Bleach Thousand Year Blood War Anime Reveals New Teaser Trailer, Date, and More

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:

The peace is suddenly broken when warning sirens blare through the Soul Society. Residents, there are disappearing without a trace, and nobody knows who’s behind it. Meanwhile, a dark shadow is also extending itself toward Ichigo and his friends in Karakura Town…

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