BEST Anime of Winter 2025 - Ones to Watch

I watched every new anime of Winter 2025 so you don't have to! These are the best ones!

#anime #animerecommendations #gamersupps
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:50 John Wick x Family
06:38 Don't Let Your Dreams Be Dreams
09:12 House MD The Animation
11:36 Second Sponsor Segment for Okinawa Tourism
14:13 I Have an HR Meeting Waiting to Happen
16:24 Kimi Ni Sodake
18:18 It's Reincarnatin' Time!
20:55 Poetry in Motion
23:06 Hi In Another World, I'm Dad
25:09 Bargain Bin



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In the depths of his Mother's Basement, Geoff Thew creates videos analyzing the storytelling techniques of anime and video games. He has been named the number one Worst YouTube Anime Reviewer by The Top Tens.

[mothersbasement]

Apologies, I was forced to trim out the entire section on "Zenshu, " the "something awesome" I said you should wait to the end for, because of a copyright claim. Unfortunately that also means I've lost all of the ad revenue for this video up until today, so if you feel like rewatching it or sharing it with your friends I'd really appreciate that!

[WillWightAuthor]

I’ll be honest: I watch your channel all the time, so hearing a shout-out for my own books was a big shock. I doubted my ears.

The manga for that Red Ranger isekai made me change my plans for The Last Horizon. A specific plot point in Red’s backstory (no spoilers) was exactly what I was going to use for Raion. But he did it first! I had to rewrite Raion’s history so people didn’t think I stole it, but I wept bitter tears.

[tommihommi]

why are there multiple "slavery is fine actually" isekais this season. Can this trope please go away

[TwoPairSA]

Geoff I just wanted to say the jokes you put in the chapter titles of these videos are consistently hilarious, mad props. I almost did a spit take at "Hi In Another World, I'm Dad"

[Egavans]

DEEPLY appreciate the "this yuribait is bait, don't fall for it" warning, I always resent shows that perform that bait-and-switch on me even if I would have enjoyed them otherwise.

[maliareagan]

As someone who constantly feels like they need to consume and finish everything, I really enjoy your type of review videos because you focus more on saying ‘if you like this, then you might like this’ and it’s based on a persons interests. I really appreciate it! Also, your humour is spot on.

[theeffingralyks]

as both a power ranger and isekai fan, red ranger isekai is literally everything i could ever want from a fusion of the two. it feels like such a love letter from someone who does genuinely love both genres, and has spent god knows how long just thinking about what kind of story would best suit both genres the best. ive read the manga for this, and let me tell you, it just keeps getting better and better, its not just a surface level "lets throw in all the tropes", but is instead a deep dive into like, 8 different characters psychology and a legitimately compelling plot

[tiniestcyndaquil]

As a shoujo fan, I thank you for your sympathy. There are SO many great shoujosei manga that just don't get the adaptations and love they deserve

[ObsidianKnight]

32:40 It's outright stated in the first episode that being a guild receptionist has good pay and benefits, and that the protagonist wants a relaxing job where she can 9-5 and clock out instead of the full time fight to the death that comes with the adventuring lifestyle. It reminds me most of Legends & Lattes, a western fantasy book about a badass orc warrior who opens a coffee shop not because it's more profitable than adventuring but because she wants to do something with her life that doesn't involve murder.

[jackgrove]

red ranger in another world has more legitimate claim to be an overpowered isekai protag because it is the freakin Red Ranger.

[craxnor]

A lot of people’s fanfic or fan art is just the happy ending their favorite characters never got.

Bro that hit deep

[PassingNeet]

To give receptionist girl credit, her logic is actually pretty sound. As much as being a high tier adventurer is basically free money, its unstable, has no benefits, the jobs are based on other peoples whims and needs, people can easily fucking die, you get essentially no privacy because you're basically a celebrity, etc. She's a receptionist because its exactly the opposite of those things. Stable, decent pay, benefits, retirement package, and i think she also likes the uniform.

[bdletoast]

I knew Sakamoto would never be as cool as the manga during the hideout raid scene where Sakamoto disassemble the mook's gun before hiting him in the face. In the manga you got those three panels decomposing the movement where you can see that the guy barely has time to move as Sakamoto is just unraveling his weapon and punching him. In the anime, it's like a blink and you miss it moment where it looks like the gun was just destroyed when the guy was hit. It's such a shame when Sakamoto's action scenes are honestly the best in shonen manga right now, it should really have been one of the priority of the adaptation to get them right.

[safixstorm]

Never sleep on Red Ranger Isekai and Bureaucrat Villainess

The hidden gem of the anime

[clsandals]

i am expecting Zenshuu to still be a story about the creative process, just told allegorically through a fantasy plot

[relloz]

As someone who normally struggles with calling the mystery in mystery anime ahead of time, my psychology degree and experience working with disabled peeps giving me the frame 1 call of what happened in episode 3 JUST FROM THE EPISODE NAME made me feel like a freaking genius

[maxisaac]

Having read the manga, Guild Receptionist actually makes its protagonist’s decision fairly understandable as it goes on. She doesn’t want to get rich as a famous adventurer living life on the edge of life and death (even if she’s powerful enough not much can stand up to her), she wants stability, peace, and a job with well defined hours and good benefits. And hey, that’s just a different kind of anime fantasy

[crimsoneclipse]

I love how in the dad villainess isekai, the family gets to watch and even help out because the game is still going and they can see him.

[Dangic]

I just visited the TOEI Studio Park.
They have an exhibition of every Red Ranger all together.
Its epic.

[ayin]

I've literally seen no one talked about Flower and Asura before I saw this video despite how good and beautiful the first two eps was. It really is the hidden gem of this season.