Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
, also known as Bleach: The Blood Warfare, is a Japanese anime television series based on the Bleach manga series by Tite Kubo and a direct sequel to the Bleach anime series. In March 2020, Weekly Shōnen Jump and "Bleach 20th Anniversary Project & Tite Kubo New Project Presentation" livestream announced that the manga's final story arc, the "Thousand-Year Blood War", would receive an anime project. In November 2020, it was confirmed that the anime project would be a television series adapting the entirety of the arc. The trailer and visual for the series were revealed at the Jump Festa '22 in December 2021. The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and premiered on TV Tokyo in October 2022. The series will run for four cours with breaks in between. The first cour, The Blood Warfare, consists of 13 episodes and ended in December of the same year. The second cour, The Separation, also consists of 13 episodes and was broadcast from July 8 to September 30, 2023. The third cour, The Conflict, is scheduled to premiere sometime in 2024. For The Blood Warfare cour, Tatsuya Kitani performed the opening theme , while SennaRin performed the ending theme ; In addition, Kitani also performed the special ending theme for the first episode, "Rapport", which was previously used as the main theme song for the series' 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Bleach EX. For The Separation cour, the opening theme is "Stars" by w.o.d., while the ending theme is "Endroll" by Yoh Kamiyama. In October 2022, Viz Media announced that the series would stream on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally outside of Asia; Viz Media's English dub of the series began streaming on Hulu in November of the same year. Episodes

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Thousand-Year Blood War
2022 Japanese television seasons
2023 Japanese television seasons
Split television seasons