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Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Worst anime series of 2025 that failed to meet expectations
Despite an exciting lineup and high-profile names, the Spring 2025 anime season delivered more than a few crushing disappointments. From broken adaptations to conceptually confused narratives and flat-out boring execution, several shows that seemed promising on paper ended up frustrating or boring viewers. Some had production issues, others were plagued by terrible pacing or forgettable characters, and a few simply lacked direction altogether. Even star creators and beloved source material couldn't save these titles from spiraling into mediocrity—or worse. Below is a breakdown of the most underwhelming anime series of the season, as selected by the Anime News Network, and why they failed to live up to the expectations of fans and critics alike. List of worst anime that are biggest disappointments of 2025 as cited by Anime News Network 7. #COMPASS2.0 ANIMATION PROJECT: A beige battle royale Attempting to blend elements of Fate/stay night and .hack, this adaptation of a mobile 3v3 battle game felt like an uninspired mishmash of better shows. With bland visuals, unmemorable fights, and barely any world-building, #COMPASS2.0 lacked identity and engagement. Even its main characters failed to leave an impression, and the story felt like a copy-paste job with the opacity turned down. Gacha adaptations usually shine through quirky or charming characters, but this one couldn't even manage that. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Wiesbaden: GEERS sucht 700 Testhörer vor 1972 geboren GEERS Undo 6. The Shiunji Family Children: Mixed messages and mild misery What could have been a thoughtful exploration of familial boundaries and identity became another cookie-cutter harem with uncomfortable themes. The series attempts to tackle taboo step-sibling romance with some depth, but quickly abandons nuance in favour of tired anime tropes like awkward fanservice and forced romantic setups. Instead of making a statement, it constantly contradicts itself, creating an experience that's both boring and cringe-inducing. 5. Yandere Dark Elf: Not crazy enough to be fun Despite its provocative title, Yandere Dark Elf lacks both the intensity and entertainment one might expect. Its supposedly obsessive protagonist is mostly tame, and the romantic dynamic never moves past mildly awkward flirting. Even the ecchi elements fall flat due to lazy animation and heavy censorship. With no real drama, no standout visuals, and no edge, the show is little more than a hollow fantasy. 4. Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2: Style over substance Season 1 offered clever satire and exciting energy, but Season 2 spirals into chaotic pacing and storytelling overload. Plot twists are stacked too quickly for any to land meaningfully, and the production quality noticeably drops. What should have been a climactic season feels rushed and confusing, leaving fans wondering what happened to the slick, smart storytelling of the original. 3. The Beginning After The End: A misfire from the Start Adapted from a popular web novel and webtoon, The Beginning After The End suffers from flat visuals and even flatter characters. While the production meets minimal standards, the writing is stale and overly reliant on genre clichés. Its protagonist, meant to be a unique reincarnated king, ends up as another overpowered and underdeveloped isekai lead surrounded by lifeless side characters. Even fans of the source material found little to praise. 2. Lazarus: Wasted talent and empty promises With names like Shinichirō Watanabe and John Wick's Chad Stahelski attached, Lazarus had sky-high expectations. But instead of a gripping sci-fi thriller, viewers got a confusing mess of disconnected plotlines, weak character writing, and music that only made the pacing feel more sluggish. Despite excellent action choreography and visual potential, the show fails to make viewers care about any of its characters or its supposedly urgent stakes. 1. Your Forma: The Sci-fi thriller that forgot its story Topping the list is Your Forma, a sci-fi detective drama with a compelling premise that falls apart due to one fatal flaw—it skips the first volume of its own story. Viewers unfamiliar with the light novels are thrown into a confusing world with no context or character development. While it tries to explore themes of AI and memory, it instead becomes a frustrating watch full of bland visuals, awkward pacing, and an incompetent protagonist who spends more time being rescued than solving anything. A promising concept wasted by a bafflingly bad adaptation.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Expert reveals how Iran's missiles may have been hacked mid-flight over Israel and sent plunging into the Mediterranean Sea
