The highly-anticipated finale to Part 1 of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is set to make a double impact in December.
VIZ Media announced that Part 1’s climax will arrive as two back-to-back episodes, also dropping a 4-minute clip highlighting key events from Episodes 1-10. This finale marks the conclusion of one of the year’s most popular series, as Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War currently sits at the top of MyAnimeList’s top airing anime chart with a 9.10 rating, beating out the iconic shonens, Chainsaw Man and One Piece.
Thousand-Year Blood War is the long-awaited continuation of Pierrot’s original Bleach anime, which aired from October 2004 and ended in March 2012. Based on Tite Kubo’s titular manga, this supernatural shonen is set in a world where the afterlife is managed by death Gods called Shinigami, and where soul-eating spirits called Hollows frequently torment humans. After gaining Shinigami powers from a death god named Rukia, Ichigo uses his new powers to defend mankind. In Thousand-Year Blood War, Ichigo is faced with an entirely new type of challenge as the series revolves around the conflict between the Shinigami, who operate as an organization called the “Soul Society,” and an opposing group called “The Wandenreich.” As Ichigo attempts to stop the conflict from breaking into all-out war, the situation is further complicated by the negative impact that the continued destruction of Hollows is having on the Shinigami world.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War’s Scheduling Issues
While Thousand-Year Blood War made huge waves in the anime community this year, its production caused issues for other series. Because of the anime’s large cast, consisting of over 80 characters, this ultimately led to major scheduling conflicts with other anime companies, who required the actors for their own productions. Consequently, just a few of the established prominent voice actors contributed to the series’ production this time around.
The cast of the latest iteration of Bleach consists of Satoshi Hino (Naruto Shippuden, Jujutsu Kaisen) as Lille Barro, Shunsuke Takeuchi (Inazuma Eleven) as Askin Nakk Le Varr, Yumi Uchiyama (Re:ZERO-Starting Life in Another World) as Candice Catnipp, Natsuki Hanae (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) as Gremmy Thoumeaux, Takayuki Sugo (Golden Kamuy) as Yhwach, Koichi Yamadera (Lupin III) as Quilge Opie and Yuichiro Umehara (Classroom of the Elite) as Jugram Haschwalth. Masakazu Morita, Fumiko Orikasa, and Akio Ohtsuka were also able to reprise their roles from the original series as Ichigo Kurosaki, Rukia Kuchiki, and Shunsui Kyoraku, respectively.
Bleach fans can go to Hulu to stream the finale of Thousand-Year Blood War on Dec. 26. Tite Kubo’s Bleach manga is available in English from VIZ Media.
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