One month and thousands of votes later, we have a champion for AniMarchMadness 2025! Drum roll, please… Brrrrtttttttt! Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is the winner! It defeats Spy x Family for the second year in a row, with 56% of the vote vs. SxF‘s 44%. Congrats, Frieren! That’s two in a row! The powerful mage… Read More And the Winner of AniMarch Madness 2025 Is…
The time has come for the AniMarch Madness championship match! After a month full of matches (63, including this one) and whittling down your favorite anime from 64 to just two—and none of this counting all the play-in matches where many anime dropped out before we even started—it’s time to crown a champion. This year’s… Read More AniMarch Madness 2025 Final
AniMarch Madness began this month with 64 entrants. Now only four remain! It’s the Final Four of AniMarch Madness 2025! And despite a ton of surprises in earlier rounds, this semifinal features four #1 seeds, the top-seeded competitor of each region. And now they face off to see who will win! The first match features… Read More AniMarch Madness 2025: The Final Four
And then there were sixteen… Our 64-anime, single-elimination, community-voted tournament is now in its third week and the real anime with a chance to win have risen from a crowded field to make themselves known. That group includes the last three winners—Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Spy x Family, and Violet Evergarden; strong new competitors like… Read More AniMarch Madness 2025: The Sweet 16 and Elite Eight
Round two of AniMarch Madness 2025 has begun! Our 64-anime, single-elimination, community-voted tournament began with a bang with round one last week. Some of the series expected to do well showed why they’re favorites, like last year’s winner, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, which grabbed 92% of the vote in its match, the same as The… Read More AniMarch Madness 2025: Round 2 Begins Today!
Round one of AniMarch Madness is in the books! Check out this lovely illustration of a basketball player where the jersey number of the greatest—MJ! And then scroll below for our updated bracket! ★ 【Tamias栗🐿️】 「 untitled 」 ☆ Here’s the updated bracket: Round two starts Monday! Remember that you can only vote in matches… Read More Fanart Friday: #23 for AniMarch Madness
Let the madness begin! AniMarch Madness, in which we pit anime against anime—voted by you all—in a field of 64 until only one remains, starts today. Here’s the entire bracket: As we announced earlier, voting will only be done through Facebook and Discord this year. Watch as the matches drop at the beginning of the… Read More AniMarch Madness 2025: Round 1 Starts Now!
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