Anime’s summer season looks promising
Anime has four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall. July puts us squarely within the summer season (July-September), which means that you can expect studios to release a brand-new crop of anime.
Some of you expected Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 4 to top this list, but the final part of Tite Kubo’s manga adaptation will debut in 2026. Kaiju No. 8 takes place in a world plagued by continuous kaiju attacks.
Kafka’s childhood friend Mina Ashiro is a captain in the Defense Force while he languishes in the clean-up crew. His dreams of joining Mina in the limelight take an unexpected turn when Kafka becomes the very thing Mina despises.
Season 2, which comes to Crunchyroll on July 19, will continue Kafka’s mission to use his monstrous side to safeguard mankind without falling prey to Mina and her colleagues in the Defense Force.
Devil May Cry does not count as a summer release because it premiered on Netflix back in April. But it deserves a mention because few people have bothered to watch it, and yet it comes closer than any previous adaptation to recreating the frenetic energy of Capcom’s hack-and-slash video game.
If you know next to nothing about this franchise, the anime follows an orphan and demon hunter for hire called Dante, who becomes a target when government and demonic forces realize that he unknowingly holds the key to either opening the gates of hell or sealing them.
Now, let me throw a wet blanket on your excitement. You probably saw one or two Jujutsu Kaisen teasers on YouTube, and lost your mind. Unfortunately, the show’s third season is expected to debut in 2026, not 2025.
The manga had a controversial ending back in 2024, but that hasn’t prevented anime-only fans from salivating over the upcoming Culling Game arc. As far as the teasers are concerned, Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death is coming to cinemas on July 16, 2025.
But, Hidden Inventory/Premature Death is a compilation film that compresses the Hidden Inventory/Premature Death arc from season 2 into a single movie. It is that awesome flashback that explores Gojo and Geto’s past, showing the events that transformed them from great friends to bitter enemies.
Fortunately, Demon Slayer: Infinite Castle is exactly what it sounds like: a continuation of the Demon Slayer story. The movie will debut in cinemas on September 12. Now, normally, theatrical releases of popular anime shows are problematic because it can take several months for the studio to stream the film online for fans in countries where cinemas are unlikely to show the movie.
But in this case, Crunchyroll is expected to stream Demon Slayer: Infinite Castle soon after the movie’s theatrical release in the United States. And for all we know, cinemas in Uganda may show the movie. After all, his is one of three upcoming Demon Slayer films that will close the anime series.
Dandadan Season 2 began streaming on July 3. The show follows classmates Momo and Okarun. One believes in spirits. The other is convinced that UFOs are real. In trying to prove their respective beliefs wrong, they come into contact with both spirits and aliens, kickstarting a life-altering adventure.
Shows like Sakamoto Days and Dr. Stone Science Future came out earlier in the year, but their second parts will debut this month. I don’t understand how Reborn as a Vending Machine is still going.
The isekai follows a character who dies and reincarnates as a literal vending machine. I don’t get the appeal. Nonetheless, anime’s summer season looks promising, although we have to wait until October for heavy hitters like My Hero Academia, Chainsaw Man, and One Punch Man.
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