Crunchyroll’s Best New Anime Nominees Confirm What Truly Dominated 2025

Among the anime released in 2025, Clevatess truly distinguished itself with its unique dark fantasy action and adventure. Takopi’s Original Sin and The Summer Hikaru Died, both released that summer, also captivated viewers with their surprisingly dark themes. In fact, four out of the six nominated anime centered around darker storylines. Some used fantasy settings to explore these themes, while others presented them in a way that felt very real and raw. Ultimately, these anime demonstrate that darker, more complex stories were what audiences connected with most in 2025.

3 Games That People Are Still Torn on Years Later

Games that receive mixed reactions often try something new, featuring gameplay mechanics that differ from what players expect in that genre. This can make a game stand out and be remembered, but if it’s not done well, it could alienate players instead of drawing them in with a unique experience. While taking risks can be good, it doesn’t always pay off – a game might strongly appeal to some players while completely missing the mark for others.

Star Trek Almost Answered a Decades Long Borg Mystery (But the Genius Pitch Was Rejected)

A canceled storyline for Star Trek: Enterprise Season 5 could have expanded on the history of the Borg. While the show’s creator, Manny Coto, planned to focus on the Romulan War and the formation of the Federation, writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens proposed a different direction. They recently shared at a Trek Talks 5 panel—along with Brannon Braga, Andre Bormanis, Michael Sussman, and Phyllis Strong—that they pitched bringing back Alice Krige, who played the Borg Queen, as the Head of Starfleet Medical in the 22nd century, ultimately choosing to become the Borg Queen.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ is the Weakest Movie

Honestly, I was pretty puzzled by The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. It didn’t get great reviews and actually lost money in theaters, which made me wonder who they were even trying to reach with it. As a huge Tolkien fan, I was hoping for something that would expand on the world we already love, something that would feel as epic as Peter Jackson’s films. But this animated prequel, set long before those events, just didn’t add much new. And from what I understand, it was kind of thrown together quickly because of some rights issues, and you can definitely feel that in the final product – it just lacked that spark.

New Star Wars Show’s Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Breaks An All-Time Disney+ Record

Since its launch in 2019 with the first season of The Mandalorian, Disney+ has become the go-to place for live-action and animated Star Wars series. The newest show is Maul – Shadow Lord, an animated series following the iconic character as he tries to regain his strength in the criminal world and exact revenge on the Empire. The first season has 10 episodes, released in batches of two each week, and a second season is already confirmed.

Why Joseph Duggar Was in Solitary Confinement After Molestation Arrest

Following his arrest on March 18th in Tontitown, Arkansas, for alleged child sexual abuse during a 2020 family trip to Florida, Josh Duggar, known from the show 19 Kids and Counting, was kept apart from the general jail population for his own protection, according to records from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office obtained by TopMob News.

Bitcoin’s Grand Farce: Strategy’s 89,599 BTC Hoard and the Market’s Myopic Woes

Bitcoin Chart from Adam Livingston

According to the indefatigable crypto sage, Adam Livingston, the market-that fickle harpy-remains obtusely blind to the implications of such voracious accumulation. One can almost hear the collective gasp of the uninitiated as they grapple with the notion that Strategy’s hoard might, in fact, be a harbinger of something rather more seismic than their addled brains can comprehend.