In Bloom is your weekly 60-second anime news recap — the comfiest way to stay caught up with all the biggest news and rumours!

This week in anime news:

🎸 Girls Band Cry is hitting theaters this October & November

🔥 Demon Slayer's Infinity Castle – Akaza Returns

💥 Jujutsu Kaisen S3 hype is real

😭 Takopi’s Original Sin Ep 1 is 2025’s top-rated anime episode with a 9.8 on IMDB

🚁 Gate returns after a whole decade with a surprise Season 2 announcement

📈 150M+ Netflix households watch anime

⚔️ Netflix confirms Solo Leveling live-action with Lovely Runner’s Byeon Woo-seok

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