The Summer Anime Preview Guide sponsored by Crunchyroll

Welcome to the 2025 summer anime preview guide for Anime News, sponsored by Crunchyroll! Here’s how we do it: Our team of critics wrote down their impressions immediately and posted them here. Every critic will cover as many shows as possible, giving you an alternative to almost all shows.
This season, our anime preview guide is expanding to include The first two episodes The lineup of each show and critics has expanded. We hope you enjoyed a more comprehensive version of the anime preview guide!
The guide is in progress, organized by series, updated multiple times a day. Over the next two weeks, we will be up-to-date with new perspectives on the new episodes of the critics team. New reviews will be released immediately after writing, with each critic’s name added to the roster below the title of the show. Come back a few times a day during the guide and you will most likely see new shows pop up with multiple appreciations!
Remember, this is Preview guide. It aims to give you the first two episodes of the exhibition and with a preliminary view and some ideas about whether the show has potential. These Don’t plan It is the blanket judgment of the entire series. All reviews use the same rating scale: 1-5, with 1 of them the lowest.
Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One of the companies mentioned in this article is part of the Kadokawa Group.