A new trailer for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War has been released.
A new look the highly anticipated continuation of the classic shonen anime series debuted at this year's Anime Expo in Los Angeles. In addition to showing all of the returning characters, the trailer also concentrates on Yhwach, the Quincy King who was confined for over 900 years and serves a major role in the events of the Thousand-Year Blood War arc. The panel also confirmed that key members of the original English voice cast will return to dub the new season, including Johnny Young Bosch as main character Ichigo Kurosaki and Michelle Ruff as Rukia. The trailer ends by once again confirming the new season's October premiere window.
The original Bleach anime ran from 2004 – 2012 and concluded its broadcast before it could completely adapt all of the chapters of Tite Kubo's shonen manga, which published its final chapter in 2016. The Thousand-Year Blood War anime was first announced in 2000 and will be the first animated adaptation of the manga's final arc. During the panel, Kubo appeared to once again state that the new anime will feature new scenes and story elements that he wasn't able to include in the original manga.
Tite Kubo's Bleach was first published in 2001 and was considered one of of Shonen Jump's "Big Three" franchises of the era, alongside Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto and Eiichiro Oda's still on-going One Piece. Ichigo's story first came to an end in 2016, but Kubo returned to its world in 2018 with a spinoff series, Burn the Witch, which is set in England and explores the western branch of Soul Society. In 2021, Kubo published a new chapter of the main Bleach series, entitled "No Breaths from Hell." While the new release was originally promoted as a one-off, stand alone release meant to celebrate the series' 20th anniversary, fans were pleasantly surprised to discover that the chapter was actually a prologue for a new adventure starring Ichigo and the rest of the Soul Reapers. Since its release, however, both Kubo and Shonen Jump publisher Shueisha have been tight-lipped about the possibility of further chapters or a full sequel series.
Both the original Bleach and its spinoff series are available in English from VIZ Media. The 2004 anime series is available for streaming on a variety of platforms, including Netflix, Hulu and Crunchyroll.
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