Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim and Devil May Cry (2025)

Anime set in other franchises.

Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim

Set 200 years before Bilbo finds the one ring, this extremely well animated story focuses on Hera, the heroic daughter of Helm Hammerhand the King of Rohan. An altercation with one of his vassals eventually leads to a war and its up to Hera to save the day (sort of). While the art is awesome and the action scenes sufficiently violent, there are more than a few crazy plot holes in this tale which is a shame. We enjoyed it but were quite amused by some of the narrative choices taken. 

Devil May Cry (2025)

Based on the action adventure game franchise of the same name, this is actually the second attempt at an anime for it but unlike the original Dante is not yet a mature and experienced demon hunter. Instead this protagonist is youthful, funny and foolish but also regularly gets beaten by high level humans. Not sure if that's what happens in the later games as well but he is a bit too immature compared to the Dante I remember. Still, good fight scenes and animation are basically what hold this generic demons invading from hell plot together. Maybe it will improve in season two.