Spring 2025 Anime Week 11 Rankings | Rentaro's Speech Wins a Guinness World Record
The record-winning love speech has over seven thousand characters.
In this week’s issue, we have the Top 10 Anime and Characters of Week 11 for Spring 2025; a review of Too Perfect Saint and the first episode of Takopi’s Original Sin; an interview with the director of Your Forma; details of the Guinness World Record for Rentaro’s speech in 100 Girlfriends; the anime announcement for Teenage Mercenary; and a new visual for the new Kaguya-sama: Love is War special.
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray, The Shiunji Family Children and WITCH WATCH all stay in their respective positions in the Top 3 this week while Apocalypse Hotel debuts in tenth place.
On the Female Characters Chart, Oguri Cap extends her five-week streak, and Oka from The Shiunji Family Children remains in second place for the second week in a row. Yachiyo from Apocalypse Hotel makes it into the Top 10 for the first time in eighth place, and Yuki from SHOSHIMIN makes the biggest jump this week into fifth place.
On the Male Characters Chart, the top three continue their streaks, while two new blonde-haired characters join the chart: Kanshi Kazamatsuri from WITCH WATCH, and Oswald Parnacorta from The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside By My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom.
Featured Articles
Too Perfect Saint Gets Better and Better
The Too Perfect Saint is one of the biggest surprises of this season. Despite a relatively slow start, the anime only continues to improve as the real heart of the story is slowly revealed to the audience.
Takopi’s Original Sin Episode 1 Mini-Review
Takopi's Original Sin’s first episode is very much not an easy watch, but if you have the stomach for it, this is one of the most promising anime of the Summer 2025 season.
YOUR FORMA Anime Director on How The Matrix and Westworld Inspired the Visuals
Director Takaharu Ozaki, best known for his work on GOBLIN SLAYER and WAVE!! -Let’s go surfing!!, shares how he brought Mareho Kikuishi’s light novel to life and what inspired the sci-fi, futurist visuals that the series is known for.
Top News Articles
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Love You Anime Gets Guinness World Record For That Rentaro Love Speech
Rentaro Aijo’s speech about his girlfriends in the 12th and final episode of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Season 2 has obtained the Guinness World Record for the longest line in a Japanese-language animation.
Teenage Mercenary Webtoon to Be Made Into an Anime
LINE Manga has announced that the popular webtoon Teenage Mercenary is getting an anime adaptation.
Kaguya-sama: Love is War Anime Returns With TV Special
A Kaguya-sama: Love Is War TV anime special has been announced with the subtitle Otona e no Kaidan.