Anniplex Blu-rays. It's Sony all the way down. Why is this so hard? Speaking of popular romcoms with Vice Schwarz sets again though,
Mommy did nothing wrong. F tier. Wait. [ __ ] No. I'm pretty sure this is the pool bonus season. Zt tier. Now, next to Rentaguff, damn near anything is going to look good. So, it really says something about Puniru is a kawaii slime
that even after going through all of that, I can only look at it with abject apathy. It's the story of a young boy who used to go on adventures with his special magic slime pal until one day he got too old for mascot anime shenanigans
and decided to try to be, you know, a real middle school boy. So now she follows him to middle school and annoys him and basically it's anime Ted, you know, just with a VTuber where Seth McFarland should be. And on the flip
side, no Marky Mark. Unfortunately, neither that nor its sometimes quite good animation really makes up for its most fatal comedic flaw. The characters suck butts. Especially the one the show's named after. Punoo's entire
personality is just, I'm so cute. Look at me. Look at how cute I am. I deserve my own theme park. And that can certainly be entertaining. Don't get me certainly be entertaining. Don't get me wrong. Just look at mamonga in Chia. The
thing about mamonga is though, we're supposed to hate mamonga. It's the bad guy. Go watch our lore video on the second channel if you want to see how bad. You will not believe how bad this ass squirrel is. But you don't need any
lore context to understand that the entire joke with Mamonga is that it is really bad at being cute. So bad that the sheer ineptitude and unearned arrogance combined to loop it back around to being cute again in a pathetic
way. Puniru does not get that far though. Her loop stops dead in the though. Her loop stops dead in the middle of really [ __ ] annoying.
her show right now because even after a three episode test, the only thing that I remember it making me feel besides annoyance was a crushing sense of annoyance was a crushing sense of boredom. Dtier. If you simply must watch
an anime about a middle schooler with a quirky magic pal this season, I have it on good authority that toilet bound Hanukkahun is an infinitely better use of your time. And hey, lucky you. Season 2, part two is also on the summer
charming little horror comedy thing about this girl who ends up befriending the urban legendary toilet ghost Hanaco, who turns out to be a boy, and subsequently gets sucked into a world of supernatural shenanigans where much gag
comedy and good character stuff ensues. And honestly, I don't know much more about it. I never finished the show, but I have really been meaning to because several of my friends absolutely swear by it and I absolutely believe the hype.
I loved the episodes that I did watch when I covered them for ones to watch. The art style is absolutely stunning. And out of all the anime that I'm not caught up on in this video, this is the one that I most want to be binging right
now. If I weren't already neck deep in finally watching Chihayauru because of uh reasons. As it stands, I haven't really seen enough of Hanakokun to know where to properly rank it, but the hype has it hovering solidly in a tier. And I
do believe the hype, so let's put it there. For folks who enjoy those sorts of wholesome comedies, My Dress Up Darling season 2 might seem like the exact opposite of what you want to see. But if you've written it off as simple
waifu trash, I do think it's worth a very serious second look. I mean, yeah, if you want to see certain things animated very well, there's probably not a single anime out there with a stronger grasp on weight, elasticity, and fabric
physics. It is undeniably a Goonar's just regular every night kind of dream, I suppose. But it is also so much more than that. Kitagawa, you looked so beautiful today.
the things most precious to me. So I don't say beautiful or pretty unless it don't say beautiful or pretty unless it comes from the heart.
