Anime of the Year (2025) & Interest Stack AOTY of 2024 Entry Rule Nominate one anime from 2025 (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall). Each person can submit only one entry, and duplicates are not allowed. Eligible Entries Completed series from Winter-Fall 2025, continuing titles from Fall 2024 (mainly 24/ 24+ episodes), plus Movies, Specials, and ONAs that premiered or concluded during this period. Interest Stack AOTY 2025: Interest Stack — All eligible entries listed as nominees (in the section below) will also be added to the interest stack, along with the nominator's username and their submitted comments (1–3 sentences about the title are sufficient). The interest stack will be revealed after the nomination period, and it will be titled 2025 Watchlist. Nomination Format Nominations have started I nominate [url=Anime_MAL_link]Anime_Name[/url] Voting Format Instructions Give your vote Voting will begin after the nomination period Winners Tournament Bracket: https://challonge.com/nirererin_AOTY_2025 Nominees 1. Medalist (nirererin) 2. Apocalypse Hotel (dazedcowcow62) 3. Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (ZXEAN) 4. Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray (WaterMage) 5. Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie 1: Mugenjou-hen (Adnash) 6. Gachiakuta (wallus81) 7. Watanare (DevilishIdol) 8. Chainsaw Man Movie: Reze-hen (Neengen) 9. BanG Dream! Ave Mujica (AkeZZZ) 10. Ruri no Houseki (YN_ON) 11. Takopii no Genzai (Ricchan__) 12. Anne Shirley (perseii) 13. Kowloon Generic Romance (jh666) 14. Silent Witch (GrumbleDango) 15. To Be Hero X (Necr0p0l1s) 16. Tasokare Hotel. (WatchTillTandava) 17. Bad Girl (NS2D) 18. Hyakuemu. (Nking8899) 19. Dragon Ball Daima (Captain-577) 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. . . . βΎοΈ |
nirererin1 hour ago
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| I nominate Medalist. Raw talent isn't always enough—you need the right person to believe in you. Medalist pairs a late-starting prodigy with a coach chasing his own second chance, turning competitive figure skating into an emotional, hard-earned climb. It's less about winning medals and more about persistence, trust, and the cost of chasing a dream. |
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| I nominate Apocalypse Hotel Apocalypse Hotel is not your ordinary post-apocalyptic slice-of-life hotel anime. Throughout the series, you may find yourself questioning whether it is truly a hotel-themed anime at all. With its heartwarming soundtrack and breathtaking visuals, Apocalypse Hotel feels warm, hilarious, exciting, empty, sad, mysterious, and beautiful all at the same time. |
dazedcowcow622 hours ago
| I nominate Orb: On the moments of the Earth. https://xss.now.cc/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite |
| I nominate Umamusume Cinderella Grey 2025 is truly the year of Umamusume revolution from game to anime. While the game is global phenomenon the anime airing Cinderella Grey took a vastly different approach. A story about a country (horse)girl who just love running discovering her passion and a dream. Her journey Kasamatsu to Tokyo is truly captivating. Off track a silly glutton but on field a beast. But the story is also just not about. Her rivals and friends has also amazing stories on their own. Each of them justifying their own role as Cinderella.  https://xss.now.cc/anime/59636/Uma_Musume__Cinderella_Gray |
WaterMage53 minutes ago
| I nominate Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie 1: Mugenjou-hen - Akaza Sairai edit: my bad, forgot to implement nomination format's format. ;D |
Adnash3 hours ago
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| I nominate Gachiakuta https://xss.now.cc/anime/59062/Gachiakuta |
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Reply to WaterMage
I nominate Umamusume Cinderella Grey
2025 is truly the year of Umamusume revolution from game to anime. While the game is global phenomenon the anime airing Cinderella Grey took a vastly different approach.
A story about a country (horse)girl who just love running discovering her passion and a dream. Her journey Kasamatsu to Tokyo is truly captivating. Off track a silly glutton but on field a beast. But the story is also just not about. Her rivals and friends has also amazing stories on their own. Each of them justifying their own role as Cinderella.
https://xss.now.cc/anime/59636/Uma_Musume__Cinderella_Gray
2025 is truly the year of Umamusume revolution from game to anime. While the game is global phenomenon the anime airing Cinderella Grey took a vastly different approach.
