We know that we are well past 2025, but since we have talked about some of the best shows from that year, let’s not forget all the worst anime as well. Every year, there are way too many shows releasing or getting adapted, so it’s very realistic to think that all of them can’t be great.
In the list below, we decided to look at and discuss some of the most disappointing anime that were released in the year 2025
The Worst Anime That Aired in 2025
Farmagia
You remember Fairy Tail? The popular work by manga creator Hiro Mashima that was once upon a time going toe to toe against some of the shounen giants. Well, Farmagia is his newest work, and it is kind of mediocre because no one remembers this show.
In the world of Farmagia, monsters can grow out of seeds, and that’s where the name of the show comes from. The setting is your average fantasy world that does nothing new to keep viewers glued to their seats to sit through the whole thing.
Farmagia seems like a show where the creator forgot to put the story in, so it takes a spot in our worst anime list from last year.
Yandere Dark Elf: She Chased Me All the Way from Another World!
Yes, we know, that’s one mouthful of a title, but that’s something which is fairly common in Japanese media. Especially Isekai light novels, which are too many these days. It’s the most popular genre of anime that keeps coming out on top of everything.
Yandere Dark Elf: She Chased Me All the Way from Another World! makes players sit through the story of Hinata. He gets isekai’d and marries a dark elf in another world, only for her to follow him back to his own world.
The whole show serves zero meaningful plot lines and keeps repurposing perverted moments as it is strictly for the ecchi anime enjoyers.
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2
Yeah, we are not done with Isekai slops from 2025. This one is a returning show, and we have yet to figure out how it got popular enough to receive a second season. Because, once again, this gets added to our heaping pile of isekai anime plot without purpose.
Isekai shows to its fans are what TikTok is to the current generation of kids, cause they will keep staring at whatever gets animated these days. But this one is weird enough for us to understand that some might find the premise hilarious and then stick with it.
Overall, from the outside, we don’t really see the appeal, so we will have to put it in our list of worst shows from last year.
Rent a Girlfriend Season 4
Rent a Girlfriend has gained quite the notoriety on social media sites for the recent developments in the source material, which has turned the fanbase into an annoying cesspool. We don’t know why fans of this franchise still stick with the show even in the fourth season.
Maybe it is the morbid curiosity to find out what happens next anyway, but season 4 does nothing to raise eyebrows. It’s more of the same stagnating issues that have been haunting its followers for years now.
Onmyo Kaiten Re: Birth Verse
In 2025, we were blessed with some really good new shounen anime, such as Kei Urana’s Gachiakuta and the eventual release of Sakamoto Days anime. But there were also a few that were completely forgotten.
Onmyo Kaiten Re: Birth Verse sounds like a show that no one has any idea about, but it in fact aired in 2025. We should make it clear that this is not inherently a bad show like some of the others on this list. Onmyo Kaiten Re: Birth Verse‘s only fault is that it does not present itself as a unique shounen anime.
Sure, there is an interesting premise, but it completely falls flat due to its limited number of episodes, which makes the pacing super rushed. Thus, we have to put it on our list of worst shows from 2025.
One Punch Man Season 3
Nothing we say can summarize the collective disappointment the One Punch Man fandom feels from the third season of the show. It once stood tall as one of the best new shounen anime that perfectly recaptured the art style of Yusuke Murata.
But since the production switched hands with a different animation studio, things have not been okay. Social media is amok with criticisms and memes of how bad the quality of the animation is. We would recommend fans to stick with the manga if they really want to enjoy the show for now.
Your Forma
Your Forma is originally a light novel written by Mareho Kikuishi and illustrated by Tsubata Nozaki, which then received a manga adaptation. But it all falls apart when we come to the discussion of the anime. Fans of anime are better off experiencing the source material directly.
If we had to give an award for one of the worst adaptations from last year, then it has to go to Your Forma. It all boils down to how badly things were handled in the anime productions. Who decided that it was okay to start adapting a show from the second book?
This, in turn, led to viewers being confused with the pacing of the show and a lot of the characters. Because the anime assumes that everyone is already familiar with its world.
The Beginning After The End
Recently, manhwas have been gaining popularity and receiving anime adaptations. In fact, the most hyped anime from recent years, Solo Leveling, is the best example. It is an adaptation of a really popular webcomic/manhwa.
But it also goes without saying that the IP is hard-carried by its production, which is visually amazing. Unfortunately, not all of them can be super lucky. The Beginning After The End is an example of this.
This show is cursed with some clear pacing issues, which lead to rushed plotpoints. Not to mention, really bad animation quality, just like many others on this list.
Momentary Lily
We don’t quite understand what Momentary Lily actually set out to prove. Maybe it was the appeal of cute anime girls or the sci-fi nature of the show. Those are some things that consistently go hand in hand with consumers of modern anime media.
But those are the least of our problems with this show. Momentary Lily is constantly bugged with visual overload due to its overuse of 3D and 2D. Which is kind of the style of animation the studio is known for. We failed to find anything that made it stand out from the rest of the shows of last year.
Compass 2.0 Animation Project
As weird as that name sounds, Compass 2.0 lends its popularity to a massive online multiplayer game from Japan. The game was created by NHN PlayArt and Dwango and was released overseas in China as well.
It got popular enough to receive multiple media adaptations, which include manga and light novels as well, making it a massive IP. But it’s also a show that almost no one has heard about from last year.
There are clearly a lot of problems with how the show was presented to the audience outside, who have no idea about the actual video game. The production did not help either, as the anime is filled with too many characters, scattered plot points, and uninteresting action sequences.
