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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 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 last story arc, "Thousand-Year Blood War", would receive an anime project.[1] In November 2020, it was announced that the anime project would be a television series. The trailer and visual for the series were revealed at the Jump Festa '22 in December 2021.[2][3]
The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and premiered on TV Tokyo in October 2022.[4][5][6][a] The series will run for four cours with breaks in between.[6][7] The first cour, The Thousand-Year Blood War, consists of 13 episodes[8] and ended in December of the same year.[9][b] The second cour, subtitled The Separation, will begin airing on July 8, 2023.[10][11]
Tatsuya Kitani [ja] performed the opening theme "Scar" (スカー, Sukā), while SennaRin performed the ending theme "Saihate" (最果て, "The Farthest Reaches");[12] In addition, Kitani also performed the special ending theme for the first episode, "Rapport", which was previously used as the main theme song for the series' 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Bleach EX.[13] For The Separation cour, the opening theme is "Stars" by w.o.d.,[11] while the ending theme is "Endroll" by Yoh Kamiyama.[14]
In October 2022, Viz Media announced that the series would stream on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally outside of Asia;[15] Viz Media's English dub of the series began streaming on Hulu in November of the same year.[9]