Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (2022)

Directed by

Tomohisa Taguchi

Genre

action anime and manga

Country

Japan

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Soul Reapers and their allies face an ancient enemy, the Quincy, who declare war on the Soul Society. The series follows Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends as they fight to survive this devastating conflict.

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What happens

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇, Burīchi: Sennen Kessen-hen), also known as Bleach: The Blood Warfare, is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo's manga series Bleach and a direct sequel to the original Bleach anime series. In March 2020, Weekly Shōnen Jump and "Bleach 20th Anniversary Project & Tite Kubo New Project Presentation" livestream announced that the manga's final story arc, the "Thousand-Year Blood War", would receive an anime project. In November 2020, it was confirmed that the anime project would be a television series adapting the entirety of the arc. The trailer and visual for the series were revealed at the Jump Festa in December 2021. The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and written by Masaki Hiramatsu. It premiered on TV Tokyo on October 11, 2022. The series will run for four cours with off-season breaks in between. The first cours, subtitled The Blood Warfare, consists of 13 episodes and ended on December 27 of that same year. The second cours, subtitled The Separation (訣別譚, Ketsubetsu-tan), also consists of 13 episodes and was broadcast from July 8 to September 30, 2023. The third cours, subtitled The Conflict (相剋譚, Sōkoku-tan), consisting of 14 episodes, aired from October 5 to December 28, 2024. The fourth and final cours, subtitled The Calamity (禍進譚, Kashin-tan), consisting of 13 episodes, is set to premiere on July 25, 2026. For The Blood Warfare cours, the opening theme song is "Scar" (スカー, Sukā), performed by Tatsuya Kitani, while the ending theme song is "Saihate" (最果て; lit. 'The Farthest Reaches'), performed by SennaRin; in addition, Kitani also performed the special ending theme song for the first episode, "Rapport", which was previously used as the theme song for the series' 20th anniversary exhibition, Bleach EX. For The Separation cours, the opening theme song is "Stars", performed by w.o.d., while the ending theme song is "Endroll", performed by Yoh Kamiyama. For The Conflict cours, the opening theme song is "Kotoba ni Sezu Tomo" (言葉にせずとも; lit. 'Even Without Saying a Word'), performed by Six Lounge, while the ending theme song is "Monochrome", performed by Suisoh. For The Calamity cours, the opening theme song is "I-Bull", performed by Jo0ji, while the ending theme song is "Rasen" (螺旋; lit. 'Spiral'), performed by 9Lana. In October 2022, Viz Media announced that the series would stream on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally outside of Asia. The English dub of the series began streaming on Hulu in November of the same year. In April 2025, it was announced that the English dub would make its broadcast television premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block beginning on May 18, 2025. The first three episodes of The Calamity were screened in US theaters, in Japanese with English subtitles and with the English dub, from June 25–29, 2026, ahead of its July premiere. The episodes were screened alongside an exclusive behind-the-scenes conversation with manga author Tite Kubo, chief series director Tomohisa Taguchi, and series director Hikaru Murata. In Australia, the first three episodes of The Calamity were screened at theaters through Sugoi Co at a special premiere event on June 22, 2026, prior to a nationwide theatrical release on June 25. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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