2025 Yearly Favorites

This year, I played a lot of games. I read too few books. I wrote a lot of poetry. I cried. 😅

It was definitely a year of processing emotions. And some of these categories needed some processing, too. Luckily, I can adjust the numbering rules as needed. 😆

Here are my yearly favorites! 💖🎉

Books/Manga:

1. The Night Circus

2. Fruits Basket

3. Fullmetal Alchemist

Movies:

1. Weathering with You

2. Dance Academy

3. K-Pop Demon Hunters

4. Into the Spider-Verse

5. Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame

TV/Anime:

1. Summer I Turned Pretty

2. Good Trouble

3. Serial Experiments Lain

4. Switched at Birth

5. Saint Tail

Video Games:

1. Persona 3 Reload

2. Undertale

3. Stardew Valley

4. Balatro

5. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

6. MiSide

7. The Sims 2

8. 1000xResist

9. Winion Virus

10. Milk Inside/Outside a Bag

Characters:

1. Conrad Fisher (Summer I Turned Pretty)

2. Fuuka Yamagishi (Persona 3)

3. Tara Webster (Dance Academy)

4. Matt (St. Denis Medical)

5. Rumi Kang (K-Pop Demon Hunters)

Ships:

1. Belly/Conrad (Summer I Turned Pretty)

2. Tara/Christian (Dance Academy)

3. Dan/Blair (Gossip Girl)

4. Emmitt/Bay (Switched at Birth)

5. Meimi/Asuka Jr. (Saint Tail)

Musical Artists:

1. Taylor Swift

2. Ellie Goulding

3. Anna Nalick

4. Sombr

5. Sydney Rose

6. Jimmy Eat World

7. Woodes

8. Delerium

9. Coldplay

10. CHVRCHES

Albums:

1. The Life of a Showgirl

& {Taylor Swifts's Entire Discography}

2. Bright Lights/Delirium (Ellie Goulding)

3. Wreck of the Day/At Now (Anna Nalick)

4. MAYHEM (Lady Gaga)

5. Futures (Jimmy Eat World)

Songs:

1. Back to Friends (Sombr)

2. The Fate of Ophelia (Taylor Swift)

3. Ocean of Tears (Caroline Polachek)

4. We Hug Now/Briston (Sydney Rose)

5. Heal (Ellie Goulding)

6. Say Don't Go (Taylor's Version)

7. I Have an Idea (The Mollies)

8. Too Far In (Lindsay Latimer)

9. Die with a Smile (Lady Gaga/Bruno Mars)

10. 23 (Jimmy Eat World)

Honorable Extras: Kingdom Hearts videos (igobyGRAVEN & 2CPHOENIX), Remap Radio podcast, The Jeff Gerstmann Show, Finch App.