Toonami Therapy

Episode 435: Best and Worst of 2025

In this year-end podcast, our hosts rank the various series they watched this year from worst to best.

Episode 434: Oceans

Some oceans are smaller than others.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 30, Blue Exorcist 56, Mashle 19, One Piece 757, Yu Yu Hakusho 86, To Your Eternity 4, Sanda 4, The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess 4, Gnosia 4, and May I Ask for One Final Thing 4.

Episode 433: Mimihagi

Don't make a drinking game out of how many times someone says "Mimihagi" in this episode of Bleach.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 29, Blue Exorcist 55, Mashle 18, One Piece 756, Yu Yu Hakusho 85, To Your Eternity 3, Sanda 3, The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess 3, Gnosia 3, and May I Ask for One Final Thing 3.

Episode 432: Haircut

Characters who we've barely seen for a long time show up again in One Piece (only problem is, said characters are actually supposed to be main characters), and Blue Exorcist seems to wrap up its current arc.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 28, Blue Exorcist 54, Mashle 17, One Piece 755, Yu Yu Hakusho 84, Let's Play 2, Gnosia 2, May I Ask for One Final Thing 2, and With You Our Love Will Make It Through 2.

Episode 431: Nutrient Bullets

Bleach spends the first half of its episode on a replay, but still probably made more plot progress than One Piece.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 27, Blue Exorcist 53, Mashle 16, One Piece 754, Yu Yu Hakusho 83, To Your Eternity 2, Kakuriyo Bed & Breakfast for Spirits 2, Sanda 2, and The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess 2.

Episode 430: I Can't Even Remember What This Show Was About At All

Mashle has a possibly prescient board game, and Bleach may or may not just have the cast have a big party for the next 26 episodes.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 26, Blue Exorcist 52, Mashle 15, One Piece 753, Yu Yu Hakusho 82, May I Ask for One Final Thing 1, With You Our Love Will Make It Through 1, Let This Grieving Soul Retire 1, and A Star Brighter Than the Sun 1.

Episode 429: If I Had a Nickel for Every Time This Week I Saw a Fantasy Anime That Focused Heavily on Food, I Would Have... You Know the Rest

Blue Exorcist moves romance forward, kind of sort of, and One Piece might actually reunite the Straw Hats soon.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 25, Blue Exorcist 51, Mashle 14, One Piece 752, Yu Yu Hakusho 81, Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill 1, Ninja vs. Gokudo 1, Let's Play 1, Gnosia 1, and Pass the Monster Meat Milady 1.

Episode 428: Now With Less Isekai

Mashle returns.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 24, Blue Exorcist 50, Mashle 13, One Piece 751, Yu Yu Hakusho 80, Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider 1, The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest 1, Sanda 1, and The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess 1.

Episode 427: May Madness 2: Electric Boogaloo: Now With More Isekai

Daima ends, Blue Exorcist finishes its season, and One Piece finishes its (brief) filler arc.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Dragon Ball Daima 20 (end), Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 23, Blue Exorcist 48-49, One Piece 750, Yu Yu Hakusho 79, A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai 1, My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's 1, To Your Eternity 1, and Kakuriyo Bed & Breakfast for Spirits 1.

Episode 426: I Toned Down My Greatness so Even an Ordinary Person Can See Me

It's a triple ending for the series we're watching for this week.

COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Dragon Ball Daima 19, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War 22, Yu Yu Hakusho 78, Anne Shirley 24 (end), Witch Watch 24-25 (end for now), Kaiju No. 8 22-23 (end for now).