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Total Film
Entertainment
Bradley Russell

2025 was anime's biggest year yet – and may have provided the blueprint for a decade of domination

Solo Leveling.

Whichever way you look at it, it's hard to argue against the idea that 2025 was anime's biggest year to date.

Almost a billion dollars in box office revenue, a string of breakout hits, and the mainstream glass ceiling being broken has taken the industry from passionate niche to global sensation in the eyes of everyone from Japan to Hollywood.

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