utterly vivid and incredibly realized. The chemistry between them is tangibly electric. Everything that it brings into its story from the real world, be it traditional doll making or cosplay culture, is impeccably researched and
authentically portrayed. And the anime adaptation is pure cinema. It's just a adaptation is pure cinema. It's just a really [ __ ] good anime in every respect to the point that the etchy bits kind of stop registering as etchy and
just start feeling like another part of the show's cinematic texture. An extra jiggly part, sure, but one that symbolically reflects Marin's outgoing personality in contrast to Gojo's more reserved way of being. Also, Dress Up
Darling has a lot of excellent qualities that have nothing to do with how amazingly its boobs are animated, but I don't really feel like talking about those today, and I already did talk about them several years ago in a video
essay that's still, I think, quite good. So, just go watch that one after this one if you need to understand why Dress Up Darling is very high A tier. After Up Darling is very high A tier. After that, we got uh Crypto Ninja Sakuya
that, we got uh Crypto Ninja Sakuya season 3, which isn't the NFT thing, it sounds like, but rather a threeminute kids thing about teenage girls who are secretly ninjas, secretly doing secret ninja stuff, which to my knowledge has
never been translated into English and probably never will be. the like 30% of the show that I can currently sort of understand without subtitles does seem pretty cute and fun and stuff, you know, as far as 3minut anime go. So, it might
be worth the slightly over an hour it would take to catch up if you could watch it, which you can't. So, I'm sorry. Probably should have just left that one out of the video altogether. Going romcom to romcom would have made
this segue a lot smoother, too. But I did say I would be covering everything. A Couple of Cuckoos is one of the weirder arranged marriage romcom anime weirder arranged marriage romcom anime out there, which yes, is its own entire
subgenre. Thanks for asking. As the title suggests, the couple in question here are a teenage boy and teenage girl who were somehow swapped at birth, despite that generally being one of the first things they check at hospitals.
Anyway, one day their parents end up figuring out the mixup. And they decide that the fastest way to stitch their families back together with the least to marry each other. So, they force them to marry each other and move into a
really big fancy house together. As is the style in this subgenre, which I will remind you is its own entire subgenre. And now you know the plot. Actually, you know what? I don't know the plot. Not with any certainty because despite
having seen most of this show, my memory of it just completely bleeds into Girlfriend Girlfriend and Love is Indivisible by Twins. Mostly because of Indivisible by Twins. Mostly because of the art style. I don't understand why so
many anime romcoms have to look like that these days. But it's also a matter of just how darn forgettable A couple of cuckoo really was. I can pull details out of my memory slurry about those other two shows that I enjoyed or at
least emotionally responded to, but I'm drawing a complete blank on this show. I do vaguely remember laughing at some of the things the characters did probably. And I'm pretty sure the romantic chemistry between the leads is better
than decent, but obviously not a lot about it really grabbed me. And I can't think of any reason to watch it over any of the other many things in this very
specific subgenre that yes is its own entire subgenre. Couple of cuckoo is Ctier. You know what else belongs in the sea though? The cast of the rockously runchy sanan scuba diving comedy Grand Blue Dreaming which is finally back for
its second season this summer. And it's hard to think of a better time for it. hard to think of a better time for it. Grand Blue absolutely radiates summer break vibes. Specifically hanging out with your best and stupidest friends on
summer break with an unlimited supply of booze and a very limited supply of pants. [Music]
hard to recommend it on any grounds other than it's really funny. But Grand other than it's really funny. But Grand Blue Dreaming is really really [ __ ] funny. Just a bottomless well of laughs. Uh no, the other kind of bottomless.
There are only 12 episodes worth of laughs released in the last 7 years, and laughs released in the last 7 years, and that is just not nearly enough laughs for one of the funniest bro comedies ever animated, no matter how densely
packed and individually gutbusting those laughs might be. But on the flip side, that does make it a lot easier to catch up now that the wait is finally over. up now that the wait is finally over. And this show is an easy A tier
recommendation. Speaking of taking a dive, The Rising of the Shield Hero ironically fell off about as hard as an anime possibly can in season two, aka season Twiddle, in which our heroes fight a turtle, then keep fighting that
turtle, and then fight the turtle some more. Once you make it to season 3, there is less turtle fighting. And you even get to watch Na Fumi finally kind of sort of deal with the whole slavery situation he's been actively