A tech expert has revealed that his firm may have witnessed an 'exotic new' hack that tricked Iranian missiles into plunging into the Mediterranean Sea during the Iran-Israel war. The war between Iran and Israel, which began in mid-June following a series of Israeli strikes on military, nuclear and civilian positions, saw both nations fire salvos of missiles and drones at each other. Like many missile systems found across the world, Iranian missiles rely on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data to find their way to their targets. Sean Gorman, the co-founder and CEO of a tech firm that is working to improve location services on mobile phones, believes that he and his team witnessed a new defensive tactic that involved tricking missiles into flying against their programming. Spoofing normally works by sending a powerful radio signal that is stronger than GNSS signals from satellites, forcing a device to listen to the fake information. This means that devices believe they are at a false location. Ordinarily, spoofed GNSS data looks, to the device, like it has instantly teleported to another location. But Sean believes that what he and his team have seen is a highly sophisticated version of this meant to mimic the arcing flight paths of missiles and send them to safer locations. Sean believes that what he and his team have seen is a highly sophisticated spoof meant to mimic the arcing flight paths of missiles Sean said: 'Missiles are guided munitions. They all track latitude and longitude and elevation the same way we navigate in our cars or the same way aeroplanes navigate. 'You're basically providing that same navigation system in ammunition so that it lands in exactly the right place. Jammers and spoofers have been incredibly effective at preventing guided munition from landing where you where they wanted to land and maybe where you instead getting it to go somewhere else or to fail.' Sean said that his team began tracking spoofing and jamming practices while volunteering in Ukraine, and found that phones loaded with their software were good at tracking these types of attacks. Following an American government grant to further this research, phones loaded with Zephyr software were sent across the world to places known for their frequent electronic interference attacks. One mobile phone with Zephyr's app made its way to Haifa in northern Israel, which like many cities in the nation, came under fire from Iranian missiles. It was through this mobile phone that Gorman and his team noticed a peculiar signal that different from spoofing and jamming techniques seen in the past. Sean told MailOnline: 'The phone was in Haifa and the positions that the phones were reporting were off in the ocean. And instead of it being teleported to a fixed location, instead we see this arc. 'There was a synthetically generated position that went in a curve. It's one measurement from one phone, but it's a new behaviour or pattern that we haven't seen.' He added that while he wasn't 100% sure this was a new 'push spoofer... it's certainly not a pattern that we've seen before in that you know'. This arcing pattern is likely to have been developed to trick the drone into following the fake data. 'If you're teleporting with a big jump and it's fixed, that would be a much different pattern than a guided munition that is on a trajectory. You want that thing to think it's still on the trajectory. It continues on the path that the spoof operator is pushing,' Sean said. 'They don't realise they're being spoofed because they're continuing to go on a trajectory. That would fool a drone.' While it's not clear from Sean's analysis exactly who perpetrated the hack, the signal is believed to have come from the Middle East. Many nations around the world are developing this kind of technology, Sean said, with the invasion of Ukraine being one of the key crucibles. He said: 'There are lots of countries that have sophisticated technical engineers and specialty within GNSS. And each of those countries are constantly trying to evolve their [rivals'] electronic warfare capabilities. 'We see this with the Russians and Ukrainians, who are constantly iterating and trying to defeat each other's countermeasures in this kind of cat and mouse game. 'Countries are investing and trying to provide countermeasures and defeats of those countermeasures so they can still operate in a battle situation like we're seeing in the Middle East.' But with the increased competition for these types of techniques comes the risk it will be used outside a military context, even in the Iran-Israel war. Last week, Frontline tanker Front Eagle and dark fleet tanker Adalynn collided last week near the Strait of Hormuz. The two oil tankers were brought to a halt, following a fire on the desk of the Front Eagle which was later extinguished. But in the days leading up to the collision, the UK's Maritime Trade Operations issued a warning that 'increasing electronic interference' was being reported in the STrait of Hormuz. Sean said this event pointed to an increasing willingness for warring parties to use spoofing and jamming techniques that could have wider effects on civilians and commercial routes. 'We're increasingly seeing this happen all over the globe and cause issues with global commerce with supply chains, with aviation. So even outside of the military context, we're seeing this more and more in our daily lives. 'Jamming and spoofing are both prolific, though we see spoofing less frequently and it's a bit harder to detect than jamming. 'So while it was interesting to see spoofing activity happening they're both risks to civilian and commercial operations.' 'Collisions could be an issue both from an aviation standpoint, as well as a maritime standpoint', Sean said, adding that the ability to 'detect spoofing will be critical for civilian safety. That'll be a really important area of R&D investment and where what we'll need technological capacity both on a civilian and a defence perspective.'
