Viz Media unveiled during its panel at Anime Expo on Saturday the final trailer with English subtitles for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity, the fourth and final part of the Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime. The video previews the opening theme song “I-BULL” by jo0ji performs and the ending theme song “Rasen” (Spiral) by singer-songwriter 9Lana:
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity will premiere on July 25 on the TV Tokyo channel at 11:00 p.m. JST (10:00 a.m. EDT). It will then run on BS TV Tokyo on July 27, AT-X on August 2, Hiroshima TV and Niigata Broadcasting on August 4, and Sendai Broadcasting on August 10. The anime will start streaming in Japanese streaming services on July 26 at noon.
Viz Media and Fathom Entertainment screened in advance the anime’s first three episodes in U.S. theaters on June 25-29. The episodes screened in Japanese with English subtitles and with the English dub, and included an exclusive behind-the-scenes conversation with creator Tite Kubo, chief series director Tomohisa Taguchi, and series director Hikaru Murata. The anime screened in 943 theaters.
The anime’s first cours (quarter of a year) premiered in October 2022, and ended in December 2022 with a one-hour special that combined the anime’s 12th and 13th episodes. Viz Media is streaming the anime on Hulu in the U.S. The anime is streaming on Disney+ internationally, and Ani-One Asia is streaming the series in many Asian countries.
The anime’s second cours premiered in the United States on Hulu, in Latin America on Star+, and in select other countries internationally on Disney+ in July 2023.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 – The Conflict premiered in October 2024 and concluded in a one-hour final episode in December that same year.
The anime is running for four cours with breaks in between.
The anime covers the rest of the original manga up through its ending. The Thousand Year Blood War arc is the final arc of the manga, and covers volumes 55-74.
Sources: Viz Media’s YouTube channel, Viz Media’s Anime Expo panel (Alex Mateo)