participating in since episode 1 by pouring even more money into the slave trade, which he wins by fighting other slaves in an underground blood sport. Then after that exemplary display of allyship, the anime finally starts
tapping into the most interesting part of its worldb buildinging concept, the fact that there are multiple parallel earths and fantasy worlds out there for now and other isekai kids to do pretty much the same old isekai [ __ ] in. It's
not great, but there are far worse isekai out there, and season 4 should more or less sustain that level of midness. So, anyone who's still into the series should be in for a pretty okay time this summer. The real issue is that
there aren't worse isekai out there than season 2, which you do need to sit through before you can mildly enjoy the new moderately creative slop. So, I guess technically that is enough of a choice to put this in Ctier, but like
right at the bottom. Look, if you're just absolutely itching to invest four seasons worth of ketchup into something this summer, Oso Matsusan is going to give you a much better payoff because it's really funny. That's it. That's the
whole pitch. Do you enjoy animated sitcoms? They don't get much funnier than Osumatsuan. And the really nice thing is, as an animated sitcom, you don't actually have to catch up on anything to enjoy this new season. You
anything to enjoy this new season. You could always just watch it, and you probably should. No one expected much of anything from this reboot of a crusty old black and white anime when it started, but it's consistently proven to
be one of the most clever and artistically ambitious anime on TV today and pretty damn good for the Yahi shippers to boot, which is obviously the more important part of its success story. Fujo bucks make the industry go
round. Now, to be clear, I don't think Osumasu is actually the sort of anime you need to like drop everything right now to start watching it. It's a B tier priority at best for the purposes of this list and not quite as funny as
Grand Blue in my opinion. But the next time you're in the mood for a sitcom, you should definitely think about it. Speaking of time and thinking, I'm not going to spend any time thinking about how to segue into Dr. Stone Science
how to segue into Dr. Stone Science Future Part Two. Ah, he kind of time travels sort of and he thinks so a lot. It was right there, Jeff. Dr. Stone, if you're not familiar, is quite possibly the single finest piece of edutainment
to ever come out of Japan, rivaled only by cells at work. In it, every person on Earth is suddenly and mysteriously turned to stone one day and stays that way for thousands of years until a super genius named Senku finds himself
inexplicably depetrified and immediately gets to work making the deetrification process a whole lot more explicable with the power of science. Then he uses that
deppetrification formula to start rebuilding civilization from the stone age up, interrupted by the occasional war with someone he unfroze, who thinks they ought to rebuild a little differently, which Senku invariably wins
by reinventing some cool science stuff and explaining how it works to the viewer/reader with handy dandy infographics. Personally, I've always preferred the manga version of Dr. stone to the anime both because it's easier to
take in those infographics at my own pace as a reader and because it's just impossible for animation to capture the subtle charms of Buchi's artwork. But the anime is still a solid way to experience the story and the second half
of Science Future happens to be one of the absolute best bits of that story. A their [ __ ] online in the next couple months. So, I do think this belongs at the absolute top of B tier. Dr. Stone isn't exactly what you think of first
when someone says shownen anime. But if you do want to watch a little kid go on adventures, throw laser beams all over the place, and beat dudes and monsters up who really deserve it. I was reincarnated as the seventh prince, so I
may as well try Mastering Magic season 2 is going to scratch that itch as well as is going to scratch that itch as well as damn near anything out there.
cast and automatically assume you're looking at some degenerate isekai slop where a bunch of scanally clad women and girls throw themselves all over a 30-year-old man in the body of an 8-year-old boy. But this one's not an
isekai. And while it is of course perfectly valid to feel however you might feel about all that other stuff, do consider
little trash goblin like me, Seventh Prince belongs right at the top of A tier. And for everyone else, I don't care about your opinions because I love
trash. Yum, yum, yum. Just shovel more trash right in my mouth, please. Oh, thank you very much, Studio Triggers. sir and your friend, visionary director
Hiroyuki Imayishi, who have finally rested the IP rights to panty and stocking with garter belt from the festering corpse of Gynax after 15 long
years and can finally follow up the shockingly shocking cliffhanger ending of your obscene lust letter to American cartoons. I don't even have to tell you guys this one's S tier. It is a self-evidently historic moment for all
of anime that we are lucky to be living through.
