by Shueisha‘s Jump Festa ’22 event on Saturday announced that Tite Kubo‘s Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War arc is receiving an anime adaptation in October 2022. In addition to the tv anime announcement, teaser visuals, PV, new staff, and comments from the main casts have also been released. And the event also streamed a 15-minute video that recaps the previous anime and informed that the anime will cover the rest of the original manga up through its ending.
The new cast members include:
◉ Masakazu Morita as Ichigo Kurosaki
◉ Fumiko Orikasa as Rukia Kuchiki
◉ Noriaki Sugiyama as Uryū Ishida
◉ Yuki Matsuoka as Orihime Inoue
◉ Hiroki Yasumoto as Yasutora Sado
◉ Kentaro Ito as Renji Abarai
◉ Shinichiro Miki as Kisuke Urahara
◉ Satsuki Yukino as Yoruichi Shihōin
◉ Binbin Takaoka (replacing Masaaki Tsukada) as Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto
◉ Houko Kuwashima as Suì-Fēng
◉ Shouto Kashii as Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi
◉ Aya Hisakawa as Retsu Unohana
◉ Masaya Onosaka as Shinji Hirako
◉ Ryotaro Okiayu as Byakuya Kuchiki
◉ Tetsu Inada as Sajin Komamura
◉ Akio Ohtsuka as Shunsui Kyōraku
◉ Tomokazu Sugita as Kensei Muguruma
◉ Romi Park as Tōshirō Hitsugaya
◉ Fumihiko Tachiki as Kenpachi Zaraki
◉ Ryusei Nakao as Mayuri Kurotsuchi
◉ Hideo Ishikawa as Jūshirō Ukitake
◉ Naomi Kusumi as Ichibē Hyōsube
◉ Yōji Ueda as Ōetsu Mimaiya
◉ Tomoyuki Shimura as Tenjirō Kirinji
◉ Rina Satou as Senjumaru Shutara
◉ Ayumi Tsunematsu as Kirio Hikifune
◉ Takayuki Sugo as Yhwach
◉ Yuichiro Umehara as Jugram Haschwalth
◉ Shunsuke Takeuchi as Askin Nakk Le Vaar
◉ Ayana Taketatsu as Bambietta Basterbine
◉ Yūki Ono as Bazz-B
◉ Yumi Uchiyama as Candice Catnipp
◉ Natsuki Hanae as Gremmy Thoumeaux
◉ Satoshi Hino as Lille Barro
Tite Kubo launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump on August 7, 2001, and it ended on August 22, 2016, with 74 volumes. On October 5, 2004, it got adapted into an anime by Studio Pierrot where Noriyuki Abe served as the series director and Shirō Sagisu composed the music for the whole season. In English, Viz Media has started to release the manga under the Shonen Jump imprint since July 6, 2004 and in 3-in-1 omnibus edition since June 7, 2011. Aside from anime series and manga, the series also spawned four anime films (Bleach: Memories of Nobody, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, Bleach: Fade to Black, Bleach: Hell Verse), 5 rock musicals, produced by Studio Pierrot and Nelke Planning, two collectible card games, 23 video games, three light novels, and countless artbooks, databooks, fanfictions, live-action movies, spinoffs.
In 2005, Tite Kubo won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for BLEACH in the shounen category. As of 2018, the manga had over 120 million copies in circulation worldwide making it one of the highest-selling manga of all time.
Viz Media describes the series as:
