[Spoilers] [General Anime Winter 2021] Cute girls havɨng cu҉ ʇǝ p̷i̵č̴͍n̵̩̅i̸̙͌ç̸͆s̶̡̈́ | Other Media (2025)

Rather than hunt down trailers for each of every show, I usually tend to watch mikan's compilation videos. Here's for Winter 2021 : [Part 1] [Part 2]
They're untranslated and all the annotations (cast/crew lists, air dates) are in raw Japanese, but it at least gives you a concise overview of what's coming out in a bit under an hour. (They're presented in chronological airdate order, with the ones without trailers at the end, if that helps.)

Anyway, this is a season with a shit-ton of sequels :
- Attack on Titan "Final" (which already started a month ago)
- Horse Girls - Pretty Derby S2 (by a different studio, hmm...)
- Re:Zero S2 Part II
- Beastars S2 (in Netflix jail until July or so)
- Cells at Work!! S2
- Cells at Work Black (a spin-off set in a very unhealthy body)
- Show By Rock!! Stars!! (4th full season, by my count)
- Laid-Back Camp S2
- The Promised Neverland S2
- The Quintessential Quintuplets S2
- Wixoss Diva(A)Live (5th season, in which they go MMO)
- World Trigger S2 (5 years after the previous one !)
- Aikatsu Planet! (in which they also go MMO)
- Non Non Biyori Nonstop (S3)
- True Cooking Master Boy S2
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S2 Part 1

- The Seven Deadly Sins S5 (not sure how long it'll be stuck in Netflix jail)
- Log Horizon S3 (six years later !)
- Dr Stone: Stone Wars (S2)
- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (remake) S2
- Armor Shop for Ladies & Gentlemen S2 (shorts)
- Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki S3 (shorts)
- Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories S8 (shorts)

(Also, a bunch of comedy spin-off shorts : Azur Lane Slow Ahead, Bungou Stray Dogs Wan, World Witches Take Off!)

More thematics roundups :

Isekai :
- Sequels : Re:Zero S2b, Slime S2a, Log Horizon S3 (not sure if Show By Rock still has a normal human protagonist)
- Otherside Picnic, technically ?
- LBX Girls, but the other world has mecha-girls
- So I'm a Spider, So What ? [2 consecutive cours, but studio Millepensee's involvement is a bit of a red flag quality-wise...]
- Jobless Reincarnation

Non-isekai Heroic Fantasy :
- Sequels : Sorcerous Stabber Orphen S2, The Seven Deadly Sins S5, Armor Shop for Ladies & Gentlemen S2
- Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town?
- Hortensia Saga (a game adaptation that actually sounds mildly promising)
- The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter
- Redo of Healer (heavy rape content warnings, from what I hear)

Idols/Music :
- Sequels : Aikatsu Planet!, Show By Rock!! Stars!!
- Gekidol (also post-apocalyptic ?)
- I★CHU (all dudes, also the principal is a bear ?)
- Idolls! (mocapped CGI)
- Idoly Pride

Sports :
- Horse Girls Pretty Derby S2
- 2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team
- SK8 the Infinity (underground skateboarding !)
- Skate-Leading Stars (ice-skating, simulcast two weeks in advance !)
- Wave!! Surfing Yappe!! (TV version of a trilogy of movies that premiered in December)

Romance :
- The Quintessential Quintuplets S2
- Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki
- Horimiya

Relaxing :
- Laid-Back Camp S2
- Non Non Biyori Nonstop (S3)

Also worthy of note :

- Heaven's Design Team, a work-com about the people upstairs who design animals. I hope they do an episode about the platypus, because seriously.
- Back Arrow, a rare new mecha show, by the director of Code Geass and the writer of TTGL/Kill la Kill/BNA. Already green-lit for two consecutive cours, which is also a rarity these days.
- Wonder Egg Priority, which sounds like a weird offbeat drama.
- Kemono Jihen, our token new shounen action show ?
- Dr Ramune, about a dude who enters people's mind to heal their issues ?
- Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure will debut much later than everything else, on Feb 28th (despite being shortened, Healin'Good still has 8 episodes to go).

Trainwreck watch :

A big competition between :
- EX-ARM : we've all seen the trailers, right ? Hiring people who have never done any anime nor CGI to make a CGI anime seems to have been a great decision. Although I did get a laugh at a main character who gets hit by Truck-kun and doesn't get reincarnated into another world. (Instead, he's turned into a black-ops cyborg.)
- Scar on the Praeter : sure, on paper, a K clone sounds mildly appealing, but studio GoHands's last few series (Hand Shakers & W'z) have been such godawful over-rendered messes that it's hard to give them the benefit of the doubt that they'll get it right this time.
(And I hope nobody is considering hate-watching Redo of Healer, as we all have better to do with our time.)

[Spoilers] [General Anime Winter 2021] Cute girls havɨng cu҉ ʇǝ p̷i̵č̴͍n̵̩̅i̸̙͌ç̸͆s̶̡̈́ | Other Media (2025)

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