Hello folks, and welcome to the end of 2025. I’m sure you don’t need me to summarize this year on a global scale; in short, shit sucks, and it’s questionable when or if things are getting better. While the damage of Donald Trump’s first term as president was limited by his own laziness and ineptitude, the collective forces of evil made sure they hit the ground running this time, and thus the America of today is already a significantly more unstable, hateful, and corrupted empire than even the one of just twelve months ago. Alongside the cruelty raining down on us from our elected officials, Trump 2.0 has also unleashed a fresh wave of cruelty from his supporters, who have declared “woke is over” and revealed themselves to be wholly constructed of belligerence and resentment.
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Summer 2025 – Week 13 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we stand on the cusp of a new anime season, an occasion which always prompts a grateful “thank fuck I’m not writing for the preview guide anymore.” Instead, I can calmly peruse the seasonal selections, cheerfully note that Spy x Family is returning, and otherwise pay no attention whatsoever to the absurd glut of productions currently overworking the industry. That said, it’s likely also time to start munching through the year’s overall top prospects, which in 2025’s case means… CITY, The Summer Hikaru Died, Shoushimin Series, and I’m frankly not sure what else. Folks seemed somewhat down on both GQux and Lazarus by their conclusions, but their directors are so accomplished that I’ll have to check them out for myself regardless. Plus there are obviously some films and shorts to get to… anyway, busy times ahead, but for now let’s run down some fresh cinematic selections. On to the Week in Review!
Fall 2017 – Virtually Every First Episode Retrospective
A new anime season has begun! As it turns out, in spite of last season’s incredibly tepid lineup, the reports of anime’s demise were greatly exaggerated. This season is looking to easily be the strongest of the year overall, and likely one of the best single seasons in the past several years. Offering phenomenal shows in a wide variety of genres, a strong mix of sequels, originals, and adaptations, and an absurdly deep bench, Fall 2017 looks to be one for the record books. After a season where my weekly diet was “Made in Abyss and Tsuredure Children,” it feels nice to actually have to pick and choose what I have time to watch.
As usual, my work on ANN’s preview guide has given me an exhaustingly full perspective on the season’s offerings, and so I’m here today to rank my selections from the highest highs to the lowest lows. I’ll be grouping shows by vague, perhaps even meaningless tiers, and trying to offer a brief summation of my overall feelings. All of these titles will also have links to the guide itself, so if you want my more extended and theoretically professional critiques, click on through and search for Nick Creamer. Let’s start at the top and run this season down!
Fall 2017 – First Impressions, Part One
A new season has come again, which means I’m currently buried in previews for all manner of shows. That actually hasn’t been so bad this time, courtesy of the fact that anime is apparently good again. From shows I was looking forward to to shows entirely outside my wheelhouse, this has been an extremely promising first few days, offering either actual highlights or at least reasonable genre takes in a wide variety of styles. Basically any season would feel like a relief after this summer, but this season seems like it’ll be a real stunner in its own right!
As always, you can check out the full list of previews over at ANN, or click below for links to my individual writeups (if you didn’t know, I’m Nick Creamer over there). Happy show hunting!