In Bloom is your weekly 60-second anime news recap — the comfiest way to stay caught up with all the biggest weekly anime episode drops (spoiler-free of course-ish)!

This week:

Time travel, kaiju, queer rage, sandwich therapy &… an astronaut novelist?

🚀 Aharen-san went full space-romcom

💔 Apothecary Diaries broke our hearts beautifully

⛪ Fire Force dives into church drama & time twists

🌈 Rock is a Lady’s Modesty slapped—and we loved it

🧸 To Be Hero X gave us Loli vs. cuteness

🥪 Wind Breaker ends with feels & a villain tease

😭 Witch Watch hit us right in the emotions

🤯 Your Forma stayed confusing (why skip the first novel?!)

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