2025 has been a big year for anime, with exciting debuts, highly anticipated returns, and major box office successes helping to entertain fans with diverse tastes. As streaming services continue to fight to align their selections with more anime, records have been broken online and in theaters, and the year isn’t over yet.
As the fall anime season draws to a close, and before fans have a chance to look forward to winter 2026, one of the craziest and most censored anime series of the year is coming to the United States with an English dub, ending the year on a chaotic note. Nukitashiwhich became famous in Japan, will be broadcast in English on December 17.
The Most Censored Anime of 2025 Is Now Available in English
All versions of Nukitashi will be released in December
Nukitashibased on the visual novel series of the same name, began streaming last July in Japan and immediately gained notoriety for some strange reason. The animated series was so heavily censored that still images were placed on the screen for extended periods of time while the audio continued to play.
Other versions of the show were also released, one of which aired on an entirely different station and featured less censorship, while the completely uncensored version was available for home streaming. Nukitashi was produced by studio Passione, known for its mature projects like Interspecific examiners And High School DxD Hero.
Through what turned out to be a genius marketing strategy, the extreme censorship attracted masses of viewers and sparked an online debate, thus winning Nukitashi a reputation among Japanese anime fans. Now, American fans will have the opportunity to discover all versions of the series in English, streaming on OceanVeil starting December 17.
OceanVeil, a new online streaming service from WWWave Corporation, announced that English-dubbed episodes will be available weekly and released an advertising trailer. Nukitashi.
Anime’s Happy New Year ends with an unexpected blow
2025 was an exceptionally strong year for anime. Unexpectedly successful debuts like Summer Hikaru is deadstrong returns from The Apothecary’s Journals And Tasteas well as massive box office hits in Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle And Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc All of this has helped make 2025 one of the most exciting years in anime.
The year will now end with the English release of Nukitashiand while the series doesn’t have the kind of branding power of 2025’s other big hits, it’s certainly notable in a weird way. With an advance warning regarding wholesome content, fans can enjoy the series starting December 17.