Panty and Stocking yet, imagine the Powerpuff Girls grew up to be lazy, horny, gluttonous pieces of [ __ ] Now, imagine them fighting literal pieces of [ __ ] with their magic transforming underwear. I think we can all agree you
made a huge mistake by not watching this show much sooner. But luckily, you still have a week or so to correct that mistake before history is made. And I promise it is going to be one of the funniest weeks of your life. Now, those
sorts of laughs are exactly what you expect to find in like 99% of short form anime, but Yami Sheibby bucks that trend by telling a series of chilling little ghost stories with charming paper puppet animation styled after the kami sheibi
street theater that was popular with kids in post-war and depression era Japan. If you enjoy horror even a little bit, the vibes in this show are unmatched, and few things will spook you so much and so quickly as some of its
so much and so quickly as some of its earlier episodes. We are up to season 15 by now, though, and the spooky haunted well of really good ideas ran dry a long ass time ago. There are usually still a few gems a season, but there's a whole
mess of muck you got to wade through to find them in pretty much anything past like Yummy Sheibby 5. So, yes, I do think that you should watch Yummy Sheibby. It is a very good use of your time if you want to get spooked in a
hurry, but don't bother catching up with it. The good bits are B tier, but they are all front-loaded. And the series as a whole averages out to a C, maybe even a whole averages out to a C, maybe even a D. Now, it pains me to say this with
how much I loved the original manga and how hyped I was for it to finally get an anime, but the highest I can reasonably place Sakamoto Days season 2 is in B
tier and not near the top. Don't get me wrong, it is still a good story with good enough action, great characters, solid sound design and music. The animation just doesn't have the wow
factor of Yoto Suzuki's ultra dynamic art and paneling. And without that, I mean, it still has a lot going for it. John Wick X family is an undeniably winning comedic premise, but it's got to work a lot harder to make the audience
take its serious bits seriously, where the manga could simply demand that they do with the raw aura emanating from its art. And I just don't know if this anime
is going to be able to pull that off in the same way as [ __ ] gets increasingly real over the events of this next season.
still always the possibility it could really pop off with this new season. And the chance to be part of the conversation could end up outweighing all of the benefits of otherwise just going to read the manga instead. But
realistically, I don't know how likely that is with how many other big anime are fighting for everyone's attention right now, including three other Shonen Jump things on TV alone. One of which is the exponentially more impressive
adaptation of Kaiju Number Eight, which perhaps impresses a little less on the storytelling front than Sakamoto. There is very little in this anime that you is very little in this anime that you haven't seen before, except for perhaps.
stuff was in either My Hero Academia or Attack on Titan. And I mean, if you're going to steal, you may as well steal from the guys making cajillions of yen a year. A lot of folks out there could probably go for some of that Hiroaka
style underdog power fantasy with a little smidge of apocalyptic grit. And Kaiju Number eight's highly clippable production quality gives it a much better chance of reaching those potential fans than say Sakamoto. Plus,
the manga only gets more efficient at farming aura as it goes on. So, while I do think that it has probably the least creative story out of any Shonen Jump thing this season, I do think there's a pretty good chance that Kaiju number
eight could become one of those shownen jump things that you're kind of obligated to watch because literally everyone else is. I mean, they got [ __ ] Imagine Dragons for the first OP. They are clearly aiming for that
level of total global saturation. So, just based on the level of hype it reaches, plus the enjoyment of being able to talk about it with probably everyone you know who remotely watches anime, I think that that pushes it up to
the lower fringes of a tier. On that note though, in just a matter of weeks, Demon Slayer, the most obligatorily popular Shonen Jump thing, is finally reaching its epic climax with the Infinity Castle movie. Adapting the arc
of the same name to a feature film pace with feature quality animation, which is a value proposition it's hard to say no to.
are getting more and more experimental, Demon Slayer has managed to stand out by simply doing what works with more polish and better pacing than any of its contemporaries. It's the old reliable to Kaiju number eight's new reliable, and
I'll be darned if it ain't a reliable good time. It's nowhere near my favorite shownen, not even top 20, but I do really appreciate what Demon Slayer does in stripping the big three era formula down to its most efficient essentials.
You are not going to get a shownen rush this good this fast anywhere else. And as soon as it's out in theaters, pretty much everyone with an even passing interest in anime is going to be feeling that rush, making this probably one of
the least necessary recommendations I've ever put in a video. But I did promise to cover everything. And if somehow you've been living under a rock since before the Muggan hype train left the station, probably go get vaccinated
right now. Then catch up on Demon Slayer while you're waiting to be able to move your arm again. Just because personally I'm not the hugest Demon Slayer fan, I'm going to put it in A tier. But I'm sure a lot of folks out there would put it in
S. And there's a very strong case to be made there. On the other hand, the Chainsaw Man Res arc movie that's dropping this September is unequivocally dropping this September is unequivocally S tier.
