Crunchyroll Announces Winter 2025 Anime Lineup
Highlights of the upcoming slate include ‘Solo Leveling’ Season 2, ‘ZENSHU’, ‘The Apothecary Diaries’ Season 2, and more.
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Miyu Distribution Acquires ‘The Great History of Western Philosophy’
See the trailer and images; inspired by Lacanian theory, the animated feature from Aria Covamonas utilizes a Dadaist-style collage of public domain footage and audio to emphasize its play on reality and perception.
San Francisco Bay Coffee, Cutwater Team for Animated Campaign
The family-owned, eco-conscious company has launched its first brand awareness promotion, which illustrates a sustainable future for coffee lovers.
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DC Studios Greenlights ‘Clayface’ Feature
Mike Flanagan is penning the script while the hunt for a director is underway; plot details have not been revealed for the film which features the shapeshifting Batman villain last seen in Max’s animated ‘Harley Quinn’ series.
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Netflix Drops ‘Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight’ Teaser
The animated series created by Alain Chabat, which hits the streamer Spring 2025, follows the exploits of the beloved Gaulish duo after their village’s potion master forgets the crucial magic potion recipe.
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See Creature Animation, Cossette, Rodeo FX Team for ‘Hanging by a Thread’
The handcrafted crochet stop-motion commercial is part of a broader awareness campaign about psychological health in the workplace that aims to prevent psycho social risks such as bullying and harassment.
Disney Channel Drops ‘StuGo’ Teaser Trailer, Premiere Date
The animated Sci-Fi series will premiere with two episodes January 11, 2025 on Disney Channel at 8:00pm ET/PT; a sneak peek of the series will air on January 1 at 8:50pm ET/PT.
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Max Drops ‘Harley Quinn’ Season 5 Official Trailer
The Max Original adult animated series starring Kaley Cuoco and Lake Bell debuts its new season on January 16, followed by a new weekly episode through March 20.
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Adult Swim Announces ‘Common Side Effects’ Series Premiere
The animated comedy/thriller, which explores the discovery of a mysterious healing mushroom, debuts February 2 at 11:30pm ET/PT; new episodes stream Mondays on Max
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Netflix Debuts ‘Castlevania: Nocturne’ Season 2 Trailer
The Vampire Messiah animated thriller series gets another go at enslaving humanity when new episodes hit the streamer on January 16, 2025.
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Disney+ Drops ‘The Simpsons’ Holiday Special Trailer
The Christmas-themed double episode, ‘O C’mon All Ye Faithful,’ which guest stars Pentatonix, Patti LaBelle, and Derren Brown, premieres December 17.
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‘Wonder Pets: In the City’: A Classic Revived with Photo Puppetry and Hypnosis
The classic charm of ‘Wonder Pets’ is back with creator Jennifer Oxley’s new series, a fresh take that introduces a new team of animal heroes, navigating global adventures, who showcase the power of empathy and collaboration while teaching life lessons through mini-opera-inspired tales.
BUCK, Blur Studio Team for ‘Secret Level’ Main Titles
The duo created both the opening titles and episode title sequences for the animated anthology series, drawing inspiration from pixels and cubes, the fundamental building blocks of video games.
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CyberAgent Drops Teaser Trailer for ‘The Summer Hikaru Died’
The anime series adaptation of ‘The Summer Hikaru Died’ manga by Mokumokuren, which follows a boy who experiences strange incidents with an entity impersonating his best friend, will stream on Netflix in 2025.
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‘Carl the Collector’: A Lovely Walk Inside the Mind of Autism
Zachariah OHora discusses the unique challenges, and constant joy, of creating his PBS KIDS’ series about the everyday adventures of Carl, a warm-hearted autistic racoon who enjoys collecting things and loves his friends and family in Fuzzytown.
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Crunchyroll Drops ‘Solo Leveling’ Season 2 Trailer, Opening Theme
New song ‘ReawakeR,’ performed by LiSA, featuring Felix from Stray Kids, and composed by Hiroyuki SAWANO, featured in trailer; season premieres January 2025.
Re-VIEW: ‘The Imaginary’ - A Story to Believe
With breathtaking animation and a heartfelt narrative, Studio Ponoc’s hand-drawn animated film celebrates the unrestrained magic of childhood imagination while addressing universal themes of loss, memory, and the enduring power of stories.
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Hulu Unveils ‘The Bravest Knight’ Season 2 First Look
All six episodes of the Hulu Original, GLAAD Media Award-winning 2D animated series premiere on December 13.
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Christian Linke Talks Animation Secrets, Silent Characters and Last Lines of 'Arcane' Season 2
From watercolors and charcoal to hand-drawn 2D and highly stylized 3D, the award-winning series’ second and final season pushed visual and storytelling boundaries while delivering a gripping and emotionally stunning finale.
Prime Video Drops Official Trailer for ‘Invincible’ Season 3
The first 3 episodes of Robert Kirkman’s hit animated series set for February 6, 2025 debut, with additional episode drops every Thursday through March 13.
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EdenX Unveils ‘AI Movie Theme Park’ Software
The gen AI-powered video platform allows fans of film and TV to create highly personalized and interactive movies based on a single selfie with their gen AI software.
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Adult Swim Adds ‘Family Guy’ to 2025 Primetime Lineup
Back-to-back episodes of the series will air weekdays from 10:00 – 11:30pm ET/PT in 2025; a three-day marathon will air every evening from 7pm to 5am ET/PT starting January 1.
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Gothic, Bloody, and Hilarious: Dean Lorey Talks ‘Creature Commandos’
The showrunner reveals how he brought to the small screen DC Studios co-president James Gunn’s passion project, an all-new adult animated dark comedy that tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans, now streaming on Max.
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The Teen Angst of ‘Jentry Chau vs The Underworld’: ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ Meets ‘Euphoria’
Monsters, myths, and music collide in Echo Wu’s all-new animated series that balances finding self-identity with embracing supernatural chaos – and a millennia-old jiangshi - while coming-of-age in a small Texas town; debuts today, December 5 on Netflix.
Exclusive: ‘Big City Greens’ and ‘ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Series’ Holiday Specials Clips
As part of the ‘Disney Channel’s Fa-La-La-Lidays’ programming slate, Disney Branded Television will deck the halls with new specials of both series premiering December 7, and December 11 / December 18 respectively on Disney+.
