Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇), also known as Bleach: The Blood Warfare, is a Japanese anime television series based on the Bleach manga series by Tite Kubo and a direct sequel to the 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 '22 in December 2021.

The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and premiered on TV Tokyo in October 2022. The series will run for four cours with breaks in between. The first cours, The Blood Warfare, consists of 13 episodes and ended in December of the same year. The second cours, The Separation (訣別譚), also consists of 13 episodes and was broadcast from July to September 2023. The third cours, The Conflict (相剋譚), is scheduled to premiere in October 2024.

For The Blood Warfare cours, Tatsuya Kitani performed the opening theme "Scar (Tatsuya Kitani song)" (スカー), while SennaRin performed the ending theme "Saihate" (最果て); in addition, Kitani also performed the special ending theme for the first episode, "Rapport (Tatsuya Kitani song)", which was previously used as the main theme song for the series' 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Bleach EX. For The Separation cours, the opening theme is "Stars" by w.o.d., while the ending theme is "Endroll" by Yoh Kamiyama. For The Conflict cours, the opening theme is "Kotoba ni Sezu Tomo" (言葉にせずとも) by Six Lounge, while the ending theme is "Monochrome" by Suisoh.

In October 2022, Viz Media announced that the series would stream on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally outside of Asia; Viz Media's English dub of the series began streaming on Hulu in November of the same year.

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