It’s that time of year again! The Animation Awards for 2025 are here and it’s the only animation awards show that matters! We talk about the nest Kids Cartoons, the best Anime and the best animated movies and series in 2025 this week on the AD Podcast to TOON IN!

Critical Role has dropped their second campaign series on Amazon and The Mighty Nein has hit the ground running. We have noticed even people who didn’t much care about Vox Machina are really enjoying Mighty Nein and with good reason. The story is more thought out, the characters are deeper and the music is cooking!

A Disney channel classic from the early 2000’s, Kim Possible was a highly successful tween action hit that the Disney Channel… kind of hated? They didn’t ever seem to want to give the show a fair shake despite it being highly successful and a hit with fans, parents and a down right good time.

The Final Season of My Hero Academia is here people and we’re gonna cover it this week on the Animation Destination Podcast. We have Ricky Vang join us from the Spoiler Force Podcast to talk about all our favorite parts of this finale and the previous seasons.

It’s the Hazbin Guarantee this week on Animation Destination. Last time we sat down to talk about Hazbin Hotel we went for about 3 hours over 2 episodes. Luckily we were able to talk more succinctly about season 2 so TOON IN to our discussion of this entertaining raunchy musical. 

We continue our journey through Dragon Ball with the first chronological adventure in the DBZ era: DEAD ZONE. Garlic Jr. is back from the Dead Zone and he uses the Dragon Balls for immortality! This 45 minute TV Movie Special is the first in a long list of DBZ Movies we’ll be covering so let’s Toon in!

Over the Garden Wall is now TEN YEARS OLD (it’s actually 11) and I sit down with Jay to talk about the 2014 Cartoon Network Mini-series by Patrick McHale. We discuss the inspirations, the themes, the original ideas and pilot content for this wonderful and well remembered special from the high end days of television animation. Toon in now!

Chainsaw Man is finally back after 3 years of being off the air but it’s back in MOVIE form. The Reze Arc is a highly anticipated storyline about Denji vs The Bomb Devil! Everyone cares about Chainsaw’s heart. But no one cares about Denji’s. Let’s dive into this tortured love story with Ricky Vang from the Spoiler Force Podcast, this week AD.

To Be Hero X, a Chinese Anime, may very well be the show of the YEAR for 2025. This amazing take on modern superheroes takes you into a bunch of different forms of animation, story telling, mystery and insane action. To Be Hero X has really hit all the right spots for me and some of the best character arc stories the medium has to offer.

Predator is getting some franchise treatment as of late and as part of that this past summer we got Predator: Killer of Killers on Hulu! A semi-anthology series that links together into a very decisive direction that could revive the franchise in a brand new way bringing the future and the past of the franchise together in some stunning animation. Toon in now!

It’s Halloween! And we have a new classic re-release by studio LAIKA with ParaNorman. I went to check it out along with the brand new short cartoon “The Thrifting” an exclusive CG animated sequel short staring the titular characters of the 2012 movie.

This week we have a clip of TOON NEWS from a future episode. Here we cover all the stuff that is coming in the near future in late 2025 and early 2026 that has been announced from NYCC and other media blitz events where animation is top of the list! Toon in now!