BNP’s Crunchyroll 2025 Summer Season Preview

2025 is moving along, and we’re getting the heat in temperature and the season’s picks via anime, thanks to Crunchyroll. Between convention season, family reunions and vacations, we’re being blessed with a plethora of new series to fill our streaming plates as we ease into the second half of the year. From the return of faves like DAN DA DAN to newer outings with bowling lovers, apocalyptic viruses, underdog characters and female friendships– here’s a quick sampling of what to expect from the highly anticipated series and returns and newer series making their way to our television screens this Summer! TO BE HERO X, Anne Shirley, WITCH WATCH, One Piece, and more series will continue through the Summer 2025 Anime Season!

DAN DA DAN Season 2 Studio: (Science SARU) Premiere Date: July 3, 2025, on Crunchyroll Premise: Momo is a high school girl born into a family of spirit mediums. Her classmate Okarun is an occult fanatic. Encountering overwhelming and bizarre phenomena one after another, Momo awakens her hidden powers, and Okarun gains the power of a curse. They now set out to help Momo’s childhood friend Jiji, who is tormented by ghosts, by heading over to his home for exorcism… What will be the next bizarre phenomenon they face there!? What to Expect: If I could borrow fellow contributor Mikkels’ words from our best of anime roundup from 2024: “Dan Da Dan is best described as equal parts horror fantasy, space opera, and two ad…