The Summer 2025 anime season is just around the corner. So it's no surprise that this week's anime news is dominated by new information about the upcoming season. The Bam Smack Pow team has got you covered for everything you need to know about anime this summer!
With that, let's dive into this week's biggest reveals.
Crunchyroll reveals Summer 2025 schedule
Crunchyroll has announced a comprehensive list of the anime to coming to the streaming service this summer, showcasing the both new and returning series coming when the new anime reason begins.
Crunchyroll's Summer 2025 line-up includes:
• Clevatess
• My Dress-Up Darling season 2
• Kaiju No. 8 season 2
• Arknights: RISE FROM EMBER
• Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE cour 2 (i.e. the second part of the season that already aired)
Elsewhere, Crunchyroll has confirmed its slate of English dubbed series for the Summer 2025 season. The exact date for the debut of these dubs has not yet been confirmed, but in most cases, fans can expect at least a few weeks between the original Japanese version and the English dub.
Crunchyroll's Summer 2025 dubs include:
• My Dress-Up Darling season 2
• Anne Shirley (continuing from the Spring)
• Dan da Dan season 2 (also streaming on Netflix)
• Witch Watch (continuing from the Spring; also streaming on Netflix)
• The Rising of the Shield Hero season 4
• Clevatess
The Bam Smack Pow team will be following the Summer 2025 anime season to bring you all the latest news as it unfolds.
Dub cast and schedule announced for I’m Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!
As part of its own Summer 2025 line-up HIDIVE has released a English-language trailer for comedy series I’m Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!
Based on the ongoing manga series by creators Yakitomato and Kotatsu, I'm Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi! debuted in the Winter 2025 season and has been streaming on HIDIVE with the original Japanese voice track until now. The streaming service provides the following summary of the series:
"When a vicious Youma attacks Tsukasa, a pink-clad kunoichi named Shizuri swoops in to save the ordinary salaryman. She says she’ll protect him from further attacks, but there’s a catch: Shizuri wants to move into Tsukasa’s home and start her lazy life as a NEET! As the pair begin their cohabitation, they grow closer. But when more kunoichi appear on Tsukasa’s doorstep, his home might become a battle royale of the heart!"
HIDIVE has revealed that the English dub of I'm Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi! will begin Wednesday, June 25 and air weekly on Wednesdays. The English cast includes:
• Adam Gibbs as Tsukasa
• Alyssa Marek as Shizuri
• Jay Hickman as the Narrator
• Karlii Hoch as Ayame
Netflix announces streaming debut for the second Mononoke movie
The second movie in the Mononoke anime movie trilogy, Ashes of Rage (Hinezumi in Japan), debuted in Japanese theaters in March 2025. We know now when to expect the stylish, mind-bending supernatural mystery to hit streaming internationally. Anime News Network has reported that Ashes of Rage will hit streaming on August 14.
An English-language trailer or summary of Ashes of Rage have not yet been released as of this writing. However, based on available information, it's clear that Ashes of Rage directly follows and continues the story on political intrigue and supernatural hauntings in the Shogun's palace begun in Phantom in the Rain.
The third movie in the trilogy, Hebigami — meaning 'snake god', a title that will also certainly be translated differently based on the precedent of the first two movies — is currently slated to premiere in Japan at some point in the spring of next year. Based on the schedule of the previous releases, we can likely expect to know the international title for Hebigami as soon as the end credits of Ashes of Rage and it will likely hit streaming under that new title on Netflix in mid-to-late 2026.
Weekly anime recommendation: Anne Shirley
In addition to being one of Canada's most iconic fictional characters, Anne of Green Gables is also one of Japan's most popular fictional characters. A Japanese translation of the book was introduced shortly after the end of World War II and has become enduringly popular since. Notably, there have already been several previous anime adaptations of Anne of Green Gables, including the 1979 version, which featured contributions from a young Hayao Miyazaki.
Although the Anne Shirley adaptation is a heavily truncated and abridged adaptation of the story (compressing the first three Anne of Green Gables books into 24 episodes), all of the most famous incidents from the original story are included. The parts of the original story that are included are also very well executed. The animation and character designs are brilliant and the English and Japanese casts are both great — although the English dub only features a few Canadian actors, the cast as a whole is doing a very good job of sounding authentically Canadian.
Anne of Green Gables is very much a slice-of-life story and Anne Shirley reflects that, capturing Anne's famously idiosyncratic approach to life, which provides most of the series's funniest moments. On the other hand, the story also includes several heartbreaking moments, and those moments are depicted in the anime with full emotional impact.
If you've read the book, you know what I mean…
Anne Shirley is currently streaming on Crunchyroll. New episodes go live on Saturdays. The English dub is several episodes behind the original Japanese episodes.
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