If you’ve ever wanted Christmas to arrive with fewer relatives, more anime, and significantly more isekai nonsense, HIDIVE has heard your prayers. This December, the streamer is rolling back into Texas’ Cowtown like an over-caffeinated holiday sleigh for Anime Frontier 2025, bringing with it a three-day avalanche of new shows, premieres, and enough dub screenings to make even your backlog sweat. From December 12–14, the Fort Worth Convention Center becomes HIDIVE’s personal Winter 2026 hype bunker, where everything on their upcoming simulcast and dub slate will be shown. Not some. Not most. All of it. Six screenings in total — because HIDIVE doesn’t know the meaning of “moderation,” and frankly, we’re better off for it.
Among the gifts stuffed into HIDIVE’s oversized anime stocking: the highly awaited Chained Soldier Season 2, the gloriously unhinged HELL MODE: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing, and the rebirth-and-probably-trauma-filled Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling. Dub lovers also get their share of holiday cheer, with fresh English dubs for My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha, Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?!, and Dusk Beyond the End of the World. Even better? Every screening and panel is completely free for Anime Frontier badge holders — because HIDIVE is apparently determined to be the one thing this season that doesn’t drain your bank account.
Festivities kick off Friday, December 12, with dub screenings of Hero Without a Class and My Gift Lvl 9999, perfect for anyone who wants to warm up with some chaotic RPG logic. Saturday, December 13, takes things up a notch with the North American premieres of HELL MODE and Chained Soldier Season 2, plus a special appearance by Japanese guest Yukana, the voice of Fubuki Azuma, who will almost certainly class up the entire convention center by several levels. And on Sunday, December 14, HIDIVE closes out the weekend with one last combo of chaos: the North American premiere of Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling and the dub world premiere of Dusk Beyond the End of the World — because who doesn’t want to wrap the weekend with existential dread and a baby dragon?
If you’re attending Anime Frontier 2025, HIDIVE politely suggests — and by “politely” we mean “with the desperate intensity of a social media intern in December” — that you slap #HIDIVE on every post you make about their events. After all, nothing says festive spirit like drowning the timeline in anime announcements.
In-person press interviews with Japanese Voice Actor Yukana are limited and available by appointment only on Saturday afternoon prior to the Chained Soldier Season 2 North American premiere.
HIDIVE Anime Frontier 2025 Schedule of Events
(as of 12/02/25; All times listed are Central.)
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Friday, December 12, 2025 |
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Fort Worth Convention Center Second Floor Room 202CD |
HIDIVE Presents Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?! Special Dub Screening Action is in store at this special English dub encore screening of the first two episodes of this fall’s fan-favorite fantasy series Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?!, produced by Studio A-Cat and streaming exclusively on HIDIVE in both sub and dub. |
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6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Fort Worth Convention Center Second Floor Room 202CD |
HIDIVE Presents My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha Special Dub Screening Expect action, adventure, magic and more at this special English dub encore screening of the first three episodes of the new fall fantasy series My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha, produced by J.C.STAFF and streaming exclusively on HIDIVE in both sub and dub. |
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Saturday, December 13, 2025 |
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11:00 am – 12:00 pm Fort Worth Convention Center Second Floor Room 202AB |
HIDIVE Presents HELL MODE: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing North American Premiere Otherworldly action awaits at the North American premiere of the isekai action series and upcoming winter simulcast HELL MODE: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing, produced by Yokohama Animation Lab and streaming exclusively on HIDIVE starting in January. |
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4:15 pm – 5:15 pm Fort Worth Convention Center Second Floor Room 204AB |
HIDIVE Presents Chained Soldier Season 2 North American Premiere with Special Japanese Guest Yukana The fight against the Shuuki continues at the North American premiere of this winter’s action dark fantasy series Chained Soldier Season 2 with special Japanese guest Yukana (voice of Fubuki Azuma), produced Seven Arcs and streaming exclusively on HIDIVE next season. |
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Sunday, December 14, 2025 |
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10:45 am – 11:45 am Fort Worth Convention Center Second Floor Room 202CD |
HIDIVE Presents Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling North American Premiere Follow a hero reborn at the North American premiere of the isekai fantasy and winter simulcast series Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling, produced by GA-CREW x Felix Film and streaming exclusively in January on HIDIVE. |
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm Fort Worth Convention Center Second Floor Room 204AB |
HIDIVE Presents Dusk Beyond the End of the World Dub World Premiere Enter a futuristic world transformed by technology at the English dub world premiere of this fall’s hit original sci-fi series Dusk Beyond the End of the World, produced by P.A. WORKS and streaming exclusively on HIDIVE in both sub and dub. |
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