Sanda
2025 · TV Series · TV-14 · 24 min · ★ 7.6
In a near-future Japan with ultra-low birthrates, children are cherished yet closely monitored, and the idea of Santa is treated as a threat. After a classmate begs for help finding a missing friend, a middle-schooler is pushed to embrace a forbidden legacy and take action to protect kids from powerful adults.
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Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
5 hours to watch · 12 episodes.
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Details
- Original title
- SANDA
- Years
- 2025
- Release date
- 2025-10-04
- Network
- TBS, MBS, CBC
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 24 min
- Max quality
- SD
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (34 votes)
About
If you want a tense, high-concept anime mixing mystery, fights, and heartfelt stakes around protecting kids in a controlled society, this should click; Not for you if you dislike darker themes or prefer lighter fantasy like Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon.
Pros: bold high-concept world; brisk tension and action; strong emotional core | Cons: some thin supporting roles; occasional tone wobble; a bit predictable
Themes
- puberty
- santa claus
- middle school
- based on manga
- school life
- shounen
- anime
- near future
- science fiction
- supernatural drama
Cast & crew
Ayumu Murase
as Kazushige Sanda (voice)
Hiroki Touchi
as Santa Claus (voice)
Umeka Shouji
as Shiori Fuyumura (voice)
Anna Nagase
as Ichie Ono (voice)
Yuuki Shin
as Hitoshi Amaya (voice)
Misato Matsuoka
as Nico Kazao (voice)
Toshihiko Seki
as Hifumi Ōshibu (voice)
Hiroaki Hirata
as Saburō Yagiuda (voice)
Masako Nozawa
as Toyo Tetsudome (voice)
Episodes1 season · 12 episodes
Season 112 episodes
- S1E1Everything's Bright, Am I Aging?24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E2Candies, Canes, Kisses, and Blades24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E3Charred Fruit Tastes All the Sweeter24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E4Zeus, Smasher of Textbooks24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E5A Typhoon in a Snow Globe24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E6Cyborg vs. Santa Claus24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E7Double-Faced Carnivorous Plant24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E8Love, the Most Selfish Thing There Is24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E9A Fake Flower, Yet Its Roots Rot24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E10You, an Everlasting Moment24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E11Flashback Attack24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E12Pale Blue Pall24mAmazon Prime Video