Bubbleblabber’s Most Anticipated New And Returning Adult Animated Series For 2025

Time to look into the upcoming year and see what the networks have in store for us. I’m sure there could be other surprises on the way in terms of debuts and whatnot, but right now this is the best of the best of the confirmed new and returning series for this upcoming year and there’s a LOT on tap. Have at it…

 

10) Grimsburg Season Two

Network: FOX

Premieres: February 2025

If FOX had done nothing new with Grimsburg other than announce the show’s second season coming in 2025, this series probably doesn’t make the list. But, with the announcement of Martin Short debuting as Otis Volcanowitz joining the show as the newest detective at the Grimsburg Police, that announcement alone makes this one of the most anticipated returns of 2025. Martin Short is the kind of talent that can take a C minus anything and turn it into a B+ and having him in tow as a new heavy is exactly the type of thing this Jon Hamm-starring series needed to get people talking. 

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9) Common Side Effects

Network: Adult Swim

Premieres: Feb 2nd

Co-creator Joe Bennett was fucked over last year when he wasn’t able to convince WB Discovery to renew his Scavengers Reign series for a second season. This series sees the likes of Mike Judge/Greg Daniels teaming up with the up-and-coming producer for a new animated comedy called Common Side Effects but for the same media conglomerate. The good news is the series gets the Adult Swim premiere followed by the MAX next-day stream which hopefully means more eyeballs will be on this one but WB Discovery has a habit of being the land of whence no animated series is safe.

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8) Invincible Season Three

Network: Prime Video

Premieres: Feb 6

Robert Kirkman wants eight seasons of Invincible and we’re guaranteed to get halfway there with a fourth season already in production. Season Three is slated to premiere new episodes straight through with no interruptions and no announced hour-long movies, but even when season two did all of that it arguably came with it a better season than the show’s heralded first. Buckle your seat belts, because Invincible could be gunning for a lot of top ten lists very early on in the upcoming year.

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7) Devil May Cry

Network: Netflix

Premieres: April 2025

We’ve had anime adaptations of Devil May Cry before and this one from Adi Shankar looks promising if for no other reason there is so much lore from this franchise in which to pull from. That said, not having Reuben Langdon reprise his role as Dante from the games and instead putting in the former voice of Nero in Johnny Yong Bosch instead is already a strike which isn’t taking anything away from Johnny as an actor, but could potentially confuse and infuriate die-hard fans of the franchise.

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6) Marvel Zombies 

Network: Disney+

Premieres: Oct 3rd

Marvel’s What If? ended on a whimper and despite X-Men ’97 being excellent, firing Beau DeMayo is sounding like an idea that’s going to bite Marvel Animation on the ass in the long run. What gives me hope about THIS series is that Zeb Wells is writing it and in Zeb we trust with our babies. The long-time Marvel comic book writer who has also seen stops at Robot Chicken and SuperMansion is as correct of a producer as you’re gonna get for this TV-MA project so that has us pumped.

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5) King of the Hill

Network: Hulu

Premieres: 2025

A time-skip series centered around Bobby Hill running a fusion restaurant in the heart of Texas in THIS political climate? Creator Mike Judge has already successfully rebooted Beavis and Butt-Head with a time-skip though one could imagine how the stakes are upped in a series that has had multiple syndication deals since it’s last airing on FOX therefore bringing with it new and returning fans similar to that of Futurama’s reboot which also has been getting crazy business.

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4) Lazarus

Network: Adult Swim’s Toonami

Premieres: 2025

There’s no way, right? Like, there’s no fucking way that this can be screwed up, right? I mean, we’re talking about an anime series from Shinichirō Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop) with action sequences being produced by Chad Stahelski (John Wick). The only problem is, lately, when we’ve been getting our hopes up about new series coming to Toonami, we’re reminded of the fact that the lineup is produced by Jason DeMarco (Uzumaki, Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings: The War of The Rohirrim). Here’s hoping that Toonami can get a real winner here.

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3) Dandadan

English Dubbed Season Two Premieres: Summer TBA

Our best international series of 2024 has already blown our minds. When have you ever heard of any series every simultaneously premiering new episodes of any series on three competing streaming networks (Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix plus Gkids for the home release) ? Well now you know why, because the series is unlike anything on television and we can’t wait for season two.

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2) Haunted Hotel (fka known as The Undervale)

Release Date: TBA 2025

Dan Harmon’s post Rick and Morty track record has not been great which should call into question his “co-creator” status with the series. While Krapopolis has multiple seasons ahead the ratings haven’t been great and FOX has pulled all NFT funding of the series. Other Harmon-produced series like Little Demon and Strange Planet had one-and-done seasons. Hopefully a show coming from Matt Roller (Archer, Rick and Morty) who has written a number of classic episodes of Rick and Morty including Get Schwifty can right the train. Already changing the name of the series from something more unique to something a tad more generic isn’t a good sign of things to come but perhaps Netflix has the guidance to make sure this one’s a winner.

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1) Untitled Predator Animated Anthology Series

Dan Trachtenberg returns to The Predator franchise not only with a new live-action movie coming in 2025 for theaters but an animated anthology series for Hulu. The animated mythology series will be set across multiple time periods which should help tamper all of the fanfic that gets produced for YouTube that looks like shit. Rumors include pirates and samurai being featured with the potential for more and we’re expecting a smattering of blood and guts.