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KFR 143: Revenge of the Sequels! Summer Anime Season 2025

·1 hr 55 min·5 clips

Kyle defeats the demon king, dies, and is sent four years into the past with a crimson crystal.

1. Kawaii-Fi Radio focuses on the summer 2025 anime season and calls it 'the revenge of the sequels.' 2. Kyle hosts with Aaron and Kenny, and they present the show as anime, manga, and otaku-culture coverage. 3. The episode is meant to sort through a season they describe as 'stacked with season twos' and full of new picks. 4. Turkey is the first major title, and the hosts explain that a 'turkey' means three consecutive strikes in bowling. 5. Mai is introduced as a second-year high school student and captain of the High School Bowling Club. 6. Rina tells Mai she is 'doing that on purpose' and threatens to quit unless the team gets one more split. 7. The hosts stress that Turkey is not a shrinking-club story because the bowling club already has five members. 8. They compare Turkey's setup to a relaxed club series rather than a sports anime built around disbandment. 9. Aaron says he picked Turkey because bowling has a special place in his heart. 10. The hosts also note that Turkey comes from Bakken Records, a studio they say has not yet broken into the zeitgeist. 11. Granblue Dreaming comes up as a comedic sequel return, with the hosts remembering it as a university diving-club show full of booze and naked men. 12. They explain that Granblue Dreaming barely involves diving and instead leans on drinking gags, oolong tea jokes, and exaggerated faces. 13. The Summer Hikaru Died is introduced as a horror, mystery, supernatural series from CY Games Pictures. 14. Yoshiki and Hikaru are described as two friends in a rural Japanese village, and Hikaru comes back from the mountains changed. 15. The hosts say that something has taken over Hikaru's body, memory, and feelings, which drives the central mystery. 16. They place the show on Netflix and call it the season's likely spooky pick for viewers who like horror and supernatural stories. 17. The episode stays conversational and joking, with long tangents about bowling, old anime memories, and pre-show banter. 18. The hosts switch into more informational mode for release dates, platforms, studios, and whether a season looks like 12 or 24 episodes. 19. Listeners who like summer anime previews, sequels, and genre breakdowns will get the most out of this episode. 20. Viewers wanting a tightly edited spoiler-free review of one title may skip it.

As heard by us

A fast-moving season preview that makes a case for sequels, cosplay, and vampire swagger.

Kawaii Fire Radio moves quickly through the new anime season, treating it less like a neat ranking and more like a group chat with opinions, corrections, and a few detours.

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Press play for a sequel-heavy anime season map with cosplay talk, vampires, and plenty of banter.

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