Animisery – A Blog About Living Miserably with Anime (Among Other Things)

I will continue to be a problem, I cannot escape it

It’s a strange thing to make your hobby or interest a “New Year’s Resolution” and, as weird as it is to do so, I think it’s as equally weird to have a New Year’s resolution. You should always try to improve yourself, right? The New Year doesn’t mean anything because you’re just as likely to be the same difficult person that you were in the previous year or at least I will more than likely be. I’m only typing this up to say that my goal for myself this year is to watch more anime with more regularity. It’s not a bold and awe inspiring goal like losing weight or quitting some self damaging vice but it’s the only thing I thought “hey that’s something I should improve myself on”. As you can infer from that “resolution”, I’m not exactly filled with grand ambition.

According to the MyAnimeList tracking website, AnimePlus, I added 46 completed MAL entries to my list this year. Now while that reads like a pretty solid number (and truthfully the number of anime that you watch is meaningless compared to how much you enjoy the shows you watch), that’s including one off specials, three episode mini series, and movies. Only around 30 of them were actually anime series that had 10+ episodes which is kind of a shock for me personally as someone who consumed with raw avarice in the past. It’s not as bad as my 2023 where I went half the year without watching ANYTHING but it’s kind of a mild downer compared to how I used to be when I would consist on anime week to week just a few years ago. It’s not like I watched anything at an increased speed during that time either. I take my anime raw and sometimes at a drag the way Haruhi above intended me to.

This is all to say that I want to watch more anime this year because I love anime and I want to further rejuvenate my love for it even more with this year of 2025. I want to sample more of the sweet honey that made 2024 a great year for anime and have more discourse with all the people out there.

Since I didn’t get around to engaging very much with 2024’s selection of seasonals barring the ones that manifested extraordinary hype in me like Dandadan, A Sign of Affection, and Oshi no Ko’s second season, I’m going to try to take the month of January to give the best of 2024 a chance. As such, I’m assembling a crack team of shows that I plan to watch this very month and they are as follows:

• Solo Leveling
• Kaiju No. 8
• The Fable
• Girls Band Cry
• The Dangers in My Heart Season 2
• The Elusive Samurai
• Wind Breaker
• Mushoku Tensei Season 2 Part 2

This isn’t even a comprehensive list as there are plenty more shows that I’ve got on my 2024 PTW; these are just the entries that are more prolific. I know I missed a lot here but it’s the stuff I saw when they were airing and went “ooooooooo I wanna watch that” and then proceeded to do exactly NOT that.

I’m no longer doing a podcast where we enforce strict seasonal impression and review content so I’m not diving headfirst into seasonal content because I don’t have to and that’s probably a reason why I’m not diving so deep in the seasonal pools but honestly it’s for the best. On my old podcast, Otaku Melancholy, it wouldn’t be uncommon for me to watch shows just to watch them and loathe the very act of sitting down to watch anime such as Redo of Healer. That’s the kind of anime that does psychic damage to your mind in a way that makes you forget who you are.

So with 2025 here, I just want to be more focused on my anime hobby than I was the previous year. I love a solid video game experience and a good book with a fervent passion but anime was the thing that got me through some of the more difficult nights when I was a kid because my parents weren’t always willing to buy games or books but cable was something THEY needed.. Waiting up for the new InuYasha made all the week’s heartache and difficulties fade into the past and I’ll always be thankful to anime for that which is why I want it all the more this year.

If you have some shows from 2024 that you recommend then please comment them and I’ll hopefully get around to them! Hell, if you just have a show that you love and that you think I haven’t seen then comment that too so I can check it out! Thank you again for reading my blog and if you want more of my ramblings then feel free to check out the latest episode of the Anime Brothers Podcast which I’m a host on. It means a lot that you read this and I’m very thankful for you giving me your time! Have a happy new year!