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October 2025

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October 2025 anime & manga news digest.

Demon slayers, vending machines and celestial slime: SFcrowsnest’s autumn anime & manga digest If you thought anime had peaked when Tanjiro beheaded a…

ColonelFrog18 Oct 2025

Gachiakuta: Kei Urana’s rubbish-tip shonen climbs back out of the Pit on 11 November.

Gods Don’t Give Gifts: Gossip Goblin’s AI sci-fi horror heads for cinemas, and possibly the Oscars (trailer).

Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Editorial – October 2026: Do AIs Need Humans?

Songs Of The Dead: The Strata Wars book 1 by Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian (book review).

Dead-End Job: Netflix’s Korean horror offers 50 times the minimum wage and a lethal probation period (trailer).

Merrick & Treves: HBO Sends the Archer Gang Back to Whitechapel (and Back, and Back Again)

Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review)

Kazuo Ishiguro’s week: three one-star reviews for Klara and the Sun, and a Tim Burton film he is writing himself

The Beekeeper 2: Who keeps the keepers when the hive goes rogue? (trailer).

Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026

Exterminate the writers? Russell T Davies calls the BBC boss’s AI Doctor Who remarks “clumsy”, and puts a date on the new Doctor (news).

Ghibli Park is growing a Toxic Jungle, and we demand a full-size Pirate Airship (news).

Kishimoto picks up the brush, Pinhead divides the room and the Stargate dials again (Offworld Report: Sunday Sweep, 11th October 2026).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 trailer promises dinosaurs & puppets (trailer).

Star Wars: Galactic Racer – the Burnout crew take podracing back to the Outer Rim (trailer)

Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name

James Gunn Loves Batman Beyond, Which Is Not Quite the Same Thing as Making It

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October 2025

October 2025 anime & manga news digest.