who's read the manga can tell you that while what the anime's covered already is already great, this arc is where Chainsaw Man gets really good. And with Mappa giving that story feature film level production polish, it is going to
be one hell of a theatrical experience that you do not want to miss. But of have to catch up on the anime first. Luckily, it does happen to be a very good anime, one of the best, even even
if it is nowhere near as transcendentally ingenious as the original manga. So, that will be a very entertaining few hours of catchup for you. Plus, the movie's not out till September in Japan, who knows when
elsewhere. So, you've got plenty of time to catch up once you're done catching up on all the other stuff you got to catch up on in this video, which we're still not done with yet because this summer also brings with it the 33rd Crayon
also brings with it the 33rd Crayon Shinchan movie, plus the Kimitol Idol Precure movie. Two franchises which I'm ashamed to say I am not caught up on at all. However, it is my understanding from the reports of better otaku than
myself that most of the Shin Chan movies are really good with some of them being legitimately goated cinema and the show in OVA's rule too. So, just on word of mouth, it's probably a tier, maybe even
S. And I've heard the same goes for Precure, especially from the Sakuga heads who absolutely adore all of the legendary staff that this silly little magical girl thing for kids manages to pull basically every season. A quality
that you would expect to be improved in a movie. Luckily, or unluckily, I guess, if you care about the accessibility of art or whatever, it's probably going to be a while before either of those movies is available in English, if it ever
happens at all. So, feel free to catch up at your own pace. You know, it's probably not that helpful to put movies you can't actually watch yet and maybe never will be able to watch in this video, but I did say I would cover every
sequel. And that means we're not done until we get to Little Sharks Outings the movie. A featurelength tie-in to a 1-minute episodic kids cartoon about a cute little baby shark girl going on adventures in the human world, which
apparently you can watch for free right here on YouTube right now with English subs. So, let's go check that out. [Music]
charming. And you're telling me I get 90 minutes of that with feature quality animation? If this ever gets translated, it's probably a tier for literally any weeb with a kid and still a solid B tier otherwise. Unless you're studying
Japanese, in which case it's probably really good beginner level listening practice, too. And that might actually bump it up to an A for everyone overall. And hey, the show is both incredibly short and incredibly free, plus probably
not even required viewing. It is like one minute shorts leading into a feature film. So yeah, I I think I'm going to watch this movie. We also have a couple coming out this season. Hell Teacher New, a classic9s shownen jump horror
comedy, and Cats Eye, an extremely 80score anime about a detective who doesn't realize that the sexy cat burglars he's chasing are the staff at his favorite cafe. Neither of which I think actually belongs in this video at
is finding a new audience. And I'm just going to put them in the ones to watch in a couple weeks if they're any good anyway. But if I don't at least address going to say I missed him in the comments. Plus, Cats Eye is inexplicably
a Disney Plus streaming original, which makes as good a segue as I'm probably going to find into the last, but definitely not least anime on this tier definitely not least anime on this tier list. Pokemon Concierge, the comfy, cozy
Netflix original stop motion slice of life anime about a millennial wage slave who quits her job to play with Pokémon all day at a fancy Pokémon resort, where she finds a new job as a concierge. And that's why they call the anime that.
Now, perhaps I'm a little biased here because stop motion animation is harder than the Wallace and Grommit train chase, but I really can't see this one anywhere below S tier simply based on how good the first season was and how
easy it is to get caught up. A little less than an hour of watching cute Pokémon doing cute things. And your reward for all that effort is another hour of cute Pokémon doing cute things. That's a win-win deal, if I've ever
heard one. Plus, it's just plain cool to finally see some Pokemon content being made for and about the adults who grew up on Pokemon. Or maybe it's a horrifying portant of an entire generation's perpetually arrested
development like Disney adults. But I'm a [ __ ] YouTuber who talks about cartoons all day. Pretty please put the nostalgia juice right here in my mouth, Nintendo. And if it's not too much trouble, maybe make some airplane noises
on the way in. Thanks. Now, looking over this list as a whole, you're probably thinking, "Jeff, you gave out way too many Sranks. Don't even get me started on the A's. You're being way too nice to these anime." But that's the thing. I'm
not. I put multiple Shonen Jump anime in B tier. It's just that stacked a season. And that's without even getting into the new stuff. The Summer Hikatu died is looking like one of the greatest horror anime in years. The manga is amazing at
least. So, brace yourselves for the ones to watch, folks, and think about how much money you're going to be saving on travel this summer. Huge thanks to Silver and Blood Reququum for sponsoring this video. Remember to click that link
to play the game and join the What Hue Does Your Blood Hold events today. I'm Jeff Thu, professional anime enjoyer, and I am terrified of what's coming. and I am terrified of what's coming. Someone please hold me.