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KFR 148: The 2025 Autumn Anime Season is here!

·1 hr 26 min·5 clips

Santa is naked, bloodied, and punching people in Science Saru’s 2080 action mystery.

1. Kawaii-Fi Radio’s 'The 2025 Autumn Anime Season is here!' previews the fall anime slate through 10 staff picks. 2. Kyle, Aaron, and Tifa host the episode, and each person chooses titles they think could be worth watching. 3. The episode exists to separate promising shows from the bigger autumn catalog without covering every series. 4. The hosts say older autumn episodes used to run three hours or had to be split into two parts. 5. They describe this year as broad, with shonen, josei, R-rated titles, and sequels mixed together. 6. 'Santa' is the first major pick, and Science Saru is named as the studio. 7. The hosts say 'Santa' is set in 2080, where Japan’s child population is only 0.1%. 8. Kazushige Santa is 14 years old, and Shiori Fuyumura asks him to admit he is Santa Claus. 9. The episode says Shiori pulls out a knife and that blood is used to dye clothes red. 10. The hosts stress that the trailer shows a naked Santa beating people up, not just a Christmas parody. 11. 'Dusk Beyond the End of the World' is described as a sci-fi romance from PA Works. 12. Akira Himegami wakes from cryogenic sleep into a world controlled by 'Owl' and governed by 'Elsai.' 13. A familiar figure named Yugure appears, looks like Akira’s girlfriend Towasa, and proposes to him. 14. The hosts note that the trailer and synopsis do not seem to match cleanly. 15. 'To Your Eternity' season 3 returns with the orb that becomes a rock, moss, a wolf, and then a boy. 16. The hosts say the series is heavy, violent, and built around repeated loss and time skips. 17. The episode keeps a casual, conversational rhythm with jokes about mugs, Digimon, Patreons, and Nintendo suing over the PokéRap. 18. Kyle, Aaron, and Tifa react in real time to trailers and synopses rather than reading from a formal script. 19. Fans of seasonal anime previews, studio names, and streaming availability will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners who want a tight, spoiler-light season guide may skip the longer tangents.

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A loud, friendly anime conversation with real opinions under the jokes.

Kawaii-Fi Radio turns the autumn anime season into a brisk, good-natured roundtable. Kyle, Aaron, and Tifa move from Digimon nostalgia to their seasonal picks, then land on My Awkward Senpai, where manga goodwill and studio caution sit side by side.

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