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Steelmaker Nucor restores operations, confirms limited data breach
This story was originally published on Cybersecurity Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Cybersecurity Dive newsletter. Nucor, the leading steel manufacturer in the U.S., said it has restored operations following a hack in May that compromised a limited amount of information. The company — which produces roughly a quarter of America's raw steel — believes it has evicted the hackers from its systems and does not expect the incident to have a material impact on its financial performance or operations, it said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nucor said the incident temporarily limited its ability to access certain functions and some of its facilities. The manufacturer worked with external forensic experts to investigate and recover from the attack. During the response process, the company temporarily took its systems offline and restored certain data from backup files, according to the filing. The company has worked with outside experts to reinforce its IT systems to prevent a future attack. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company said last week that it expected to report earnings of between $2.55 and $2.65 per share in the second fiscal quarter, which ends July 5. The company expects earnings to increase across all three of its operating segments, with the biggest rise in the steel-mills business due to higher average selling prices across its sheet and plate mills. Nucor did not disclose any specific information about the financial impact of the May cyberattack. The company expects to report earnings on July 28 and hold a conference call the following day. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
UAE Moments
20-06-2025
- Politics
- UAE Moments
Iran State TV Briefly Hacked by Israel with Uprising Message
Iran's state-run television network was briefly taken over by hackers recently, airing a bold message urging citizens to rise up and protest. The broadcast interruption happened during a live news segment and is believed to have been targeted through satellite feeds. The screen displayed a message that read: "Rise up! This is your moment. Go out into the streets. Take control of your future." Videos circulating online show the hacked message appearing on TV screens inside homes. One clip, which went viral on social media, showed women cutting their hair in what appeared to be an act of protest, a symbol often associated with demonstrations in Iran. Iran Blames Israel for State TV Hack The brief disruption on Iran's state-run television has been linked to Israel, according to Iranian media and officials. On its Telegram channel, the Hamshahri daily shared a video of the hacked broadcast along with a caption stating that 'hackers infiltrated state television and broadcast a call asking people to take to the streets.' Shortly after, Iran's state broadcaster warned viewers that the interruption was caused by 'cyberattacks carried out by the Zionist enemy,' claiming it had targeted the network's satellite transmission. Targeted via Satellite, Reports Say Reports suggest the hacking only affected satellite-based broadcasts of the Iranian state channel. This method allowed the message to bypass Iran's internal systems and appear directly on household screens receiving the channel via satellite. The Iranian government has not yet issued an official statement about the breach. The cyberattack came just days after a significant Israeli missile strike on the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). The missile reportedly hit while anchor Sahar Emani was live on air. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gulf Moments (@gulfmoments) This strike was part of a wider wave of Israeli attacks that have escalated over the past week, heavily damaging Iran's military infrastructure and nuclear sites. Hundreds of people have been reported killed, including top Iranian military officials. Iran's retaliatory attacks have also caused civilian casualties in Israel.
The Verge
19-06-2025
- Business
- The Verge
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