Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇, Burīchi: Sennen Kessen-hen) is a Japanese anime television series based on the Bleach mangaseries 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 last story arc, "Thousand-Year Blood War", would receive an anime project. In November 2021, it was announced that the anime project would be a television series. The trailer and visual for the series were revealed at the Jump Festa '22 on December 18, 2021. The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and premiered on TV Tokyo on October 11, 2022. The series will run for four cours with breaks in between. Tatsuya Kitani performs the opening theme "Scar" (スカー, Sukā), while SennaRin performs the ending theme "Saihate" (最果て, "The Farthest Reaches"); 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.

On October 3, 2022, Viz Media announced that the series would stream on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally outside of Asia.