The State of Anime in 2025
X-Ray Vision
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
2025 was a HUGE year for anime, and we’re breaking down what made it hit, from the shows that dominated streaming to the movies that broke the box office.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, this episode contains spoilers for just what the biggest anime of 2025 have been. |
| 0:10.7 | More of a numbers and business spoilers. |
| 0:12.4 | Well, a little bit tone, a little bit talk. |
| 0:14.0 | It's going to be me and a boo. |
| 0:14.8 | We're going to be talking about anime, the biggest and best anime of 2025. |
| 0:18.8 | And what we've learned from the most popular anime. |
| 0:40.9 | So yes, hello, I am Rosie Knight. |
| 0:42.5 | And I'm a booze far. |
| 0:48.9 | And welcome back to Extravision, the podcast where we go deep in your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture. |
| 0:54.4 | Coming to you from IHart podcast where we are bringing you three episodes a week and news on TAC Today's. |
| 1:02.6 | In today's episode, we're going to be taking a look at the list of the top anime on Netflix and the most popular anime on Crunchyroll and trying to break down some takeaways, |
| 1:07.9 | trying to gather what data we can about the current state of |
| 1:12.1 | anime in the US and see what's out there. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, I'm really happy that we're having this conversation. |
| 1:18.3 | This was kind of inspired when we were in a pre-pro meeting of just kind of what is the |
| 1:23.8 | story of anime this year? |
| 1:25.2 | I would say the big story is like more people than ever are watching it. |
| 1:29.4 | That's my big feeling. |
| 1:30.3 | I agree. |
| 1:31.7 | Now anime has truly gone mainstream and apologies to anyone who's like, hey, it's always |
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