A story about a country (horse)girl who just love running discovering her passion and a dream. Her journey Kasamatsu to Tokyo is truly captivating. Off track a silly glutton but on field a beast. But the story is also just not about. Her rivals and friends has also amazing stories on their own. Each of them justifying their own role as Cinderella.
https://xss.now.cc/anime/59636/Uma_Musume__Cinderella_Gray
WaterMage said: Yes, it will counted as a single entry.Both part 1 & 2 should be one entry right? |
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| αΛ¬α Fufufu~ of course going to choose Watanare -`β‘´- Watanare follows Amaori Renako, an introvert girl who tries to reinvent herself for a true high school experience by being more lively, only to accidentally become the most soughtβafter limitedβedition Yuri collectible. Instead of gaining normal friendships, she’s suddenly drowning in girls having crushes on her she never ordered, like she walked into school and triggered a hidden romanceβroute speedrun. Watching her panicβnavigate this accidental harem is exactly the kind of delightful chaos Yuri lovers devour. |
DevilishIdol6 minutes ago
 ββΛｑβWhat Wonderful Fang ββΛｑβ Credits: Luff(γγ΅) |
| I nominate Chainsaw Man Movie: Reze-hen 2025 has been both a year of Umamusume and Tatsuki Fujimoto, but since Umas have been nominated already, I'll go with the insane blockbuster animated movie of the year. Once of a kind experience in the theaters with some of the most beautiful OST of the year. |
Neengen2 hours ago
| I nominate BanG Dream! Ave Mujica. https://xss.now.cc/anime/56653/BanG_Dream_Ave_Mujica An unconventional and psychological girls' band anime that you wouldn't see anywhere before. You need to watch BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! before this series. However, you don't need to watch the entire BanG Dream! franchises before this. Well, you can watch all of them if you want. |
AkeZZZ50 minutes ago
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| I nominate Ruri no Houseki I wholly agreed with Apocalypse Hotel, but since someone else already nominate that I'm going with my second choice |
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| I nominate Takopii no Genzai, because Gachiakuta has already been nominated. |
| I nominate Anne Shirley. https://xss.now.cc/anime/60334/Anne_Shirley |
| I nominate Silent Witch Silent Witch is the fantasy, mage-craft version of Bocchi the Rock, with a compelling plot and a lovable cast of characters. The adorable Monica Everett will freeze in place and stammer over her words all while secretly outperforming her peers at magic on every level. She has to undertake an undercover mission to protect an important student at the school in an exciting story that will leave you demanding a sequel. |
GrumbleDango2 hours ago
| I nominate To Be Hero X https://xss.now.cc/anime/53447/Tu_Bian_Yingxiong_X |
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| It's here! Straight on the heels of the last tournament, it's another one which comes up quick and catches me unawares despite my probably should have had foreknowledge and been expecting it. I nominate Tasokare Hotel. Short description/synopsis for the interest stack: Straddling the precipice between our world - Earth and the material realm, and the mystery of the afterlife beyond, lies Tasokare Hotel in the liminal twilight dimension. A schoolgirl driven to its grounds, unsure of her past, her identity, why she's here, or where she's going. Join her in finding out what awaits: What macabre or beautiful mysteries will it reveal to you? Glad I popped onto the forum and noticed this notification early, in under an hour, as opposed to 10 hours later as could easily be the case. Though in the case of my nominee, I don't know how much difference it would have made as I could also easily see it not being snatched up regardless of the amount of time elapsed. Do I expect it to win? No. Do I expect it to even necessarily get that far? No. So why am I nominating it? I feel as if I have to be true to my heart and preferences here. For a series that became my favorite of the winter season, last winter season, very early into that season, and then remained my favorite by the end of the season, and then remained my favorite as we continued into the spring and moved and progressed further through the year through summer and autumn, and still stood perched atop my favorites as we reached year's end, I'm possessed by a sense of owing it at least that much. Now, there are still series on my to-do and formal or informal plan to watch lists for 2025. Maybe eventually I'll see something released from this year which tops it, but I haven't yet. Except perhaps Arknights season 3, but that has its own problems (not that Tasokare Hotel doesn't - as virtually all anime do), their rating for me is the same, and as I state repeatedly I don't like to mix in and rank series new in their season and their year together with older continuing and returning ones. |
WatchTillTandava2 hours ago
| @TheNanashi I nominated the anime about 17 minutes ago |
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| I nominate City The Animation! https://xss.now.cc/anime/59898/City_The_Animation?q=City&cat=anime Kyoani hits us with yet another beautiful piece of art! I was honestly worried after the first couple eps, but then it hit a real stride and became something extraordinary! |
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